Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20
REGULATIONS OF A GREAT
GRANDFATHER.


Alton Upon Nearly Every Point, but |
Finally succumbs ts Drowsiness
and il Put to Bed.
Elkns, Sept. rs.
Dear Sonny.
l don't know what's the matter with
me. j can't seem to recollect anything
that has happened since made my pro-
lection speech in the Senate in 1888.
That was the greatest effort of my-or
my stenographer's-life
When / went upstairs last night i
forgot what l had gone for and had
10 call my boy, Steve Elkins, up to tell
me. Qucker'n shootin he pointed to
the bed and began helpin' me off with
my Congress CATERS. That's Jest like
Republican, thinkin' of what we ought
to think of first and dom what we amt
got git up-nnd-git enough TO do for our
selves.
And now few words about your let
ter Of acceptance. Don't git hot under
the collar if an old man of so takes
the privilege of speakin his mind.
You begin by talkin' about centraliza-
ton. Where have you been living the
last forty years? Don't you know that
the principle that the Union is bigger
than any of its parts was settled by the
war, when l laid the foundations of
my fortune sellin' horses to the Federal
army?
Don't fash yourself about some youth
full Napoleon usurpin' any dangerous au-
thority over the S0,0O0,000 American
sovereigns. They all know their rights
as well as Dave Hill, and KNOWN, dare
maintain them, without the consent of
any other nation, as your friend OF '0G
and 1900, Billy Bryan, would say.
What's this thing imperialism" you
talk so much about? In my opinion it's
all tommyrot. There's no more impe-
ralism in the United States than in
the knothoc stuffed with the clay of
imperial Caesar.
You make me weary when you talk
about the President of the United States
developing such tremendous power "irom
year to year until it almost equals that
of many monarchs." What sort of small
potatoes do you take the President of
this republic for? You may think he
is of no more account than the King
of Greece or the Akoond of Swat, but
at my age I'm not runnin' for the remote
chance of succeedin to an Office no big
ger than some hop O. my thumb might
get by accident.
Don't yon know that IL we follow "the
footsteps of our fathers" we must march
toward the past? Following the foot
steps of ancestors can only lead to the
cradle or the tomb. And though they
say that l am in my second childhood
and have one foot in the grave, L prefer
standin in the footsteps of the Twin to
followin' the footsteps IF the dead.
Act-act in the living present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
has always been the motto of your as
prin' Uncle Gassaway.
Talk of lust OF power What are we
in this race for? l never lusted for any
thing as l lust after the presidency
of the Senate, with revcrsionary inter
est in the Presidency of the United
States.
Your ideas on the tariff are as hazy rs
the vision of siX-day-old steer. Here's
what | said in 1885, and it's good doc
trine yet:
revenue for the economical and proper cx-
pendtures OF the government, and in that
tariff | believe incidental protection TO our
Industries is right and proper.
If tariff for protection is robbery,
to the penitentiary with the whole outfit,
We can't cozen the people by denouncin'
the crime while supportin' the govern
ment on the swag.
| see you have lugged IN the old chest
nut aEnut protection building up 1.-THE
business ard property of the few at the
expense of the many" Don't you know
,hat property and wsllth in the United
States was never as widely distribute
as to-day? that in all industries more
than GO per cent of the gross income
goes to the wage-earners, and that the
wage-carners are our only true imperial
lists?
| notice with qualification that you
sidestep in regard to trusts.
l was deeply affected by your reference
ito our martyred President, William
Mckinley" Let NE recommend his care
fully thought-out policies to your study
and adoption. Otherwise this apprec
a,ion of the dead leader will rebound tC
the honor and glory of his young sue
,cssor in the White House. who has moi
swerved hairs breadth from the char
laid down for him by William Mckin
ley.
What do you mean by celebrating
tyranny" in the Philippines? Who
playin' Andy Jackson over there?
DO YOU know the record of our Dem
ocratic Congressman on the subject o
civil scrvice-how they have persistent
Iy voted to withhold the appropriation
necessary to the administration of thu
statute? Alton, if We can't be elected
let us be honest.
You talk about the Executive acQuir
ing the Panama route and rights" Don
you know that these were acquired b!
the government, and not by the execu
tive? The Senate ratified the treaty AM
Congress appropriated the money L
clmch the opportunity to do what yo
ray has long been the hope of on
statesmen, to-wit, dig the canalT" If yo
are in earnest about the right to dig hay
in been wrongfuly obtained, why dom
you urge it's remuneration? There ar
still revolutionists on the isthmus VIII
would welcome return to the good oil
days of Revolutions on the half she
while you wait"
Don't you know that american bot