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Show Tilt Ktt, 2 We K Circulated S 3C Is THE A A A It goes inio I lit Read by All (law Home, the Club, the Public Reading Rooms. It is icatl by the Bunko:, Merchant, Mechanic and Common Laborer. Pay for euhat yoa get. Figures are better than tons PRESIDENT AND DICKEY-BIRD- . A man occupying the exalted position of President of the United States must expect to have every phase of his character shown up, and must take a very large share Mr. McKinley cannot hope to of abuse. prove an exception to this rule. On the contrary, the partisan papers, have, ever since his election, charged him with every species of moral and political delinquency, but, as these have been partisan, he has not suffered so much in public estimation, at least among those who voted for him. But, last Monday evening, a prominent afternoon paper published a special dispatch from Boston, containing a most serious charge against the President of the United States, that will require a vast amount of evidence to disprove, and, until disproved, will endanger not only his future political importance, but the destinies of the great part) of which he is the most conspicuous exponent. This charge comes from Boston. It is a blast from the city of the windy bean. The dispatch is headed by the startling announcement, McKinley not a Teetotaller, with a subhead, setting forth that Chairman Dickey Regards the President as a Friend Mr. Dickey is chairof the Liquor Traffic. man of the National Prohibition Committee, and he made his declaration in- Trcmont Temple, last Sunday afternoon, before a People say, shouted Mr. large audience. Dickey, the President has nothing to do with the license question.' Thats just it. I - tell you there has not been a ti ne win President McKinLy. by sitting down and writing ten words and signing his name to them, could not h ive wiped out the rum traffic. He has proved himself to be their Unmindful of bad grammar in the friend, last sentence, this new I)icko bird proceeds: My wife said to me the other day: Youre always telling how President McKinley drinks. 1 dont believe it; he is a church goer. Poor, unsophisticuti d woman! There was a time when even china n goer The Dickey-bird- , was a total abstainer. to cure his wifes delusion, attended a dinner in Chicago, about a week ago. We quote The President was there and him again: so were five different kinds of wine. And out of. the five, by. a:tual count, President with McKinley drank four, clinking glas-ehis neighbors. -- s Now, can presidential moral ooiiaity or turpitude go further? Readers, I trust, are not going to be fooled through their to read between the lines of Mr. in-abili- such of talk. palpable piece of favoritism that it c ills aloud for an immediate explanation. It must not be forgotten that elections are about to come off in several states, notably I would in Ohio and Kentucky. suggest that Mark Hanna take particular pains to explain this matter to the people of Ohio. Otherwise, there is no telling what a terrib'e a hilling off there will be in the Republican vote of that state, and as for Kentucky, ye Gods! If the voters in that state discover that the President drank only four kinds of wine when he had a chance to go for five, good bye all chances of beating the regular ticket! And why doesnt the President write those ten words, sign his name to them, and wipe out the rum traffic? The formula, I am sure can easily be had from Dickey, and ten words would only cost, a tri tie over the wires. Wake up, Mr. President, explain yourself, and do not imperil your chance for a second nomination, by allowing such monstrous charges as the above to remain unchallenged. St. Louis Dem-ocrcti- ce Mirror. tv Dickeys indignant onslaught. Mark! There were five different kinds of wrine. Mr. McKinley drank four, in a most shameful and glaring manner. The offense of clinking his glassrs with his neighbors, and not giving Dickey a clink, might be condoned, but to shut up that particular brand of wine ( By the way, why didnt Dickey give its name? What ill advertisement it would have been? And what a cause for a suit for damages?) of which, perhaps, Dickey is the agent sj When Robert G. Ingersoll was thrilling audiences with his great lecture on Robert Burns, Beecher went to hear him in Chicago. At the Palmer house I aked him how he liked it. It was a wonderful entertainment, said Beecher. He held his audience every minute. He is a great genius and I should like to write his epitaph. What would you write? I asked. Oh, said Beecher, as he rubbed his two front fingers on his thoughtful brow, it would be a short epitaph. It would simply be Robert Burns. Perkins in the New - York Sun. |