The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-12

Greentown. The very nerve Of them!
And here's Major Miller and Mayor
Robertson going to Robertsville. What
does Major Miller know about crops?
And that long wasted mayor talking
about getting full dinner-pail! Prod
igallty, John! Prodigality! And look
here what they've stacked up against
Sparta. Nobody other than Tom Tur-
rer and J. Royal Snyder, with the ac-
cent on the royal. Do they think the
people of this county are lot of easy
marks?'
IT didn't know they had issued the
appointments yet"
Issued them? OF course they have.
Look here: Navarro. Henry W. Har-
ter, George H. Clark and d. c. Hughes
Wouldn't that jar your vertebra, John?
And here's another one: North Indus
try, ]. p. Fawcett, J. A. Bowman and
w. II. Smith Won't the miners enjoy
that trio? Why. Deacon Smith couldn't
tie himself in small enough knot to
get four inches into coal mine. Why
can't they send you to some of these
places, John?"
IT guess the assignments are not all
made yet"
mot all made? It's all that will be
made IL you let them hornswaggle you
without protest. And here they've
got Jim Grant and Harry webber and
one Burrls and Clint Bow down for sew
eral meetings. Just contemplate that
list and weep. John, you can talk those
fellows into dead silence in six min
utes. Why, there isn't stage presence
in the whole outfit. And hardly any
body ever hears them. They go out to
some crossroads and talk to about Line
people. and then, on the way home.
leave their throat latches open and take
in great banks of fog. Next morning
they go around barking to their friends
how they strained their throats trying
to reach the outskirts of the crowd.
Cratory? Oratory not! Simply a MUIR
murous river of breath. John. And
what kind of diction do they use?
A lot of battered old 1896 stuff that the
front porch. The orators who headed
delegations stuck It there like a girl
sticks up her chewing gum while they
went in to tell Mckinley what they were
calculating to say to him. Then they
heard him say I wouldn't say that if
were you,' and when they came out
they just left the thing stick where
usurpers got it, John. There's nothing
new about 1t. And, John. you've got
'em all faded on gestures. And you
can give them high, low, jack and the
game on technique. II johnson won't
assign you any place, why don't you
start out on your own hook?"
But think ought to wait till the
state committee acts"
"Then the state committee is your
sole custodian, John?"
II am in the hands of the state COM
mittee."
But. John, you know that is a very
busy committee. Did it ever occur to
you that they might forget to send for
your"
"Oh, I'm on the list all right"
"Yes, but you are not doing any
spellbinding. How are you going to
get a reputation in the state IL they
keep you hidden away in that little
blue book?"
you'll hear from me when I start
out"
John, those fellows donn't intend to
allow you to speak at all. They are
just after your influence. Johnson tells
you that he is waiting for word from
the state committee before he sends
you to Cleveland or Cincinnati and
then goes over to headquarters and tells
the fellows the jolly he handed out to
you and gives you the merry ha, ha.
He's stringin' you from toe to top-knot,
John, and I wouldn't stand for it, IL
I were you."
II guess I'd better see Johnson. But,
say, are you the fellow that writes that
prose about me in the News-Demo-
crat?"
John, the, fellow that writes that stun
Is eight feet high, and Is so shifty on
his underpinning he has to wear dumb
tells instead Of shoes"
II don't care how high he Is or what
he wears, he'll get too smart some day
and I'll reach out and jar his lenses.
The money power is the controller Of
President Mckinley. even in pension
matters. Replying to the committee