Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — Governor Gray in Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Governor Gray in Rensselaer.

Got, Gray made a. Democratic speech, iu the public square, Thursday afternoon, as per previous announcement. His speech was listened to by considerable of a crowd, but very much smaller, however, than might reasonably have been expected, from the prpminence of the speaker, his high official and political position, and his still higher aspirations, and the energetic manner in which he had been advertised. .believe we are Btrictly withinj the bounds of truth in saying that, at the utmost, not more than 80D people were within reach of the Governor’s. raelQdious voice at any time. As a political demonstration, candor compels us to admjt that the affair was a melanchpllv fizzle. The procession which met the governor at the deppt and escorted him down town was a fair illustration of the whole affair. It consisted of two /.carriages, in one of which the governor rode, one other conveyance, and the brass band, hired for the occasion. The “spontaneous opjbpouring” of the people, did npt materialize, and there was no sign of any feeling of enthusiasm among those of the democratic persuasion who turned out to the meeting. The only cheering for Cleveland and “tariff reform” heard during the day was did in the evening, by a a couple of citizens who had too liberally revived their dropping democracy with the customary cordial. The governor is a slick citizen who is ip politics for what there is in it for Isaac P- Gray, and his speech was as thoroughly demogogic, unfair and deceitful as the keait of man can conceive.