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William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
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much more important than
the result of the other. He
would need be a brave man
to tell you that the latter part
of October. It is fortunately
a matter of small conse-
quence who is elected, and
this is equally true whether
we regard Garfield as
a dishonest legislator and
peculator, and Hancock as
an incapable figurehead,
or Garfield as an experien-
ced statesman, and Han-
cock as a superb soldier.
For the soundness of my
analogy you must not get
these things mixed and
compare Garfield good
with Hancock bad or vice
versa, as partisans are apt to
do.
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I hope you have been pleased
with the speakers which have
been provided for you.
Still it always gives me
satisfaction to reflect that the
success of this picnic does not
depend upon writers or
speakers. Fortunately, its fate
is in far more capable hands.
Our most brilliant orator
will be ready to admit that
that lady who makes a tooth-some
cake, and brings it here and enables him to certify by
his own experience that it is
excellent, is greater than he.Let him know his place
He is the second not the first.(Tennyson)