The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-06-19
SINN0T'T GAINS
ORATORICAL FAME
NV ashington Star.l

Mic Sinnott-oh. yes, out home they
call him "Nic' and you can add "k''
to it II you wish-.is shining some as a
juggler of the kings English as
vouehed for by Webster. In England !
they are quite superior, let it be said
in parenthesis, to Webster or any other
photographer. Any Cockney will tell
you that they elevate their olfactory
organs at the suggestion that it is nee.
essary to have the sanction of the die
tionary for the pronunciation, English
is as it's spoken" they will tell you,
and I'VE make the language"
"Ah, yes" responds the American
visitor. with the consciousness that his
college training gives him the right to
some conceit in his use of the language,
but scarcely any two persons | meet
here use the same pronunciation. 4"
Which is readily admitted to be true.
but that does not altar the opinion of
the particular person one happens to
be talking with that his usage is abso-
lut0ly impeccable and correct.
But to return to the representative
from eastern Oregon: He has very
quickly loomed large as an orator, and
War veterans at the national cemetery
on Memorial day. Notwithstanding
his verdict that minister of the gos-
pei who spoke on that occasion deliv-
cred the very best Grafton he ever lis.
tened to, many are saying that Repre-
sentative Sinnott's address was the
classiest of them ALL But back in Or
egon they long ago put Sinnott in the
same class with Webster and the other
jugglers of pathos and eoquence.
Sinn0tt was down for an Grafton on
the Fourth of July at La Grande once
on time. and it occurred to him to
give the Declaration of independence
with few Introductory remarks and
elocutionary effects. He had a good
deal of travelling to do just before In
dependence day, and he would go out
on the platform between the cars and
declaim those immortal lines amid the
cinders and the rumble of the train.
When it came time.for him to rise and
exclaim Fellow Citizens" he was
letter perfect. He made few humor-
Gus remarks which put his audience in
good humor and then he launched out
on the Declaration. His audience lis
tened with bated breath and after il
was all over and he had mingled with
the crowd one young man told him en-.
Enthusiastically that il was the best
speech he had ever heard Sinnott de
liver. The orator looked at him in
amazement and was about to say
why, that was the Declaration"
'But saw he was in earnest. re-
marked the congressman, 'and on
second thought | decided that if
blurted out the truth he might be dis
concerted to learn that he had not rec
ognized the classic which every school
boy is supposed to know. and become
an enemy for life: so ] let it go at
that. But had never expected to be
credited with the authorship of the
Declaration of Independence.
On another occasion Sinnott delivered
the same address at Fourth celebra-
tion that he had delivered in the same
town three years previous He laugh
ingly told his audience be was about to
do it, but no one believed him, and at
the close a hearer warmly congratu-
lated him, say ing:
''That was a dandy speech, and il
was burned sight better than the one
'ou gave here three years ago.