Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-12
Senator Deliver in RandoIph.


The lecture by Senator Jonathan Prem
It's Dolliver Of Fort Dodge, Iowa, in Du-
| Bots a Gays hall Friday evening, was the
GROWING feature Of the Randolph enter
tainment course and an oratorical achieve
ment that enlicited unstinted praise.
In spite Of his opening assertion that he
Is neither an orator, statesman or pugi-
list (the last term suggesting itself per-
haps from the visit of Senator Tillm an
here last winter, he proved himself vastly
more than the verbal rocket of the lecture
platform, and a vital force way beyond
that class of whom the late Thomas u.
Reed was thinking when he defined a
statesman as a dead Politician; while his
large, well-knt frame made it seem I'M
likely that his head would be the first
choice Of an irascible colleague in the SEN
ate as the target for flying volume of the
Congressional records.
He has an easy delivery, a manner that
holds attention, the use of clear, conYinc-
ing language with the power to rise to the
heights of passion when he wishes, and
wit which bubbles spontaneously and,
like Whittier's New Hampshire brooks,
''plays over solid granite" He is a Nir-
ginian by birth but he remarked that after
passing White River Junction in coming
here Friday, he looked out on a Hartford
hill and saw the childhood home of his
wife, "who," he continued, "thinks no.
body can amount to much who wasn't
born in Vermont-or hasn't married some
one born in Vermont"
His subject was "a Poor Mans Govern
ment and Poor Boys Country" and he
made il plain that in this land OF the free
nothing can prevent the cream Of the pop
ulation from rising to the top while the
dregs sink to the bottom. As a typical
example Of the American boy he took the
late President Mckinley, who was born in
poverty-not the deepest poverty which
deadens every aspiration, but the kind of
ordinary poverty in which nearly all OF us
are born and out of which we can struggle
If there is any struggle in us.
A glimpse Of the late presidents early
life was afforded on a western trip when
Mckinley pointed TO an urchin dancing
in frosty field and said :-'That was one
OF the luxuries Of my boyhood-to drive
the old COW up and warm my cold bare
toes in the warm spot where she had been
lying down. Then one by one the cabi-
net ministers, the senators and governors
accompanying the president gave in testi-
monies showing that foot-warming pro-
cess to be familiar TO them all, and proof
of their humble descent.
Mckinley's biography is the more help
full, the speaker said, because there is
nothing in ii unusual and startling or be-
yond the grasp of honest and courageous
endeavor. As young lawyer he was dis
tinguished by no marvellous gifts but was
in all respects like thousands of others in |
the country todsNN whom, Mr.. Deliver /
added, we regard Nth a double pity-pity |
for themasahd for iheir clients The five 1
years Of acknowledgment, waiting and |
starving which the young lawyer puts in |
while people with forty-dollar COW cases /
60 past his door to the offices Of more ex
perienced attorneys because they can't /
afford to lose the cow-are the years which /
prove the man, harden his fibre and fit
him for his part in the higher affairs of
life, If he is to have such a part, or they
are the years in which he sinks back into
the general flow of the stream like
prieked bubble.
Especial stress was laid upon McKin-
leys faithful discharge of the duties of
As president of the United
States when he had a multitude of cares
and was probably the busiest man in the
he was yet never too busy to take
the journey TO Canton to cast his vote
with his fellow citizens. Constantly
seeing items in the papers about the presi-
dents going to Canton for this purpose,
Mr.. Dolliver one day asked him why he
took so much pains to be at his legal poll
ing place when few hours of time even
meant so much TO him. Mr.. McKinley's
answer showed his conception OF the priv
ileges and duties of an American citizen.
Never, he said, from the time he cast his
first vote in the field as a soldier of the
civil war had he failed to exercise the right
Of citizenship in whatever place he was
allowed to vote.
Mr.. MeKinley's attitude in this matter
Is in striking contrast to the apathy and
Indifference of voters in populous centers,
whose neglect of the ballot is a menace to
he life of our free institutions. Business
men are too busy, society men too much
involved in social engagements, and
,lprUympn too piOuo tn unp6dln with dirty |
in consequence in hands too
oul to cleanse them. The position OF the
'lergymen was subtly suggested by
prayer offered by good old minister at a
convention before which MIR. Dolliver APP
Feared as a candidate for office. After the
Usual rendering of thanks for the mani
old mercies bestowed, the applications
or grace and continuance OF favor, the
PRAYER closed with a petition that after
he trials of this mortal life all might be
gathered into that blessed country above,
where politics and politicians are I'M
Known.
This is poor mans government and a
,oor boys country. The sons of the rich
eldom count. All of our great men who
re readily named were barefoot boys in
ural districts, the only notable exception
icing that child of Fifth Avenue, Theo-
lore Roosevelt, whose Dutch pluck and
nergy enabled him to forge ahead in spite
4 the disadvantages Of gentle nurture and
-reat wealth.
1t is good for a boy to make his own
way as his father did before him. There
ore il you have a million dollars and
10Y, keep the two as far apart as possiblei
will be better for the boy and-better
or the million dollars.
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