New-York tribune., 1908-10-24
SHERM4N IN 5 COUNTIES.
Speaks Eight Times to a pd1ety OF
audiences Warmly ReceiUed.

Csu-ego y Y Oct 23-In northward sweep
through five counties to-day. James D oHeliAii,
Republican Presidential nominee. maze elsi''
speeches closing here tonight with meetlng IN
F2icbsrisop's Theatre where he and Job Hedges
addressed standing -room-only audience Preeeoliie
the meeting big parade of marching c4uoS' u t-lii
corps and bands took place. Former EXCISE o
missioner P W. Cunan presided at the IneeIns'
General campaign issues were discussed by the
sneakers who paid glowing tributes TO Governor
Hughes urging his reelection Every mention OF
the Governors greeted with tremendous
cheering by the audience. Congressman Charles L.
Knapp also made brief address
The davis work began at dawn for Mr.. sherman
his party leaving EImira for Ithaca. where II was
met by Congressman John w Dwight, members Oh
the Tompkins County Republican Committee ana
the Young Mems Republican Club. an organization
Of first voters who acted escort to Trumans-
burg, which reached by special tram lot d
monday meeting. At Willow Creek, where orIei
stop was made big cider mill was in active op-
Grafton near the station. and Mr.. Sherman was
much interested in the process. a rosy checked
girl who blushngly rendered a big red apple 10
the candidate with her best wishes for the success
Of Sunny jim made the hit Of the day with MI.
Sherman At Johannesburg farmers from all parts
of the county had gathered. and they gave an en-
thUsiastic reception to their guest The spirit OF
Democracy, fnsistent and shrill, in the form OF a
small boy who followed the candidates autornoDAe
for over mile. cheering Justify for Bryan fur
nished Mr.. Sherman with part Of his text for the
Johannesburg address
II have been greatly impressed he said. by
the constant and enthusiastic cheering for Brother
Bryan by just one boy about six years old he Is
excusabIe because he Is not old enough TO remem-
ber that dark and disastrous period from 1898 to
1897 during which this country was under the COM
pIete domination of Democracy. The voters now
ever. cannot forget it. although the peerless one
might well wish that they would"
The speaker attributed that period Of commercial
depression TO the effort to install free trade syS
tenn in America
Following the Johannesburg meeting. Mr.. Sher-
man returned to ithaca by automobile. where he
was guest at luncheon OF Congressman Dwight.
and met and shook hands with hundreds of the
citizens at q reception afterward. Another special
train then took the candidate and his party TO
Cortland, where no meeting had been scheduled.
but where Mr.. Sherman obliged to address
three large gatherings before the townsoeople would
permit him TO depart.
The first meeting was a crowd of workmeu from
the Wicker Wire Works. at that place After talk
ing briefly on the tariff in its effect wages. Mr.
Sherman went down into the crowd to shake hands
with the men. Warned that he would get his hands
soed he Iaughingly replied, What do care for
little honest dirt and he proceeded with the hand
shaking, which evoked hearty cheer from the
Another short talk made on the currency
question before large crowd of business men,
who surrounded the candidates automobile in the
main business street and would not let him pass
until he made an address. His car made a flying
trip to the Lackawanna station, where he was TO
catch a train for Oswego, but there again he was
held up by hundreds of school girls and boys, who
had been waiting for long time. They literally
sWarned over the candidates automobile cheering
for sunny jim" and he finally consented TO talk
q few minutes while the train waited When the
train passed through Syracuse a crowd gathered
at the station see the Vice-Presidential nominee
but Mr. Sherman was sleeping. thoroughly ex-
hausted from his long trip and numerous speeches.
and they were disappointed