The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-16

IArl 40 AN OitAlOls
tional campaign. The campaign ora
tors, like the poor, are always with us,
for local ana state campaigns are fire.
Quent to give them active employment,
but 1t Is only in presidential years that
the party captains shout. "All hands
on deck" and muster every speaker.
the little fellows as well as the big.
into action.
During the present campaign, in aldi-
ton to the human orators, both the Re-
publican and Democratic national cam.
paign committees will send out me-
chanical spellbinders in the form OF
monographs and photograph records,
which will spout forth speeches by
Taft, Bryan, Sherman and Kern. The
man on the farm will have Taft and
Bryan sing TO him from the mantel-
piece while he Is eating his third piece
Of pie. and the unfortunate city man
who lives In Il big hathouse with up
ward of fifteen neighbors ~ each floor
Will probably hear all four national
candidates talking in high metallic
notes at the same time in different
parts of his "housc."
OF course the presidential and vice
presidential candidates of both parties
will be the great "hcadllners'' of the
campaign. Mr.. Taft will have to do
more work in this connection than he
had desired or planned owing to the
breakdown to some extent In the
health Of his running mate. James s..
Sherman. Mr.. Taft's campaign will
be given increased interest, 1t is
thought, If President Roosevelt will
do what it has been limited he will do
that IS. take the stump himself for
Taft In the west and middle west. Mr..
Bryan will fulfill many speaking en-
gagements in various cities.
Next to Bryan and Kern, the two
leading Democratic campaign speakers
will be Mayor James c. Dahlman of
Omaha, known rs the "cowhoy may.
or" and Senator Gore Of Oklahoma,
the blind orator and statesman who
made 81 effective an address at the
Democratic national convention in Den
yer that Mt his mention OF the name
OF Bryan the delegates burst into n
frenzy OF applause and a demonstra-
tion ensued which could not be quietcl
FOR over eighty minutes. Gore is now
conceded to own absolutely, without
entail. the title of "silvcr tongued ora
tor Of the Democracy"
Dahlman is the most picturesque fig.
ure In the public life Of Nebraska. and
his popularity in the west and middle
west is unrivaled. He says he will
make speeches for Bryan in New
York IN hNckSkin chaps. wearing n
somhrero, II the national committee an
proves. 4 native of Texas, Dahlman
said when elected mayor Of Omaha:
I'm a cow runchcr. and | can rope and
tie a steer as quick as any man in the
business. I won't write a long message
now I'm elected mayor, but II they want
me to sign ANYTHING against the interests
OF Omaha III write "Nothin' dom"
across the top Of 1t.
Other leading Democratic oratorical
lights will be Congressman Champ
Clark. Senator Benjamin II. Tillman
and State Senator Thomas +. Grady Of
New York, who will be nominated fol
congress in place Of Bourke Cochran.
The Republican national committee
has split up the country into three
sections as regards speakers and placed
a well known man in charge Of each
section to superintend the operation Of
the men who not only will make the
eagle scream. but will give it acute
hysteria. Colonel du Pont. having
charge Of the speakers bureau in the
east. will have the largest aggregation
Of spellbinders to cover his territory
ever known. After Taft and Sherman
in Importance as word artists will
come Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Of
Massachusetts,. Elihu Root. secretary
OF state; Joseph H. Choate. ex-ambas-
sador to England: Governor Hughes OF
New York. Governor Fort Of New Jer
sey and Senator Dick Of Ohio.