Evening journal., 1912-04-01
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Story of the Western
Reserve
By Holland.


one of the most effective speakers was
the late Emory Storrs of Chicago Mr..
Storrs was an enthusiastic admirer of
James G Blaine and he entered into
the campaign i'm behalf of Blaine
with much zeal His speeches were
so effective that he was sent by the
Republican national committee to
many States and in October of that
year he visited New England
] met Mr.. Storrs on a train Just af-
ter he had completed his tour of Con-
necticut, anG after some conversa-
tion with him about his experiences
as a stump speaker and what he
called the tricks of the trade, which
he asserted were many if a stump
speaker was to prove effective, / ask
ed him what was the most interesting
and impressive Of all his experiences
as a stump speaker in the west
stump speaking in the west" he
replied, between 1910 and 1876 was
the great national political school
Nothing Of the kind was known in the
East. 1t was one of the best evidences
of the sound political health of the
people between the Allegheny noun
tains and the Mississippi river They
looked upon campaign speakers as po-
litical teachers and the people regard
ed it as much a duty to attend mass
meetings as to vote upon election day
II have seen men stand by the hour
in the open air while rain was falling
utterly oblivious to the weather and
! giving rapt attention to the speakers,
who often spoke from a platform un-
der tree and without any other pro-
lection from the inclement weather.
"A meeting of this kind which has
ialways been vividly impressed upon
my mind took place in 1864 in a town
of the Western Reserve of Ohio. The
Western Reserve is the northeast cor
ner of Ohio and it i'm part was repre-
sented for many years in Congress by
General Garfield. The speakers an
nounced FOR that mass meeting we're
John A. Bingham. a member of Con-
gress from Ohio, and afterwards Min
ister to Japan, and George W. Julian,
a very promising Indiana Republican.
who was at that time a member of
Congress.
Soon after the meeting opened rain
began to fall. I stood near the speak
er's platform and ! remember that the
Of water ran from the platform to the
ground / presume there were from
three thousand to four thousand men
present, not one of whom paid the
slightest attention to the rain Bing-
ham was a very accomplished rhetori-
clan. He used beautiful language, but
adapted ii to his great audience. Il
was indeed a most impressive sight to
see these men standing there in tho
rain perfectly absorbed in the utter
ances OF the speaker
after Mr. Bingham finished, Julian
was introduced to his audience. There
was some cheering. for Julian was a
very popular Republican, but I thing
the best demonstration after all was
the keen intentness of look on the
face OF every man who stood before
him.
After speaking for about an hour
Mr.. Julian said that, as there seemed
to be no signs of the weather letting
up, and as IL was getting late in the
afternoon, he would bring his remarks
to close. But there were many cries
of Go ahead While Julian stood
somewhat doubtful. a farmer who was
near the platform cried out in "A shrill
piping voice. Go ahead, we'll hear you
through. Anyhow it's past milking
time
Every farmer in that assemblage.
| think, | am safe in saying, nodded
his head. Mr. Julian thereupon re-
sumed and spoke until twilight was
changing into darkness A little later
asked him If he heard what the
farmer said about it being past milk
ing time and he replied:
"Oh yes, and that was all I wanted
to hear, for I knew that if in the West
ern Reserve an audience could be held
past milking time then the object of
the mass meeting was accomplished,
for il is the saping among these farm
ers, IF man is good speaker, wei
stay and hear him until past milking
time
Copyright 1912. by e. J. Edwards
All rights reserved)
Tomorrow Mrs Edwards will tell OF
"a Bit of Unwritten History of the
Second Lincoln Campaign"
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