Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1887 — A NEW APOSTLE. [ARTICLE]

A NEW APOSTLE.

Train Makes the Chicago Anarchists ' Happy—His Utterances Loudly Cheered. [Chicago special.] George Francis Train opened his campaign in Chicago at the Princess Theater Sunday afternoon before a highly appreciative audience of about six hundred. Nearly all the leading socialists and anarchists were present and greeted the celebrated crank with a cheer. His speech was a curious mixture of bombast, eloquence, rhetoric, history, fiction, anecdote, and ity. He caught the audience from the first word spoken and retained their strictest attention until the close of his talk. Said he: I have come to Chicago for the purpose of starting the Daily Anarchist. I crammed Herr Most down the throat of the New York labor people. When I started there Herr Most was uppermost among the Socialists there. After I had spoken his talk seemed tame and insipid. I told them, and I tell you, that if these seven Socialists hang, I will lead 20,000,000 workingmen against Chicago and cut the throats of the men who so foully murdered them. [Long continued applause.] The police hive now made a startling discovery. They have found some bombs. All those in favor of bombs say aye. It is carried. I Wild applause and laughter. I I will leave it to the reporters if I haven’t talked long enough. All in favor of coming again to-night say aye. The meeting broke up amid wild applause and cheers for Train. Several hundred crowded around the speaker and tried to shake hands with him. He refused to shake hands with anyone, claiming that it would denrive him of his psychological powers, Nina Van Zandt came forward and was recognized by Train, who mounted a table and said: Gentlemen : Allow me to introduce to you Mrs. Nina Spies. All those who, in case the Supreme Court refuses to liberate her husband. August Spies, will follow me to the County Jail and help to liberate him will signify by saying aye. j o A wild anarchist yell, such as has not been heard in Chicago for a year, was the answer given the daring or crazy orator. The crowd gave cheer after cheer for Train, Spies, Parsons, and other anarchists. Train was surrounded by the crowd, who tacitly crowned him the King of the Anarchists. A dozen or more detectives and officers in citizen’s clothes made no move, and seemed dazed at the recklessness of the man who had thrown down the gauntlet to the police force and authorities. Socialists and anarchists who have not smiled for months went out of the hall with a new light in their eyes and congratulated each other that a new apostle had arisen.