The Irish standard., 1910-03-19

mere very Carefully. dllO the IllOIe
heard of the speeches the sorrier
felt for the miilionaires. Thank God
I am not one any more. (Laughter.)
I heard the senator from Arkansas
(Mr. Davis) the other day make q
speech in which he abused Rockefeller
II there is man in the United States
that I am sorry for, it is Rockefeller
/ cannot help sympathi2ing with fell
low that everybody is "cussing," and
1 never couil see what they ''cussed'
him for unless because he had more
money than anybody else. I do not
think that is fault, but it is a mis-
fortune. 1 am sorry for a man in his
condition, when he cannot go out on
the street and have even his little
grandchildren walk in sight of him
without threats that they would kill
his little babes. l Know the old Eel
low loves those children better than
all the gold in his vaults; and he would
not be a human being if he did not.
MY friend from Arkansas is opposed
to what l call prosperity. l would
like for Mr. Rockefeller to come down
and run his pipes through Mississippi.
He can go all over my land. l used to
pay 40 cents a gallon for oil to be
burned in my lamps. We are little
better off now, we are independent.
because we have got electric light, but
we paid 40 cents q gallon for oil, ana
now we can get it for 10 cents gal
lon. l do not l1row whether Mr.. Rock E.
efeller is tho cause 81 the price coming
down to 10 cents, hut / think it will
be that way in Arkansas il they get
the conveniences that this pipe bust
ness proposes to give them, and l in
tend to vote for the pipes. That is
all there is 20 it.
Well wart YOU tn understand that
| am plat. blunt, old confederate
soldier 7 wore ,l" gray and | fought
and bed, but did not die, though I
skedaddled frequently You under
stand that word "skedaddled." These
old soldiers will understand it,
had the honor during my service
to capture some vorv prominent men in
the Northern army; among them was
General Coburn of indianapolis, Ind.
captured ono great. big man, who aft
erwari became General Shafter. He
was then major in the Nineteenth
Michigan. He was a very poor shot,
for advanced Oil him with my saber,
and he shot at me FIVE times and never
touched me.
Now, I will tell another story. That
fellow Shaf1er gave me an awful scare
When l approached him he handed me
his pistol AMI said:
You are welcome to it, but it will
do you no good. rs have shot all the
cartridges away. but over at the stock
ade near Franklin, Tenn, T have va
lise that has got 1000 cartridges in
YOU will go after them. T"
I said, "Thank you for the pistol;
I will go af!er the cartridges"
In a few weeks later with Forest
/ went to Brentwood station, captured
the fort and got the cartridges, but I
never used them. l never fired a shot
during the war. Qaughter.) That is
a fact. l had just about enough to
do to look after the men that T had
engaged. That is the kind of SOL
dier 1 was. I toll the other fellows
to do the fighting. A great many Of
them stayed at home, and If l had been
as smart as they were I might have
done the same. Iaughter)
When the confederate soldier and the
1uston soldier--we called them "Yanks'
N that day, and they called us John
nies'-met, they were always friend
1y. General Cohurn asked permission
of General Cheatham and General Polk
to present ne his sword for kindness
extended 10 him when he was a pris-
oner of wal. I carried him from near
Franklin to Tullahoma, Tenn, and that
sword was presented to me at Tulla-
homa. I sont it home with the petit
ton that l had. with the signatures of
/ General Cheatham ard General Polk,
and 1 have i. yet; and when Grierson
made his raid through my country and
went by NY fathers house, my wife
presented that order to his adjutant,
and they gave US Il guard and protected
the house.
III Another time a gentleman, who is
living yet, by the name Of Captain
Brown, Of the, Seventh Illinois, and I
had little engagement. That Seventh
Illinois was the meanest regiment 1
ever saw, for it never wanted to quit
fighting. The Seventh Illinois and the
Second Iowa were tie worst men had