Show MH SS LITTLE JOKE I 1 I 1 the democracy Is silvers only frien d workingmen TOOK IT IN gave the democratic candidate a stout walking stick and he know whether they thought ho he needed it his honor the mayor ns as ft a horny handed orator tha 1110 D democratic emo cratic Working mens cub club Is apparently of the be belief cef that tho the party has presented to them aade a lime and halting halling candidate for they last evening presented t to 0 J L matlins a good stout walking stick slick and then mr rawln put his conscience on lee ice and told old the working workingmen nien that silver had no friend alend p except z C ept the democratic party lie he also played lila ills chief campaign car card J by r roasting tho democratic batic Prez president ident lion hon robert N baskin the nonpartisan san mayor told the wili kingmen how the they had suffered buffered under the robber tariff and big injun ni not at abrald of the harris and horny handed laboring men made speeches the cane presentation speech was made iby by cleall chairman man mccaffrey McC artrey on behall behalf of the association who had in n their quiet deliberations decided that lie he required something more substantial on which to lean than a record of 0 tree free wool a crippled lead industry and the death ot of silver the incident was seized upon by w who to were present R aa a oc occasion cason tor for tremendous approval to t which was added the deafening bluster of 0 a halt half dozen drums that had been called on to supply whatever deficiency fi fici ency might be discovered in the supply ot of enthusiasm ever body pre present sent rejoiced over the incident save the recipient ot of the walking stick slick over whose face there settled a look ot of suspicion and doubt lie he plainly felt fell there was nothing thing to justify his friends in presenting him with such a crying symbol of weakness and while he be was not reckless enough to rebuke their stupidity at that moment it Is not unlikely that it was lone in adjourned session then getting down to the real purpose for which he was present sir air P rawlans undertook with a volume of the congressional record to show thai ilia the universal cry was founded on 01 error to anai the party of free wool and a single gold stin standard dard was no not responsible for the khe awful period ot of depres depression n nor was its advent in the the knell above the dead indus industries tries of the nation lie ile dwelt at length upon silver and charged the republican party with the authorship of all legislation adverse to it but did dd finally admit that G grover rover cleveland the nun man who hi had V violated 0 filled all proprieties and allowed him himself self to descend from froin the white HOURC to the had bad been guilty of the act of infamy in the rhe lek slit lon against silver the masses he be said lied had the ballot box which to avenge this outrage but as in his campaign 0 opan arrion ion the hope tor for free silver rested within the democratic party he pleaded with those these who hung their heads at the allusion to Clev Cevel elands ands policy to remain within its folds and make the light fight for silver there the speaker touched lightly on the tariff called attention to the strikes and lookouts lockouts and failures allures that were elden dental ital with the struggle in ili congress for free wool and crippled lead ead and concluded in tac sto of three rousing cheers THE FRAY FRAT mayor baskin was then ca called led on and I 1 taxed axed up the cabie of the crisis to protection slid and the debr of silver at the hands of a democratic administration fr tra showing that for 83 years upon a bimetallic basis the country had ex ced its grandest periods of prosperity fisher harris of the knutsford notel hotel recited the story and teachings of thomas jefferson and urged that it was time lime for those who had strayed to hustle themselves back into the paths patha that thomas had blazed for them and remain there with first drat principles J A williams kept bIrn himself self busy for twenty rn minutes in the eloit to unearth soni something thang the present administration had done for the good of the country declined without a blush b ush that the laboring classes casses of england were in better condition than those of america after which deputy marshal J B timmony closed the levee incidental to the cane presentation |