Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-22
The Marietta Daily Leader.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1900.
CuhblSOn's Speech.

speech to deliver at club meeting,
comes from the Kansas City Star
]. KCubbisom whohasbeena assigned
by the Republican State Committee to
accompany Senator Charles w. Fair
banks, of Indiana, on his trip through
Kansas this week, is a rarely gifted
speaker. and of recent years his repu-
tation has spread beyond the state. He
is good at reunions, metropolitan club
banquets. or big political rallies, and
never fails to make q hit. Sometimes
he prepares his speech, but more often
he speaks extempcraneously, and a
fewVmonths ago he had the amusing
experience of hearing his own speech
delivered by another man, while he
was compelled to sit by and think up
some new ideas. 1t came about in this
way:
Last fall Mr.. Cubbison was the chief
orator upon the occasion of the annual
banquet of the Marquette Club of Chi
cago. 1t was about the biggest thing
he had ever undertaken, and he care
fully prepared his remarks in advance.
1t was a speech full of good things,
and the big audience went wild with
delight. The next morning the news
papers published it in full, and Cub
bison was the lion of the town.
A short time afterward Mr.. Cubbi-
sen was requested by telegraph to
come the next day to another big town,
where banquet was on, but owing to
some mishap or other it was without
a speaker. OF course, the notice was
too short for even the ready Mr.. Cub
bison to prepare speech, but the re-
quest had come from personal friend,
and he took the first train, reaching
the town two hours before the banquet.
Calling his friend and other members
of the committee into council, he told
them that he had had no time to pre-
pare a speech, but that he had one
that he had delivered before the Mar
quette Club, and if that wold do, he
would consent to be the orator of the
evening.
Oh, yes, that would do, all agreed;
all but one, and he the chairman OF the
committee. He made no objection,
however. and it was settled that Mr.
Cubbison was to deliver his Marquette
speech.
After the council had broken up the
chairman called Mr.. Cubbison into a
room and asked him to deliver another
speech.
The request was so audacious that it
took Mr. Cubbison's breath away.
why, what do you mean?'
We'll, to tell you the truth, | saw
that speech in the Chicago papers and
liked it so well that | put it away. 1t
wasSso full Of good things that |
could not drive it out of my head, and
when / was assigned TO. the task of
starting this banquet tonight | could
not resist the temptation to commit it
to memory and deliver it. Of course
l did not expect you TO be invited to
be our chief orator, for you know We
had asked another man, who at the
last moment failed US Now we are up
against it. 1t is your speech and it is
mine" and the unfortunate chairman
almost wept with modification,
"Oh, l guess you will have to deliver
it." Cubbison replied, with a string to
his words.
But then it is your speech"
Yes, but you will have the first
chance at it tonight"
And it is such a good speech, too
the chairman said, half to himself
Yes, it is a good speech assented
Mr.. Cubbison.
1T is too good to lose. One of us
must get it off tonight, and I was
counting on making such hit" the
chairman said, unwilling to surrender
the property to its rightful owner.
" set 'em on fire with it at Chica-
CO." the Kansas orator said with par
donable pride.
Haven't you get something else in
your head that you could deliver?"
Nothing"
"Then what are we to do?"
well, I'll tell you. | win give you
the speech and take my chances on
making another"
So it was agreed that the chairman
was to have the Marquette speech, and
Mr.. Cubbison says that he made a
goood job of it.
When 1t came the Kansas mans
turn he was in the air, but his ready
wit and ample store of information
stood him in hand, and he made a
speech that was even a greater tri-
umph than the original delivery of the
Marquette address. The next morn
ing the newspapers gave it in full and
complimentary editorial mentions
along with it, and not a word of it
trespassed upon the chalrman's
speech.
Or. A. H. SWInhume, Physician,