Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1904 — GEORGE A. KNIGHT. [ARTICLE]

GEORGE A. KNIGHT.

The Great Orator Who Speaks Here Next Saturday, Sept. 24. Gonsideree purely as a great orator, probably no Republican of greater reputation ever spoke in Rensselaer, than George A. Knight, the brilliant Californian, who is to speak here neit Saturday afternoon, | Sept; 24th, So great is his reputation that he is considered a great card at anyplace, and any occasion, and as an instance of this was a meeting held in Chicago, Saturday night at which time he and senator Foraker, of Ohio, were the speakers From about a two column account of the meeting, in the Record Her- > aid, wegive the opening paragraphs: j Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio and George A. Knight, the Californian of voice and epigram, opened the Republ’can compaign in ; Cook County at a rally held at the ' Auditorium last night under the | auspicies of the Hamilton Club. ! Thousands of tickets for the. rally j . 1 h d been d'strihuted through the ■ club and the Republican state and county committees, and the Audi- ! torium was completely filled. Oo- ! copying seats on the stage and in ; the boxes wsre m my members of the ' national and state committees, and 1 prominent local Republicans, The ! members of the Cook County Republican committee attended in a 1 body.