Amador ledger., 1900-11-02
ROUS|NG POLITICAL MEET|NGI
Hon. W. R. Davis and Hon.
A. P. Van Duzer.
THE DANGEROUS FLAWS OF BRYAhlSA EXPOSED
Facts, Most Eloquently Expounded,
Carry Conviction to Voters
in Attendance.

AS the guests OF the jackson Repub-
lican Club, Hon. w. r. Davis of Ala
media county, and Hon. A. P. Van
Duzer of San Francisco, occupied the
rostrum in Webb Hall last Tuesday
evening, The hall was comfortably
filed with thinking men and women
who paid strict attention to all that
was said. w. r. Davis dealt out cold
and undeniable facts with sledge-ham-
mer, clinching power. His speech
from beginning to end was potent and
convincing. He made no attempt to
pose as rhetorical spellbinder, but he
was eloquent in truth and his points
were well taken and therefore convinc-
ing. Mr. Davis is thinker; he has
studied the political question in all its
phases for himself and made his own
deductions and drawn his own con-
clusions. He has not culled the best
rhetorical sentences from the speakers
of the whole country and changed here
and there word and palmed them off
as his own. On the contrary it is very
evident that he has profoundly studied
the great questions of the day, and to
good purpose, for in his speech here
last Tuesday night he threw out strong
intellectual food which his hearers
could not resist. Nothing approaching
his speech has occurred here during
the present campaign. He is plain,
conscientious advocate of Republican
principles, who is in the field for the
good he can do and not for a little
transitory glory and the 'loaves and
fishes" He is a patriot, who carries
in his heart the dangers that beset
this great nation, and who seeks to
stem the tide of approaching calamity
as a true soldier seeks to repel an in
vading enemy. He speaks to the peo-
pie because he deems it duty to warn
them from national disaster; not be-
cause he likes to hear himself talk or
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More men like w. r. Davis in the
field-plain, unassuming, thinking
men-would convince the wavering,
cement the party together and recruit
new blood and Drawn. But, while we
call him plain and unassuming and not
aping the Demosthenic and Ciceronic
style, we do not wish to be understood
that he is not an eloquent speaker, for
there were times last Tuesday evening
when he arose to the height of most
brilliant oratory. What we desire to
say is, that he does not study effect, as
most speakers do, but has higher aspi-
rations, namely to attract his hearers
to his great theme and not to himself.
In short, he loses his own identity and
stands forth the embodiment of the
subject he is calculating. In this re-
spect, he differs from most campaign
orators. We thank him for his con-
vincing speech and we sincerely be-
leve it will make votes in this county
for the great party to which he belongs.
Mr.. Davis was followed by Hon. A.
P. Van Duzer of San Francisco, an ex-
ceptionally easy and rather graceful
talker, who evidently has rich vien of
fun running throughout his system.
Mr.. Van Duzer pleased his hearers and
said many bright and fetching things.
His speech, coming on the heels of
heavy argument, was restful and anus
ing to the audience. Davis and Van
Duzer make an excellent campaign
team.
Next Monday night, November 5th.
the wind-up campaign meeting will be
held in Webb Hail. Hon. Geo. c.
Pardee of Oakland and Hon. John F.
Davis of Jackson, being the speakers.
The meeting will be held under the
auspices of the Jackson Republican
Club, and President G, A. Herrick ex-
poets it to be one of the best meetings
of the campaign. We are informed by
President Herrick that a torchlight
procession, escorted by Rough Riders,
will preeede the meeting. Let the last
meeting be whopper.