Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, Tex), Vol. 6, No. 275, Ed. 1, Monday, June 8, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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IH III THE PUBLIC EYE
Possibilities and Near Possibilities for
the Republican Nomination for
President and Vice President
Their Personalities and Achieve-
ments Written by Staff Represent-
atives of the United Press Who are
Personally Acquainted With the
Subjects
Washington D C June S Mr
Cannon was born ot Godfearing and
manloving parents He made himself
and he did a dam poor job of it
This is the autobiography of
Uncle Joe of Illinois He wrote It
upon request and he got almost as
much into the two lines as Grant or
Sherman or Mark Twain did in vol-
umes
Born a Quaker seventytwo years
ago In North Carolina reared to man-
hood In a clearing on the hanks of
the Wabash in Indiana lawyer bank-
er and nearmillionaire Joseph G
Cannon is often cited to prove that
the grand old type of American man-
hood rugged and sturdy that charac-
terized the fathers of the republic is
not always spoiled by wealth
The manufacturing process to which
Cannon referred in his autobiography
occurred in the house of representa-
tives For more than a generation
he has been a member of that body
and for five years its speaker The
raw material was recognized as such
The gentleman must have oats in his
pocket exclaimed a member when
Cannon made his first speech in the
house The kid member from the
West admitted it and suggested there
might also be hayseed in his hair
Last winter that speech was recited
from the floor by one of his admirers
while Cannon sat blushing in the
speakers chair his vest unbuttoned
from top to bottom his frazzled hair
so thin it could no longer hold hay
seed If it tried his bones clothed in
homespun and a toothpick in his
mouth just as picturesque a figure
as he was thirtythree years before
His habits and manners are allper
vading They permeate Uncle Joes
clothes just as they do his system
They are likewise copyrighted About
a year ago when the speaker went to
New York the metropolitan news
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JOSEPH CANNON
Speaker of House of Representatives
papers commented on his twenty
five cent hat In reality it was a
40 Panama but it had been Cannon
ized The best tailors In Washington
make his Suits but an everlasting con-
test between the garments and their
owner as to their right to shield him
trom the elements give his clothes a
withered rose appearance the year
around
The tobacco habit characterizes him
as nothing else The angle at which
his cigar is held Is regarded as a ba-
rometer of his spirits Only one oc-
casion was the cigar ever observed
at gloomy That was the night of
election day in 1S90 when Cannon
and McKInley were defeated for con-
gress Both were at headquarters in
Chicago Finally when all others
were gone except one or two Cannon
said to McKInley
William there is no use of our try-
ing to fool one another is there
No Joe replied McKInley
Well doesnt It beat hell and
with that his cigar fell to the lowest
angle it ever registered It was the
only defeat he ever suffered
Plug tobacco is another Cannon ac-
quaintance The speaker will stop a
man on the street to ask for a chew
He has gotten many a chew and a
vote for congress besides by asking
for the first At the time of the bi-
cycle craze a friend asked Cannon
how he was progressing in his at-
tempt to ride
Oh fairly well I succeeded today
for the first time in spitting without
falling off he responded with pride
He Is said to have two other habits
cussing democrats and raising the
ante at Inopportune moments
As a public speaker Cannon never
set the world on fire with his elo
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quence But he has often floored his
opponents by the soundness of his
logic his ready flow of humor his
rugged homely language and his
windlass gestures A good baseball
pitcher was lost when Uncle Joe
became a politician If he wants to
emphasize what he is about to say
he begins to shake his head after the
fashion of a horse eating hay fiom a
stuffed manger By the time the
climax is reached his trusty left arm
is describing a circumference with a
fourfoot diameter He gets lots of
exercise out of his gestures almost as
much as In his morning breathing ex-
ercises in front of the open window of
his bed room
Biblical alusions and quotations fill
his speeches and private conversation
and he is no stranger to Shakespeare
Blunt straightrorward replies may-
be expected from him most likely sea-
soned with picturesque expletives
He professes to believe that all pol-
