Show WANAllAKEE I I A curious figure in our American politics tics is this Mr Jon WjiKAitiKea mer I tcs chant postmastergeneral and Sunday school superintendent His name was not I entirely unfamiliar to people who lived in or visited Philadelphia or who read PhiI j adclphia newspapers even before It was I mentioned in connection with a cabinet of i > lice but there was not a person though residing near tho old Independence hal or tbe Girard house who even thought of WAXAMAKEK in connection with any important im-portant publio position until QCAY I marched him out from behind his clothing stacks and set him to work for KAUUISOX It was said ho raised the magnificent sum of 300009 I a third of which he himself pave to help carry the state of New York Not long was it after the election elec-tion that the tickers in the Indianapolis Indiana-polis telegraph onica flashed word that this sturdy merchant and newfiedged politician politi-cian was closeted with the Presidentelect And when be left the Indiana capital ha trod the railroad platform with a light step and hIs blooming features were illuminated with a cherubic smile Mr MATTQCAT had got in hIs ork The laws forbid an importer to hold the position posi-tion of secretary of the treasury a was discavered in the case of A T STEWAHT whom GKANT appointed for services not entirely unlike WAXAMAKEH That would have been the place that ST MATTHEW would have preferred Next to tho financial finan-cial opportunities of the treasury department depart-ment the political possibilities of the postmaster post-master generals portpollo were them the-m st alluring and so the storekeeper store-keeper of the Quaker city was assigned to that post into which in duo time he was installed A fussy self asserting postmastergeneral ho has been too with much bandwagon promisefor iu all his doings we must accord him the justice to say ho Has never forgotten the benefits of advertising Friday nights or Saturday mornings saw Mr WAXAMAKEJI on the train for Philadelphia Philadel-phia the correspondents having been previously pre-viously notified tnat it was t superintend the Bethel Sunday school so that some irreverent trifler remarked his interest was divided between invitations to comet come-t Jesus and injunctions t go t WAXA JIAKCBB It is thus that business and I religion are sometimes mixed up by the moral politician We havent beard so r much of the Sunday school lately but It will bo noticed that WAXA MACEI is always In the papers just tbe same He found the department in bangup order and there were no flies on it as SVLITJST would remark But bo made 1 terrible jallling like a pea in a bladder about the reform tbat wore going to b Inaugurated And take the country over outside of the railway mail service which I i practically a institution by itself tho postofiice department lima never been BO I miserably mismanaged He succeeded in getting Congress t appropriate 11250000 a year ns a steamship subsidy for service chiefly between New York and South I America a job that CLEVELAND administration admin-istration properly sat severely down on Ho has managed t quarrel with the tlo I graph companies on the matter of tolls He has instituted Inquiries I about the propriety of dispensing I dispens-ing with mall carrying and I maildelivery on Sunday He has experimented i mented on the almost unlimited extension I I of the carrier system He b had a number num-ber of commissions at work on a variety of innovations but not a single thing has be accomplished t increase our mail facilities or advance the public interest in the I postal direction I I It was all right with WAEAMAKCU early in the game Everything was smooth I I As was said by a Congressman Baby runs the White House Moirrov runs the bra br-a runs the Sunday school d dl there you aBut a-But the ungodly are after this precious pretender this friend of BAKOSLET this handler of Kestone bank fraudulent stock this man who ha bad t testify so many times t got his evidence correct this contributor con-tributor t the cottagb by tho seA So lookout look-out WAXAMAEEH look out |