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Show That Democratic Rally at Myrun. Tho Democratic party opened up their campaign hero last Saturday evening. Hon Frank J. Cannon was tho speaker of the evening. The large audience that turned out to greet their old friend and political leader, went away singing. "Frankle ain't what he used to be." He never mado a greater effort to deliver a speech in tills county and he never spent as much time and said so little as on Saturday evening. No one applauded him but the candidates for otllce on the Democractlc ticket. It was a very poor lay out. Half the Democrats do not believe many statements made by tho speaker. Ills abuse of the government govern-ment with regard to the Philippine question spoiled all the good he might have done. Ho went along tho usual Democratic lines of "antl," and mado a great effort to turn the people against the government and make them disloyal to tho party and principles princi-ples that havo brought us peace and plenty. He forked' over the usual amount of abuse heaped against Hon. Thos. Kcarns and other respected gentlemen gen-tlemen in whom the pcoplp have implicit im-plicit confidence. The speaker demonstrated dem-onstrated that the .campaign this year is being run as follows: Republican-brain, Republican-brain, principle and truth; Democrat hot air. antl- any old thing to get a voto. When tho speaker noticed that tho only applauding came from a long row of candidates behind him, ho looked over the audience, sighed and said: "Well, if you don't applaud with your hands, I can sco you applauding ap-plauding with your eye." and so he tugged away to pull an idea from his heap of badly mixed up Republican-Democracy. Republican-Democracy. Falling to impress tho men, he turned to .the women and tried to curdle their blood by dramatically dramat-ically portraying tho wicked slaughter of every child above ten years old by tho Republican party (government) in tho Philippine islands. Ho recited scenes of mothers escaping from, deputy de-puty marshals a few years ago and fleeing to a place of safety in tho dead of night,' earning their children. "Suppose now, dear sisters, your children chil-dren had been placed before a conquering conquer-ing hoard and murdered." Men (one or two) bawled, women shuddered and caught hold of tho. benches, whllo their eyes stretched open like nurned holes In a blanket; the speaker stood arms racd, mouth open, eyes out; candidates applauded; curtain dropped; drop-ped; band played. Womci) went homo dodging white objects perhaps It Is a ghost. |
