A MISSOURI BARBECUE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16579, 7 November 1924, Page 2

A MISSOURI BARBECUE.

NEW YORK, Sept, 24.—Mr John Davis, the Democrn tie candidate for the Presidency of the United States, was the guest of honor yesterd’nv at a tinge American “barb?cue,” or old-fashioned outdoor feast-, helld on the 4'nnn of Ih'. Arthur Nelson, the. Democratic cnrido date for the (-Jovernorship of Missouri. FPprn 40.000 to £O,COO persons, chiefly farmers and their families, attended, arid after the feast'they gave Mr Davis an ovation, clamorously hailing him as tliu most worthy successor to YVoodrow Wilson and joyously cheering the candid|{e‘s lighting, "ri ((.snorting" speech in vyjjich ho again attacked the record of t-Klji Republican Oovernment at Washington. Nelson'Farm is about forty miles' 4 from anywhere, but people came

lijjt'm far and wide, over rough, country roads, in every conceivable conveyance, frj|m the latest model of molar-car lo the old one-horse shay. They assembled in » if rent. t open field, surrounded by ditches, irffwhieh tires we.ro rousting whole hullocfks and sheep and countless chickens, jjff, less tli»n 15,0001 b of beef was on I.|ie spits, and 3CCCG> of mutton, to say nothing of large crates of poultry and 14’CCO water melons, hut by noon all t|j,| food was consumed and a good many pctplo went away hungry. After Die feast camo a Hood ol oratory, the voices of*tlie speakers being carried to the thfong-by amplifiers fixed on I lie top of a 'tent. Altogether it. was one of the greatest dcmeiisf rations ever accorded a l J r’t«iilChtiul candidate in l;ho (State of Missouri. If required about 8000 rugtor-enrs, the majority of them of the wcfll-kiKuvn “Tin Lizzie” variety , to transport the crowd, and fat into the night the rough roads were clogged with

derelict machines which had succumbed under th-o strain. The corruption in the Government and the vital necessity fot; reform in Washington, so that de-

mrlcra.tie principles and honest rule may prevail, was once again the familiar text

of the former Ambassador tct"Great Britain. i