The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-10-25
THAT SPEECH.

I was carried out according to the
program. The exercises consisted
of band music by our band boys
| which rendered some. most excel : (
lent music, and some kind of low
muttering by the Douglas Quar-
tette, some sang real well Others
very common, some wore specks
others did not, some had full
head of hair and some had as few
hairs on the top of their heads as
they have stars In their crown,
some sang with eyes :, wide open
and some sang.wffh eyes shut by
spells. 9Yjh s20ggtIg 290s
While the quartette was singing
and burlesquihg, such honorable
meu as Mr.. Jesse Gabriel, Mr..
Joseph Barron and Dr., Tippie,
Mr.. Robert Steward, the Republi-
can candidate for commissioners, I,
clapped his hands and cheefed.
1t must be remembered that this I
is the same Robert Steward shat
has been "a Democrat, all his ,hfe7
until Just the last two or three
years; and hauled Democrats to
| 1the polls all day for Mr.. James
Henry Carnes when he cmadei the
race against Mr.. James Thomas
for sheriff. l know whereof L
speak, for Mr.. tCarnesy furnished
the money and put it into the
hands of a Democratic central
committeeman at CarbonhilH and
he passed the money to Mr.. Stew
ard at 6'o'clock on election even
ing after the polls had closed. G
Mr.. Democratic, voter rem ember
this when you GO to cast ballots,
and cast them for a man that will 4
not cheer when your, party candi-
dates are being slurred as they
werelwhen Mr. Steward Icheered, 81
After the music ceased. silence
reigned for" a few moments but
was soon broken by the chairman I
introducing Mr.. III. M. Whitcraft,
who held the audience spell bound
for some time. Hegtold them q
among other things that the q
Democrats had been met and de-
feated at every campaign since
1892, forgot to i'm nention last fall.
He told them all about the panic
of 1898 to 1899, and told them
! that the Democrats were RESPONSE
BILE for it, but he failed to tell them
that the panic had, already begun
and that the gold reserve in the I
National treasury had sunken to
$50, 000,0 he also failed to tell
anything about the greatest panic
the world ever heard of which oc-
Cured under Republican admin
istration which, was called the
panic of 1915. He also told how
that Immediately after Mr.. Nc
Kinley's election the wheels of in
dustry began to move, which Mr..
Douglas said was incorrect, for
u i I : =
Mr.. Douglas said it was the July
following before the wheels Of in
dustry began to move. Mr. Whit
craft told about how Probate
Judge Frank P. Martin sneaklng-
ly appointed committee to sneak
in on Mr.. Harbaugh to examine
the treasurer's office in the abb
sence of Mr.. Harbaugh,, He also
told them that Grover Cleveland
and A. b. Parker were two Of the
best types of the Jeffersonian
Democracy of any two men in the
party today, he also told of the
excellent ticket in Hooking county
but utterly failed to say single
word about how the ticket was
nominated. Whether it was nom
mated by an open primary or by
eleven men that met inside the
corporations His lelQapoRtN re-
marks did not bring anybody to
their feet, but they brought Mr..
Moses Strawn to the floor or at
least some how during the excite excite
meht Moses got over balatced and 2
fell Hat to the floor bringing two =
chairs with him, this brought M
forth the greatest cheers of the
occasion, after the excitement had
died away everything was all
right except Moses was red In the M
face! Some think as the leaderf?) 6r
falls so will his followers, q h Mr aef
Douglas spoke part of his time on
national issues and said he got his
nomination the same as every can