The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-04
THE POWER OF RIDICULE.

to describe Charles Warren Fair
| banks as as the driver of an ice
wagon, or as having cold feet or as
a sort of animated jack frost no one
who knows him can comprehend
There are dozens and scores Of men
! in public life to whom such a de-
scription might apply, but it certain
ly does not fit the Yice-president,
and never did fit him.
Many public men have been the
victims of some popular description
which has taken hold of the people
but in almost every case there was
+ some excuse for it. Gen. Winfield
Scott was called "Old Fuss and
Feathers. Contemporary history
shows there was a good deal OF rea-
son for this, and the statue of the
old general in the principal circles
of Washington certainly bears out
this idea.
Roscoe Conkling was called by
somebody-it NAV have been Blaine
Turkey Cock This name was
an apt one in many respects. Conk-
ling had an undeniable strut, and
many still remember how it was
commented upon "1Sll TIC lCu IhS
Grant forces to glorious defeat in
the Chicago convention of 1880.
Reed as the ''Czar"
Tom Reed had in his manner the
autocracy of an American car. To
| those who had even the slightest
claim to his intellectual friendship
| he was a most charming companion,
but he could freeze a bore into the
! lowest depths of insignifcance and
without the slightest apparent eff
| fort.
Gov. Hughes of New York is a
! veritable north pole expedition all by
/ himself when compared with the
vice-president, and yet, after all, the
governors attitude is nothing but
! that of a studious college professor
called upon to do big things under a
magnifying glass.
1t is idle to attempt to trace the
ice house story applied to Vice-Presi-
dent Fairbanks. The last really
great Indiana public man, Benjamin
Harrison. was frequently described
as cold blooded He deserved the
enithet to some extent. Fairbanks
merely inherited his reputation.
That he does not deserve it every
body in Washington knows, ana eV-
ervbody elsewhere in the country
knows it who has ever come within
the radius of his personality.
he has a fault it is that he is toe
friendly. that he beams too much
and that his glad hand is always eX-
tended That is a good fault, how
ever Under ordinary conditions the
vice-president would melt any ice
herg which came in his way. AS ne
travels through the streets Of Wash
ington. for he is a great walker, the
vice-presidential eye from its com
handing position in the upper strata
of atmosphere frequently recognizes
a friend or admirer at great dls'
lance. c.
There are none so humble thai
thev do not receive an immediate
resnOnse to their salutation. The III
tle newsboys and cOlOred gamlnS
along the way are all acquainted
with this fact Many little darky
calls TO another "dar goes the wee
nresidentum. and thereupon
whole school of them will range
themselves along the sidewalk, and
although the majority of them have
some sort of hay idea that he is
President Roosevelt's father, on ac-
count of his great height, they know
that their salute will be returned II
the most cordial fashion. IN MS
own house. in the senate chamber
in his seat as the presiding officer
At his home in Indianapolis, and il
every ev ll possible contingency of life
this vice-president of ours is the
pink of well bred courtesy, am 1lion
good nature and consistent KinunesS
Mr.. John Riha of Vining' Ia says
81 have been selling DeWitt's Kid,
new and Bladder Pills for about 9
year and they give better satisfac.
ton than any pill 1 ever sold There
ora a dozen people here who have
,.od Thorn and they give perfect sat