Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-08-03
VAR IS He'll"
SAID THE VETERAN GENERAL SHEER.
MAN, A REAL HERO.
Give Us War and the "Strenuous Life"
Says the G.. o. P. Leader of 10OO-Roose-
Helt Aftermath-The St. Paul CONNER
eial Club Victim of Misplaced Conf
dence-Echoes of the National and State
Campaign-Continued Favorable Out
of tho Week.
Reform Press Bureau,
ST. Panl July 80. 1900.

Reform Press Bureau,
st. Paul. July 80, 1900.
Aftermath of the Roosevelt "open-
ing" Of the national campaign has but
added to the dismal character Of the
event, from the standpoint of Repub-
1ican benefit, proof of which is abun.
dant in Republican authority. A sur
prising feature, however, is the discov-
cry that, thanks to the Republican con-
trol Of news sources and news circula-
tion, such real character has been but
slowly discovered throughout the coun-
try, and in many sections is doubtless
not yet known. So much was this the
fact that even the press bureau Of the
national committee did not have the in
formation, having relied on the daily
press, until the same was taken there
by National Chairman Senator Jones,
when he returned to Chicago from St.
Paul. The press bureau chief, Mr.. Abb
bot, then sought the facts, and they
will be given the country as we'll as
may be, through friendly and truthful
papers. Mr.. Abbot learned, after the
close concealment of the facts was less
cautious, that the St. Paul committee
on transportation, which certified the
tickets Of those from Minnesota and
neighboring states, so as to secure them
the reduced rates for the grand occa-
sion, that actually 256 persons so at
tended. Also that national league dele
gates who were expected to be the same
IN number, having the same basis of
representation as national party con-
ventions, actually had convention Of
4lO, including proxies. Mr.. Abbot also
learned that the St. Paul Commercial
club raised something like $4,000 to
make it local success, and that the
club figures that it could better have
paid men SIS each outright, to attend
the Roosevelt affair, for twice as many
could have been secured for the same
money.
In addition to features mentioned
week ago the bad effect of the Roose-
welt speech, as to the sentiments pro-
mulgated, is more and more marked
The strenuous hfe,'' ''knock.down-
nd-drag-out" and "I-kin-lick-you" ar
gument apd talk, is daily more and
more distasteful, to say nothing of its
undignified and unstatesman- like char
acter. Never before was a supposed
idol so quickly smashed as Roosevelt
has been in the North Star state. If
you don't believe it wait till he is billed
here again for another 'opener."
The fact that the Roosevelt ''stren.
nous opener" has been followed by the
killing of an anti-imperialist in Min
neapolis, in discussion of the Trough
Rider sort, will have q tendency to
set good many people to thinking.
The most prevalent criticism of
Roosevelt is that war and the spirit Of
war surrounds most of his utterances.
War, war! How many people there are
who fail to appreciate what war really
Is. The generation that saw a real war
does, but too many see only the gilt
ter and show, are stirred by the noise
and enthusiasm, but know nothing of
the horrors and waste Of the reality.
General Sherman, after four years Of
our bloody Civil war, in which he was
one Of the most brilliant and conspicu-
bus Characterization tho hardship and
agony that he knew were but memo.
fies, and when he was in full glamour
of popular adulation-calmly and So
berly summed up the whole wretched
business in the one heartrend;ng SEN
fence, "War is hell. "
Theodore Roosevelt knows nothing Of
war in its reality. He was present in
one little brush with hostile forces;
contest which in the experience Of
Sherman would have been lost sight Of
as mere skirmish. He knows nothing
of the awful havoc of real war. In his
shallow pated way he rides his hobby
and hourishes his tin sword with all the
mock-tragic earnestness peculiar to the
Darktown fire brigade. And this is
the pseudo hero whom tho people of
this country are asked to put on ped
estal-to fall down before and worship
as the ideal Of it's national ifei Shades
Of Abraham Lincoln pity usl
Apropos, what they do say In whis.
pers about the "Rough Rider" record
et San Juan is that oolored troops are
untitled to the credit which the Rough
Riders" got. They say that there is a
ieutenant in the service who COM
manded the oolored troops, who, when
not officially in danger of being over
beard, states that upon his honor when
he and his troops reached the top of
Ban Juan hill there were just seven of
the "Rough Riders" there, and Roose-
welt was NOT one Of the seven.
Speaking Of the administration, it
certainly does seem as if the willy
''heathen Chinee" got our American
emperor in tight place when he got
him to rush in and accept the same in.
Titation to mediate that the China
man had extended to the other en-.
, rors. Well, if William cannot medi-
ate he can mediate.
And after November he can have as
much time for meditation as his great
~ prototype at St. Helena.