The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-16
HARRISON In WATERFOWL.
GREAT RECEPTION TO THE CITI-
ZENS CANDIDATE.
-Four Thousand Voters Crowd Into the
Armory TO Hear IIim-IIe Scores the
Highway Manual Graft and Odeliism
I'm the state Charitable Institutions.

WATERTOWN, N, H., OCt lO.-Not hlbce
the days OF the Roswell p. Flower cam
paign have the people OF Watertown and OF
Jefferson county seen such Democratic
revival as Watertown Is seeing tonight.
The visit OF Congressman Francis Burton
Harrison, Democratic and Citizens candi-
date for Lieutenant Governor, has reused
up the Democrats of this part OF the State
as they have not been reused for years.
1t is an uncommon thing for hall full OF
men to get together here to hear Demo-
cratic candidate.
But 1000 men surged into the Fourth
Battalion Armory tonight and fought
for seats and blocked up the aisles. The
desire to hear Mr.. Harrison was 30 great
THAT special trains were run from four
different corners Of the county, and
great many more shouters for Herrick
and Harrison came in on them than any
one seemed to expect.
Mr., Harrison reached Watertown at
little after o'clock. and was escorted to
the parors of the Woodruff House by a
large and boisterously enthusiastic gather
ing Of Watertown citizens State Commit
teeman John n. Carlisle took charge of the
reception, and nearly all of the Demo-
cratic organizers in the county had little
chat with the candidate and were asked
to keep up their good work for the State
and national tickets until the evening Of
election day.
Mr.. Harrison was the guest Of former
Judge Harry Purcell at dinner tonight.
He met many prominent Democrats there.
After dinner a committee OF young Demo-
Gratis, headed by George McCartin, waited on
Mr.. Harrison and took him down to the
Democratic city headquarters. The racket
and row which saluted the candidate here
have not been equalled in this campaign
north of Fourteenth street, Manhattan.
The first surprise which came his way
was a column of three hundred young men
marchers, with a band and ton, more or
less, OF red fire. and a transparency bearing
, the device: The +. B. Harrison First Voters
Club" The club sprang into being last week
when it was first known that the candi-
date was going to come to Watertown.
Mr.. Harrison shock hands with the first
voters, and then Il procession was formed,
and escorted by the marching clubs, Mr..
Harrison was taken around through the
principal streets of the city in an open
barouche. He was kept bowling to the
right and left by volleys of cheers from
the men and women who crowded the
sidewalks At the Armory the proceed
ings were opened with a speech by Samuel
F. Bagg, president of the Watertown Steam
Engine Company.
Mr.. Bagg congrat ulated his fellow citi-
yers on their perfectly demonstrated en-
thusiesn for the Herrick and Harrison
clean admins ration ticket. He said that
he hoped that later il might be the privilege
OF Watertown to welcome Justice Herrick
Mr.. Herricks name was received with pro-
vlonged cheers But he was glad at any
rate to pres mt the finest example of the
rearnc st spirit and high tone of the Demo-
cratic party in this campaign as was set
forth in the pe,s )nality of Mr.. Harrison.
Then the big crowd went up into the air
again and the band let go all their instru-
ments at once and the marching clubs
stood UP and marked time on top of their
chairs The Democratic managers on the
stage reached out their hands to one an
other and quietly exchanged Fluctuations
They said it was old times come back again.
MIR Harrison had been informed that
Editor McKinstry of the Watertown Times
had been making great point in his paper
f the argument that though the Charles
Highwayman Belts plant for the growing
OF money without labor, was fostered "by
an unconstitutional law, and though the
price charged for the books was excessive
and the number of them was much too great,
yet these things in themselves did not con
stitute graft Mr.. Harrison honored MIR.
NcKinstry with a few observations on the
Highway Manual matter He said:
THE HIGHWAY MA NUAL GRAFT.
sOne of the rankest hypocrisies Of the
present administration is the invoking of
the excuse of economy when any particu-
larly reprehensibie measure is about to be
fpisted upon the people. But of all brazen
than that which became law under
the title "A Bill to Provide for
the Printing and Distribution of Highway
Manuals without expense to the State.
Paul. 1t is peculiarly characteristic OF
recent performances at Albany that this
scheme for the enriching of a Republican
State committeeman at the, expense of
the towns of the State should bear such
title as that.
'Without expense to the State, thanks
to the vigilance Of Attorney-General Cum
neen and to the sturdy and independent
honesty Of many Supervisors, notably
many in this county. the trick went
be still, for all know, 1924 copies Of
this Highway Manual piled UP in the Office
OF your county clerk. little while more
and they would have been distributed
aud 81 ,284 would have gone o the Repubi
can State committeeman from Wayne
county to make up your share Of his $4,000
reward for siding with the ruling faction
In the recent Republican dissension"
~ MIR. Harrison reused the crowd to re-
peated cheers by reference to the land
Flower native of Watertown, from which
standard the State administration had
ever since declined. Mr.. Harrison then
took, up the administration Of charities