The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-11-09

Iowa only a few years before. | am
an American, and say right here to
you, that it is up to you to reply to
this letter to me, or I will give it to
the press of this country and brand
your statements with the proper ap-
pellation.
Unless you are suffering with "os-
seus solidity of the Uranium" you will
go back to Minnesota, where the peo-
pie have long ceased to wonder at
your oddities and smile at your al
legged humor.
You can find me at any time right
forget the number.
Yours truly.
JOHN HYLAND.
Chicago. ILL.,. Oct. II, 1912.
John Hyland, ESQ.,.
975 Old Colony Building,
Chicago, Ill.
~ Dear Sir-Your letter sent care of
the Republican National Committee is
received this afternoon as I am pass
ing through Chicago on my campaign
tour.
Am sorry You were not present at
our Coliseum meeting. and have Sc
cured your information concerning it
hot ic
tween Socialism and youthful :ndis-
cretions 1 had no knowledge that
Colonel Roosevelt was wounded until
our meeting was over. and the, news
paper reports the next morning indi-
cate that he was speaking in Milwau-
kee at the same time I was speaking
here.
I, / have said nothing in this cam
paign, or in any campaign, that I care
to retract. 1t has been my rule never
to say during a campaign what
would not willingly repeat when the
campaign is over. In this, as in other
things, I am opposed to the recall.
Rough Riders" pages 134-136, he says:
mo sooner were we on the
| crest of Kettle -Iill than the
Spaniards from their line and our
| front where they were strongly
entrenched, opened fire upon us
| with their rifles and artillery.
"a On the top of the hill was
a huge iron kettle used for sugar
| refining. Several of our men took
shelter behind this. We had a
splendid view of the charge on
San Juan block house to our left
| and third of mile to the front,
where the infantry of Kent, led by
Hawkins, were climbing the hill"
! This seems to dispose of your con-
tention, and to confirm my statement
that the Colonel was not in the charge
at San Juan Hill, although he per-
mitted himself to be represented in a
painting by the Russian artist Veres-
chagin as leading the charge on
horseback. This picture is now known
to be absolutely false, although it
served for campaign purposes.
| Your family history is very good,
and have no criticism to offer. Your
room number is also satisfactory, so
don't get pessimistic. But you men,
ton only the male side of your fam
| lily. while 1 can assure you that my
father and mother were both good
| fighters, and I think my mothers
struggle, in caring for ten children
while my father and every male re-
lation I had over eighteen years of
age were in the Union army, was the
bravest fight of all. In your next let
ter don't forget your mother, God
| bless her.
never stand at the last resting
place of one who fought on either side
of our great civil conflict without feel
ing that, as truly as he was country
man of mine, every blade Of grass
that grows, or flower that blooms
above his grave, lives a mute witness
to deeds of glory as he has done. But
to me the stars and bars of the Old
Confederacy, Justly preserve as the
fondest heirlooms of proud and gall
liant people to be kissed and caressed
by loving generations yet unborn. be-
came q thousand times more sweet,
when. as an emblem of earthly power,
baptized in flame and embalmed in
pathetic story, it was furled forever.
For, though Of foreign parentage, !
am an American. 1 love my country
and her history. I believe in consti-
tutional liberty: in representative gov
eminent and orderly progress. and am
against every man or set Of men who
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