Coalville Times | 1900-12-14 | Page 7 | Presidents and Savages

I'raaMrnla .nil riiia.eo.. David Ilennett Hill Is nothing It nJ "rigorous and terso In bis mode i (peech, relates tho Saturday Uvenlnl l'ost. When In tho aonatn ho w always of tho sledge hammer type of cptakcrs, and It would teem that ho hat not grown rutty In this art during his retirement at Wolrort ltoom It was Just after the KaniM City convention, con-vention, In July, that he delivered hlmulf ot a characteristic speech on tho making of prrtldrnts. ln was returning re-turning from his struggle there to maintain a rcmblanre of conservatism before the renventlon. whin ho was accosted by a friend, who ptrslstel In tsklnrt him all rusnner of qurutlont. What he thought of toe platform, what ho thought of Croker, and finally whit he thought of Hryan as atandard-umr-cr. Tho cix-srnator pushed back his hat until his bald head becamo vlslb'e, and pulling fiercely at his mustache, rep) "Oh, well, president- nro very reu oKaiitdgea" "How toT" ask ed itonlthed questlonor. "Ob, yOu like 'era better when yon don't see 'em made," replied tbo vx-sonator.