Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1920 — THE MOST ABLE AD DRESS OF CAMPAIGN [ARTICLE]

THE MOST ABLE AD DRESS OF CAMPAIGN

Was That of Judge Thomas P. Riley Here Tuesday Evening. Notwithstanding the fact that it was a rainy, disagreeable night, following an all-day’s rain, there was a nice turnout at the Democrat meeting at Ellis opera house Tuesday evening to hear Judge Thomas P. Riley of Bostpn speak on the league of nations, and no one who braved the elements to hear this wonderfully gifted Irish orator regreted having come out, sot It Is almost but once In a lifetime that one hears such an excellent speech. Judge Riley took up the principles of the league from the beginning of civilization and followed them down to the present day, and his argument in favor of our entering this great moral and economic organization of nations was so convincing that no one who heard him—except possibly the most blinded partisan who does not want to see the light —could say him nay.

He took up the Irish question and showed to the satisfaction 'of all thinking men that the hope of the Irish people lay through the leagud of nations. His address was heard by many of his own nationality in Jasper county, and if there was any lingering doubt as to whom they should support in the coming election, such doubt must have been set at rest by this splendid speaker. Judge Riley is an extensive traveler, a deep student of world problems, thoroughly posted on every question connected with this great issue and so thoroughly in earnest in desire to have his country enter the league that he is paying his own expenses in traveling over several states and spreading the gospel of truth and of “Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men.”