The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-07
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faced a sympathetic audience, the
speaker began in his best style to de-
claim of the benefits of protection and
the gold standard. He warmed up to
the subject rapidly and began in his
most impressive manner the delivery
of paragraph of his popular speech
that had never before failed to arouse
the greatest enthusiasm.
My friends" he said, standing clese
to the fOotlights of the stage, t-one of
the candidates for president this year
is soldier, statesman and patriot,
whose name will never be forgotten in
the homes of American wOrkingmen-
Because of a bill that bears his name
the wheels of your mills and factories
hum and you are all employed at good
wages. Today this man stands before
you the champion Of your cause, the
defender of the right Of every working
H.&n to employment at living wages to
be paid in the best money. Generations
of American workingmen as yet unborn
will rise I'D to bless the name of-the
name Of
Here the orator felt in his coat pocket
for his list of names and failed to
find it.
Generations unborn will bless the
name Of
Another frantic ransacking of coat
pockets and increasing embarrass-
ment.
1.-The name of that great patriot and
statesman" This to kin time while
he hurriedIy searched all pockets.
THE name of that great friend of
the people, that champion of the cause
I or the Nottingham
William ]. Bryant" shouted a
strOng-lunged man in the gallery.
Yes, my friend. that splendid
patriot William J. BRYAN, the thor
oughly embarrassed speIlbinder shouted
mechanically accepting the suggestion.
Instantly the meeting was in an up
roar. There were shouts and yells for
Bryan a1d counter cries for Mckinley.
A local committee seated on the stage
I tried to prompt the speaker, but he
was ratified by this time and failed 20
realize that ne had made a mistake.
The men on the stage could not Shut
him off. and the audience quickly dis
covered his failure of memory and
transpOsitiOn of names. He was guyed
and laughed at until the meeting broke
uD in confusion. The protest sent to
national headquarters next day by
the local committee caused the i'm
mediate discharge of the absent-mind-
ed sDellbinder.
Unexpected Responses to OratOry.
In Indianapolis in 1895, a Democratic
speaker of great reputation was COM
pletely vanQuished and a large meet
| ing broken up by one word spoken by
small bow. The speaker was saying
with much elOQuence and Vehemence
that all the WOrkingmen of the cOun-
try demanded TIE free coinage of sill
yer. Then he began a perOTatiOn like
this: ''Our opponents say there are
thousands Of gold men right here in
Indianapolis. Last night L spoke to
an audience of 5000 honest working
men. They were all for free silver.
] beEeve that every man in this great
audience favOrS free coinage. Now,
/ where are the gold men?"
'-WOrkin'l'' shouted the shriU voice
/ of a boy in the gallery. a laugh start
/ ed and swept over the entire audi
| ence, so confusing the speaker that he
/ made no effort to continue his address
In the same campaign a man who
! had made more than 1000 stump
| speeches and boosted that he had never
been ratified by a question or inter
] ruption was SO completely knocked out
| by an innocent question asked by a
factory girl that he broke down COM
! pletely The Republican national COM
mittee had sent him to Newark. n. J.,
/ to address a night meeting of working
men and women in music hall. In
his most impressive voice and manner
/ he began his speech with this cues
/ ton: Ny friends, do you understand
silver2"
There was perfect silence as he
| paused oratoricaily, until a young
/ working girl sitting in one of the
| boxes asked III a clear voice:
do voE?''
The question was unexpected and
puzzling. First the audience laughed.
then cheered the girl and ended by
insisting that the sneaker answer the
question then and there. He attempted
to do So but was overcome by stage
fright and slipped out by a back door.
Next day he went 70 headquarters and
asked to be assigned to farmers meet
ings for the remainder of the season
In a recent campaign in New York,
O. young spellbinder attempted to earn
double pay by speaking for both
parties. The second night he got mixed
in his dates and appointments and at
tempted to deliver a red-hOt ReDubli-
can speech at a Democratic meeting.
By swift and skillful lodging he got off
the stage physically intact. but the
news of the blunder reached the two
headquarters and the next day the
; young man lost both Jobs.
His Audience Didn't Respond
During the New York city campaign
of 1897. club of deaf mUtes sent to
one Of the headquarters for a speaker