Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1904 — KNIGHT’S GREAT SPEECH. [ARTICLE]

KNIGHT’S GREAT SPEECH.

It WBs a great misfortune that the bad weather Saturday prevented the great out-door meeting which otherwise would have assembled and heard George A. Knight, of California, in the first speeoh he ever delivered in Indiana. As it was it was beard by as many as oould get into the opera bouse, and all of whom seem unanimous in pronouncing it one of the very greatest speeches ever heard in Jasper county. He is a most pleasant and agreeable speaker, with a vast volume of voice power, back of a still vaster volume of brain power. He touched in a brief but after all, comprehensive and convincing manner on all the leading issues of the day, such as the tariff, money the Philippines, the Panama canal, the trusts etc. Also on the greatness, the goodness the large statesmanship and the still larger patriotism and humanitarianism of our great president and invincible leader, Theodore Roosevelt. The carnival company’s celebrated Italian band gave a number of selections in the hall, previous to the opening of the speech.