Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1900-11-09
The Keytesville Rally.

In honor OF her rally day.
Thursday, Nov. I, was beautiful
day overhead, but the rain of the
three days previous had made the
roads quite muddy, and on account of
the mud the big Democratic rally at
Keytesvil!e was not as largely attend
ed as it would have been had the
roads not been so unfavorable. Still,
there was fully 5000 people here, and
nearly every part of the county was
represented. Enthusiasm ran high,
yet the large crowd was orderly and
no disturbance of any kind occurred.
Our little city had on her best bib
and tucker, and was a mass of flying
bunting and flags floated and Chinese
lanterns adorned nearly every resi-
dence and every business in the coun-
ty capital.
Everybody had a good time, and
the political rivalry was Of such a
pleasant character that our Repub-
lican friends seemed to enjoy it almost
as much as the Democrats.
In the afternoon Senator E. B.
Fields of Browning made a strong
speech and was the recipient of many
compliments from those who heard
him. His address was particularly
appreciated for its fairness. Senator
Fields is stump speaker of no mean
ability, and is making this district a
first-class representative IN the state
senate.
At 1880 O'Clock at night street
parade was formed in Kellogg addl.
ton, under the efficient management
of J. J. Moore, marshal of the day,
who proved himself more than equal
to the arduous task.
The procession was led by Miss
Grace Moore and Rev. J. R. Finley
who were on horseback.
The floats consisted of Miss Virgie
Meefe, who appropriately represented
the Goddess of Liberty; the Ladies
Bryan club, three wagons containing
several little girls dressed IN red
white and blue; A. L. Welch appear.
ed as Mark Hanna with dollar marks
all over his clothes; J. G. Ward, clad
a la Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt
shooting Spaniard in the back
while J. S. Rucker was dressed up as
Uncle Sam. J. J. Ward represented
Joe Flory lost in the Democratic
woods; another float was unique ad.
vertisement for the Sneed Manufac.
turing Co., making known to the worl6
the merits of Sneed's "Sure Cures
There were three bands in the
lparade-the African band of Keytes.
vile, the Commercial band of Sails.
bury and the Brunswick Silver Cornet
band, which enlivened the occasion
with music.
| Salisbury had prepared several
nice floats, which it was intended tc
bring over, but the bad roads pre-
vented their coming feature very
much regretted-but we were pleased
to know that Salisbury was represent.
ed by about 400 of her citizens.
AT the conclusion of the parade the
circuit court room was packed to the
doors to hear Congressman w. W.
Rucker and Acknowledgement E. c.
Crow speak.
| After three or four selections, play.
ed alternately by the Salisbury Com
mercial and the Brunswick Silver Cor
net bands, Capt J. c. Wallace intro
duced Judge Rucker, and the ap-
plause which greeted our able con-
gresham evinced the lofty esteem in
which he was held by the large audi
ence. and how highly his valuable SER
vices In the lower house of our ma.
tional representatives were appre-
ciated.
Judge Rucker followed in a mas
terful speech and covered every pub
lie issue before the nation in a man
ner very credltable to himself and
more than gratifying to his Demo-
cratic constituency and should have