Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-08-03


ners made n st. Paul. selah. Buts
Missouri made up in noise what lit
lacked in size, for it promised the state
to Mckinley, when everybody knows it
will give Bryan $4,000 majority. =
Speaking of the Twin City press, the
Pioneer outdid itself in praise on
Roosevelt. 1t slobbered. Columns On
columns were poured out, editorially,
wise and otherwise, mostly otherwise.
All because trough rider break
tasted with smooth rider whc served
In New Brunswick.
When one OF the Twin City papers
had put into cold type the cords CT
manuscript which Senator Knute Mel,
son read to the leaguers, it was found
to be quite as dreary as those who
listened to it declared it to be. Only
misstatement of facts relieved the
monotony, as when he repeated the
falsehoCd against Aguinaldo, first ut
tered in the Northwest by President
Mckinley at Fargo, when he declared
that Aguinaldo was a bride taker-
that we could have had his peace for
gold Nelson put it that Aguinaldo
and his chiefs, when Dewey arrived
at Manila, "were living on and quar-
relling over the money Spain had
given them" Nelson knows that Sen
ate Document 62 shows officially that
Aguinaldo, breaking the contract with
Spain because Spain had not given
the promised reforms, had in bank all
the money he had received, 100000.
and that he paid it out for arms for
the troops he raised, under the under
standing with Dewey to fight against
the Spanish! Nelson says that there
was no Filipino government or even
insurrection at that time, when his
tory is unquestioned that the Filipino
insurgent government and soldiers had
at that time driven Spain out of the
island. except small territory around
Manila.
A like break was made by Roosevelt
when he said that the Filipiros were
worse than Apache Indians. Dewey
says officially that they are better
fitted for self-government than the
Cubans, and I am familiar with both
races"
Anent Roosevelt mannerisms, the
Argonaut tells a good one, regarding
the hat habit. Not long ago Roosevelt
and D. B. Hill met at a reception, and
Roosevelt having a big sombrero on
his head, said as he clasped Hills hand
as they met: eve have real swell
here. Hill has the only silk hat Of all
the crowd"
1--WE got SLOUGH hat myself" re-
turned Mr.. Hill, softly but left it at
home. I've given up wearing it since
l went out of tie advertising bust
ness."
Many people remarked on the coarse
manner in which Roosevelt met Gov
ernor Lind, when he referred to the
fact that he met him in Washington,
when the governor was in Congress-
and said Roosevelt, Il took you for
square man." Adding that he liked
square men, he did. But then Roose-
welt had just been out to the Oklahoma
rough rider reception.
The incident made the writer think
OF a certain meeting of characters in
Washington, during the excitement of
the Tilden-Hayes electoral contest.
Bluff old General Jim Steedman was
down there from Ohio, rendering 100,-
900 men to seat Tilden. Tilden's lieu
tenant, one Col. Pelton, draper little
fellow sporting red necktie and other
unmilitary, and hence inappropriate
accessories for the occasion, did not
know Steedman, nor many other prom
inent Western Democrats, for that
matter. He and Steedman came to-
gether at the bar of Wizards Hotel
one night, and a friend introduced
them. "Steedman, Steedman," said
Pelton, looking through his eye-glass
at the big figure of the Hero of
Chickamauga,' Peas to me I have
heard that name before" eyes,
guess you have" said old Sted,' with
holding his hand, "for I was man of
national reputation before you were
born, be gawd" And Steedman stalk
ed out of the room, and that was the
end of his interest in the military part
Of seating Tilden.
The meeting was no larger than the
tic. In fact as to enthusiasm there
was all the time large portion of
the audience which was not carried
away by the audacious statements or
mannerisms of the cowboy performer,
but whose calm consideration was in
vited by the very extreme suggestions
Of the speaker. AS a vote maker the
speech was generally conceded to have
been flat failure. Extreme Repub-
}icans who are all right anyhow it
enthused and will hold, but conserva-
tive, calm voters were repulsed and
average partisan disappointed.
And speaking Of the manner in which
enthusiasm was manufactured there
was any amount of Republican criti-
cism that supposedly grave senators
like Nelson and Davis, and the con-
gressmen, too, resorted to the little
stage trick to "touch off" the cheering
and clapping at stated intervals. Con-
gresham Eddy did really clown acts.
unkempt, unwashed, uncombed. and
with tobacco covered shirt frontispiece,
hopping about and touching the boys