The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-12
EPIsTLES TO ST. PAUL.

I'm getting tired of all this sort of
rot. exclaimed a bald-headed man,
jumping up in front of the chairman of
the meeting.
The scene was mass convention called
Tor the purpose of discussing the ap-
preaching political campaign of 1900.
TO which particular rot do you al
Iude?' fnquired the chairman. He might
nave said Which rot do you allude to?''
but he preferred to have some literary
and rhetorical style
Yes, sir, I'm agin it,
Here the bald-headed man shook his
INST at number of people with some of
whom he was not personally acquainted
Il believe there is no question before
the house, mildly suggested the chair
man.
There ain't3'' ~
mo, sir" a.,
Then. b'gosh. I'll make one," and
ne snatched a5newspaper out of his pocket
and read the following:
I'VE are told Icy the Democrats that
Dewey, OTIS Funston, King, Lawton ct
al are all freebooting butchers. They
say that our brave soldier boys in the
philippines are worse than cannibals.
They say that1we should tender an abject
apology to Aguinaldo and pay him for
having made so much trouble. They say
that We should abolish the Fourth of
0N--A
into door mat
Now, Mr. Chairman" con-
tinued the bald-headed man, haul
ing off his coat and throwing
1t on to chair, what I want
to know is, who in this country has ever
SAID any such thing? Where are the
democrats, or Pops, or Prohibitionists, or
Soclallst labor people who are saying any
such thing? There amt nobody saying
1t, and that's why I say I am awful
weary of so much Republican rot. Every
man who faces bullets under the Stars
and Stripes Is a patriotic hero. He's there
Tor that purpose. If he wasn't in the
navy when the Spanish war broke out, like
Dewey, he enlisted in the army or navy
to do what? Whip the Spaniards and
drive the last cuSsed one of 'em out Of
Cuba. Well, they did that, didn't they?
God bless EN-! And Just because their
term Of enlistment hadn't expired Bill
Mckinley set EN- to fighting Filipinos
Amt [ right? Won't history bear me
out in what I say? Did congress au-
thorize our army to go on killing people
who were once our allies? ?"
Here the bald-headed man shed his
vest.
Mr.. Chairman, I'm pa riot. I fought
four years in the War of the Rebellion.
My grandfather was with George Wash
ington at Dorchester Heights. My
father served all through the Mexican
war. One fought to found this govern
ment another fought to repel invasion,
and 1 fought, to preserve it's integrity.
Now, then, if a mans truly honest he
will applaud honesty in others. If a
mans truly patriotic he will applaud pa
triotism in others What would you think
of man who should brag about how
burned honest he is, and should then try
to lick another man because he was hon.
est, too? What do you think Of an edi-
tor who blows, every day about how pa
triotic he IS and yet wants the United
States army to shoot patriotism to
death in other countries? These fool
Republican newspapers make me tired.
Can't a man express his opinion of a
weak, vacillating and hypocritical politi-
cal administration without being called
a traitor to the flag? Is all the virtue
wrapped up in one party? Can't a man
condemn a policy without being called a
traitor and a. pagan? Mr.. Chairman,
I'm done for today