Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — GRIFFITH AND GRAY. [ARTICLE]

GRIFFITH AND GRAY.

THE Delphi Journal Man at the Camden Fair. ' y There was a great contrast between the attendance on Democratic and Republican days. There were ten times as many on the ground Saturday as on Thursday; And Mr Griffiths, the Republican speaker, held a large audience for an hour. One does not have to go very far to learn why Griffiths held his audience while Gray scattered his The fact is that Gray’s address was one continuous tale of woe, while Griffith’s speech was bright and sparkling and showed that the American people have something yet to be thankful for. Gray could see nothing but brokendown fences, “fly” in the wheat, cattle .with “hollow horn,” cows with “wolf in the tail,” mortgaged farms, and laborers made humpshouldered by being burdened with tariff taxation, while Griffith’s gave evidence that he had seen free gravel roads, well ditched farms, fine fences, blooded cattle, beautiful country homes, pretty women, happy men and peace and contentment generally. Gray tried to keep his audience in a swamp where there were frogs, miasma and fog, while Griffiths tried to boost his hearers up on the highest portion of the rainbow’s arch. And the people would rather sit on a rainbow than in a frog pond any time and this is why they remained with Griffiths and left Gray.