The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-01
ENDS IN
BLAZE OF GLORY
First Marion Chautauqua
Huge Success.
.FlNTNCIAL ENDS MEET
Marion Rallies to Support
Worthy Venture.
Many Notable Speakers Were Pres
ent Saturday and Sunday--Weber
Glee Club Furnished Climax TO
Musical Preudes.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

when Governor Robert Il. Glenn
came to the Chautauqlh platform
Saturday afternon he brought with
him a touch of the courtliness of
the south, for in all his references
to the American people he never for
got to precede the greatness of her
men with the sweetness of her wo-
men. Superintendent Davidson in
troduced the famous Southerner with
a brief but characterizing review of
the things the executive had done for
North Carolina. His Imprisonment
of railroad officials for disregarding
the two cent fare law being one of
the most typical.
1T is n good thing for the sons
of the south and the sons of the
north to mingle" said the governor
by way of beginning. II used to
think you-all were a pretty rough
and tumble set, that you were short
on hospitality and were about the
coolest propositions on record. And
you believed us to be courturoyed
longhaired dreamers, who killed a
niger every morning before break
fast just for pastime. But when 1
came up here, 10 and behold, 1 found
you the most generous, the most kind
hearted people in the world. SO I'm
at peace with the world, in love with
everybody, AN 1 ain't got nothing
against nobody
my consideration is for the Won
der of the past, the glory of the
present and the promise of the flu
A n
howlnig wilderness, now our land
is teemnig with the sweetest women
and the greatest men God ever gave
to any nation. Yesterday we were
a cringing fearful, prodigal child. to-
| day we are dictators. From a pow
cry stricken country i'm rags, we have
come to be the richest in the world
of nations. The president of the I'm
tied States, whether you view him
| in the person of Teddy Roosevelt. or
Taft, is the grandest ruler on the
face of the earth, and the people
of Ohio thrill with love and pride,
as does this 'tarheel," that we are
American citizens.
"There is dark cloud on the
'scrutcheon of our history, the cloud
OF the Civil war. Better than most
am 1 qualified to judge of the hor-
ror of that struggle, for my mother
| owed her first allegiance to New
| York and my father to North Car
olina; my uncle commanded a Un-
ion regiment, my father was cap
tain In the Confererate ranks"
Here the speaker told of the intro
| duction of slavery into both North
and South. the selling of the north
ern slaves to southern interests be-
cause the climatic conditions made
them useless to their former masters,
while the south were in need of them
Then came talk of emancipation and
state rights. Governor Glenn de-
clared North Carolina did not want
to cecede, that she remembered the
battles for liberty when north and
south stood shoulder to shoulder and
mingled together their life blood
for country. When submitted to
popular vote, the state declared
overwhelmingly for union. 1t was
only when the guns of Fort Sumpter
rang out the signal that meant she
must turn against her other self,
South Carolina, brother against
brother. kinfolk against kinfolk, that
she. with aching heart. cast her for
tune with the stars and bars. De-
signing politicians on both sides
brought on the struggle and left it
for the brave men to settle In con-
flict. He declared the great battles
OF the world sink into insignificance
when compared with Gettysburg and
the glorious conduct there of both
the wearers OF the blue and the
wearers of the grey. He reviewed
the charge Of General Pickett and