Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-05

ULY 5, 19O8-PART 4.
from McComas. the impartial judge. and
~. no leader of Highland clan enjoyed
aie excitement of a fray more than he did
q poiitical battle. 1t was at joint de-
na.e that Douglas exhibited the coffee
pot. and McComas. after affecting much
,hL.erest and curiosity in the exhibit of
s sne Plaintiff. held 1t aloft saying: Il
this article is marked second.
american workingmen do not have to
10, and no amount of explanation could
nehove the impression that Douglas
was MOIST by his own petard.
geography has it's snares for others be-
sues Mr.. Taft who thought Cumberland
was In West Virginia. Out in the state
OF Washington is one of them. 1t is a
sylvia and Charybds combined noun
tam designated on certain official maps
as Mount Rainier and on other official
maps as Mount Tacoma. 1t is heinous
oi1ense to speak of this mountain to the
citizens of Tacoma as Mount Rainier and
an equally heinous offense to speak of 1t
10 citizens of Seattle as Mount Tacoma.
But to ignore its scenic beauties is an
unpardonable oversight. Candidates are
warned. of course, concerning the dilem-
ma that confronts them by reason of the
existence of this mountain, and they US
ually say in Seattle what the Seattle
people say and in Tacoma what the Ia
coma people say. But Adlai e. Steven
son had brighter idea. After a very
poetic description of the lofty peak in Ia
coma. without mentioning it's name, he
deciared: LIT rends me, it outrages me.
IL chokes me with wrath, my fellow-cit-
liens. to know that there are those so ig-
norant. so debased, that would call yon-
der summit by any other than its right
name" At Seattle he was similarl.- elo-
anent concerning the mountain. and SINH
larry reticent about giving 1t a name
he wound up his peroration by saying.
i hereby make this parting public
pledge. that I. at least, will never call
yonder summit by any other than its
right name" If Mr.. Stevenson ever had
occasion subsequently to speak OF the
mountain at place where he could not
stretch out his arm and point to "yonder
summit what ne said was probably
whispered with caution that his words
should never be repeated.
Long-Winded Local Chairmen.
Among the vexations of the travelling
campaigner is the local chairman of the
public meeting. Sometimes this gentle
man makes speech SO long and dreary
that the audience gets tired and dis
perses before the main attraction has a
chance. Then the chairman who speaks
of the campaigner as a distinguished
from the hills of Maine to the coast Of
ask him What. is your name anyhow
is no myth. as Private John Allen of
Mississippi and Curtis Guild of Massa-
chusetts have testified. The latter re-
lates that the experience was only one
of similar experiences that he has had.
He was once introduced as Gen. Miles,
after listening to profuse apologies for
the fact that the committee had been un-
able to procure other and more desirable
speakers, and he was once the embar-
raised recipient of an enviable civil war
record. which did not harmonic very we'll
with the fact that he was born in the
year 1860. The presidential candidate
does not have to endure quite as varied
an assortment of trials as other cam
paigners, and there are few chairmen so
audacious as to usurp his place In the
limelight or SO ignorant as 10 introduce
him by the wrong name, unless by an
accident similar to that which happened
when Webster Davis eXtolled William J.
Brennings. The chairman Of delegations
may prove source of worry for presi-
dental candidates as well as for lesser
lights, however, as in the case of one
who insisted on seeing Mr.. Bryan when
the latter was taking bath, and who
did not think It out of place that he
should address crowd of admirers clad
after the fashion which prevailed in the
Garden Of Eden.
Candidate Must Have Patience.
Patience under such circumstances is
difficult to maintain, but presidential
candidates as rule have their patience
cultivated to a high degree. even when
they see their friends making foolish and
costly blunders. The blunders of their
friends and not Of presidential candidates
themselves have counted in influencing
past political results.
ic f,,1 hot Ar ~ y,
discussed phrase, 1.-The enemy's country
or ParKer's eve-of-election attack on the
President had any material effect In in
f1uencing the avalanche of votes In the
elections Of 1896 and 1904. Blaine. as
soon as the Rev. Samuel Burchard had
delivered his famous and fatal 127-word
speech containing the alliterative atrocity
Rum. Romanism and Rebellion" took
steps first to suppress it. and then to
counteract 1t, but he was unable to do
so. and the chairman of the democratic
party at that time being man who was
a past master in political strategy. Sena-
tor Arthur Pue German, made the most
of his rare opportunity.
A shrewd campagner. indeed, was Cor
man. though not a very eloquent orator.
Having been responsible for the insertion
of a very strong goldstandard plank In
the platform of the Maryland democratic
convention in 1896, short time before the
Chicago convention. he was almost the
first eastern democrat to declare for
Bryan. and in discussing the issues from
the platform in that campaign he
brushed aside the free silver question
with the remark. perhaps they know
more about the money question In the
west than we do. They have been study
ing it longer" No shrewder campaigner
has ever ventured into the arena of
American politics than Uncle Joe Cannon.
who can make a constituent proud OF
him by asking him for a chew of tobacco,
or the use of some thousand other indi-
vidual campaign methods.
by the way. in going over your county
you will find some men who are not
friendly to me; won't you please make a
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