The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-08
.BERRY BE)R AIN. Is. . HAPPY !|!|:I!| 7 !
uakes a Very Humorous ,ia Political Speech
About Teddy Raosevelt's

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TKING XXI HIS PLATFORM
He Says, If You Want to Find 'tt.tf the
smile That Won't Come or You
aoeaE Not. Reatl Breakfast Food ''.t,t
adyefeisemsents, But Go to See
Him
I'm his great speech at Indianapo'
lis Mr.. Bryan; got offs ,good many
hunorous- iokess at the expense o.
Teddy Roosevelt ,and- the Republican
who. fhe, said, had about. stolen; at
Of the Democratic platform AMI
COW claim it as their own. Here axe
some extracts: I, from MI. Bryan:s
speech that will be enjoyed by all
He said: =t.s a5ec@a&. e::..;,ss:i. ....l4f. ..
But nobody is enjoying progress
sive Republicanism more than l am
r do not think even The progressive
Republican gets as much satisfaction
,ut Of the endorsement that some
of them are giving at late Gay
and with some hesitation to the op.
,nions that we have been aavocatln :
all these years. If you want 10 nno
the smile that won't come on you
need not go to the advertisements OF
breakfast foods; come to Nebraska
r@began to enjoy this some years
ago when Mr.. Roosevelt FIST COM
menced to make incursions into our
n,atform yard. l was in Washington
at 4 Gridiorn club banquet; he was
the chief guest and sat on tue rlsaF
Of the toastmaster and ! sat on the
other side; and the boys OF ,sEe cioo
were Joking him from the beglnnln
Of the banquet to the end aoodt
what he was taking from the Demo
cratic platform, and when 1t came anne
nv time joked him too. I men
toned some of the things. but as as
aured him that I did not speak com-
plainingly; that, while soma OF tne
Democrats objected, did not; thai
I believed our platform was mace
for use aud that if we could not ger
a chance to use it was glad 20
have anybody use 1t.
told those banQueters that telt
SO good to see the Republicans
climbing up on our platform that !
was much in the attitude OF III
Young fellow down in Alabama !
bashful young man, who courtea Ills
girl for year before he had the
courage to propose to her. One ev'
ening he told her that he loved her
and asked her to marry him. She
was a frank, outspoken sort or a
girl and she said: why, Jlm' l
have been loving You these many
months. have just been Waltln 8
for you to tell me, SO | could te4l
YOU" Jim was overcome with de-
light. He went out and looked up
at the stars and said: ''Oh, Lord, i
bain't got nothin' agin' nobody.
That was the way commenced 10
feel years ago about this matter.
have been feeling better and oetter
ever since, ana l don't know Whit
I am soing to do IL get to feeling
much better than do now.
A little while after the banquet
fhe cartoonists began to take !. up,
and the Golfers Weekly had car
toon that some OF you may nave
seen. It represented the president
and myself as birds, both Of rs BIRDS
hut he was on the nest, and was
on a limb, and his nest was feather
Cd with feathers that l had formerly
worn and there l sat on the llmo'
all bare, with just one feather lelt'
tariff rforms, and l was wondering
whether he was trying to get that
And, sure enough, two years aga
they tried to take that feather, eut
they got to quarreling as to whetner
the feather ought to turn up or tura
down. and it split the party. bu'
when found my feathers were gone
7 uroceeded, like any bird ought TO-
to raise a new crop. worked oll'-
gently, especially while he was IN
Africa, and when he came oacA
I had reached about that period OF
DEVELOPMENT you notice in a chicken
when il runs across the road in trout
of the automobiles in the fall. II You
will notice, the chicken sometimes
has lost it's first feathers and its Sec
ond feathers are not fully developer
was in about that position, so To
aneak when he came back, and then
he went out to OsawatoRie and tr!ec
to get every pin feather that hau
But, my friends, the cartoons are
doing him justice now. He is get
ting what is cominy to MIN. a
friend of mine sent me a cartoon
the other day. I want to keep 1t II
nv office. It represents Mr.. Roose
velt with a large family of boys
no race suicide; it is a family OF
good size, and each boy represent Is
q political issue. One Of the oldes;
..II 1Ia in about II an