The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-06-29
BUFFALO BILL
THE OLD SCOUT
Proposed by Gen. Sherwood To
Offset Roosevelt.
If MILITARIsM Is TO RULE
Let Us Have the Real Thing In Earnest
Is His Notion "A More Picturesque
Character Than The Rough.

Toledo Daily News: Gen. Isaac R.
Sherwood said today in reply to
question as to the proper person in his
Judgment for the Democrats to name
for vice-president that he was in favor
of the nomination of Buffalo Bill"
Colonel w F. Cody, and gave reasons
for his position as follows:
"'Buffalo Bill is a much more pic
turesque character than Teddy Roose-
welt. He is a better man both physi-
cally and mentally, and better wing
shot and bareback rider, and he has
commanded more rough riders.
Roosevelt has courage without either
discretion or Judgment. Buffalo Bill
has all these soldier qualities. He was
a successful scout, which requires the
highest form of courage combined with
mental alertness and discretion. Roose-
welt was only under fire once for few
brief moments, and the official report of
his much advertised charge on San
Juan Hill shows he inflicted but slight
damage on the enemy. The official re-
port of General Torell, the Spanish gen.
eral in, command, made to Captain
General Blanco at Havana, shows that
the Spanish army lost only two killed
and seven wounded
"Such an affair as this in the war of
the Rebellion would not have even oc-
cupied five lines in the daily journals
at the time. Buffalo Bill, Colonel w.
+. Cody), has a heroic record as a
scout in the most desperate and peril
Gus service of his country, and he has
killed more Indians single handed than
T. Roosevelt killed Spaniards with his
whole command. If the country is 60
ing stark mad on milltarism let us put
up real bloodletting hero against the
mock hero of an opera bouffe campaign.
In only one respect is Buffalo Bill in
sufficient TO T. Roosevelt, and that is in
self-laudation. Buffalo Bill was salts
fled with one journalistic reporter to
depict his wild exploits as scout, but
the tax dodger of Oyster Bay kept no
less than six highly talented Journal
lists and magazine artists to gild his
achievements with the glamour of fic-
ton"
Gen. Sherwood says Buffalo Bill is a
member of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, is true type of the real soldier
as war is conducted today and has
rendered hundred times as much SER
vice to his country, as Teddy Roosevelt.
1t is claimed that Roosevelt wrote a
book. Well, Buffalo Bill too wrote a
book of merit that has enjoyed greater
sales by the thousands than Roosevelt's |
book. |
II the merit of the candidate de-
pends upon his killing qualities, it |
can be said of Buffalo Bill that he not |
only served three years in the great |
est war of modern times, but he served |
also with great distinction in three In
dian wars and he killed Yellow Hand, |
the giant chief of the Cheyennes in a |
single handed combat, while on the |
other hand Roosevelt never got near |
enough to the Spanish army to get even
a naked eye view of any victim for
slaughter.
"If we are going to have miitarism
run rampant" said Gen Sherwood, in
conclusion, "let the Democrats nomin-
ate Buffalo Bill, and they will have
q real hero"