Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-26

Come over to tn hotel an see me.
Says I: If We find ye'erself thrnn firm
a ca-ar in me neighborhood, dhrop in
An there We ar-re.
Il may niver see him. may go TO
me grave without gettin' an eye on tn
wan man beside meself that don't
know what tn furrin' policy Nv tn.
United States is goin' to be. An ne,
poor man. whin some wan asts him:
Did We liver meet Dooley? II have to
say: No: had tn chanst wanst, but
me accursed pride kept me from visit1n'
him.
Il r-read his speeches through, an
know what he's doin.' Some Nv thin
ar-re gr-reat He attinded tn banket
given be tn Prosperity brigade at tn
hotel where's he stoppin'. Twas
magnificent assimblage iv tn laborin
classes, costin' SIS plate, an on'y
disturbed whin a well-to-do gintleman
in the dhry goods business had to be
thrun out f'r takin' a kick at walter.
/ r-read be tn papers that whin Mack
come in he was rayceived by tn
gatherin' with shouts iy approval. Tn
proceedins was opened with a prayer
that Providence might FREEMAN undher
TIL sicrety iv tn threasury followed
with gran speech, highly commind-
ing tn action iv tn threasury depart
ment durin' tn late war, but, says he,
L cannot, he says, 80 far forget me-
silf,' he says. as not to mintion,' he
says, that he says, If it hadn't been
FIR tn sublime pathreetism an cour-
age he SAYS. If tn gintleman whom
we honor he says, in putin me on tn
foorce.' he says, I might not be here
tonight he says.
'Th' sicrety iv tn threeasury was
followed by TIL Gin'ral Shafter. Gin
tlemen,' says he, it gives me- he says,
'gr-reat pleasure he says. to be prIs-
int in tn mist iv so NANNY an so
various vittles,' he says. Nv coorse,
he says, i re-elize me own great
WORTH he says, but he says, 4 wud
have to be more thin human he says,
to overlook tn debt iv gratichood,
he says, TIL country owes he says,
to tn man whose foresight, wisdom
an prudence brought me for-ard at
such an opparchune time he says.
Gentlemen he says. 'onless we have
lived in tn blackboard f'r months on
tn parched deserts iv Cuba he says,
we little know what pleasure IL is he
says, to dhrink,' he says, to tn author
iv our bein' here he says An Gin
raj Miles wint out and punched tn
bellboy. Mack Prose up in a perfect
hurcane Nv applause. an says he;
Gentlemen he says, an fellow heroes
he says. 'Ye do me too much honor.
he says i alone shud not have III
credit iv this gloryous victhry. They
ar-re Others CA voice: 'Shafter.'
Another voice: Gage Another voice:
'Dooley.) But / pass to more con-
genial line iv thought he says. We
have just emerged firm a turrible war.
he says. Again, he says. we ARE
united union he says. No north he
says, no south. no east he says, no
west. No northeast a point east he
says. 'Th' inimies of our country has
been cr-rushed.' he says, or is stuck
down in Floridy with his rigmint talk
in. he says, his hellish doctrines to
tn allygotars. he says. TIL nation is
wanst more at peace undher tn gran
goT standard he says. Now he
says, TIL question is what shall we do
with tn fruits iv yicthry?' he says "a
voice: Can thin.) Our duty to civil
llZaIlOn commands us TO De up an 10 |
in he says. We ar-re bound he
says, toto reelize our destiny, what
liver it may be- he says. We cannot |
turin back he says. TIL hands iv tn |
clock that, even as 1 speak, he says, |
is r-rushin' through tn hearts, iv |
men, he says, 'dashin' its spray |
against tn star iv liberty, an hope, an |
no north, no south. no east. no west, |
but steady purpose to do tn best we |
can, considerin' all tn circumstances !
Nv the case he says. I hope l have |
made tn matter clear to ye.' he says. |
an with these few remarks he says. |
I will TURN tn job over to destiny |
he says, which is sure to lead US liver |
on, an back an forth, a united an |
happy people, livin', he says, undher |
an administration that, thanks to |
our worthy prisidint an his cap-ble an |
earnest advisers, is second to none he |
says"
What do you think ought to be |
done with tn fruits iv victhry?" Mr.. !
Hennessy asked.
WELL" said Mr.. Dooley, eff twas up |
to me, I'd eat what was r-ripe an give |
what wasn't r-ripe to me inimy. An |
I guess that's what Mack means."-l
Copyright, 1898, Chicago Journal)