The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-17
And Sways the Audience
With His Power.
"A MAGIC PERSONALITY
Ewes Flash or Grow Dim With Start
ina Tears and Old Men Swept
Away by Emotion Speak
Right Out in the
Meetin'.
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NSDecldl
Statesville, N. c., Sept. 16.-The
next Governor of North Carolina took
up tn campaign at Marion today and
delivered the best speech that he has
made since he received the nomina-
ton.
Captain Glenn was delayed by a
wreck between Salisbury and Marion
and did not arrive until after one
o'clock. and starting at two he spoke
for one and three quarters of an hour.
Despite the fatigue attendant upon
capital trial lasting more than two
days the candidate for Governor soon
overcome his hoarseness in his en-
thusiasm in his subject, and for the
greater part of his address was the
familiar figure of the great cam
paigner that the people of the State
contemplated when they forced his
nomination at Greensboro.
The crowd that heard the speech
was one that was at once typical of
the mountain village and compli-
mentary to a degree in that it in
cluded every station of social position
and political belief within Mcdowell
count.
The women were a feature of to-
days meeting. All kinds of women
were there and all sorts of men.
Shirt sleeVed natives of the peaks that
make the ring of the basin in which
Marion is set, with enthusiastic wo-
men by the score, red checked coun-
try school girls with hats adorned
with the flowers Of the hillsldes,
ladies of the town. the remoteness of
whose habitation did not show in
their dress. and old ladies of the
country in black alpaca grinned with
enthusiastic excitement whenever the
orator of the day delivered a telling
point These women and the men
who came down from the mountains
to hear political speeches constitute
the chief interest of the crowd.
The mountain man is a born deba-
ter. When he gets to a speaking the
thoughts that have terminated in
his mind by long looking at the allur-
ing and suggestive hills that bar the
line of his vision come spontaneously
to the surface.
Even at today's speaking, when its
was easy to see that the utterances or
the candidate were but the Illuminated
monograph of the peoples thoughts,
some of the fine old men of the hills
found it impossible to keep silence on
the firing line. In a joint debate the
contestants notice these cid sages of
the sountry reads with an apprehen-
SiVe eye.
When they are with the speaker
they are a fine source of inspiration
and an example of ideal Democracy.
They speak out in meeting with thc
freedom and unconscious ease that
grows out of solitude, and having
spoken, naturally the unthought Of
presence of men covers Instantly with
confusion.
When Capt. Glenn, referring elo-
quently to the Confederate pensions,
paid a tribute to the women of the
county and their interest in politics
and advised them to see that their hus-
bands, sons and sweethearts voted
digit on the penalty of being taken by
the nape of the neck and kept out OF
their homes. One of these old fellows
amid the applause following the speak
er, san gout, Keep 'em off"
Again when Glenn was describing
the jubilation that would follow the
election if the people would vote for
Parker. and as he expressed it, boo
Glenn another white whisker raised
up his voice and shouted: ''We will
do it,
1t would be idle to take up the time
of the people with a description of the
speech. That it was Democratic to
the backbone, that it aroused repeated
enthusiastic outburst from the crowd
are facts which the reputation and the
wide knowledge the publis has of the
man render it superfious. 1t dealt
with all the issues, State and national,
as only Bob Glenn can present them.
Glenn to-day spoke for the people,
in the thought. that their interest lay
in Democratic and white supremacy
he struck the keynote of the senti-
ment. The crowd dispersed satisfied
enlightened and in some cases con-
verted. 81 shall vote for Parker"
said Postmaster Crawford a Mckinley
appointee.
The personality of eileen is his fort,
1t is marvellous to see how he touches
the quick of the emotions of the peo-
pie, at one time L noticed half a dozen
women wiping their eyes and a dozen,
men sitting straight up and blinking
in the conscious effort of Indifference
Mcdowell County is strong for Glenn
and the ticket. Republicans last tim1
it is safely Democratic now Jeal-
ousies have been healed.
TO BECOME GENERAL MANAGER.