The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-24

Sinftor Elkins. MT. Davis IS eignty- wan years old and has forty millyon dollars or si forty millyon years old an has eighty-wan dollars. I'm not sure which. but annyhow tn figures masses belief He is a good man an it is thought that his ripe judgment an still riper fortune will add gr-reat strength to tn ticket I see in tn pa apers that he looks twinty years youn- ger thin his years an I'll bet that before tn campaign is over he'll feel three millyon dollars younger in his bank roll.
 "Th' raypublican candydate is tn Honorable Charles Fairbanks who halls firm Injyanny. Hence tn 'wurrud hail. He has almost tn same qualifica- tions fir tn lofty o;ce fr which he has been unanimously choosen be tn threasurer iv tn campaign comity. He is not quite tn statesman that Him , nery is. He misses 1t be about thirty nine millyons. Still he has enough to
 do his jooty worthily through tn cam paign. Sinitor Fairbanks has a fine war | record. He served throughout tn re- | bellyon as cashier iv' tn First Nation ] al Bank iv Terry Hut an has iver since given most iv his time an labor to his
 counthry an his counthry's railroads. | He is strongly in favor iv presarvin' | tn goold standard an as much iv it | as possible. Hinnery Davis doesn't care
 so much about goold. He has all kinds.
 An there in few well choosen wur- ruds, Hinnissy, is tn biography iv tn two men, wan iv whom will serve this | country as vice-prisidint f'r tn nex' four years in Washin'ton an tn other will sarve it jus as much be stayin' at home.
 "It's sthrange about tn vice-Presi- | dency, Hinnissy. Tn Presidency is tn | highest office in tn gift iv tn people.
 Tn Vice-Presidency is tn nex' highest | an tn lowest. It isn't a crime Exactly.
 fe can't be sint to jail fir 1t. but it's a
 kind iv a disgrace. It's like writin' anonymous letters Whin Sinitor El- kins is asked about his father-in-law now, he shakes his head an says: We
 don't speak iv him amy more in tn family At a convintion nearly all tn
 delegates lave as soon as they've nom-
 ynated tn President fir fear wan iv
 thim will be nomynated fr Vice-Presi- dint. They offered 1t to me frind Joe
 Cannon an tn language he used brought tn blush iv v--- shame to tn
 cheeks iv a naygur -dillygate firm Ally
 bamy. They thried to hand it to Him
 nery Cabin Lodge an he wept bitterly. They found a man firm Wisconsin who
 was in dhrink an had almost nommy- ndltu UlHl WnlH HIS WlIe came III an dragged him away firm timptation Tn way they got Sinitor Fairbanks to accipt was be showin' him pitcher iv our gr-reat an noble Presidint thrying' to jump a horse over a six-foot fence. An they on'y prevailed upon Hinnery Davis to take this almost onequalled honor be tellin' him that tn raison tn | Sage iv Esopus didn't speak earlier was because he has weak lungs.
 "Whv is it, wondher, that ivry-
 body runs away firm a nommynation
 fir vice-Prisidint as If 1t was an in
 dictment be tn gran jury? It usent | to be so. I've hollered mesilf black in
 tn face fr ol man Thurman an Hen | dricks iv Injyanny. In tn or days,
 whin tn boys had nommynated some | unknown man firm New York fir Prisi-
 dint, they turned in an nommynated a l gr-reat an well-known man firm tn | West fr Vice-Prisidint. Tn candydate fir Vice-Prisidint was all iv tn ticket | we iyer see durin' a campaign. Tn | la-ad they put up fir Prisidint stayed | C ,wn East an was niver allowed to ] open his mouth except in writin' befure
 witnesses, but tn candydate f'r Vice | Prisidint wint fr'n wan end iv tn | counthry to tn other howlin' again | tn tariff an other immortal issues, now | dead I niver voted fir Grover Cleve- | land. I wudden't vote fir him amy
 more thin he'd vote fir me. voted fir
 oP man Thurman an Tom Hendricks an Adly Stevenson befure he become a | professional Vice-Prisidint. They | thought it was an honor. but If ye'd read their biographies today ye'd | find at tn end: Tn writer will pass over th' closin' years iv MT Thur
 mans career hurridly. It Is enough to
 say iv this painful peryod that afther
 life time iv devoted service to his country, tn statesman's declinin' days
 was clouded be a gr-reat sorrow He
 become -Prisidint iv tn United
 States. Oh, how much betther 'twere
 that we shud be sawed off early be tn gr-reat reaper Death, thin that a life iv honor shud end in ignomy. It's a | turr-ble thing. I read in tn pa-aper
 four years ago: Foul plot again Thay-
 dore Rosenfelt. Platt an Hanna
 schame to make him Vice-Prisidint.'
 Tread tn other day: Attack On Joe Cannon. Odell proposes him fir Vice.
 Prisidint. Cannon pleadin' with his
 frinds to save him. Bimeby whin tn | campaign comity runs short iv funds they'll raise tn wind be goin' around an threatin' pluthrycrats with tn rommynation. Yell hear people say;
 That boy will come to no good end He will be Vice Prisidint.'
 1 If we say about a man that he's good Prisidintial timber, he'll buy ye | drink. If ye say he's good Vice-Presi- | dential timber we mane that he isn't | good enough to be cut up into shingles
 an ye'd better be careful. It's strange