The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-03

I " iCe1u oil III Lie pIOCtSSlOI. w Ill Oilt
accord they dropped their instruments
and shouted: 'O'Grady! O'Grady
| O'Grady-' ad lib. 1t drew the attention
of hundreds to me and the musicians
danced about in their glee. For theil
sake 1 let up that morning and didn't
tell the story.
During my trip l had a good deal tc
say about the enormities of Tammany
Hall and I didn't let any point get away
from me, you may depend. [ painted
the blackness of Tammany so strong in
one place that man got up and called
me an Internal liar and just as | made
a bluff of rushing off the platform ia
get at such man they threw him
down stairs. He said he was once a
member of that pure organization. He
had his revenge. l slept directly over
the Office in the town hotel. The Tam
many man had to take a six o'clock
train in the morning. In the stiffness of
that hour and with only an ordinary
floor between the man over the office
could hear about all that was said down
below, / was awakened by the Tam
many man calling me all the names he
could lay tongue to- l couldn't rush
down stairs undressed to get at him and
l had to lie there and hear some of the
choicest epithets hurled at me that it
was ever any mans lot to receive.
Eat that same meeting another man
in the audience, whom I irritated be-
You'd endurance, shouted out to me-:
'Tammany Hall supported Mckinley in
1886 AT once l stopped and in my
most fatherly tones said to him, Why
Bill, where on earth did you get your
information?' OF course his name
wasn't Bill, but he was a town charac-
ter and his neighbors set up a great
shout and only yesterday [ had a let
ter from there saying that he had been
called Bill ever since. He was a
strange man. In 1896 he announced
that If Mckinley was elected his farm
on the edge of the town would be for
sale at twenty-five dollars an acre.
He kept his word and sold his farm for
that price Land not so good as his
and adjoining his former farm has since
sold for forty dollars an acre, and the
man who bought Bills farm refuses to
sell. Instead of curing Bill of Bryan
ism it only made him the more pig
headed in his beliefs and he was really
a town nuisance. He did nothing but
go about talking politics. At last ac-
counts he threatened to leave the place
If they didn't stop calling him Bill. I
am told that the citizens have formed a
Bill society in the hope of driving him
out Of town.
Another peculiar experience I had
was in Blair, Neb,, a city named after
the late John I. Blair of New Jersey, the
famous old roilroad millionaire. A
couple came to the hotel on Saturday
night just before I went to the hall to
speak. The man was a school-teacher
from Iowa and the woman had come on
from central Nebraska to meet him
and marry him. The man had to be
back in his school on Monday morning
They had requested the county judge to
perform the ceremony. He looked for
the most distinguished visitor in town
TO stand up with them, and I was Sc
lected. The bridegroom wore a cuta-
way coat and white tie and was spick
and span in a pair Of bright yellow I
shoes. The bride was dressed in white
and was a fine-looking young woman
gave the judge a kick on the foot as
4 hint to kiss the bride when he was
through the service, because I thought
should be allowed to follow his exam
pie, but he did not take advantage of
his privileges, and, of course, I was left I
The newspaper boys heard about it,
md for three days thereafter I read
headlines, saying, Woodruff Kissed the
Bride II wasn't true, but ] mailed all
he copies I could get hold of home to
my wife, just to have some fun out of |
the affair. I didn't write anything
about the wedding to her. 7 had the |
'un all right when I got home. Wen |
lraw curtain over that part Of the |
story.
1.-THE time that Mark Hanna intro |
luced me to q Nebraska audience also |
marked a memorable spot in my stump
ng career He was passing through |
he state in his swing out that way. I
was told to go to certain place and
hold the crowd by q speech of an hour
" so after Hanna had gone on. It was
pretty big contract, because hundreds
lad hocked into the town solely to see
f Hanna really had dollar marks on
lis clothes and If he wore horns They
lad a big tent close to the railroad
rack, and there were three bands to
Welcome the senator. The train came
o stop in a pandemonium, You
ouldn't hear the bands for the cheer
ne and the racket. Finally Mr. Han
"a was escorted into the tent with much
Half a dozen of us were al
eady on the platform, and in the cheer
lg we shook hands all around When
he noise had subsidized the chairman of
he day. another judge-they are great
Or having judges on the platform out
here-was whispering something in
ianna's ear. He nodded and then got
q to make his speech. 1t was a good
ak of eight or ten minutes, and then
he locomotive whistle blew, notifying
i'm that time was up. He stopped
here he was, took step or two near
: the front of the platform and said:
Now, I've got to go. That whistle
as the signal But I want you all to l
ay here this morning and listen to one
the most magnificent speakers of the
asst, one of the leaders of thought in =
ew York city, one of the most tistin-
uished members of the bar in the great
man whose name is a
ousehold word east Of the Allegheny
the personal friend of Gov
nor Roosevelt and my personal friend,