Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . ^ tacked on this refrain, withall the precision of a college cry: Who are we ? who are we ?Gallery Gods for Hastings ! See ! 113 Johnsonbiirg felt that the exigencies of theoccasion demanded the patriotic exhibition of allher varied resources. Hence the base-ball club,in full uniform, turned out to welcome the cam-paigning party. Bloomsburg filled her Court House and OperaHouse to their capacit3^ Three excursion trainsand three brass bands added to the clamor. It was the greatest exhibition ofpure, unadulterated enthusi-asm seen
Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . ^ tacked on this refrain, withall the precision of a college cry: Who are we ? who are we ?Gallery Gods for Hastings ! See ! 113 Johnsonbiirg felt that the exigencies of theoccasion demanded the patriotic exhibition of allher varied resources. Hence the base-ball club,in full uniform, turned out to welcome the cam-paigning party. Bloomsburg filled her Court House and OperaHouse to their capacit3^ Three excursion trainsand three brass bands added to the clamor. It was the greatest exhibition ofpure, unadulterated enthusi-asm seen during any cam-paign, because there was notan ounce of red fire or asingle Roman candle or rocketlet off during that Hon. James S. McKean. master of Pittsbursr. The Charleroimeeting in point ofenthusiasm, crowdand earnestness ofpurpose, was theclimax of the greatcampaign. Its suc-cess was largely dueto Hon. James , ex-post-With indefatigable zeal he labored to make it the political event in the history 114 of Western Penns^-lvania politics. And he suc-ceeded. Charleroi is the city of a da}^ The reahzationof an Arabian nights dream. Five years ago itsstreets were wheat fields. The magic wand ofcapital touched it and fences fell and factoriesrose. To-day it has one of the greatest glassfactories in the world within its limits. Its pop-ulation is numbered by thousands. B}^ whatevername it may be called, the Magic city, or theDream city, it is one of the wonders of ourAmerican civilization. It is intensely Repub-lican because it is a manufacturing cit}. Whenit prepared to welcome General Hastings it sentinvitations to the people of other States. The}-came in hundreds by excursion trains, in squa
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