The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-20
,,oIII ATOMS OF A GREAT
GRANDFATHER.

His Assoc
-He Takes Issue with Young
-, Upon Nearly Every Point but
INV s,ccu.bs to Drowsiness
- Pit 10 Bed.
Elkins, Sept. %.
~ 0 know what's tho matter with
! cvn ,nt seem to recollect anything
honpened since made my pro- I
~ 10 sneech in the Senate in 1888. |
:, was the greatest enort Oh my-or
.tenographer
rs.u / went upstairs last night l
"a' what | had gone for and had
wv, NV hoy. Steve Elkins, up to tell
GU nn;cker'n shootin' he pointed to
~ and began helpin' me off with
Congress CATERS. That's jest like
,hrcon. thinkin' of what we ought
n '.i"l If first and dom what We amt
:, .it.up-andgit enough to DO for our
l .a1 NOW few words about your let
- acceptance. Don't git hot under
Liar if an old man Of 80 takes
a.;v;leee of speakin his mind.
Van begin by talkin' about centraliza-
Where have you been living the
wv '. ,ortv wears? Don't you know that
nr;ncinle that the Union il bigger
.nv of its parts was settled by the
w. :. when | laid the foundations of
>, fortune sellin' horses to the Federal
rmy?
nj Napoleon usurpin' any dangerous au-
S0r;tv over the SO,OOO,OO0 American
nversgns. They all know their rights
we'll as Dave Hill, and KNOWN. dare
Maintain them, without the consent of
NV other nation. as your friend Of '96
md 1900 Billy Bryan, would say.
What's this thing imperialism" you
.lt so much about? In my opinion it's
m tommyrot. There's no more impe-
,olism in the United States than in
No knothole stuffed with the clay of
imperial Caesar.
You make me weary when yon talk
.bout the President of the United States
developing such tremendous power from
year to year until it almost equals that
At MANY monarchs." What sort of small
,otatoes do you take the President of
This republic for? You may think he
"a of no more account than the King
At Greece or the Akoond of Swat, but
At NV age I'm not runnin' for the remote
chance of succeedin' to an office no big
ger than some hop o. my thumb might
ret BY accident.
Don't yon know that if we follow ''tht
footsteps of our fathers" we must marcl
toward the past? Following the foot
steps of ancestors can only lead to thu
cradle or the tomb. And though they
say that | am in my second Childhood
and have one foot in the grave. l prefer
standin' in the footsteps of the Twin t.
foowin' the footsteps of 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 w
in this race for? l never lusted for any
thing as | lust after the presdenc
Of the Senate, with reversionary inter
est in the Presidency of the Unite
States
Your ideas on the tariff are as hazy n
the vision of siX-day-old steer. Here
what | said in 1888, and it's good doc
trine YET
! am for a tariff that will yield sufficien
revenue for the economical and proper eA
pendlurcs of the government. and in tina
tariff believe incidental protection to on
Industries Is right aud proper.
If tariff for protection is robber,
10 the pententiary with the whole outfit
We can't cozen the people by denouncil
the crime while supportin' the govern
ment Oh the swag.
see you have lugged in the old ches
nut about protection building up 18th
business and property of the few at I'll
expense of the many" Don't you kno
that property and wealth in the Unite
States was never as widely distribute
As to-day? that in all industries MOI
than 90 per cent of the gross incon
goes to the wage-earners, and that Il
wage-earners are our only true imperia
lists?
| notice with qualification that u
sdestep in regard to trusts.
was deeply affected by your referen
TO our martyred President, Villa
Mckinley" Let me recommend his ear
fully thought-out policies to your stut
and adoption. Otherwise this appret
alton of the dead leader will rebound
the honor and glory of his young su
cessor in the White House, who has n
swerved hairs breadth from the cha
laid down for him by William McKi
ley.
What do you mean by ''toleratil
tyranny in the Philippines? Wht
piayin' Andy Jackson over there?
DO you know the record of our Del
"cratic Congressman on the subject
evil service-how they haze persisteI
iy voted to withhold the appropriate
necessary to the administration of I
statute? Alton. if we can't be electt
let us be honest.
You talk about "the Executive acqu
ing the Panama route and rights" Dol
you know that these were acquired
The government, and not by the exec
i've: The Senate ratified the treaty a
Congress appropriated the money
cHhch the opportunity to do what
Say has long been the hope of 9
statesmen, to-wit, dig the canal?" If y
IRE IN earnest about the right to dig hi
III been wrongfully obtained, why do
you urge its remuneration? There ;
sui reyolutionists on the isthmus "
would welcome return to the good
aays of Revolutions ON the half sll
while you wait"
Don't you know that american b