The sun., 1900-08-09
|. IRTIEG HANDY
AFpAID 70 SPEAK
ABOUT IS 70 |
He Makes Some Foolish State
ments and Shouts of
Victory.
lie STOOD ON TWO CHAIRS
He Was to be One of the Speakers at
Political Meeting at Democratic
League But Was Late i'm Ar
riving and Made Some Re-
marks in the Refresh
ment Room.

Hon. l.. Irving Handy. Jealous advo-
cate of the 16 to / theory who made Il
| record for long speech making AT the
National Democratic Convention, came
near missing his appointment to speak
ut tile political meeting which was the
main feature Of the "Night 1T the club
1T the Democratic League headquarters.
| Fourth and King streets last evening.
lie arrived just rs the political meet
! ing adjourned on the third Hoo. and tho
, crowd was coming down to the second.
| He was prevailed upon To- make Ii
speech On the second floor and two chairs
| were secured. He mounted these and
started u talk.
Although lie has always professad
his strong belief iii IS to | he did not
mention silver once Gu"iug his remarks.
| He predicted the election Of Bryan and
endeavored to give reasons why he
would be elected.
| He said ha would get the Irish Amcri-
can vote. He asserted that Dclaware's
| three electoral votes would 80 to Bryan
and made the foolish statement that the
| party in the State was reunited. He
| made another foolish claim and that was
| that the Democrats would elect IL gov
| ernor and the full county ticket i'll New
| Castle county
He seemed to think that the Demo-
crafts We're registering better than they
did two years ago.
He made the bold statement that
those who did not support the National
! ticket and platform made at Kansas
City could not be considered Demo-
| Gratis. He declared that he would so
| through fire for Bryan and that they
would too
! The meeting upstairs was not of very
long duration. II was opened hy Simon
t. Dougherty. who acted as chairman.
| Peter j. Ford. who aims to be the
! Democratic standard bearer for Gov
clnor. was the first speaker. He said
he was no speaker i'll any sense and told
his hearers that he liked To be among
the common people, MS they We're akin
to him. He stated that whether or NOT
he was the standard bearer for the
party, he would take occasion later on
ta make IN his plain way an effort to
outline the issues of the campaign in il
speech. He excused himself saying
that he had an engagement to see Il
party of gentlemen ut lu Points Banks.
As he left the room Il man in Il front
seat said Good Night Governor
Josiah Marvel. the only other speaker.
made an interesting address. The
heat was intense and after talking for
some time he suddenly said"hut it is
hot" and closed.
Chairman Dougherty read letter Of
regret from Willard salisbury in which
he stated that he would be unable to be
present as he would he at Boston last
night or on the way there
Chairman Dougherty said that they
had expected Hon. l.. Irving Handy to
be present but heing a big fat fellow
was probably afraid to come in from the
country in the heat. He said that as it
was hot enough to cook eggs upstairs
they had better go downstairs and get
something that would cool them off.
They then adjourned to the second
floor where lunch and refreshments
awaited them.