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Show THE ANCIENT MARINERS. We notice that the Hon. Wm. H, Vilas of Wisconsin has crawled out of his hole (having opened tho hole for the purposo; ho drew the holo in after him when ho disappeared from viow some years ago,) and mado a speech at tho Jefferson day celebration In Chicago. (Some ono must have been digging worms for bait w'hen Vilas was -unearthed this time.) Mr. Vilas will be remembered as the llttlo chap who while Postmaster General Gen-eral in President Cleveland's first administration ad-ministration tried every way to. prevent American vessels from getting ray for carrying tho ocean malls' of the country, even hiring tramp steamers to do tho work, and trying to get passengers on the regular steamors to check the mall sacks ns their personal baggage. Ho despJoes everything American, except American ofllce. In 100, on tho nomination of Mr. Bryan to bo President," Wm. F. Vilas bolted the .nomination, and was chairman chair-man of tho committee on resolution of tho Indianapolis Gold-Democratic convention con-vention which nominated Palmer and Euckner. His resurrection at this time Is a great card for the harmonlzers who utivi: muvua up uiiu.ii eicvvca iut uiuu and thp Bryan following. Besides this reappearance I of Vilas, that of the Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, of headsman fame, who as First Assistant Assist-ant Postmaster General, 1SS5 to 18S9, whacked off tho heads of more postmasters post-masters than has ever been to tho record rec-ord of any other man slnco the Government Govern-ment began, Is a noteworthy reminiscence. reminis-cence. Ills labors' in wielding tho spoilsman's axe were so popular with his. party that he received the Democratic Demo-cratic nomination for Vice-President on the Cleveland ticket in 1S92, and ho was elected with his chief. It appears to be the year of the Democratic Demo-cratic has-beens. |