Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-06-30
Sturdy Band Of Fighter.

We can all thank Senator Aldrich
for one thing. His course has brought
into being one of the sturdiest little
bands of fighters that ever raised the
banner of revolt in what they believed
q righteous cause. Whatever may be
our individual opinions of the tariff
itself, there can be nothing but ad-
miration for that dozen Of young Re
publicans, including La Toilette, Cum
minis, Dolliver, Beveridge, Burkett,
Brown, Bristow, Clapp, Nelson, Borah
and others, who have risked their po-
litical all in a battle to keep faith as
they saw it. The country may find it
worth looking at these two pictures
on the one hand Aldrich, intrenched
the other these young men daring to
make losing fight for principles
losing fight now, but is it not written
that in the end it will win?
That will be after the days of Al
drich, when he is safe in his cyclone
cellar Of retirement. He has the pres
ent fight cinched, and that is enough.
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take care Of itself.
Very Simple Liver.
What manner of man is he? One Of
the smooth, diplomatic and secret sort.
There is little to tell Of his life, less
Of his habits. He does not drink or
smoke, lives in the simplest manner,
is white Of mustache and gray of hair,
rudy Of face, muscular. OF medium
height, and his most notable feature
is pair of piercing eyes. He began
life as grocery clerk, got into the
Providence council, next into the as
sembly. then into congress and finally
into the senate. That is the whole Of
the story, so far as the public knows,
though there are whispers of Aldrich
having controlled the public utilities
Of Rhode Island, from which he made
millions. Henry Beech Needham tells
a story in this connection of how
Marsden ]. Perry, Aldrich's partner
in the traction business, once got an
option on a lot of horse car lines In
Providence and peddled it around
New York, but without success. Then
he bethought himself that Senator
Aldrich's name might prove an "open
sesame" to certain gentlemen inter-
ested in sugar.
I'm twenty-four hours the matter
was closed, and in forty eight hours
we had four millions to check
against" said the laconic Perry.
1t has often been said that Mr.. Al
drich has no sense of humor. Yet
have found two fairly good stories
credited to him. Here Is one of them:
When abroad several years ago he
visited typical London music hall.
A one act melodrama, called 1.-THE
British Heart Of Oak" was played by
seven men and young woman. The
time Of the melodrama was laid In the
early years Of the last century, and
four Of the players represented Ameri-
can soldiers.
These American soldiers were rag
ged, scarecrow lot, for it was the idea
OF the melodrama to ridicule the
American army. As the men came on
the stage they were put through an
examination. ".
'What was your business before
you became soldierF p they would be
asked, and to this question one an
swered that he had been a tailor, an
other that he had been a cobbler, Z
third that he had been a cook, and 80
on. - .s.>.&,s 2s.s.s, - y
The audience laughed uproariously
at an army composed OF men from
such sedentary and combining trades
but in the midst OF the laughter Sen 4
ator Aldrich's American heart was re
toiced to hear q voice shout from the h
gallery:
Murray! Great Britain licked 81. \.
tailors, cobblers and cocksl HsrTay!