The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-03

! twenty-four years ago, and, many
| meetings as l have had, that meeting
had more unusual incidents that made
me remember it than any other meet
ing, great or small, that / ever ad-
dressed.
! went out in the fall of 1884 to make
a political speech in an Irish settle
| ment, at a place called Buckhorn
school house; and friend took me out
In has buggy. We knew about where
the school house was. but not exactly,
and as we proceeded we occasionally
| inquired, to be sure that we were on
! the right road. When we were nearly
there and it was almost dark, a man
rode by on a white horse. l called to
him and asked him If that was the
road to BuckhOrn school house. He
| checked up his horse and said: NO;
you ought to have turned off about a
half-mile back" Then he thought he
had better find out more about us, so
he came up and looked into the buggy,
and said, who is it?" 1 told him.
oh" he asked, you are the man
coming out to speak?' l said, Eyes,
SIR We'll" he said, "this is the
right road. 1 thought you might be
coming out to disturb the meeting"
LauShter)
We rode along, laughing at the eff
LOIl VI liiiS 1TiSHtudu 10 protect Tie
meeting. His name was Timothy Flynn
(Laughter) Poor fellow, he died about
a year ago, and just before he died
he presided at a meeting where l spoke
at Jacksonville, ILL., 1t was just TWEEN
ty years after the Buckhorn school
house meeting, and / told this story in
his presence, and he confirmed all that
/ said, showing that my memory had
not failed me, although it had been
almost quarter of a century since
the meeting.
Well, we were laughing at his effort
to protect US from disturbance; and
we soon reached the school house He,
however, had arrived before US, and
the gentleman who was with me got
out on one side and tied the horse,
while I got out on the other side. Tim
othy Flynn came up to me and led me
off little way from the buggy, pulled
out a bottle and said. Wont you have
something to drink?" 1 said, mo,
thank you" He said. You better take
a little No. I said, IT don't care
for any" Just a drop" he insisted.
Gaughter.) I said, mo, 1 don't use
st." and he laid his hand upon my
shoulder, and 1 can hear his voice now,
full of pathOs, as he said, ''Well, do the
best you can, anyhow" applause
and continued laughter.)
Various Suggestions to Speaker.
We entered the school house, and a
seriOus-minded man stopped me and
whispered, Don't speak too long. We
had a man out here last Saturday night
and he nearly wore US all out" 1 ac-
cepted the suggestion in the spirit in
which it was given. and agreed TO be
limited in my remarks. / had not gone
much farther, when another man
stopped me. His face looked as if he
was prepared to enjoy the meeting. He
said; Hit 'em hard; there is not a
Republican here" daughter and ap-
plause) He thought that as there
were none of the opposition present
could go to the limit daughter and
say anything I liked, not knowing that
it is very much more pleasant to have
some of our opponents in the audience
than to have them all with you, for
when you have opponents in the audi
ence to convert and just enough OF
your friends to keep up the enthusiasm
it is better meeting than if it is too
one-sided. Naughter) Well, that
was the fourth incident; and l was
soon at the front of the school house,
and here Timothy Flynn appeared on
the scene for the third time. He told
me that he was chairman of the meet
ing. and that if l would tell him what I
wanted him TO say he would say it.
daughter.) That was one Of the very
few times when / have had an oppor-
tunity to tell the presiding officer how
to introduce me. Laughter) l am
sorry I did not have a chance tonight
0aughter) for my good friend has in
PRODUCED me with so much compliment
and so much eulogy that he has raised
expectations that l am sure l cannot
satisfy. Sometimes when | nave been
introduced with compliments that
raise the expectations of the audience
I feel like rebuking the chairman and
giving him this model introduction, the
best l ever had, not because I prepared
ii myself, but because the chairman
did not follow my instructions.
Oaughter) I was then a young law
yer. I was practicing in a town not
far from this school house, and
thought that possibly some member of
the audience might have litigation and
might need a lawyer, so 1 said: you
say that Mr.. w. J. Bryan, an attorney
at-law of Jacksonville, will now adj