Show REMINISCENCES REM OF EARLY EArtlY DAYS t Stirring Times of the Far West Recalled by Judge Goodwin ANECDOTES ON J W NYE NYEr NYEE r E ROW HOW ow HE BE MADE KADE A POLITICAL SPEECH PROM FRO A PULPIT PULP T Those Th who were present at the n nw w Unitarian church hurch last evening eviD heard beard a treat in the form of oC some reminiscences of the early days of ot California and Ne Nevada Neda rails vada da j 17 y Judge Charles C Goodwin Always an interesting speaker Judge Goodwin was wa at his best beet last t evening event when wt n recounting some of the scenes ce and incidents incident of the palmy days of the and Virginia City Beginning way back in the early days nf of the Golden state the speaker briefly outlined the careers careen of ot some of f the most moat noted not d men of the time Ume interspersing bat ra ing occasionally lIy humorous Incidents III Jo their lives He told in his h own tabs inimitable way a number of funny tories stories of the early days tha tnt that t were ere great greatly ap appreciated by his hili audience James W V Nye Ne former United States State senator from Nevada was the Phi Ial of ot it a number of storks tor related by bythe bythe the speaker Om One Onie e when ben Nye Nyc was wail mak making makIng ing lug a speech in the open air in a stunS small mining mp advocating a number of Republic an ar doctrines dO he was wa Interrupt Interrupted ed by the braying of a donkey nearby The incident nt created considerable C mer merriment merriment among the audience and forced the to pause for several min minutes utes When the animal had been Men sil lIil silenced and order restored Nye Nyc Informed his hearers ht that he was not ot in the least Talked Politics From Prom Pulpit I Whenever I go campaigning he hess ss seid 1 1 the opposition always trots out their thel most eloquent orators OJ a ton and I am 1 becoming accustomed tomed to their Interruption interruptions tion Another time Um when Nye Nyc was as on the stump he entered a town where an evangelist was wall at work He was told that it would be useless for fol him hi to I attempt att to talk politics polities for the place was crazed with religion reUlon All right replied Nye Nyc I r dont I want to talk politics anyhow H He I expressed a desire desiro however to address the congregation gation saying he was vu somewhat of or a preacher himself and thought he might do the people some good He was given permission tc speak 81 ak and when he faced the audi audience audience i iene ence ene began gan thus I The Lord Loid to Is my shepherd I shall I Inot I not want and continued to quote the j I In entire n re passage pa After reciting some verses from the book ok of Job he began i ito Ito to wander from his text In telling t about it afterwards Nye Nyc said saidI I gave gan them m all the scriptures that I I knew and ten minutes later was wall making making mak making ing the damnedest Republican speech you ever heard One Way to Make Votes Votee Judge Judg Goodwin told a story on a very corpulent politician who bad had some pe peculiar peculiar peculiar culiar methods of campaigning One f of his lW opponents in speaking of him later said nid he was wall the hardest man to compete c with he lad had ad ever met I Why Wh the old fraud said td his hie opponent pent nent would get Att up early tit jn n the morn mont morning ing while white the rest reat of ot us U were asleep I and go to every store eton In hi town trying to buy a pair of trousers you when he knew I positively po that he get a pair pairin in the camp that would QUI d reach half way ay around his hiB waist wa lt He get et the trousers n but made lot of votes for I his hili party just the same me meTh The Th speaker paid a tribute to John the Bonanza King and told a number of stories to Illustrate I his generosity When Judge Goodwin had concluded de I Ms lis remarks A P sang saD In the Deep The Unity quartette ren rendered rendered rendered dered a selection after which Miss Emily Larsen favored the audience audle with 0 O Dry Those e Tears Tear and as an encore sang liang Sing SiD Me to Step Sleep Gr |