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Show ehes of per.spiratiou on my manuscript manu-script . Let me say, sir. that I fed that the Jackson club will never die. Wo may lmt up the Liberal party and sink the fragments down to the bottomless sea of oblivion along with the McGintys of oilier political organizations organ-izations which have long ago gone dow n in tho briny depths, but what matters it? After a time we can knock the Mormon outlit silly. Of course they may run tilings awhile, but in the end we can mount the mangy corpse of the People's outfit and crow." Wheu that day comes I can point with pride to the organization which bears my name. There may be some who will protest against our pulling up an independent ticket at the next election, but, sir, let them protest, Who cares if they do kick? The success of the parly is above all such tilings. . Suppose the Liberals are defeated, we c:i ivilidi im with tlio other side in eiplit or ten years and knock (he socks otV 'cm. Therefore 1 say hit's slay with 'em. The only fellows who will howl are the Liberals who don't want to give up the unices w hich we can get about the year I'.MHI. in the meantime, ue can afford lo wait. AVith the promise, of gill edged creamery butterin the future, we can put up w ith skimmed milk for a time. Let 'cm snort Tom, let 'em snort. And should any of them assert that we are just in the tight for what money there is in it. and say that mo were hired to do this thing by the church let 'cm assert. We can stand it. Tom, we can stand it. The poisoned shafts of malice which they rice at us will fly off our virtuc-grojiM'd sides like bullets bul-lets from a pea shooter on a hemlock shingle. "Ve know our business, busi-ness, Tom, and with the Jacksonian principle of democracy as our standard we can Hgjit to the bitter end and fly our banner triumphantly ou the battlements battle-ments of our fallen foes. Again thanking you for your consideration, consid-eration, I remain. Yours truly, t'. M. Jackson. P. S. Dka.ii Tom: -1 notice that since writing the .above the club has changed its name. That's just my lin k. I don't bear you any malice but its tough. 'Twas ever thus, etc., I've seen my fondest hopes decay. Now I will have to begin all over again. But I don't blame you; please bear that in mind. Yours, J.UKSON. P. S. No. 2. Tom, I think the club has made a mistake; I do actually. Wonder if we can't fix it so as to rescind that action? Jack. P. S. No. !b T: Send me back my dues and swipe my name from -the rolls. If merit isn't to count in this matter I w ant to be considered as loose footed. J. A DISAKTKOl'S MISTAKE. The Cliunse of Xauie lauaca Hie Leading Member to AVitlidrv. Hon. Thomas H. O'Brien, secretary Salt Lako City Jacksonian Hemocratic Cliili: Dkak Sir I note with a no small amount of gratification that the newly organized democratic club of this city lias been named in honor of myself. To say that my heart, which usually pounds away at about a 00-stroke per minute rate, increased its speed, is putting it mild. Perhaps I had better explain to you and my fellow members the thusness of the why in connection with Ibis matter. For nearly thirty years I have roamed in my fiery untamed way over the broad bosom of earth, seeking what 1 could devour in the shape of corned beef and notoriety. Of the former, for-mer, thanks to my two strong arms and the presiding officers of the gratuitous collation resorts which I liavo frequented, fre-quented, I liavo secured a plentiful abundance, but as regards the latter, it pains me to say there is now aud has ever been a paucity. And I have been peculiarly unfortunate in this respect; no matter what job I attempted at-tempted to put up, it was sure to miscarry. mis-carry. I remember well when some years ago, I succeeded, for a $-0 gold piece, in inducing a young woman to christen her youngest, Charles Jackson Slobid-insk'i. Slobid-insk'i. 'Twas the proudest moment of eareer. I would liavo my money perpetuated; per-petuated; Loug wars after my remains re-mains were interred beneath the sod and the festive angle worm had wound his smoked ham colored coil around my spinal cartilage my carroty haired protege would live to tell of the redeeming re-deeming traits in tho make-up of his deceased god-father. But alas for me, I never nursed a dear gazelle, etc., but what I got left. The infant died and I was left alone again. I succeeded in getting a steamship company to endow its fastest boat with the title of "Jackson," and it collided with a coal barge and went to the bottom, and again, was I in danger of going down to my eternal couch unwept, mi'jonored and unsung. Finally in consideration of a lot of free advertising adver-tising old Adam Forepaugh consented to name his baby elephant after me. Here I had found felicity. I knew that elephants lived for two hundred or three hundred years, aud I was confident confi-dent that for a century or so I would not be forgotten. I dreamed of the ii,,,..s i hnt when my mortal frame was qui.'tly reposing iiinlriit':ilh the stars of thil flown who would rrnuuil tho ,mi)iii; crowd that I hail lived by introducing my zoological namesake And I imagined how ncarcfullv I Mould await the warbling of the (.hroniatio scale by old (iabo on the morning of the resurrection, know-ing know-ing that this was so. But alas for human hopes, the iial-rnped iial-rnped got iu front of a circular saw in a lumber factory, aud I was again bereft. be-reft. . , ... Sad but determined I took Horace Greeley's advice and came weit to grow up with the country aud the other vegetables. I expected perhaps that in lime I could make myself a name that would go rolling down the bowling alley of lame and carve my patronymic in long primer on the cornice of the temple of perpetual notoriety, but I never dreamed of this. It seems strange to think that J, a eomparatne stranger in Zion, should be singled out lo be thus honored, but I Mippose it is on account of my extraordinary ability aud affability. I know that I am a "cuckoo in both respects, but it is the first time, in my career that I have overseen anybody outside myself that would acknow ledge the corn. -T cannot express to you. sir. my feeb ings as I fttt here with a short bit o a cheap imitation of a Faber o. ami Strive to put my cogitations in a tangible tangi-ble condition. I am completely knocked ol,t That I appreciate the honor conferred con-ferred you will note by the large blot- |