The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-22

THOUSANDS HEAR HIM
Place and Surrounding Country Stirred
as by Trumpets Blast, and Beauty
and PranCing Steeds Add to
Inspiring and Memorable
SpectaCIes.
BY Il. l.. GRAY.

| ing to this place from ASheVille today,
the crowd on the train saw no indi-
cation of the reception that aWaitets
the next Governor of the State. Tom
Rollins and the inevitable j. Wiley
Shook were on board the one whistling
to keep up his courage, the other try
ing as usual to find himself politically,
smiled until the creases OF his collar
| less neck wrinkled themselves into q
pattern of a water map of the west,
land impartially cuSsed out both par
| ties.
J. Wiley departed the train at Glide.
but Tom Rollins stayed with US evea
| to Waynesville. where instantly he was
swallowed up in the Democratic flood
that surged and rolled about the de-
| pot.
AS the train pulled in there was a
prancing of horses. a fiutter of fem
| mime ribbons and cheer after cheer
/ that ratified like muSketry from tho
| throats of six hundred cavalrymen of
| the hills, mounted indiscriminately on
! all manner of animals. dressed in ali
sorts of garbs from pants, shirt anh
"galluses to the gauntleted and mill,
tary looking chief marshall, Captain
r.. A. l.. Hyatt, who in times past wat
fellow soldier valiant with the nomi-
Inee.
AS Glenn was whisked from tho
train into an open surrey drawn by
| four horses, a whip cracked, the1,
there was voliey of cheers that rana
down the long line of horsemen on the
road, the steeds sprang forward at y
gallop, the band burst its lungs in
sound, and the silent mountains looked
down in benediction.
The militant democracy OF HayWooa
let itself go with a whoop. There must
have been easily a thousand people.
mostly on horseback, in the process
! sion. there were 5000 more in tn5
town. AS the cavalcade passed alona
the streets it's progress was marked
by such yelling as only the mountain
people knew how to produce. Ihe
farmers and hunters who live up in
the mists let themselves go in periodic
Old Confederate yells; the old men
riding through the dust on their mules
added the high tenor OF enthusiastic
old age to the tumult. Twenty or mors
lyoung women, splendidly mounted,
dashed with the superb horsemanship
of those bred to the saddle from one
end of the long line to the other, their
hair lying loose. slevees rolled to tho
elbow, eyes flashing and lips partec
with excitement
The women of WaynesVilie stand tho
surest test of the sex. They look pret-
ty in bunch and IN the day time.
and one and all they seem to have
caught the spirit and dash that seem
to come with the cold winds from the
mountains. and they are Democratic
to a man; they made an inspiring
and a vote getting picture. How even
the most hardened Republican could
miss the contagious appeal OF than
white clad troop of fair women 10
hard to apprehend.
Towards the front OF the procession
was an open carriage driven by Jas.
l.. Stringfield in which sat the bearers
of a large and much cheered flag,
Misses Hood, DoWney Knight an.!
Stringfield.
Following or rather prevailing and
pervading the throng rode the lady
marshals above referred to, amons.
whom I caught the names Of Misses
Laura Jones, Lindsay Stringheld
Pearl McCracken, Omar Dillard, An,
ME Simpkins, Matte and Bessie Love.
Louise Krnson and Margie Ferguson.
Among others who were noted were:
Mrs. r. d. Gilmer and, in trap
pulled by ponies, Misses Marguerite
Stringfield, Lockhart, Josephine Gill
mer and Miss Jones.
While the procession was passing p
hot and disgusted Yankee drummeR
was pacing the hotel porch impatientiY
ana waiting IOT Il LedH jH6lly Hia
temper broke loose.
"Is the whole blamed thing COINS 50
be revolutioniZed so that no one can
do business because some fellef ts
"going TO speak," heblurted out.
"You bet" replied the host. that
what Bob Glenn does; when he comes
we revolute right"
After the people had enjoyed the
parade there was an interesting incl
dent when the marshals w. T. Lee,
Jas r. Thomas. Steve Redman. w. f.
McCrary J. L. Walker Joe Cathey, A,
T. Davis, John Boyd, surrounding the
bevy of young women, stepped in
front of the hotel and with bass and
soprano gave rousing hurrahs ana s.
long drawn "Glenn-n-n."
At the court house a large, high,
vaulted building, the wall about the
judges seat decorated with bronze
memorial tablet of Robert Love, tho
founder of Waynesville, and by pic
lures of Parker and Davis, the wo,
men were again largely in evidence,
The room was packed with the fine
people of the county strong. chinned.
straight-eyed men of middle life,
awkward, rawboned. sinewy mountain
youths, women from the country an5
from the town, we'll dressed, smiling,
brieht-eyed.
The old men too were there. Glenn
seems to appeal to them and to the
women peculiarly. He makes the Wo-