The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-10

Sherman" and Assumes the Role
o. Cannon.C .Cracker--The Scared
Householder and the Burglar.
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Monroevilles Democrats, assisted by
the county committee, had planned
what the posters called "a Monster
\ Bryan Ratification Meeting" The Re.
1 publican school teacher remarked that
l the first three words OF the placard
held more truth than all the rest OF
| the sheet; but then, he was n recent
importation from Boston, and so was
| expected to sit in the seat Of the
scornful. Undisturbed by any such
grammatical peccadllloes most of
| Wonroeville's thousand voters, and
| several hundred men from the outly-
I ing country, turned out to hear the
music and the speech-making.
There was CONSERVATION in the
ranks of the committee when the eve.
ptng train brought no Lawyer Squires,
4 the bright oratorical light upon whom
their faith had been pinned. The
meeting had begun before the train
arrived; tho preliminaries had been
disposed of and the local talent we'll.
| nigh exhausted when the nonplussed
committee arrived with the bad news.
! Before II could be broken, however,
/ Zed Rumford, the hotel.keeper, whose
committee badge outshone his dia.
moud, had an inspiration. Why not
| 2,sk Tom Harkins, Ware a. Tare's star
! drummer TO give the crowd the same
sort OF talk he had made to the boys
In the hotel lobby that afternoon? Tom
| wasn't basbful. being q salesman, and
he knew human nature better than he
knew anything else except Ware &
| Tare's line.
/ Thus IL came about that instead OF
! pompous orator in frock coat,
| there was introduced a well.groomed
| young man In brown, who began by
saying: "Aint It awful, Mabel I
| blew into this burg TO talk Ware 4
| Tare's dry goods, and here they've put
me up to show a line of Republican
green goods. Instead Of big gun
| you've got Cannon-crackor, for
want TO take crack at Joe. since he
! and Senator SonLn-law Oilrich are
more OF an issue than Teddy's expand
cd shadow, Injunction Bill. !
wouldn't be afraid OF the big stick In
| Taft's hands, any more than Wall
street is afraid of IL; but Taft is only
the respectable cigar-store mont OF
, the meanest gambling Joint that ever
stacked the cards against sucker
The real owners are Cannon. Aldrich
Rockefeller, Harriman and that whole
| push. Uncle Joe-s lightest cuss word
is weightier than Taft's most delphic
| deliverance. For what Cannon says
goes, because he does not speak until
he has been spoken TO by the men
higher up'-and the higher up where
cannon goes for ordes is not heaven
either. Do You catch my point? There
is no voting for Protcge Taft, or Er.
rand-Boy Sherman without a voting
for the continuation and strengthening
OF the Republican ring in house and
senate. a ring so crooked that, except
for few months in presidential year
even the Republican editors are kept
busy telling the nasty truth about It.
! lf you want more OF the reign of the
gang that has proved itself mightier
than even Terrible Teddy then vote
for~the amlable Taft and the shrink.
ing Sherman"
The crowd had been rather TOO
! dazed by the rapid.fire, unconventional
talk OF the drummer at first to make
any response, but quickly It began to
murmur approval by such phrases as;
Now you're going some, That's the
talk, Give him another hot one etc.
The speaker paid no heed TO these in.
terruptions, but continued
81 had a next-door neighbor once
who woke in the night and found
hall light burning downstairs. He
thought II was burglar. What do you
suppose he did? He stood upstairs
shivering in his nightie, hoping the
burglar would go away. Is that the
| way you do, when your wife shakes
| you out of your beauty sleep and tells
you that there is a burglar down.
| stairs?"
mot on your life!" calculated a
bnshy man in the audience; II go
after him"
"Of course you do. So does every
other man who has red blood instead
OF skinned milk in his veins. Be.
cause you are a man, the head OF your
house, and responsible for It's safety,
and the safety OF your family, and you
face any danger that threatens your
home. In the exercise OF thls primal
right, which every male who grows
hair has considered sacred and bind,
ing since the days OF the stone age,
when man guarded the entrance 10
his cave-home with a club, you would
~ w Nut utNil HlLuotlI.I
We'll, gentlemen, that Is just about
what is up 10 you today in this politi.
cal campaign. Your fundamental, in
herent manhood rights are at stake.
Your country, which is as sacred to
you as your home-myrlads of patriots
have left their homes at the call of
country--has been invaded by thieves
and robbers The ideals OF American
| government have been violated. Your
property rights have been taken from
you. Some OF you have become so
suDine and unnamed that you grin
and gloat over the power and audacity
OF the men who have plundered and
shamed you. You say they're mighty
smart, and that you'd do the same II
YOU had the chance A man who talks
like that is at heart a crook"-here
the speaker grew vehement, and
jabbed his fore-fingcr yioiously into
the air-"and no decent citizen OF tina
republic"
A tenseness In the atmosphere and
low murmurs OF appreciation, rather
than cheers, greeted the speakers
reasoning here But that sort or fel-
low, while the mainstay OF the Repub.
lican organization, is not majority