New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-30
creasing the foreign trade OF the country under
wise policy OF reciprOcity
YANKEE DOODLE AND DIME.
HOW THE TAYLOR BROTHERS. OF TEN
NEssEE, DESCRIBE THEM
THE MOUNTAINS or THE LATTER. SAYS EX-GoN-
ERNoR BOB" ARE SO HIGH THAT ONE CAN
STAND on THEIR TOPS AND TICKLE


ERNoR BOB" ARE SO HIGH THAT ONE CAN
STAND on THEIR TOPS AND TICKLE
THE FEET OF THE ANGELS.
The audience assembled in Chickering Hall last
night TO hear the Taylor brothers, or tennessee
Alfred A.. or "Alf." Southern frendness mas
dubbed him. and Robert L.. or Bob as the same
spirit Of neighborness is sending him along INTO
history-was an appreciative one. 1t possibly did
not need to he told that the brothers embody the
idea OF a house divided good naturedly against
itself Alfred Taylor Is conscientious Repuoican
so he was set down 10 preach to the text OF yam
kee Doodle" Ex-Governor Bob. on the other
hand was to lend the flowers OF eloquence to tne
subject OF Dixie" Since that memorable cam
palgn when Robert hddled and sang himself into
the Governors chair against the solidity OF his
brothers political attitude both have been extreme
ly popular throughout the West and South.
The campaign a source OF particular dismay
70 only one person In Tennessee. That was old
Rufus who had been the slave OF Taylor pere' and
who was the pensione- Of the brothers till the day
Of his death. When Alfred ran for office Rufus
was Republican. and when Robert was a cand-
date Rufpss democracy was Of Jenersonian pu-
rity But when they both ran, then II was that the
old man betook himself 10 the fence. and declared
his purpose of not voting at ALL as ne would not
encourage differences between brothers.
When Alfred Taylor appeared on the stage OF
Ch.ckering Hall. he received a friendly greeting
from an excellent audience In point OF numbers
and in character. The speaker was simply there 10
trace the history of Yankee Doodle which IS
only another name, he said. for Brother Jona-
than" who stands the type of the hustling Amer
lean Nation. The speaker was eloquent and force
full he placed before his hearers the drama OF the
Nation. carving home for liberty from the orig
nal wilderness. Mr.. Taylor called 1t THE Drama
of God" dividing the various steps Of development
into acts played upon the Western Continent the
stage. His word picture Of the new woman and
the passing rep.ete with humor some
times Of gently sarcastic vein that pleased his
auditors greatly II took not long 10 win the jury
TO his side ana the verdict was IN his favor when
he bowed his way out
Then the Ex-Governor appeared, accompanied by
three young men, who with himself as second
Taylor is a study Had he not chosen to run for
Governor of Tennessee, ne certainly would have
made a frst-cass character actor and especially
had he turned his attention to the various pict-
uresque phases of Southern life the plantation
in ante-bellum days He wove about the story Of
Her mountains are so tall that you can stand on
top OF them and tickle the feet Of the angels The
moonbeams and the curling flames Of bonfres in
front of the old cabin door swung corners 10 the
music Of the fiddle and banjo. The shooting stars
the Milky Way a celestial portrayal OF waving
are one in fraternity. But the trouble is that
Yankee Doodle has thus far been getting all the
fast st Coming There no new south. il is the
same old South resurrected from the dead
Dixie" he remarked in another place sis the Red
Every sally uproariously received and every
old plantation melody sung had 10 be repeated.
The last formed very pathetic ending to the
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
The brothers will appear again this evening. when
Alrea VIII lax TO me suetect bo1nred tonic
1.-THE Fiddle and the Bow"