The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-19

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DO L apprehend that the same charge
will do any great harm to Webster Da.
Wis.
ITO Quigg verb transitive) means to
cabbage: to make way with; to cause
to disappear" That is the latest con-
tribution to the dictionary. My friend,
Lemuel Eli Quigg, has been converted
into verb, ira la! That happens to
men only at rare intervals. Indeed l
have never known it to happen to an
American hitherto. Some have had
their names used as adjectives. For
instance, the Wellington boot and the
Mcclellan saddle tree are familiar to
men. Mcintosh, McAdam and Burn
sides are cases where names of In
ventors have passed to the things in
vented, but Lemuel Eli has the double
honor of having furnished the basis for
ly newspapers use the verb 'to Quigg'
also the adjective "Quggy."
A Boomerang Candidate.
He has fallen. We may now gaze
upOu lHdI SplcllIlu pIOulSy WHICH
erstwhile awakened our awe and made
us gasp. We refer to Teddy. That ST..
Paul speech did the business for him.
He is boomerang. Republicans apol-
ogize for him; Democrats sheer at him.
Human nature is the same the wide
world over. When the old woman was
informed that the COW had eaten the
grindstone, she exclaimed, II told you
sou
And my esteemed contemporary, the
Washington Post, remembering many
a jab which it made at Teddy in days
of yore and remembering that its jabs
were now taking on the character Of
prophecy, publishes the following edi-
torial as to Colonel Teddy:
THE INEVITABLE HAS HAPPENED.
1t must be an unpleasant duty for so stanch
and loyal supporter of the Republican candi-
dates and policies as the Brooklyn Eagle to devote
its editorial space to explanations of Mr. Roose
vet's St. Paul speech, with view to mitigating
the boomerang effects of his reckless indiscre
ton. Yet it is the expected, the predicted the
inevitable that has happened. 1t expected
by all who had any familiarity with the
torical methods of the brilliant young statesman.
1t was predicted by The Post both before and
after his nomination. 1t happened at the first
opportunity. The governor of the Empire State
and nominee for the second office under our sys-
ten-the man who selected for the second
place because of alleged special qualifications to
fill the first place in case of need-made these re-
marks before a great audience at st. Paul few
days ago:
'Study the Kansas City platform, and you can
not help realizing that their policy is the policy
of infamy; that their triumph would mean misery
widespread that it is almost unthinkabe and a
disgrace lasting that more than a generation
would have to pass before it could be wiped out.
They stand for awlessness and disorder, for dis
honesty and dshonor, for license and disaster at
home and for cowardly shrinking from duty
abroad"
What is there in that TRADE that does not sug-
gest the antipodes OF each and all the qualifications
which sober minded citizens of all parties deem
requisite for the vice presidency of the United
States? The delegates to the Kansas City con-
vention represented the membership of the Demo-
cratic party. If that convention stood for ''dis-
grace, for lawlessness and disorder. for dishon-
esty and dishonor,' the Democratic party stands
for the list OF infamies
There have been many vice presidential candi-
dates of smaller intellectual calber than Theo-
dore Roosevelt There have been few, il any,
who surpassed him in traits and qualities that
win and hold friends but no party has ever named
for that Office a candidate who could possibly
have committed the blunder of thus assailing and
defaming 100000 or 100000 Of his fellow citi.
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Pensions For Soldiers.
Mr.. Rdgeley of the Third Kansas
district is generally recognized as one
of the most faithful and useful men,
bers of the house.
Judge A. NJ. Jackson of Winfield
has been nominated as his successor.
Judge jackson is a Kentuckian by
birth, an able lawyer. handsome man
and an orator of high degree. 1 pre-
dict for him a splendid career in con-
gress.
Not long since his Republican op-
ponent tried to curry favor with the
old soldiers, whereupon Judge Jackson
submitted the following vigorous and
felicitous remarks:
"My opponent is very solicitous about
the old soldier. Sir, l yield to no man
in my devotion to the Union soldiers.
They need no eulogy from me nor from
any other person. Many of the dead
heroes of the great yet cruel war
have their last resting places marked
by imposing slabs of marble, and yet
these do not add luster to their names.
Neither will any words which my OPP
ponent or | may utter add one cubic
to their greatness. The highest en-
comium, the most magnificent eulogy,
that can be paid the old soldier is that
he barred his breast in the defense of
the Union; that he met in mortal con-
fict flesh of his flesh and blood of his
blood-yea. that he met Upon the
field of battle men as brave and de-
termined as himself.
"As the result Of that mighty
strife we have. thank God, one coun-
try and one flag. We now say all
honor to those brave and gallant sol
diers and that this government should
deal fairly. justly and honestly with
its saviors. My opponent, in his
great anxiety to assure the old sol
der of his sympathy and assistance.
says that if lie is elected to con-
gress he will do all in his power to
pass law whereby all that should be
necessary to obtain a pension or an
Increase thereof would no To DrpSpnt