Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1910 — Slack Attendance at Slack Speech at Opera House Monday [ARTICLE]

Slack Attendance at Slack Speech at Opera House Monday

The Jasper County Democrat thought it was a great joke that County Chaiit. man Leopold engaged the Princess theatre for the speech of l Congressman Crumpacker, with the moving pictures thrown in. Owing to the fact that the opera house had been engaged for another purposes on last Wednesday night Mr. Leopold engaged the Princess theatre. As Mr. Phillips gets his pictures by the week and had them ordered for use on Wednesday night, it was expected to give a free Bhow to children ana regular theatre goers before the speech" and another one after the speech. But later the engagement of a show at the opera house was cancelled and Mr. Leopold decided to hold the Crumpacker speech there. As Is understood, a mistake in the date by the chairman, was responsible for the non-appearance of Mr. Crumpacker. Monday night of this week, L. Slack, a much noted democrat and a frequent candidate for about everything that is loose, came to Rensselaer to speak. The Jasper County Democrat had talked up the speech and made an Effort to get a big crowd out to see him and hear him. Monday little bills with a mourning border and a long mourning dash and a couple of dagger heads pointed out the face that that was the night for Mr. Slack to point out the road for democrats to travel. The band played and every democrat of prominence in the city was prodded in the ribs and told to come out. But Slack was not as magnetic as his split in the middle name wouldAndicate him to be and when it came time for speech there Were less than seventy-flve people in the audience and the audience did not grow very much either after the speech begun. The “alert” L. Ert was greeted by a proposition about’as chilly as Alaska in midwinter and the temperature did not warm up much with his attempt at enthusiasm. Brother Babcock doubtless thought that it might have been a good thing flb have had a few vaudeville stunts, to sandwich in during his speech. It seems" that the democrats are not very enthusiastic this year in Jasper county, owing to the fact that their state platform has declared for the repeal of county local option and their candidate for representative has declared against repeal, and a lof of the farming element of the party are wondering what the democratic party is going to do to increase the prosperity so general at present. . Even after the Crumpacker speech had been advertised to take place at the opera house there was a big crowd out to hear it, but L. Ert Slack found a reception that would have required a few live acts to give him an audience of any proportions. f Probably Brother Bab is a Convert of “specialties” as an accompaniment to democratic speeches by (this timel It took the combined efforts of Attorneys Honan and Hunt, and Real Estate Dealer Littlefield to get Mr. Slack warmed up enough to leave on the 10:05 train. It took a deal of explaining to give the renowned Mr. Slack a satisfactory reason for the small attendance. Possibly Bab’s new black bordered bill had something to do with it. a