The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01


glad of it now for several reasons, chief
among which is that i might have he
come a confirmed office seeker or nos
sibly confirmed Democrat
Durlng the last eight years. .until
TINS one, l had habit Of making al
legged political stump speeches in the
state OF washington, and men used to
Gene IL and 10 miles over all sorts Of
ROADS to hear me, principally for the
reason, as | have since learned. that
1t became "norated about that I had
very little TO say on political subjects
mad a faculty, however, for telling
good and new stories that could be
fitted to anything with a little ingenu-
ity.
On one occasion 1 told a story in a
speech up in a mining camp in the
cascade mountains that nearly cost ma
my HE. L told how a man was once
passing another man who was turning
peanut rooster in a Kentucky civ.
Inc stranger stopped and watched the
pc anut rooster for some time and then
STARTED away, remarking somewhat in
dignantly: ~
Blast you! l thought you wuz gwine
to play somethin.''
He had mistaken the peanut roaster
for hand organ. A son of the man on
whom that story was first told happen
ed to be in my mining camn audience
He had fed to the wiIds of the far West
TO avoid hearing that thing again: so.
naturally enough, he took umbrage at
II ana wanted to do me bodily harm
out as ne was a strong partisan and
was on the opposite side to me in that
campaign his friends finally persuaded
MIN 70 let me go on making speeches.
hoping that 1 would benefit his party
in the tour
AFTER the elect1on,a when. I had bust
ness at that mining camp, 1 went arm
ed like brigand, for my side Actually
won again. Gov. -MeGraw: the present
supefnator1al incumbent out there, was
elected, and l am still on his military
STAFF, unless I have been mustered o1it
OF service without being consulted or
even advised. / have not seen the gov
ernor Tor nearly two years. but am
confidently assured that the state is
safe. Some say 1t is safe for silver
ana some say it is safe for gold. At
any rate, it is safe.
In the present campaign r have haan
Drlefy to Michigan to do some spell
binding. But I think Michigan is safe
without me. That'ssone of the reasons
why L came back. There were other
sons, but we will let them pass. At
i ile nrSt place wheresI arrived in Mich
lgan there was no brass band to meet
me, ana the people on the platform at
the railway station didn't seem to care
whether L was there or not. In fact
they seemed to be looking for some
Dody else. One man only was looking
LOT sofneDody that apparently he didn't
KNOW. Finally he looked at me-
BE you the speaker" he asked.
l said, II be-"
mistrusted as much, he continued.
clam into the Vaughn, there, and I'll
draw you up to the tavern"
clammed" in, and he drew me up;
also he drew me out He was a com
mitteeman, but didn't feel as pleasant
toward him as I probably should, for
L didn't like that word "mistrusted.
even If 1t was a localism. 1t turned
out that he used the word advisedly.
l nave already mentioned the fact that
my stay in Michigan was brief.
| met two other spellbinders of our
side up there. One was a really bril-
liant and modest man; the other, a
good fellow with more gall than gray
matter The brilliant man was little
mentioned, and his opportunities were
DOT near so desirable as those of the
other fellow. / was inquisitive about
1t, and the other fellow told me how he
worked It,
Don't give it away" he said, and T
haven't. He is back now, and it makes
no difference If tell you conf1dentially.
Il make myself solid with the com
he continued. There are
ways to do 1t, you know-a familiar
slap on the shoulder, a pocketfuI Of
good cigars, some funny stories; on
the side, other things which we won't
mention-this wink will do-and then.
when the meeting is closing. work in
three cheers and tiger for the head
of the ticket, and T see that the chair
man works in three cheers and. the
trimmings for the speaker. This looks
well in the town paper and is good to
clip out and send to Headquarters and
elsewhere. Then L get>the committee
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the county chairman telling what a
spellbinder I am, what an oYerWhAln-
ing turn out there was, how + in
thralled the audience and how many
votes | probably changed and get d
copy of that letter which goes to head
quarters. There are no flies on me, and
I'm as solid as a cannon ball. The
man who doesn't do that lacks system.
See?"
did see, but my modest friend
lacked system. So did 1.
but the story telling stump speaker
Is liable to meet with severe disap-
continents at times--tllat is, he may
run up against the wrong stump Oc-
caslonally he strikes an audience that
prefers figures on the tariff, and all
that, in place Of figures of speech.
For such he should be well supplied
with wealth Of interesting statis-
tics. If he doesn't know what the
market prices of the staples of the
region he Is speaking in were in 1892
and other previous periods and what
they are now. he is In bad row for
stump speaking. Hence great re-
search In those lines is necessary be-
fore venturing from the city into the
farming districts. AS I cannot re-
member number long enough to sue
cessfully turn from the telephone d.
rectOry to the annunciator, I shall
hereafter confine my stump-speaking
tours to the urban districts where peo-
pie do not care so much to know what
the price Of wheat was in 1879 as they
do about what the price of rolls. is this
morning and where the price is COM
ing from.
Westminster Abbey,s BuriaIs.
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