The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-04

made due preparation? ~ Nothing
said he, 'but the general preparation |
OF my life"
He had pleasure in the power of |
leadership of minorities-compact, en- |
thusiastic, determined minorities, and |
possessed in an eminent degree the |
Napoleonic quality of attaching men |
to him. He so magnetized those he lik- |
ed, that they could not choose but fol- |
low him.
Thomas Starr King may not be class
ed as political orator, for his patriotic
excursions into the domain of mere
politics were infrequent, but as a lee
turer and elocutionist he had no peer.
The organ tones of his voice were deep
and sweet, and his matter was incom-
parable, especially in dealing with Ma
ture. MY text this morning. said he
on one occasion, sis a passage from the
work of God in Siskiyou County, en-
titled Mount Sales.--future followed
an hour of enhancing imagery. His
wit was quick and not bitter. Refer
ring to the mining town of the Com
stock lode, (whose leading mine was
the Ophir,) whose saloons were fire.
quent, and whose hillsides abounded
with a small ground squirrel, he said,
Virginia City is town of Ophir holes,
loafer holes and gopher holes.' If
Thomas Starr King could have, while
speaking, freed himself from the domi-
nation of his manuscript,-if he could
have perfectly memorized his addresses
he would have had no peer as an ora
tor in any English-speaking land.
AAA
John B. FELTON, was learned in clas-
sic lore, and a ready after-dinnar
speaker. At the banquet given to cele-
brate the victory of A. B. D. Hoffman,
whose election as Presidential Elector
had been contested, because of a fail
ure TO print all of his initials on the
ballot, Felton-alluding to the joyous
condition of his client-said: He has
| passed his AS and BIS and is now half
C's over When Senator Cole. at
banquet, exclaimed, "Why may not
Mount Diablo become another Olym-
| pus?". TOO much coal in it," roared
| FELTON,.
| If there be those who think that
| "spell-binding" proves financially prof
| liable to those who follow it let them
| be disabused of such an impression.
Glory, fun, good company, promises of
promotion that generally are forgotten
after election-these you may have
galore, but money-no. A member of
brass band, or a ward heller receives
more pay than speaker
| AAA
| I have canvassed California fourteen
times and have no regrets for having
given SO much time and effort to
service that was uncompensated with
| money, for 1.-THE song in the singing of
! 1t" and THE deed in the doing of it,,
| bring their own reward. l have read
reports at various times of large sums
alleged to have been paid me for politi-
cal speeches. 1 regret that these
stories were not true. Usually travel
ing expenses have been allowed. Some.
times L have betrayed these myself.
Only once did l receive anything like
a large compensation. That was in
1890, when weary of politics and its dis
| ana III OrQer TO rio my
self of the opportunities of persistent
member of the State Committee, I
named five thousand dollars as the
price of my services for ten speeches.
To my astonishment the Committee
man accepted my terms. In that can
vass L travelled with Senator Stanford
and did my best for the cause and for
| him, but honestly, I do not think that
l earned the money. I learned after
wards from Senator Stanford's testi-
mony, before the San Francisco Grand
Jury as to his campaign expenses, that
| the Committeeman who acted as my
walking delegate collected ten thousand
dollars from the Senator for my servic-
es. L made no effort however to re-
cover the difference, for the gentleman
who made the rake off" soon after
wards went where I shall never see
him again-his funeral was largely at
| tended.
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