The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-18
REGULATIONS OF A GREAT
GRANDFATHER.

Ticket-He Takes Issue with Young
81 Alton Upon NenrIy Every Point, but
FINALLY succumbs to Drowsiness
Il and Is Put to BED.
@# Elkins, Sept. 2S.
Dear Sonny:
~ l don't know what's the matter. with
6hc. l can't seem to recollect anything
e lat has happened since / made my pro-
II action speech in the Senate in 1855.
Fl hat was the greatest effort OF my-or
II ly stenogra pher's-life.
& When | went upstairs last h1ght L
xprgot what / had gone for ana hau
% call my boy, Steve Elkins, up 10 tel
lie Ouicker'n shootin' he pointed 10
he bed and began helpin' me off with
M.ly Congress gaiters mat S jest IKE
~ Republican, thinkin' of what we ought
ID think of first and dom what we amt
lot git-up-and-git enough to do for our
elves. HH.
M And now a few words about your let
hr of acceptance. Don't git hot under
E@le collar if an old man Of so takes
Die privilege of speaIin' his mind.
# You begin by talkin' about centraliZa-
kion. Where have you been living the
q list forty years! Don't you know that
|lle principle that the Union is bigger
HAhan any Of its parts was settled by the
yar, when l laid the foundations of
ny fortune sellin' horses to the Federal
Il rmy?
pa Don't fash yourself about some youth
AL Napoleon usurpin' any dangerous au-
Ehority over the S0,O00OO0 American
E.overeigns. They all know their rights
rs well as Dave Hill, and KNOWN, dare
slaintain them, without the consent of
my other nation. as your friend of '96
End 1900. Billy Bryan. would say.
~ What's this thing imperialism" you
Eak 50 much about? In my opinion it's
E1ll tommyrot. There's no more impe
ialism in the United States than in
@he knothole stuffed with the clay of
Caesar.
|# You make me weary when You talk
bout the President of the United States
developing such tremendous power from
sear to year until it almost equals that
/ Il many monarchs." What sort of small
sotatoes do you take the President of
llis republic for? You may think he
rs of no more account than the King
liz Greece or the Akoond of Swat, but
Il t my age I'm not runnin' for the remote
nance of succeedin' to an Office no big
Ter than some hop O my thumb might
let by accident.
III Don't yon know that if we follow "the
Footsteps of our fathers" we must march
Seward the past? Following the foot
@teps of ancestors can only lead to the
cradle or the tomb. And though they
|2|ay that l am in my second childhood
nd have one foot in the grave, l prefer
tandin' in the footsteps of the livin' to
ollowin' the footsteps of the dead.
| Act-act in the living present!
8 Heart within, and God o'erhead!
las always been the motto of your as
irin' Uncle Gassaway.
"a Talk of lust of power. What are we
b this race for? never lusted for any
hing as 1 lust after the presidency
LIZ the Senate, with a reversionary inter
4st in the Presidency of the United
tates.
Your ideas on the tariff are as hazy as
he vision of a six-day-old steer. Here's
THAT said in 1888, and it's good doc
/ zine yet:
|M 1 am for tariff that will yield sufficient
evenue for the economical and proper ex-
|enditures OF the government, and in that
ariff believe incidental protection to our
Industries Is right and proper.
m If q tariff for protection is robbery,
Ia the penitentiary with the whole outfit!
| We can't cozen the people by denouncin'
he crime while supportin' the govern
lent on the SWag.
see you have logged in the old chest
| ut about protection building up 1.-The
BUSINESS and property of the few at the
Expense of the many" Don't you know
hat property and wealth in the United
tates was never as widely distributed
5 to-day? that in all industries more
lan GO per cent of the gross income
xoes to the wage-earners, and that the
Eyau AZ fr,,o Inn l.
,ts?
l notice with qualification that you
fdestep in regard to trusts.
" l was deeply affected by your reference
to our martyred President, William
Mckinley" Let me recommend his care
ally thought-out policies to your study
nd adoption. Otherwise this appreci-
| lion of the dead leader will rebound to
nc honor and glory of his young sue
essor in the White House, who has not
@yerved a hairs breadth from the chart
id down for him 10y William McKin-
~.
What do you mean by celebrating
granny" i'll the Philippines? Who's
layin Andy Jackson over there?
Do you know the record of our Dem
cratic congressman on the subject of
Twill service-how they have persistent
4 voted to withhold the appropriation
ecessary to the administration of the
satute? Alton, if we can't be elected.
t us be honest.
You talk about "the Executive acpuir-
& the Panama route and rights Don't
ou know that these were acquired by
ae government, and not by the eXecu-
We? The Senate ratified the treaty and
congress appropriated the money to
inch the opportunity to do what you
~ has long been the hope of our
atesmen. to-wit, dig the canalg' If you
&c IN earnest about the right to dig hav-
been wrongfully obtained, why don't
9u urge its remuneration? There are