iticians including himself are hum
hugs and he treats them as such
His faith is pinned to the common
people although he can walk along
with labor on one arm and capital on
the other without missing a step
The constitution and the laws do
not make the safety of this nation
Jie once remarked It is the people
who make it
His religion is embraced in the
brotherhood of man and the tenets of
the republican party Slavery made
him a republican he declares As
speaker of the house he has never
lorded it over the most humble He
enjoys talking to the Irish laborer
because he says the best part of him-
self is Irish
Cannon belonged to the Quaker
faith until his wedding day He mar-
ried a Methodist woman now dead
and his church called upon him to re-
pent for marrying outside the faith
Angered at this rebuke he excommu-
nicated himself by exclaiming
If you mean that I am to get up in
this meeting and say that I am sorry
I married Mary I wont do it Im
damned if Im sorry and Im damned
if Ill say I am
Today when asked to what denomi-
nation he belongs he retorts that he
is a brotherinlaw of the Methodist
church
In his soul is a love for the beauti-
ful only equal to his sympathy for
his fellowman
I wouldnt give three whoops in
hades said he once to a woman
for any man whose heart would not
beat faster who would not breathe
deeper whose eyes would not take
fire whose spirit would not swell as
if to strangle him who would not he
moved even to the shedding of tears
and that without any shame by
the voices of birds and children by
a mothers smile by a song that is
sung Trom the heart by noble oratory
or the noble action of actors on the
stage by any human art through
which the spirit of beauty In one
speaks to the spiritof beauty in an-
other
With the homeliness of Lincoln
he has none of the melancholy of that
other famous son of Illinois Willi
the power of Czar Ileed ho has
been as approachable and as human
as the corner grocery keeper
Although ho is the personification
of the strictly parly idea Cannons
unquestioned honesty his genial man-
ners his rag carpet language and his
absolute fairness within the limita-
tions of the rules of the house have
made him the most beloved speaker
that ever occupied the ghair not only
Mr rti jrl w t
among his own colleagues but also
among the minority
He has no better friend in congress
today than John Sharp Williams the
democratic floor leader
SPORTS OF THE WEEK
Monday
Pennsylvania state tennis champion-
ship for men at Philadelphia
Metropolitan tennis championships at
New York City
Tuesday
New England tennis championships
at Hartford Conn
Opening of annual outdoor horse show
at New Haven Conn
Young Donohue vs George Memsic
12 rounds at Aromry A A Boston
Womens Eastern Golf Association
championship begins at Oakley
Wednesday
HarvardCornell baseball game at
Cambridge
Friday
Canadian Olympic track and field
team sails foi England
Montana state shooting tournament
opens at Livingston
Saturday
YaleCornell baseball game at
Haven
Opening of thirtyone days of racing
at Denver Colo
Annual games of the New York Ath-
letic Club at Travers Island
Annual hill climb of the Cleveland
Ohio Automobile Club
Massachusetts state tennis champion-
ship tournament at Boston
New
Get the Habit Cook With Gas
HODGES
SPECIAL NOTICE TO TEL-
EPHONE SUBSCRIBERS
We earnestly request our patrons to
refrain from leaving the receivers off
the hook and disconnecting their tel-
ephones in time of storm
Your telephones are amply protect-
ed by the lightning arrestor placed on
each telephone If you leac the re-
ceiver off the hook you can expect
your telephone to be cut out When
jou disconnect your telephone you en-
danger your property and do so at
your own risk We endeavor to give
you steady service and during the
storm on the 13th inst when mosl
public utility companies wore out of
business we gave service to all of
our patrons except about 100 and
more han 50 of these were cut out be-
cause they left their receivers off the
hook
The Palestine Telephone Co
J W OZMENT President 515tf
MRS DR VON CRAIGH
Is Still In the City
removing moles and superfluous hair
with electric needle also gives elec
tric face scalp and body massages
and removes corns blotches freckles
pimples dandiuff and wi inkles My
toilet ni tides and hair tonie are the
best in the market Office Dexter
residence No 19 Magnolia stieot
Phone S71 Prices on application
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Horse Stepped on BSy
Mr A T Porter who was In the
city Situidiy from his farm says his
little twoyearold son was the victim
of what came near being a seifous
accident on the old of this month
