Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1900-07-20
The Brunswick Rally.

| by the Brunswick Silver Cornet band.
a torch-light procession, the firing OF
cannon, the shooting of fire. e-crackers,
ETC., and speeches by Judge w. w
Rucker. our popular and efficient
congressman, and Ed. Geo. w.
Prewett and Prof C. L. Buckmast er.
both of Brunswick. Old.fashioned
Democratic yells and enthusiasm were
much in evidence.
The rally was given under the au-
spices of the Brunswick Bryan &
Stevenson club, of which Capt. M.
Peery is president, and is the right
man in the right place. Capt. Peery
was aoly assisted by other members
of the club who materially contributed
to the success of the joyous occasion.
The speaking took place at the
City hall which was comfortably filed
and number of persons were crowd
ed around the front door who could
not get seats in the hall.
The speakers were introduced by
President Peery, and the first speech
of the evening was delivered by Judge
Rucker. He made an excellent
speech which convinced his hearers
that he is well-posted on the political
issues of the day and that he is
thoroughly alive to the welfare of his
country. He viewed with alarm the
drift of the Republican party on i'm
periaIlstic lines and charged it with
being inslncere In Its opposition to
trusts; that it is also striving to deceive
the people in many other respects,
and proved it by its record. The
judges speech was well received and
left splendid impression on his au.
dience. We only regret that more
Republicans were not present to hear
him.
Ed. Prewett only spoke few min
utes, but dealt some telling blows at
the Republican party. He declared
tie national Democratic platform to be
a document next to the declaration of
independence in patriotism, but after
a careful reading of the Republican
platform he regarded 1t as vacllating,
redundant and meaningless. Ed.
Prewett expressed the belief that there
were parties who would doubtless
criticise him for making political
speech and argue that politics and re-
ligion ought not to be mixed. The
speaker thought, however, it was right
to mix them, provided they were
mixed in proper proportions. He
held that there ought to be a great
deal of Christianity in politics and
said the more Christianity that was
gotten into politics the fewer Repub-
hcans there would be. This evoked
quite burst of hearty applause.
A. T. DUNN, the silver.tongued
Demosthenes of Salisbury, was on the
bills for a speech, but was not in at
tendance, and in reply to several
calls for Buckmaster! Buckmaster.
by the audience, Prof. c. L. Buck
master, the able principal of the Bruins.
wick village school, made short talk
on political lines, proudly asserted
that he was a Democrat Gand extolled
the party and its superb national
Democratic platform in manner that
was very gratifying to his hearers.
Before adjournment, Ed. T. Miller
announced that he had a list of the
members of the Bryan & Stevenson
club and invited the residents of
Brunswick township, who had not al
ready done so, and who would pledge
themselves to support the Democratic
ticket the 9th of next November, to
come forward. sign the list and be-
come members of the club. Several
new names were added to the list and |
many others will avail themselves of
the opportunity to become members as
the great political battle, now raging
between the two dominant parties,
advances.
Taken as whole the rally of last
Saturday night was an inspiration to
the Democrats who were there, and |