The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-30
POLITICAL CROWDS
DOWN IN DIXIE
Two Spellblnders Who Tell
About Their Rich Elk.
perienCeS.


night. A recent convert. an ex-Confed-
crate, by the way, who Is now bank
lawyer in New York, told tho following
stony sSiy orst pol,t,ca, ,p.ecb was mad. In
aone. VA me Greeey ~
rates like myself. In fact. most OF US
had been In the Same command, and
''The y campaign committee, iii johnny
Hobs, had browbeatcn me into promise
to make speech made q frantic
Greeey a 70 sa e fo applet
him epithets that would have caused q
fire alarm box to explode.
but they insisted That tho Democratic
party had to break loose somewhere and
that this seemed to be the only place
II could say TO help the party at such
You can tell the Seys Paul t said ts
Greeley wen. ~ President D Driynn bonl
ha ought to help 10 s9Tgst al that
the ssla hs ss sRyi he N ddn at think va:
generally known. Anyway no said. It
s By d nsser Of 'sR e wa 1Wn kPna nS nay
yielded and, went to the meeting;
The band played all The OLD Southern nr,
ceded me never alluded to Greeley. Moth
Ing ny said had any reference to
pfesidential election. 1t was up to me-
When had ramblcd In my remarks.
dreading e come come, up to the line ha,,; as
Davis as YOU In tho North called him
IN prison vas touched IT,, BY l ny own M r.
While I had EN- on the mourncr''s
bench / cautiously referred TO an old
y it, % Ria an VENT
from our downtallen hero. Working
ssndsas NTH an that so9 xer Ha wns
..rhe chairman OF the committee got
had Inadvertently forgot 70 mention the
the shackies. He said he was a Now
'rhere wasn't q murmur IN the au-
dience The chairman explained that M.
ocrats as their candidate for President,
I and out OF confederation for what Greeley
had done IN striking tho shackles from
JEFFERSON Davis he proposed three cheers
who had been sobhlng over the picture ni,
nary hoilcr for Greeley. 1 move that
we substitute tho name. OF Jefferson Da-
vls tor Aor4 &c d err .tampode.
you ever saw that was. the hottest and
It kep. getting hotter! i raised the back
window and tho chairman dropped out
after the election received !etter
from him.
HE was In Butt. Mon. He wrote that
politics was not his game.
THAT was my first political speech.
When tho votes were counted on election
day in the town where made the speeeh
Colonel Charles Fl. Denison. chairman
Of tina Republican Clubs COMMITTEES on
National Affairs and one OF tho National
Committees effective speakers , sac 70, 20
Souther naudience himself. -, A..
He was sent into Virginia during tho
last, Presidential campaign Ito 10 Iaa..y ne
I ticket to the southernors who bad balked
| at Bryan. The first meeting he addressed
| was in a courthouse In a typical Virginia
town: Colonel Denison's account OF tho
| meeting Is appended
II began BY saying that this was ny
second appearance in tho State Of the
Mother OF Presidents. My nrst visit. I
| "a d, was rather under orders than OF my
! own yolition. remarked that that visit
! was brief. and that I had almost hurried
out OF tho State on account OF clrcum-
stances over which had no control.
4 II added that I still carried q remind-
err of that visit. and II perchhnce tho
gentleman who was the cause OF IT was
present, I shoula IKE to meet him; IN
the incident bore him only the goodwill
Of comradeship.
THE audience sat under these ,"a,v w9 ,'on
lmmovable., There vas not an ina na ion
+ preston. favorable or otherwise. fhey
Just sat there like so many images;
II then quickly recalled that when t toos
as Northern audience always s1Vea
i n speaker when he is introduced MY re-
/ cep1ion was so chilly that almost broke
down. I tried again ,., .o,s
TO stand on the soil OF old Virginia. the
Mother OF Presidents; the State In which
the eloquent ',o'ce OF Patrick Hem - was
hoard in the orst dark days OF OUT beloved
b, ..T paused moment, but there was not
a murmur. continued. The S'ate THAT
to To STRUGGLE ,or ind"rendence. and which
when The conflict was over was solicited
to rp'de us In our 'rst stems. as coun"
try:a,,washington, Of virs,n ns.,.n :, ,..t
Fin the sndIence. ard here and th.re do.
rnonstraton- by the hands: felt that
the CONCEALED condition OF tho atmos-
,r~ made another charge while thu
melting process seemed to be present I
state Eh'es atsr gaze ,ovt tH sa =
his State. md valor, whose name com
manded the respect and admiration Of our
whole country. as we'll as Of all nations
tho Christian soldier, Lee.
IA whoop from the back benches greeted
this. recognized in It the yell with ~
prcatest Of civil wars 1t was CONTAGIOUS.
It swent the old courthouse like prairie
Are, It seemed as II tho mastering had
been loosened from the ceiling.
''The rest Of my speech was necessarily
confined to the camnaien; spoke 80. OF u
as n business Issue dwelling upon the n
nanc,el question involved. It received
resnectful attention. but not of a demons
strative character
"As was leaving the building There was
another demonstration which was very
natter!ng felt as u had d., been On s su &C.
esssfq1 s, All ther efor AA''
II learned though, after left the build
Ing, that the noise heard was IN honor
local celebrity, who had a date to follow
me, and to answer me-. 1t was his audi
ence TINT I had been trying to work up