the same day that President Roose
Jv t ijr
veils horse gave him a ducking and
the little fellows accident was the re-
sult of an experience with a horse
Mr Porter was plowing when the lit-
tle fellow got in front of him some-
way The horse knocked him down
with his front feet and was just ready
to step on him full when the father
saw the situation and checked him in
the nick of time The piint of the
horses foot was left on the little fel-
lows hip
Clipping Contest
The names of those contesting for
the little range shown in our window
with their votes as estimated by
them is given as follows
Name Trademarks
Miss Birdie Lee Smith SOO
Miss Gailey Parks 5G0
Miss Ava Moore 500
Miss Marie Bradt 200
Miss Eleanor Houseman 150
Miss Marguerite Jackson 132
Miss Louise Malone Ezell 125
Those who have entered the contest
but have not turned in their names
should do so at once as all interested
desire to know what these little
workers are doing Give as near as
possible a correct estimate of the
trademarks you hold
Palestine Furniture Store
Phone 48 4tf
Oat Sacks Wanted
1000 oat sacks wanted at once
Palestine Ice Fuel Gin company
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Williams Kidney Pills
Have you neglected your Kidneys
Have you overworked your nervous
system and caused trouble with your
kidneys and bladder Have you
pains in loins side back groins and
300O YARDS FINE QUALITY
HAMBURG EMBROIDERIE
PLACED ON THE BARGAIN COUNTERS FOR
Monday Tuesday and Wednesdays Selling
Counter No 1
Flouncings Corset Covers and Deep
f a d Wednesday
Only 15 Cents Per Yard
Counter No 2
Wide Edges and Insertings worth up to
25c Mondav Tuesday and Wednesday
Only 10 Cents Per Yard
Counter No 3
gsjind Insertings worth up
Wednesday
Only 7 Cents Per Yard
Counter No 4
Fine quality Swiss Edges and Insertings
worth up to 20c will sell you
1 Yard for 10c or 10 Yards for 75c
The best values always go first so dont be
the last one coming down
Remember the date Monday Tuesday and Wednesday June 8 9 10
Yours Very Truly
Hodges Dry Goods Company
SEE SHOW WINDOW
bladder Have you a flabby appear-
ance of the face especially under the
eyes If so Williams Kidney PiliK
will cure you At Druggists price 50c
Williams Manufacturing Co Props
Cleveland O
For sale by Bratton Drug Co
Let us put your clothes in shape
We know how Appel Tailoring Co
phone CG5 21tf
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The Wrecker of High Prices
For the next ten days we will close-
out at a big Bargain
Twenty F ve Latest Improved Refrigerators all sizes
and prices
Twenty Five Folding GoCarts every one a little beauty
Prices from 190 to S1080
Worth onethird more
Twelve only Latest Improved Collapsible GoCarts
At 71 S
My compatitors ask 1250 for same cart
W H Kingsbury
Oak Street
2nd Door West of Grand Leader
Mitchell Furniture
Company
FURNITURE MATTINGS RUGS
STOVES ETC
We Buy Old Furniture and Exchange New for
Old Also Rent Chairs Tables Etc
Buy MowPay Later
Telephone 7S2
518 Spring Street
Palestine Texas
We still have a few of the NAN
SENS left and we call your atten
tion to the fact that as illustrated
these Refrigerators are of the very
best workmanship in every manner We
invite you to call and examine these
Refrigerators if intending to buy one
Perhaps ours will be just what you
want
We have also just received a nice line
of Mattings Rugs and Art Squares
Call on us and we will be glad to show
you what we have
Wya tt Vernon
Furniture and Transfer Co
Repairing Packing Hauling
a specialty
Phonos 358 and284 J OO Main St
Plumbing and Paving
AH property owners on Oak street wanting
sewerage and lead pipe connection be-
fore the pavement is laid should
call on us for estimates We
will treat you right
Noble Plumbing Co
Little Girl
A Chance Fob
Bright Little
Girls
Have seen the handsome
you little stove we
are going to give away to some little girl in
Palestine
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We want every little girl fourteen years of age or under to clip from the news
papers the greatest possible number of ads containing a Bucks trade mark
To the one clipping the greatest number we shall give the prize Everyone
should try You may be the lucky one Come and see the stove in our win
dow It will be an inspiration to work hard
Palestine Furniture Store
MAIM STREET PHONE 48
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Hamilton, W. M. & Hamilton, H. V., Jr. Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, Tex), Vol. 6, No. 275, Ed. 1, Monday, June 8, 1908, newspaper, June 8, 1908; Palestine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth68619/m1/2/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .