New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-17
4 CALM LOOK AT THE COUNTY
SHERIFF.
"A DAKOTA VIEW.



Sioux Paily, OAK, July n2-yiE Cleveland wfn de-
liver number Of speeches during tho campaign and
already has prepared part Of them with its usual en-
terprise The Dakota Bell" has secured advance sheets
in the spirit world which that good newspaper has
lately been translated, and ono of the speeches Is
presented below:
Fellow Citizcns-with your kind permission viii
this evening devote my attention to the charge mado
by the Republicans that . never have done anything
for my country. At the very outset they Of course
Ignore tho fact that have held the otlce OF sheriff
I'm Erie County. New York.
Is It doing nothing for ones country 10 be sheriff.
Is II nothing to have to get up before breakfast and
go and arrest large. red-eyed man for stealing
horse Is It nothing to run the wheels of hundred
and twenty-five dollar buggy, trying to catch man
who has sneaked a ham out Of his neighbours smoke
housel Is II nothing, my friends, to have 10 stay
at home picnic day and hang man you never
met beforc7
Never did anything for my country, they ssyi
What do they know about the daily life Of sheriff.
Never suffered for his native land. they say Gentle
men, what do they know about what sheriff suffers
when he springs tho drop and The rope breaks DID they
rustic around after a rope under such en-
barrassing circumstances Never! answer never!
The daily walk Of the Erie County sheriff Is TO
them sealed book They know nothing OF his
temptations, trials, sufcrings. They know nothing
of what IT is TO follow thirteen miles with your
IS a Methodist minister hurrying to make appoint
ment and not the gentleman who gnawed the bars
of his cell and escaped / have never done anything
for my country, they say, and more than dozen
times the man after was bigger than he looked
and put 1t all over me in less than minute. Is IL
nothing TO tear down the road with an old farmer
you tried arrest for killing his neighbours calf ab-
bling four-tlned ptchfork into you at every iumpi
The daily life Of the sheriff is peculiar. ITc may
rise I'm the morning happy, start on little fishing
excursion with light heart. and when he has walked
three miles up trout stream, happen to remember
that It Is Friday and he has got two men to hang at
II O'Clock Is It nothing to have to stand up In tho
glare of the public eye and adjust the hemp about
the neck of a man whom, perhaps. you wouldn't caro-
to know socially? Is II nothing 10 be thrown In with
a man, and have to ask him If that Is tight enough,
and II he wouldn't like It up under his chin little
more. when, for all you know, he may come ~ low
family?
In short IS there no honor for the man who Friday
forenoons stands by the dropl There is nothing but
honor for the man who stands by the cannon's mouth
nothing but praise for the man who stands on ths
deck of his ship as II goes down with tho nag Sill
fying-s there applause for the sturdy sheriff who
stands by the drop and suddenly removes section OK
the floor from under deserving fellowcltizenf Is
1t all sunshine for the soldier and all cloud for the
sheriff with new inch rope in his haad7
Right here, gentlemen, l want to read few lines
written by my friend assistant, DIR. Lamont.
titled " How lie Kept the Drop:
IIol the man that stood by the drop,
OF iron VIII was he;
Never falter never stop:
They went to Eternity!
The might kick, the man might roar,
But With iron hand and stern commands
With mien which men bow before,
lie stood firm as Right
lie stood by the drop I'm his might
He pulled the bolt and his face was white,
But he stood as firm as the brave of od-frm as tho
walls of Rome
Why stood he so brave by the drop,
Firm the walls of KOmef
Was It invading hOrdcs TO stopl
To turn them back from his home!
Oh, no, not he twas the salary, that caused him
to stand by the drop!
lie faced that awful death
Death for the other man
With never falterng breath.
Not mark of fear!
And the tempest roared far and near.
But twas worse by far within
For back the dull thud was tossed.
1t rose like the cry of the lost.
Up from the regions of sin!
Bat he stood there through all the rout,
With an afr twas grand TO see;
And loud and long did the people shout
Der this kingly victory!
And thus in many canvasses the storyn long be told,
How well Great Grover kept the drop In the bravo
days of old!
Gentlemen that is good stuG-that IS poetry. 10
expresses my sentiments. Perhaps the Republican
candidate did go into the army and chase Confed-
crates; chased Appetite Bill, the burglar, clear 10
Syracuse. Harrison may have honorable men,
ton and promotion the battlefield; Cleveland fed
the prisoners in the Erie County Jail for % cents pee
day apiece less than It done for before. May
be the Republican candidate did carry a muskot; bub
doesn't change the fact that the Democratic can
date carried pair of nlpper handouts in his coat
pocket and Of cOme-alongs in his bootleg. Like
enough Ben Harrison did put himself at the head Of
a regiment but just the same Grover Cleveland put
himself at the head Of enough voters to get elected
tell you, gentlemen, there are two sides TO this
question 1t Is all right to go to the front and fight
for your country, but IS It nothing TO put Leg
irons on your fellow-citizens and take them
to Auburn or Sing Sing? Gentlemen It IS time sherifs
had their due along with that other party 1t is time
their merits were recognized and rewarded. And
say to YOU gentlemen, that there stands before
you the largest exsherf the United States, and ha
is the man you want to vote for.
FRED IT. CARRUTH.