The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-31
MR.. DOOLEY ON ORATORY.

TIL prisint wan is a disgrace to tn
ward. Curtins' horse fell through 1t
last week. BY jinauneddy il Bill.
O'Brien don get us a new bridge, Wei
bate him at tn prim'ries.' That wud
have gone fine FIR Curtin was a loud
an poplar fish peddler. But what did
Carney do? He niyer vas within four
thousan' miles iv a swing bridge acros.
tn Chicago river. Says he: tGintle.
men: We ARE tn most gloryous peo-
| pie tha liver infested tn noblest coun-
| thry that tn sun liver shone upon he
| says. We meet here tonight he says,
'undher that starry imblim that flaps
above freemen's homes in ivry little
| hamlet firm where rolls tn Oregon In
majestic volume to tn sun-kisr wathers
iv tn Passyfc to where tn Pimsicoddy
| shimmers adown tn pine clad hills iv
| Maine he says. Tn hand iv time,
he says, marches with stately steps
| acrost tn face iv histhry an as I listen
to its hoof beats I hear a still small
| voice that seems to say that Athens ca
shout), Greece "a shri1l cry),N Rawhm
g. shriek) an E-gypt) "a deep roar an
liver an an upward an long as tn stars
in their courses creep through eterni-
~ an twinkle as they creep recallin'
tn wurruds iv our great pote Twink
ling stars ARE laughin' love, laughin'
at you an me-" an a country, gintle-
men, that stands today as sure as to-
morrah's sun rises an kisses tn flag
that floats FIR all. Now, gintlemen, 1t
is CROWN late an / will not detaln We
longer but 1 have a few wurruds TO say.
l appeal firm Philip dhrunk to Philip
sober That ended tn speech an tn
kanket. The chairman's name was
Philip. TIL second Philip that Carney
mintioned was not there.
II guess a man niver con an
orator if he has anything to say, Hin
Missy. If a lawyer thinks his client IS
innocint, he talks to tn jury abou tn
crime. Buff he knows where tn pris-
ner hid tn lead pipe, he unfurs tn flag.
throws out a few remarks about tn
flowers an tn burruds an asks tn
twelve good men en- thrue not to break
UP a happy Christmas but to sind this
man home to his wife an childher an
Gawd will bless thin if they ARE iver
caught in tn same p~erdicymint. Whln-
liver I go to a pollytical meetin' an tn
la-ad with tn open wurruk face min
tons Rome Or Athens, I grab fr me
hat.\ I know he's not goin' to say amy
thing that ought ito keep me out iv bed.
T also bar all language o burrudS
an flowers, I don't give two cints about
TIL Oregon whether it rolls OF staggeIs
to tn sea; n I'll rap in the eye
amy man hat attimpts to wrap UP his
sicond hand oratory in tn American
flag. There ought to be a law against
usin' the American flag fr such pur-
poses. / hope to read in the pa-aper
some day that Joe Cannon was arrest
ed f'r usin American flag to decorate
a speech on tn tariff an sintinced to
two years solitary confinement with
Sinitor Biveridge, an be hivins, I don't
want amy man to tell me I'm a MINI
Der Of wan iv tn grandest races tn
sun has liver shown on. I know it al
ready. If I wasn't I'd move out.
mo. sir, whin a nan has something
to say an don't know how to say it.
he says it pretty we'll. Whin he has
something to say an knows how to say
it, he makes a gr-reat speech But
whin he has nothin' to say an has a
lOt iv wurruds that come with a black
coat, he's an orator. There's two things
I don't want at me fun'ral. Wan is in
grafton an tn other is wax overs [
class thin alike"
"Ye're on'y mad because We faIsed,'
said Mr.. HeTfnessy.
WELL said Mr.. Dooley, what bet
ther reason dye want? Besides, I didn't
fail as bad as I might. 1 might have
made the speech"