The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-05-19
GOVERNOR GLENN TALKS.
Many People Hear Him Sunday Al the
Academy of Music.

w thV AsA EoSoS uuoaShSS sAAos
has ever been admitted to the house
and it lacked nothing of being a hot
snot.
Twice within a week, the theatre
was more than filed and in those
two times, by old-time rivals of the
stump Twenty years ago Glenn and
Settle were candidates for solicitor
AMI Settle won after the most excit-
ing Joint canvass he ever made. Last
week Settle, after political trance
of ten years came back here and broke
all previous records with house of
men filed beyond any hope of CON-
fort and Sunday Glenn followed with
congregation larger by several hun.
dreds, thirty per cent of whom must
have been women to whom he appeal
ed most powerfully for support in the
fight.
Nothing like it has been seen here.
Nowhere in the house could you sug-
gest a place where one might sit down
or stand up. The rostrum was crowd.
ed. both behind the scenes We're
taken" the boxes were packed, the
orchestra pit was damned, the CALLER
les creaked under their load and men
and women were turned from the
doors of entrance. A chapter of
deaf mutes sat to the right of the
speaker ana could no more see him
than hear him. The pantomime per-
Torrance was lost to them, for Glenn
loses when you can't see him. Never.
theless he was faithfully interpreted
to the class by Miss Tillinghast, who
watched the speaker and transmitted
from her position the words of the
speaker who talked so rapidly that it
was almost impossible to follow him.
The address was preceded by con.
gregational song and prayer by Rev.
DR.. E. A. Yates. Rev. W. c. Barrett
announced the appointments TO the
meeting and Rev. G. T. Adams intro
duced the governor. He did it as
handsomely as any man was ever pre-
scented to an audience. He said in
part: "As / look over this sea OF
faces, a magnificent vision comes be
fore my mind. vision Of hope and
faith that on the Goth of May the whis'
| key traffic will be banished from North
Carolina forever. (Applause.) >
We welcome our distinguished COVER.
nor as the great apostle of temperance
and Righteousness. as the leader OF
moral reform and the man who has
done more to remove the curse OF
whiskey from our state than any man
in it. (Applause.) He may not be
called first in war but he will be
known as first in peace and first in
the hearts Of his countrymen." (Great
applause.)
Governor Glenn arose visibly affect
ed by the fiattering introduction. He
said he had been on the go since
the early part of the campaign and
had spoken himself hoarse ana almost
down. Il feel much more like going
TO bed" he said. but l can't resist
the temptation to speak to such a
magnificent audience as this. one so
much in contrast to the audiences tina:
have confronted those of the opposi'
ton. (Applause.) Here l see min.
listers Of the gospel. sweet, pure WON
en-, brave men. gathered on Sunday
afternoon in a meeting sandwiched
with prayer and songs Of praise.
Before beginning. let me say a
word personal, for the slanderer has
been in Durham and abroad over the
state. IL has been told that stay
drunk half the time and that | cannot
make a speech without being about
three parts drunk. II that Is so, YOU
must expect mighty poor speech this
afternoon because ! have been in Dur
!, ham four hours and haven't had q
drap. (Great iaughter) These mer
say they have drunk liquor with me
(which is a lie( and that can't hell
myself. They do not worry me. These
little men don't. When one Of the lit
tie insects begins to buzz about mi
I feel like the gnat that III on the OK
horn and said n I become a burden
let me know t. and the OK said, you
little fool. didn't now you were
there And then they said | was US
Ing this campaign to pave my way
to the United States senate. II any
Of YOU read my letter recently you
; know better than that. And / would
rather have a majority Of fifty or six
. ty thousand for prohibition than d
hold any Office within the gift Of tht
American people. Tremendous ap
plause and cheering)
Then they say that ought to stay
at home and attend TO business, thal
a governor should be In Raleigh ant
not running over the state making 20
litical speeches. Ny friends. an
, attending 10 business and a portion
Of my business is driving out the 30
looms and distIllerIes forever from
North Carolina. Applause ana cheer
ling.J
They do tell one thing on me tha
2 is true. I have not always been
tee.totaler. but I was never drunk II
my life. Like a lot Of foolish men
some Of whom I see before me nov
: when I was young I did with st. Pau
| as authority take a little wine for mi