Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1908-10-22
NO. 80.
HEAR PLAIN SPEECH
VOTERS LISTEN TO A LITTLE
STRAIGHT TALK.
Mar % the People Points Out 10 In
terested Listeners the Real Is-uss
of the campaisr--Joe Can
non'a Position

Nonroevilie'a Democrats. assisted BY
th" county committee had planned
Nhat The posters called 4 Monster
hrfan Ratification Meeting" The Re-
pHouchn school teacher remarked that
me hrst three words ~ the piacarti
heid more truth than al the rest %
me sheet. but then. hc was a recent
importation from boston. and 80 vas
expected 90 slt in the seat % tho
scurniul lndisturbed bv any such
grammatical peccadilloea. most of
Aonroevilies thousand voters. and
several hundred men from the outly.
ing country. turned ont 10 hear The
music and the speech making.
There was CONSERVATION in the
ranks q the committee when the eve
ming train brought no Lawyer squires.
the hright oraiaricai ught upon whom
their faith had been pinned The
meeting had begun before the train
arrived. the preliminaries had been
aiApor"d of and The lucal talent we'll
nigh exhausted when the NOT plussed
committee arrived with the bad news.
hf Tore u could b. broken. however.
Led Rnmfort. the hotel keeper. whose
committee badge outshone hia dia-
mond. had an inspiration. Why not
ask Tom Harkins Ware 4 Tares star
drummer. % give the crowd the same
sort Of talk he had made 20 tho boys
In the hotel lobby that afternoonT
Thus u came about that instead u
pompous orator In a frnrk coat.
there vas Introduced veil crowned
Young man In brown. who began By
saying Amt n awful Mabel
blew into this burg 20 talk Ware 4
Tare's dry goods. and here they've put
me- 20 t0 show line of Republican
green goods Instead % a hix gun.
you've Ent a Cannon cracker. for I
want 10 take a crack AZ Joe. since be
and senator Son-iu-lav Onrich are
more of an issue than Teddy's expand
ed shadow Injunction BIN
wouldn't be- afraid ~ the big stick In
Tafts hands. any more than Wall
street Is afraid u q. bat Tar Is only
the respectable ctgar-sfore front u
the meansst gambling ioint thar ever
stacked the cards against sucker
The real owners are Cannon. Aiirich.
Rockefeller. Hartman and that whole
-as1 Uncle ioe's lightest cuss word
seixt-ier than Taft's most delphic
q re-a-ce For what Cannon SAYS
E1-s --sazss ~ does not speak until
h. e1s ,@ez sacken TO by the men
hlE1~- -- -s-t ne higher np where
Cauncu r1-s t- o-les Is not heaven,
either In yrz c1--n ny poiutf There
Is no voting 20 P-ur~xe TAFT. or Er-
ranf.Hoy Sherman. Elfnruf voting
fr- he continuation and strengthening
-1s Republican ring IN house and
se1l-e a rirg 50 crooked thar. except
f-- .ev -azths In presidential year.
EfeE ID Esla-a1 editors are kept
aasF -s=rx fss lzsgy truth about H.
Z Tez ~A-= zo-s e ne rslEn Of the
xazs th1t las proved Itself mixhfier
lhan even Terrible Teddy then vote
far the amiahie Tar and the shrink
ing sherman
4 had neVf-door Hsiehhur once
who woke in the night and found A
hall Hight burning Downstairs. lie
thought II was burglar What fn You
suppose he did, lie stood upstairs
shivering in his nightie. hoping the
burglar would 20 away. Is that the
way YOU do when your wife shakes
YOU out Of your beauty sleep and tells
you that there Is a burglar down
stairs7"'
Not on your llfe,- calculated a
hushy man In the audience: 4 20
after him"
Well. gentlemen. that Is Just about
what is up 10 You to-day in this politi-
cal campaign Your fundamental. In
lsreuf manhood rights are at stake.
Your country. which Is as sacred to
YOU As your home-myriads of patriots
have left their homes at the call of
country has been invaded by thieves
and robbers The ideals ~ American
government have been violated Your
property rights have been taken from
you. Some Of YOU have become 50
suplne and unnamed that YOU grin
and gloai over the power and audaeity
of the men who have plundered and
shamed YOU. You say they're mighty
smart. and that you'd do the same II
/ YOU had the chance. 4 man who talss
/ Ike that Is at heart q croOk"-here
/ the speaker grew vehement and
/ jahbed his fore-dnger yiciously into
the air-"and no decent citizen OF this
/ republic
\ tenseness in the atmosphere and
+ low murmurs OF appreciation. rather
I than cheers. greeted the speaker .
+ reasoning here But that sort Of fel-
+ low. while the mainstay OF the Repub-
/ lican organization. is not majority
In America. not by several Like the
eminent Republican. his satanic ma
| iesty. I've been going To and fro on
the earth a good deal. and I've talked
with all sorts OF people. Frankly.
| tell YOU I'm amazed At the deep sert-
| BUSINESS of the voters OF to-day Men
are thinking things through for them
selves. and whenever you ind n man
thinking the present situation through.
there you find a vote for Bryan Th1n
election is not going 10 be decided -
campaign speeches. but by the coursC
OF political events during the paG1
years of Republican control II
people have come to see that q
principles Of Democracy. as repreor
ed by the slogan, Shall the pGG
ruley are the nations only hops =
present hour" And when Druu
Harkins got through the crowd
ready to pass n vote OF thA1l
Lawyer Squires for having miss
| train