The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-24
A NEW FABLE BY GEORGE ADE
WHY A FULL DINNER PAIE AT
&c. BEATS A FREE BARBECUE.

CSC. BEATS A FREE BARBECUE.
Another Might he written on Why o Taft
Speech. Free. Bea . Vaudeville Snow
and Daylight Fireworks That Cest
Money-But raj Got the Hoosiers.
4. GEoRoE AIDES FARM. Ind, Sept. a.
George AIDE has been turning out some
more fables. For q week or more the
country has been hearing OF q barbecue
and vaudeville show and daylight fire.
works that the farmer playwright was 60
ing 10 give at an old fashioned Indiana
rally whom Candidate Taft visited him.
Well, there wasn't any barbecue and
there wasn't any vaudeville show. II
was lust q plain farmers rally. but II was
a whopper. So many turned out that
the crowd Tapped over or to the adjoin-
ing farms, and AIDES is some pumpkins
for size.
The playwright had planned to feed
the m attitude, but that vas before he
had any idea how popular his shindig
was going to be. When he found that
there would be IL 1000 mouths to ill he
paused In this mad oareer. scanned the
columns Of his handbook. took an in
ventory of the chickens In his hennery
and conceived the rs cent full dinner pail
ldea-that 10 IL you had a quarter in your
pocket instead Of being barbecued you
could walk right up to n Of the full
dinner pail stands to the left Of the cow
barn and get q square meal and the tin
pail too.
-The keynote Of this meeting said
Mr.. AIDE later, SIS the full dinner pail idea.
Everybody Ia impressed by II: You a
get one over there for q quarter
A Brook, Ind, caterer 10 the man
who profted by this AIDE idea Of carrying
a popular campaign slogan home to the
voter. At that though, the crowd had
hard work getting up to eat. and II Farmer
AIDE had carried out his original plan OF
baking oxen he would probably have
had to make q raid on SOM Of hts neigh
bors' cattle pens before the crowd was
satisfied.
As for vaudeville show. which was
to be the browning feature Of this old time
rally. the only thing suggesting 1t was
the presence at the farm OF the Purdue
University Harlequin Club. which two
years ago produced n Of Mr.. AIDES
plays. But they were doing a singing
stunt this time.
Mr.. Taft's special train arrived at AIDE.
q stop on the Big Four road. consisting
OF q station and q signboard pointing
the way to the playwright's farm. at noon.
More than eighty mile, an hour had been
made at stretches ty the train IN the
trip from Cincinnati. and 1t pulled In at
the Indiana station an hour ahead OF
time. The AIDE farm was several miles
away. and half q dozen automobiles were
waiting. They RAISED q cloud OF dust
that looked like a desert sandstorm.
and when the candidates. machine pulled
up at Mr.. AIDE 8 farmhouse door he had
enough Indiana soil on him to claim
kinship 70 the thousands OF whiskered
faces that beamed up at hin from the
throng.
and tried some of the Sultan OF Sulu's
best spring chicken. Then he started for
the speakers stand. which stood under
the oaks ut the front If the AIDE house.
An amphitheatre Of seats had been
erracted. but they would not hold more
than q quarter Of the crowd. Thousands
of others surged about tho platform.
platform were loaded. Almost every
limb had Its man. and one In particular
lust over the candidates head was the
cause OF no little u~neasiness to him. The
farmer on 1t was a real Taft enthusiast.
Every time the candidate made point
he whooped IL up in great style and the
limb got enthusiastic too.
There were probably 200 men roosting
around in the trees. Others who could
not get seats In the trees tried h riuge-
board on Farmer ACES house, n sill
others seated themselves on the window
stills. NI
The crowd apparently expected q
speech from AIDE. for they yelled with
delight when he appeared on the plat
form. The playwright said merely.
.Neighbors | am not going to make q
speech ssisI ! az %, 6Giing s f. ,n.rSd 9ss, our next
The cheering went for more than FIVE
minutes before Mr. 1iGft could get an
II am glad sci he, ito meet you and
share with you the Hospitality Of the
Sultan of Suiu. Shouts OF Hes all right-
rine Sultan Of Suiu and have shaken han 30
With that me1iatize1 monarch. am aoie
to say. therefore, that throughout his
reelm there Is nothing that compares with
the & nerous entertainment OF this Indiana
Suit. n
Mr.. Taft continued to pound Bryan on
his record in previous campaigns, re-
calling to the farmers the conditions that
existed under the Wilson tariff bill and
Mr.. Bryan's efforts to provide a panacea
with free silver.
The pill was sugar coated said he,
referring to the 10 to 1 hobby, but the
advice ives reputation and 1t had an
alluring force. 1t was vote catching, and
so Bryan In 1905 %traversed the country,
tempting It's voters to splly the honor
cations by legislative fiat He professei
that unless that was done wheat would
e below 50 cents, and that the condition
OF the farmer would grow worse instead
of better. He was defeated, the honor
Of the country was saved, and every year
Of the twelve that have succeeded that
campaign has produced to the farmer
irrefutable evidence of Mr.. Bryan's fail
nree ss a political lea. and M &c; sSon Sas r p'hI0ph %sr.
the Rev. DIR. j. Wesley Hill, pastor OF
the Metropolitan Temple In New York,
who is travelling witch Mr.. Taft. and
James Watson, Republican nominee for
Governor of Indiana,
Mr.. Taft ives ct the AIDE farm about