The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-23

| stomachs OF the soldiers must De pIonNeo
vent" and the minds II the voters must
be fed with arguments. 1t takes money
Printing bills, postage. railroad trans
portation and telegraph tolls entail enorm-
There Is another item-your orator, your
statesman with lungs. He must be utn i.
| lied. and generally he is expensive. ,Inere
are exceptions. In 1880. wnen roscoe
Conkling was persuaded to enter the cam
| paign, he returned to his clients RETAIN
ers aggregating $4,000 and plunged INTO
the campaign, making the most successtul
and one of the most brilliant stum ntins
tours in the history of American pontics.
He paid every cent Of his expenses out
Of his own pocket. -.
But ordinarily your windjamrne- must
the as Pa oon foa Westerns We eoet wrote
Roll on, roll on, thou silvery moon:
Thou carest not d-n for expenses.
That Is the way with your spellpinde..
must be transported from place to place;
they must be entertained at first-class no
tells They must be paid for their patriot
ism. II is not mony thrown away Tney
sentinels on the ramparts of liberty.
They rally thc populace. Precious rev
of them change votes, they bring out the
vote.
William J. Bryan is the most celebrated
stump orator of the present generation OF
Americans, but 1t is doubtful If all his
eloauence was worth to the campaign
half what his railroad transportation
cost. Stephen A. Douglas and James g.
Blaine were infinitely greater on the
stump than Bryan, but. like Bryan, they
failed, as Seymour failed On 1858 Gree
equaled by any American. and yet the
public turned a deaf ear to him.
Perhaps the greatest triumph attained
by stump orator in our country was
&LaN - Tnh, Wa D,rn tn
would have been elected anyhow, but
Martin Van Buren, would not have re-
ceived more votes in the Empire State
than Cass received had not his brilliant
and eloquent son been on the stump in his
fathers behalf. Prince john" as he
was called. was an intense Democrat, AMI
the ''Hunkers." as the Marcy following
of the party were called, reproached him
| anecdote that set all New York applaud
ing. 1t was like this:
"A stranger passing along corduroy
road In the Empire State came to load
of hay overturned on the side of the road.
Observing a lusty youth pitching the nay
right and left in most unaccountab!e
way, the traveller said My young friend,
why do you not return the hay to the
wagon? Wiplng the sweat from his bro'',
| and pointing 20 the pile of hay. the boy
answered, Stranger, dads under there.
In 1882 baker of Brooklyn, N. Y.
made the following argument in favor Of
the reelection Of "Old Hickory" and
doubtless 1t made more votes than Bry-
ans eloduence Influenced when he II
vaded the "enemy's country In 1896.
Fellow citizens: 1t IS we'll known to
y,u that when John O. Adams was Prasi
dent the Emperor of Brazil seized some
of our ships and wouldn't let 'em come
home So President Adams wrote him
letter, and very purity letter 1t was.
too-for, to give him his due, he knew
this adams was? And his head men told
And, after he had read 1t, he asked who
how to write, If he didn't know anything
else So the Emperor he got the letter.
him he was President of the United
States. Well, WELL said the Emperor, ne
wants me to send them ships home, but
won't do it, for 1t is quite plain to m
that a man who can write so beautiful
don't know anything about fighting, SO
the ships must stay where they are
Well" continued the baker. by and
by General Jackson got the President
and he wrote to the Emperor:
"'You Emperor: Send them ships home
right away. ANDY JACKSON
well, the Emperor got that letter: too;
and after he had read it, he laughed and
said, This Is a mighty queer letter! Who
Is this Jackson? Pears to me | have
heard of him before We'll tell you,
s N his head %ep who h is a ssd the
Emperor, the New Orleans Jackson!
Send them ships home right away!
Perhaps Amos Kendall himself could
not nave treated the ISSUES OF the CAM
paign of 1892 any more effectively than
did that simple baker. Andrew Jacksons
personal character was the paramount
issue. and that same jackson did for the
King of France what the baker said he
did for tine Emperor of Brazil, II we
use the word dollars" " here the baker
used the word ships"
But above all your campaign orators.
and even before your campaign clubs,
are the political newspapers with honest
and courageous editors. Horace CREEPY
made more public opinion than any other
American who ever lived. He was q
powerful writer, mentally AMI morally
honest, mentally and physically courage
cus. He never sold the truth. He never
paltered with eternal God, nor with m Or
Ia man, for power. Daily he pursued he
right as he saw 1t. That is the whole
duty of newspaper editor.
The present is not exactly an off year
but 1t Is far from the dignity of a PreS-
Dental year. Mark Hanna and James K.
Jones are not IN command of their re-
spective forces. Joseph W. Babcock of
Wisconsin and James NJ. Griggs of Geor-
gia are opposing generals in the cam
pagin that closes November 4.
Mr.. Babcock Is a veteran. He has fought
several momentous battles and has never
met a defeat. He was at the head Of
the Republican Campaign Committee in
1894. 1898 and 1900. and each year the
The Republicans went out of power in
financial and Industrial, that overlook
tho country war and which would