Show c S WAITER WAITER ON IAN IANTHIS WAIL THIS TIME ITS IT'S T THA HES HE'S AFRAID OF The Cassandra of or American Utters Utter Dismal Howls howl and Direful d Predictions About Roose H ad k Republican On the evening of Sept 7 1 1904 1004 the th theland land was at peace and ind no auguries ot of dread possessed it Vermont had cud Id its say in no unmeaning manner and andall andall all was calm in city and country while in New York was gathering a band just justa 1 a few faithful editors of ot Democratic Democrat W ce antecedents to talk over the political lit ut- nation and incidentally devour that thai square meal which when eaten In public pubU and accompanied by speeches I. I ii fa called a banquet S SS S Among the chivalry which gathered fathered there here was Henry Watterson of Ken Ken- 1 tucky The moment he be was seen at th th r festive board those editors and spectators tors tons who are accustomed to observe th the th usual progress of events knew that something some com i thing was was was' going to happen They dJ dJ- 1 1 that Henry had been things It is a way he has And thee th he says things S Time rolled on The rich New York i viands prepared for the unaccustomed palates of ot the visiting editors th the fury fiery 1 cocktails the generous wines the nips nip 01 ol strong waters all these had met th the tb N fate tate prepared for them And then thell cam l Watterson attenson as chief speaker of the evea- evea 1 Il I ing L Watterson is at times an excitable t man This was was one of the times H Ha was not only excited he was painfully morbidly scared And of all things thing fa Is fathe the world this brave loyal chivalrous American gentleman was afraid of another aDother an aD- another other brave loyal chivalrous America gentleman the gentleman the President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt S T There was rant about raising th the 4 black flag scuttling the ship of service and cutting the the- tl throat roat of reciprocity r re which made Watterson's hearers hearers hear hear- ers ens turn pale pile though they knew no more mol than did the speaker to what these truculent trueD 4 J lent words referred The trembling editors listened appall appall- ed cd Watterson lowered his voice voke and muttered forth charges changes of ruth and ruin ruiD against Roosevelt past Roosevelt present present pres pres- ent ent Roosevelt future Again he lie pawed the earth shook his fists aloft and bellowed bellowed bel bel- lowed his predictions of ot an j candidate for the presidency and an everlasting ev n. enacting President in the person of Theodone Theodore The The- odore odone Roosevelt if it the Republicans continue continue con COD in power Watterson's auditors auditor thought of Carter Canter H. H Harrison larrison I. I and Carter Car Cr ter ten H. H Harrison II I. I perennial and ever ever- blooming Mayors of ot Chicago but but at as a these examples of political longevity belong be b. b long to the Democratic party panty part it calmed S Sens the nerves of ot the wrought-up wrought banquet ers ens erSt and they were able to brace up an and li listen ten to the impassioned impassion d gentleman from tom Kentucky S The food flood of oratory went went on and on oa o r. r and when it was over the editors editor felt fel relieved relieved re re- because no seizure of a fatal fatali J. char chan ete i ii utterances rances 0 ClO eric speaker whose whoM eloquence has been whetted for years year upon the obtrusive angles angle of his hi owe ow party 5 And then the telegraphic wires bore be beas the wind the th as upon the wings wing of te words of Watterson to be printed in the te morning papers that there could be read read by the toiling millions the fatal words I bY wor divine divina of adjuration and diina ton tion S 1 I The public read the burning words wor of Watterson with wih that fatal apathy 3 which greets the efforts of those who wo In ID Inthe i ithe I the first place talk too to much and in ill the second place habitually overshoot the th I mark There was a natured good-natured laugh laugh perhaps as some stalwart Americas American i glanced over the scare heads of the th morning papers and one or another anoter ol o I the great army of freemen said to his hi h. h neighbors as he looked up from om the J warnings denunciations and predictions of ot the hysterical orator of LouisvIlle broke loose again 1 1 And that was all al Ad t |