Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-06-28
REPUBLICAN RATIFICATION.
Hon. John L. Wilson Fails to
Draw a Crowd.
NOTABLE LACK OF ENTHUSIASM
The First Gun Of the Campaign In Che
halls County is Almost Flash In
the Pan. Was disappointment
to the Republican Club.

to the Republican CIuD.
The Chehalis county republican ratif-
cation meeting at the Acme opera house
Saturday evening was something OF a
dsheartuer to our republican friends,
whose hard work in an effort to make
this, the first gun in the campaign, such
a bowling success as would strike terror
in democratic breasts, really deserved
better crowd and more enthusiasm.
Hon. John l.. Wilson was brought
down flom Seattle as the big gun OF the
occasion, and Dynamite Jim. with his
canon, from Cosmopolis as the little gun.
War Horse Wade and ]. Eloquent Hutch-
eson from Montesano, and genial John +.
Soule from Hoquiam, were calculated by
the workers Of the Expansion Club to
stir the enthusiasm OF crowded house
to frenzy. But, somehow or other the
house did not crowd, and the enthusiasm
resembled that occasioned by the recent
Aberdeen school election. The audi
forum OF the opera house was but little
over two.thirds filled, and the gallery
very tllinly settled. The house was hand
somely decorated, and about one third OF
the audience was ladies', the male portion
having nearly as many democrats as
republicans.
The meeting was presided over by
Judge Irwin, who made a short talk, in
the course OF which he dwelt on the con-
trast between the prosperity under Nc
Kinley and the depression under Cleve-
land (although both were stout upholders
Of the single gold standardD and closed
by introducing E. L. Wade, OF Monte
sano, as the republican War Horse Of
Chehalis county.
Mr.. Wade made brief, pointed speech,
during the course OF which he emphasized
the remark that "wl,en the republican
party promises anything they will do it"
presnming his hearers were in blissful
ignorance Of the pledge OF that party in
1896 to promote international bimet-
alism.
John f. Soule, OF Hoquiam, was the
next speaker. He contented himself by
saying that Seattle was booming for ex-
pansion and praising ex-Senators Allen
and Wilson for their efforts in behalf OF
Grays Harbor Improvements.
Ex-senator Wilson rose to address the
house amid about the only loud applause
Of the evening. He said he felt grateful
to the people OF the Harbor for their
generous support during his ten years OF
public life, and stated that his chief OBJ
ject in being present was to contradict
certain rumors OF his death, and, to prove
that he was really alive, maintained an
agile skipping about the stage during the
balance Of his speech.
Mr.. Wilson sounded the keynote of the
republican party in the impending cam
paign, by comparing the dull times fol-
lowing the financial depression Of 1893
with the activity now following in the
wake OF famine in India, war in the
Orient and Africa and the increase Of
money by the gold discoveries in the
North. All Of which was duly credited
to republican laws. To be sure, he didn't
state what laws, but none OF them dc
that. After growing tragic over the his
tory OF the expansion Of the nation, he
took glance into futurity and saw Russia
England and the United States dominat
ing the world. Without stopping 10 saj
how the world liked it, he switched of
to the subject OF the Hanna ship subsidy
steal, which he favored, although the
national convention feared to place i
before the people in it's platform.
He prophesied that the Nicaragua cana
bill would pass the next congress, as II
was set for hearing on December 10. bu
failed to say that it was set for this dat
so as 10 permit Mark Hanna to fry SOM
fat out Of the transcontinental railroads
and that if they cough up readily the bill
will be quietly put to sleep. That wa
not his side Of the story.
Branching off again, he said this natiol
was conquering the markets OF the world
and, in proving it, handled figures in
manner sufficiently glib to cause Wha rto
Barker, the boss middle-of.the-roader, t
turn green with envy. OF course he too
it for granted that none OF his audienc
would be SO bold as to wonder, If we cal
undersell the pauper labor OF Europ
with the product OF our manufactures
why it is that the trust breeding tariff
maintained to permit the skinning OF on
own people. After his customary tafi
to the ladies Mr.. Wilson took his sea