The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-10
When Dewey Goes to Chicago.
A EAYOR HARRISON of Chicago
NJ criticises New York's Dewey
L n1al, "a

| tIIllClSeS I'VE" 1oih DcNey
| celebration as cold and perfume
tory. Mayor Harrison was there and
| he thinks he ought to know. Il Will
| give you pointer he said to report
err on his return to Chicago. when Ad-
| miral Dewey comes to Chicago We'll
knock the everlasting tar out Of New
York in our demonstration o. enthusi-
asm.' Mayor Harrison's language, it
will be observed, is of Chicago, Chi
caso-y. His words contain no susges-
ton of weak tea. They are rather a
combination of horseradish, ginger.
mustard and cayenne. They smack Ct
spices, sauces, relishes. the whole cara
logue of table condiments ITO knock
the, everlasting tar out of New York"
is one, of those pungent garlicy Chi
| cagoisms so distasteful and unswallow-
able to the refined ladies and gentle
men of Boston that the very suggestion
of them is liable to produce sudden end
violent stomach complications.
But Mayor Harrison as an educated
| Chicago man talks good Chicagoese
| He is thorough master of that lam
guage; he sings it with the speed ;lnd
| accuracy of a star catcher throwing
| down to second base; he is no seab,y
| twittering sparrow, no dulcet-toned
nightingale, no trilling canary; he q a
lusty emphatic, self-assertive, strong,
vigorous, positive, domineering rooster
| Growing forth his convictions to the
world, from the top rail of the fence, in
voice loud. triumphant and command
| ing. He is cock of the walk and when
he opens his mouth there is music in
the air-of the rag-time species
| OF course Mayor Harrison regarded
New York's Dewey celebration as fiat,
insipid and wshy-washy. when Ad-
| miral Dewey arrived at the reviewing
stand on Saturday." he says. Il give
you my word that at that moment the
| applause was no greater than might
| have been given to one of his captains
| it would not be English, you know, to
grow enthusiastic over anything or
anybody. They affect q sort of blase
| air that is not in keeping with our
| western style
| Possibly there is more truth than CUFF
| in Mayor Harrison's criticisms-tliati is
speaking from Chcagoistic stand
point. We are inclined to believe that
the people of New York whooped it up
| for Dewey to the extent of their ca
pacity. But possibly their capacity IS
limited; possibly the New Workers have
neither the strength of character nor the
strength of lungs possessed by tbs
Chicagoese; possibly, too, their stand.
ards of whoopera1ity are different; pos.
sibly they considered it too undigni.
fled and unpatriotic--they certainly
considered it unnewyorkish-to salute
Dewey, as he came along in the parade
with myriads of tin horns, megaphones
and cannon firecrackers.
When Dewey goes to Chicago tn.
country will take pleasure in marking
the contrast. We don't know just what
Chicago purposes doing, just what 1ol n
the celebration that is to knock the
everlasting tar out of New York vii
take nor is it necessary for outsiders ic
concern themselves at all about it ii
the time comes-Chicago may be De
pended upon to arrange the details. O1
course some striking features may safe
ly be prognosticated. At intervals @
two hundred yards in the parade ther,
will be steam calliopes, portable en-
gines with screening whistles a con
cert pitch, moving boiler shops il &c
tive operation and hordes of simila
cacophonous clangorocities. Two mill
ion small boys will knock the everlast
ing tar out of two million dishpans
and four million tomato cans attache,
to the tails of as many dogs will swcl
the piercing naturalization. On will
Chicagos Dewey celebration. We sEal
see what we shall see, and hear VIVA
we shall hear.