The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-10
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Inc ESolO1lel Ii SettlnB II llNlle nearer
to it every day. He admitted in Free
port, Illinois, on Thursday. that there
was a possibility of his returning to
public life. He did not put 1T very
clearly, 1t is true, but he said to the
railway men at Freeport. II don't sup
pose / ever shall be in public life
again but IL ! am, there is always the
chance" etc, etc. He then proceeded
TO say what he would do to the cor
porations in certain circumstances
how he wanted them and the polit-
clans to understand that they must
never support him for anything. un-
der the idea that | will pardon that
corporation or that politician IL he or
1T is corrupt" That is very like the
Colonel
| 1t will be recollected that before his
| return to the United States, after his
| record breaking tour in Africa and
| Europe, he declined the reception upon
! his arrival in New York that had been
proposed, but in declining he said that
If reception should be given to him
he wished 1t to be of nation wide i'm
portance The people of this country
Colonel's lines. They are Catching or
to his curves" as the baseball people
express it, and they always know what
he really means by what he does not
clearly say.
The CORPORATIONS and the politicians
also know him like book" because
as we have been advised by him, there
are, good politicians and bad politi-
clans, good trusts and bad trusts, cor
rupt corporations and clean corpora
tons; the good politician being the
politician who stands with him; the
bad trust the trust that is opposed to
him, and the clean corporation the
corporation which comes down with
the dcst' in the most liberal way.
Said the Colonel. ST either corpora
| ton or politician. If either one or the
| other, helps at any time to put Inc in
a position of influence, let him remem-
| Der that if they benefit by 1t tnem-
selves they help me at their peril, for
will hurt them if | get chance
'Barkis is willin'." Tough is j. B.
tough ant devlish sly" or, as Beau
Brummel expressed 1t, ~ glance of the
eye, Reginald, a glance of the eye
and the men of the five brotherhoods
| of railway employees spoken to by the
Colonel and the corporations and poll
| ticians when they read the account OF
/ the rally at Freeport will know OK
actly how to interpret the meaning OF
/ the Colonel.
| In his speech at Freeport, the Col
| onel read IAN open letter" from Will
liam Randolph Hearst advising him to
return to New York and take up the
fight on the Republican organization
there and pledging him Hearst's sym
patty if he would do 1t. The Colonel
as mentioned by Mr.. Hearst to fight
| with the bosses. 1 Will welcome the
support of any man who wishes TO aid
! in that fight" This is bit of parallel
reading which the politicians and the
corporations will note, we are sure,
| when they try to make out the true
meaning of the Colonel's defiance" of
| them.
! We can understand how the Colonel
would be willing to accept the SYM
pathy of Mr.. Hearst, but we cannot
understand how Mr.. Hearst could Of
| fer any aid to the Colonel in view OF
Hearst's fearful arraignment of the
Colonel for his foolish speaking when
he was on the European circuit. Mr.,
Hearst ought to read over that dis
] patch of his from Paris about the Col
onel. It was the best piece OF work
Mr. Hearst has ever DONE and we sup
| posed that he was sincere In his char
actetization of the Colonel-the most
dangerous man to the welfare OF this
country that has ever gained the pub
lie ear. Better, a thousand times bet
ter. the bosses in New York than thai
4 New York shall be bossed by the Col