Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1908 — THIS IS AMUSING. [ARTICLE]

THIS IS AMUSING.

We inferred when Thomas R. Marshall, ih his address here recently, referred to a tin soldier captain who was so brave when there was no danger but told his men they had better retreat when he heard the hum of bullets, that the military editor of the syndicate organ down the street would not take kindly to Mr. Marshall’s speech. And true enough, he came out in a two column article, headed "Nothing In It.” Monday night Bishop Quayle, of Chicago, one of the most noted men on the lecture platform in the country, delivered a lecture here in the course of which he ridiculed the "tin soldiers," and the military editor again took umbrage and severely “criticised”—at least he labors under the impression that he w r as doing so—of this great man. Calls him unfair, untruthful, ignorant of his subject, etc. Some of the Reverend gentleman’s remarks were so applicable to the military editor that the audience was immensely pleased, knowing his weakness for tinsel and regimental finery, and they laughed again when they read his “criticism.” The egotism and presumption of some people is wonderful, though, in all, pitiful.