Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-03-31

Nevertheless, you are my host. IT Is
for you to say what you will do with
me until train time"
I'VE can kill an hour at the rally,
II you like. You have seen the street
parade and heard the band play: II
is only fair that you should see the
menagerie on exhibition"
Loring found his matchbox and
made a fresh light for his cigar.
TITS pretty evident that you and
'next-Governor' Bucks are on opposite
sides of the political fence" he OBJ
served.
we are. should think a good bit
less Of myself than I do-and that's
needless-if trained In his company"
"Yet you will give him chance to
make partizan Of me? Well, come
along. Politics are not down on my
western programme. but I'm here to
see all the new things"
The CASTOR opera house was sur
vival Of the flush times, and barring
certain tawdriness from disuse and ne
glect, and rather garish effect which
marched evenly with the brick-and-
terra-cotta fronts in Texas street and
the American-Tudor cottages Of the
suburbs, 1t was a creditable relic. The
auditorium was well filled In pit, dress
circle and gallery when Kent and his
guest edged their way through the
standing committee in the foyer; but
by dint of careful searching they sue.
ceeded In finding two seats we'll
around to the left, with a balcony
pillar to separate them from THEN
nearest neigh bors.
Measured by the standard Of fitness
for his ONCE Of prolocutor the man
standing beside the stage-properties
speakers desk was worthy second
glance. He was dark, understood,
trinity built; with Vandyke beard
clipped closely enough to show the
lines Of bulldog jaw, and eyes that
had the gift, priceless to the public
speaker, of seeming to hold every on
looking eye in the audience. Unlike
his hackers In the awkward semi-cir-
Gle, he wore a professional long coat;
and the hands that marked his
smoothly flowing sentences were slim
and shapely.
who is he?" asked Aoring, in an
aside to Kent.
Stephen Hawk, the ex-district at
torney: boomer, pettifoger, promoter
"a charter member Of the CASTOR
wolf-pack. A man who would per-
suade you into believing in the impec-
cability of Satan in one breath, and
knife you in the back for ten-dollar
bill in the next" was the rejoinder.
Loring nodded, and again became
listener. Hawks speech was merely
Introductory, and it was nearing ita
peroration.
Fellow citizens, this occasion is "a
auspicious as 1t Is significant When
the people rise in their might to say
to tyranny in whatsoever form 1t op-
presses them, Thus far and no far
ther shalt thou CO. the night Is far
spent and the light is breaking in the
east.
"Since the day when we first began
to wrest with compelling hands the
natural riches from the soil Of this
our adaptive state, political trickery
in high places, backed by the puissant
might of alien corporations, has
ground US into the dust
But now the time Of our deliver.
ance is at hand. Great movements
give birth to great leaders; and In
this, our holy crusade against oppres-
sion and tyranny, the crises has bred
the man. Ladies and gentlemen,
have the pleasure of presenting to you
the speaker of the evening: our friend
and fellow citizen the Honorable JAS
per G. Bucks, by the grace Of God, and
your suffrages, the next governor Of
the state"