Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1896 — SHE SHOUTED FOR BOIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SHE SHOUTED FOR BOIES

Mi*a M. Murray, the Woman In White at the Democratic Couvention. Miss Minnie Murray, the woman in white of the Democratic national convention, the Joan of Arc who led Horace Bgies’ cause to the triumph of the sensational demonstration of that Thursday night, has been fighting her way through the' world for years, but .abe is an attractive young woman for nil that. She ls of the blonde type with a full, well-rounded figure, and in conversation she is vivacious and frank, with few of the signs of the “strongminded woman.” Miss Murray, in partnership with Miss Margaret Gorman, owns and publishes the Nashua, lowa,

Reporter, and the two girls do pretty nearly everything about the office. They gather and write the news, solicit advertising and job work, sot the type and collect the bills. They have owned the office three years and have a splendid outfit now for a country newspaper, and are doing well. Thursday night In that great national Democratic gathering, after a very effective speech for the ex-Governor of lowa, there sprung up In the southern slope of the hall a female figure, robed In snowy white, swaying and uplifting arms, in a moment grasping flags and swinging them with wild enthusiasm hut not hysterically, for she was very graceful, and presently every eye in the audience was fixed upon her, all faces were lit up with delight—the audience was almost os thoroughly on fire as when Bryan had finished his speech—and this woman came near stampeding I he convention for the lowan. It was a repetition of the great scene of the Minneapolis convention, when Mrs. Carson led the cheering for Blaine and adorned the proceedings with a brilliant spectacle. When afterward asked how she came to make such a demonstration for Mr. Boies Miss Murray said: “Well, you see, I admire Gov. Boies, and when Mr. White made such a splendid nominating speech I was carried away with the excitement.” The ex-Governor has since written a letter of acknowledgment to Miss Murray. The young lady ls said" to have received by mail numerous proposals of marriage, and subscriptions to the Reporter have come in by the score.

MISS MINNIE MURRAY.