Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-16
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wallis a Large Audience Listened to
fke>Addresses at tie Opera House.

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Wallis Large Audience Listened to
fEe>Addresses at tie Opera House. :
| Comparisons may be odious, bt1t
resort to comparison is sometime:
the best measure of a situation.
No one who witnessed the small
interest manifested in the coming
of Mr.. Chamberlain and the
! democratic campaign party te
Corvallis, and the lethargy of his
followers during his stay here,
can compare it with the rousire
welcome given Mr.. Furnish and
Mr.. Fulton, and the enthusiasm
which prevailed during and after
the exercises at the Opera House,
Tuesday, and find in this COM
parison any evidence of a Cham
-berlain landslide or ghost of a
show for the success of the party
he represents.
| When the republican guber-
national candidate and Mr.. Full
ton arrived on the noon train
they were met by the cheers of
All enthusiastic assemblage and
the stirring music of the Cadet
Baxd OF the Oregon Agricultural
College. Headed by this orga-
nization. the procession formed
aud escorted the distinguished
visitors to the Occidental Hotel.
The addresses at the Opera
House at 2:3o attracted an audi
ence that over flowed the lower
floor, aud it was found necessary
to throw open the gallery. Coun-
ty Chairman G. w. Denmau
called the meeting to Older, and
introduced Ho1 E. H. Belknap
who presided. Mr.. Belknap>
made a stirring speech at, the
conclusion of which he presented
Hon. w. J. Furnish, Oregon's
next governor. The applause
which greeted Mr.. Furnish was
hearty and prolonged. In a few
brief words Mr.. Furnish told
what policy he would pursue if
elected governor. He said: 81
can promise the people of the
state Of Oregon that when I am
governor their every right
shall be deeply respected. 1 be-
lieve that l can truthfully say
that when my term shall have
expired the people will have no
cause for complaint against nay
administration" :"
l have been told, said Mr..
Furnish, that the report is being
circulated that I will be disposed
to devide the Agricultural COL
-ege and start branch institu-
ion in Eastern Oregon. Have
10 fear in this direction. I shall
10 all in my power to maintain
he integrity Of that splendid it,
At the close of Mr.. FurnisA's
Hon. G. w. Fulton was
introduced as the speaker of the
lay A Storm of applause well
coined Mr.. Fulton, and during
he course of his address, cheers
interrupted his remarks. Mr..
Fulton's throat is troubling him
and it was necessary for
aim to come off of the platform
IN to the main floor, that he
night speak with less exertion.
The speaker began by calling
he attention of his hearers to the
character of campaign being car
led on by the opposition. Mr..
Chamberlain is going about the
tate with paint pot in each
land. Out of one he is pictur-
ng himself as the paragon Of
public and private virtue, the
,ynosure of the democratic politi-
al constellation, the beau ideali
# the royal and select order of /
lail fellows. Out of the other
lie is daubiug a distorted picture
n dirty colors and labelling it
wv, J. Furnish. If Mr..
Chamberlain had that sense of
nodesty common TO ordinary
,eople, said Mr.. Fulton, l be-
ieve he would leave the task Of
ulogiz1ng himself to some third
,arty. l have been with Mr..
Furnish throughout this CAM
,aign, aud l have the first time
o hear him say an unkind word, =
ither privately or i'll public con-
erning his opponent. +
Referring to Mr.. Cllamberlain's
vasion of the Philippine plank
II the democratic state platform
nd his statement that a party ,
TODD on one national platform
until another had been adopted,
.Ir. Fulton called attention to
he fact that by his own adnis-
ion Mr.. Chamberlain still stands
N the democratic national plat ,
orn of 1900 which declares for