Little Falls herald., 1912-07-19

AZ, Told by JamesiW. Faulkner II Cor
>, respondenee ste the CincinnaH
. Enquirer. . 5;sa.< 49,.

had his tail feathers pulled lout or LOST
his hold on the party; bet him one5mil. |
ion. dollars in pennies that he Is full
brother ITO the mon key~of tho jungles.
It Is true, possibly, that William lost
the consideration: and respect ofIcertain
politicians whose little game he block
ed most beauti fully but sit': - not true
that he lost anything else. And do.'not
let any one, however high his brow]
may be; get away with the story that
the bosses ran tie convention: That
is one of Hon. Theodore<: Roosevelt .s
8" ;:;GS :*:,j::l i / =: +:
I The: politicians were like the :";cele-
brated pack Of fox-hounds that q mis-
guided man imported into q country in
Tested with wolves. He took them out
for q trial run and they disappeared in
the timber. Whipping UP, he followed
the trail until he came to q cabin by
the roadside in front Of which sat
man with sandy chin-whiskers, :, who
was meditatively smoking a corncob
pipe. :: =
1'Neighbor," said the foxhunter,
::'Did you see anything Of pack Of
dogs around here9'
The smoker nodded.
, "How were they doings" asked the
owner, with pardonable pride.
"Wa-al, it appeared to me they were
a leetle bit ahead Of the WOLF was
the answer. And that 8 the way the
bosses won at Baltimore. They nom
mated Governor; Wilson--after Bryan
was through with the job. The houn'
dawgs, the Tammany Tiger and all the
other foreloping animals Of politics
were the fox-hounds, and the Ne.
braskan was*the wolf of the story.
+ t + H..
The gentleman from: Lincoln out.
maneuvered the whole crowd. of them.
Like :first-class checker player, every
time he lost a "man'' he jumped two
of their pieces and landed in the king
row. When they started they had a
majority Of the convention, they had
the machinery, the money, the crowds
and the claque.:s> When they finished he
had everything they began with ex-
cept the money: So deftly did he work
his plays that all: the money outside
the United States Treasury couldn It
have bought the nomination for one
of the Twelve Apostles, The conven-
tion was clean in that respect, and he
made it so. The gathering may have
been noisy and rough at times, but it
was on the level. His opponents fought
hard, but he fought harder, and while
they may be sore over his triumph, they
certainly were. impressed with. his
prowess. - :...
His winning was simple enough in
it's methods. He appealed to the great
mass Of the democratic voters outside
the convention, while the leaders Of
the opposition were operating upon
the thousand delegates within the hall.
Reduced to ordinary arithmetic, he off
set the thousand with the six millRn
and half; voters. His tactics w3el
bound to win in The end if he could 1kt5|
sufficient time. ssEnmeshed in th8rf'
own foolish devices, they gave him
more time than he needed. They seepa"
ed to forget that there was such thi1g
as the magnetic telegraph or the da1y !
in existence. The limit <bf |
their field of operation was the citySbf |
Baltimore. His extended from oceAn
to- ocean and from Canada to MexiAo.
Like, the muscular party at Donny-
brook Fair, with the blackthorn shall
alagh, his work was "beeyoutiful. /" It
showed. what one plucky man with
sense could do with clutch Of fat
headed politicians who were playing J
the game under the rules of 1860. It
wasn't until the avalanche Of indfg<t
nant kilograms descended upon them,
by aroused sentiment .ht
home, that they SbeganEte discern how.
skillfully hst rs hed trapped them ] i
To begin with, he knew every card
they held in their hands when the
game began, and they weren It awarei
of what he was holding. They thou9htsl
he was a candidate for president did
he let them think so! To: smoke ham|
put they put up Judge Alton B. Pa1k-l
er. for chairman and chuckled. 4hei|
sought out a private rdkmt
md did Highland fling in exceeding.
great joy. He had them. Reappearng
with face that resembled that ofznn}
undertaken at a $500 funeral, he Ap-A
9eared to be very much concerned AorI
;he safety Of the: Republic. In Well
Of the sporting world, tHeyI
fell for it, and fell hard. 4 II
tFHere's where we hang the binter|
IN Bill" they chortled as they Mo-;I
,eeded to push Parker over the Hpe.l
Blight then and there he won the game.
Inside of an hour the country Was|l
'inging with his declaration that theI
interests were endeavorngl
% seize the high parliament Of thej|
democracy and sell it into bondage toll
Wall street. Daringly enough, aheI:
'ingleda ont those two shocked persons,
Chomas Fortune Ryan, and AugustH
Belmont and used them as Exhibits All
Ind B, respectively, to prove that :thea
money devil and his imps were there1
n their proper persons. They were|
merely delegates, but William hadH
hem on exhibition in an entirely diff
.erent guise. Inside of 70 hours theB
telegraph companies began to reap al
golden harvest from tine frightened
democrats "back home," I" who sent
messages to their chosen representa-.
ives to resist with all their power This
iendish attempt to throttle liberty Eel
hey couldn't see thir way clear I'd. do 4
his, the message said, they weresafe-l
1uested TO- remain in Baltimore, Hthe
rest Of their days or run. the risk of]
being tarred and feathered and carried