The age-herald., 1900-09-26
SKETCHES FROM
 EVERYDAY LIFE

O. pure ana unadullefateu English stock. There are. of course, a few policemen and canny Scot or two, but these all come under the general head of English. The negro doesn't count. Up in the North, where the people swarm like ants. you find a mixture of French, Germans, Ital- fans, Jews and people from every country under the sun. Atleast, 1t is generally sup posed that the Northern blood is a mixed article, demanding a naked drink with in- gradients to suit the blood of each thirsty ancestor, but as matter of fact this is not so These various peoples don't mix, but keep to themselves, and intermarry with each other in truly clannish way. Every large city, especially New York, has It's German quarter, its French quarter, its Chinese quarter and its Italian assassin quarter, where they will beg quarter, but give none.
 This singleness of race as it exists in Alabama and other Southern States is a great advantage to the politician in his campaigns. A man making speeches on the stump in Alabama has to know how to speak but three languag ages-English, broken English and bad English. The first Is somewhat difficult, but the other two are easy. As most of their constituents speak the two latter tongues, an inability on the part of the politician to speak the former does not lose him many votes. This is one of the many advantages of living in the South.
 Now, the Northern politician has a much harder time. He should be a versatile lin- guist to get along. He wants the German vote, the Irish vote and Italian vote, and to get them he must speak Dutch, brogue and dago, or if he is man with a hearty stomach he may get it by eating sausage, Irish .'pertaties' and spagetti, and drink ing large quantities of beer. wine and whisky This, however, Is always SUD- posing he has not the money to buy the votes.
 Teddy Roosevelt has discovered this fact He not only talks to his audience in their particular language, but he goes further and assumes a role as one of the particu- lar class of people he is addressing. In South Bend, Ind, the other day he spoke to an audience that was largely Dutch Roosevelt assumed the role of Dutchman He acknoledged he was Dutch addressed his hearers as My Felow-Dutchmen" and told how he attended a Dutch Re- formed church that dated from the time that Peter Stuyvesant was Governor of New York. With myself on the national ticket and a Van Zandt running for Gov ernor of Minnesota, I think this is a pretty good year for the Dutch, he said Later on, when he reached South Dakota, he appeared in the role of cowboy. He wore a rough riders hat and talked in the cow boy lingo. The "feed' wagon supplanted the full dinner pail "the round up ex- pressed election day, and the wanderers lost to the Mckinley "outft" were called mavericks with cowboy scorn
 When Roosevelt gets to California he will doubtless wear yellow jacket to catch the Chinese vote and talk pigeon English. When he gets back to New York and wants the Italian vote ,what is more easy than to wander around the Italian quarter with d large knife and few pieces Of spagetti sticking out of his pocket A razor and q coon" song will catch the negro vote, and gold brick in his hand and some hay seeds in his hair, the up-country farmers.
 
 That this sort of thing pays in politics no one will doubt who read of Rooseyeit's enthusiastic reception by the cowboys and Indians in South Dakota. The New York Herald's account says: that he Jumped off his car in Chamberlain into a pushing, shouting, swearing melee of mounted cow boys, who rode at him, shook his hands and circled round him till it seemed as if he would be trampled by their ponies. Scores of Crow Creek Indians, bucks, squaws and DaDOOse. hOyered round odCac of tho crowd White Ghost, Bad Hand, Wehaka- sohka and the Deer, sachems who resisted 'ibenevolent assimilation" in the days when their hands and eyes were good, stood in the crowd in old silk hats faded Prince AL berts. with oolored blankets round their legs and moccasins made of old trousers, in- stead of the gaudy beads and buckskin of their youth.
 Two bands, one of white boys and one of Indians. made music as the procession moved to the grandstand. When the Gov ernor mounted the platform, the cowboys who had ridden across the line from Mon tana, men who knew him when thistle and hash knife were the leading brands in that section, galloped up and seized his hand.
 You was branded a long time ago Teddy: and you never wandered away from the herd" we got seven hundred critters across the creek, Teddy; can't you iope over and have chuck with us'
 
 Lady to Chinese lauudryman Cant you washy this shirty waisty for Mclean i<jy tor ten centy?"
 Chinaman: Madam, what language are you speaking? If you will address nae in English l can understand you better. - EX
 Some of the people in Louisville, Ky, are growing uneasy over the lack of water in the river. There is now but one inch on the falls, and the river is still falling. For the reputation of Kentuckinns let 1t be said at once that these people river men who make their living in the river traffic. It would seem, however, that even this class of people should be patriotic enough not to complain of lack of water. although their business should go to the bow-wows by reason thereof. Evidently they are not natives but "uitlanders" un- imbued with the tradations of Kentucky, that happy land of feuds and murders. where "the corn is full of kernels and the COIOnelS full of corn"