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Show THAT NOISE WITHOUT LIGHT. Surely Theodore Roosevelt was born under lucky stars. He has now had the honor of not enjoying the good will of Bourke Cockran. That mouthy gentleman has devoted a half-hour on the floor of the House to an arraignment, for high crimes and misdemeanors, of the President. And all over the country men are saying, "That settles set-tles it. I was a little in doubt befoie, but my mind is at ease now, because Bourke Cockran Is not like Cassandra inasmuch as he does not make tiue prophecies, but he is like the Trojan princess in that other respect,, no one believes him." Bourke Cockran must ihave had a pre-natal dislocation dis-location of his mental eyesight, as he never sees anything straight. He charms people with his speech, but when they come to analyze what he said, they find what the photographer found who photographed the Indian fakir's performance the plate has no negative. But really, what was Mr. Cockran's inspiration inspira-tion that caused him to assail the President with such vehemence? The President made an executive execu-tive order granting pensions to disabled soldiers of the Civil war. For it he was fiercely assailed by the New York Sun, the. New York Herald, the World and Times and other' j6iirnals. But it turns out that In making the ordei the President merely mere-ly imitates a similar order made by President Cleveland for Mexican war veterans under the present pension law. Mr. Cleveland says the President Pres-ident is right, and the clamor had about died away when Mr. Cockian, knowing that the campaign cam-paign was coming on and that great speakers come high, started his pyrotechnics in the House and had his fireworks flashed to the country. It was altogether a pitiable display of partisanship partisan-ship and demogogism. |