Show politics at Prin coville ceville Spec dp ocial lal t to 0 the chicago dally daily K princa VILLE III july 12 bill alter went into the post postoffice office last night just after supper bill is a IL quiet citizen who finds more companionship in a pin plug ot of tobacco than anything else if lie e is one of our most important personages being telegraph operator ticket agent and eap exp express ress agent at t the tile depot As ho lie walked into the tile Post postoffice fico office there was a sly smile on his face which extended clear down into ills his black beard arch edwards the kia postmaster 8 emaster tm aster was at that moment belling 1 ing a slate pencil to ito a little girl 4 arch said bill if yo jl give me a good cigar ill tell you the news dews acal ril 1 g go 0 you 0 li once if I 1 lose ll 11 said arch a and n byh ho 0 handed banded out a lat 5 cent cigar cigar bill lit it puffed out a long cloud of smoke and said cleveland and hendricks have been nominated 0 ho sai said dArch they have eba eh well about what I 1 ex all the time and ho he came from behind the counter walked to the door and looked up and down the direct he ile was looking ok in for someone some one to whom to tell the news the dusk of the evening had bad come and the street was almost deserted not a farmers w wagon gou could be seen A barefooted boy drove a cow past the post postoffice fico office asked arch for a stick of chewnig gu gum m A robin sang in in the top of the cot conwood ton wood tree back of the milliner shop A hog grunted complacently and rooted among the peanut canut shells in front of uncle 5 johnnye John nya restaurant the dog fennel waved luxuriantly in m the street where years ago 1 the wild fox burrowed his hole unmolested and could do so again if he be only knew it there was no one in sight 1 I must tell bo bass bos s il II arri errick gaid said arch and ho lie walked up to thel thallur lur less ness shop the boss had his specs oil in and was sitting astride of a horse horie stitching u 1 tug cleveland and hendricks have been nominated boss eaid said arch tho saying a word he e laid fi I 1 down TC wn his awl and wax took off his apron came to the door looked up and down the street and sad said cheros Wh eros Jollu McGinnis McGinnia then he lie went with arch back to the Ost office and on their way they ca called P c d lawyer hopkins Il who joined them on ils I 1 mcvay way back to the depot bill aler r had spread the news and quite i crowd boon soon gathered at tho the pot past office joo joe barnum editor of the telephone sat at his office window writing an all editorial ou on baldwin baldwins Bald wins a fourtly of july oration or alion but when 1 ie saw the crowd gathering he lie ulso also oiled it charley fust drove into tow own n about this time he hitched lis his bay marc to a I post ost and aud after he ichak bad carried ahr tho baby to tho the hotel aud given it oyer to its grandmother ho lie came back to discuss the situation what dothe do the big newspapers say about the dia political outlook jo joe said ono one ot of the tho crowd addressing g air mr barnum Bar nuni well nothing t definite I 1 as its yet said joe assuming a wis wise aspect it is too early yet but they will all get down to work in a week neck or two wait till tho tile patent insides of next weeks telephones honea come down from chicago andI and I 1 will bo be able to tell you about how tho the election will result there wai was a short pause here her hile two ladies camo came in to get their mail 1 I tb think ink cleveland is a strong man said ves ares slane he was elected to io acome me office in new york three op fourbears four years ago by republican majority and I 1 think that ought bof to fix im himfar be im ing 11 president resident 7 who is thi this i feller cleveland devela iid anyway said charley fust 11 1 I 1 I 1 never heard of him before this campaign he must be a kind of a mushroom politician ho ile come up quick a and ud hell die the just as quick im a bettin hes heff a pretty decent sort of a fellow thou though gh I 1 guess I 1 Iwas was down downto to peoria tho other day lay juull saw one of his lis pictures hanging banging in a saloon window he ile s fat at and looks like doc doe wilson of peoria you all know doc nc aji to be as good a felloe for a politician as there is in the country thia this was listened to with much inch interest and und sonic some speculation followed as aaby to mr Clev elands goehl character and personal appearance 1 I 1 wish visit they bad nomi nominated ben butler said dimick french hes fles smarter obrn the aholo of them and tile then all orui of in country democrats know ben and V ill be I 1 af pf us know cleves i land ii an i I biked lik 61 BenVil bena platform laform ait rate too specially ily that part of it where he wanted to tax all the tile luxuries brought 0 over from the ille did wd d coultry cou arid let idalie in tho common th things i free I 1 dont see but sabat square and right and aud yet tho the convention set down ou on bed and bis his platform like he lie had been an outsider and bad no business there at a all 11 our party arty is always talking about reform and tariu reform and yet we never v get 1 there sonic way 0 or r another if they ast i i 1 W 1 aitio 1 dont call bens resolutions reform I 1 dont know avil what it they wan want t and dimick sighed 1 I 1 was reading jn in the daily xa jn sua yesterday about some of the delegal delegations ions passau passing re resolutions solutions about sumptuary laws said arch edwards what in the is a sumptuary tu ary law joe all eyes were turned toward I 1 mr tr barnum who as editor of the tte paper pal was supposed to give a prompt and satisfactory answer to this poser joo TOO again assumed a wise look turned his face up thoughtfully and said id A sumptuary law is a law to reg ill ate the importation and ealo enlo of sumptuary biad duay things sumptuary h a latin word and means about the same as sumptuous high livin grich for the blood you know oh ob y yes said everybody in chorus e it 3 hendricks if is a well known man said boss herrick and I 1 expect he lie will strengthen the ticket p pull indiana Altho although ligh I 1 am a R e publican L I 1 think a great g r e at deal d e I 1 1 0 f and I 1 understand 1 I In andade Inda dade dc mister blister hendricks is a daceno mon eaid said fat pat scully who had just come in m and lit his ppe e 1 theres a frind of moine me from front audeana lu deana an lie tills ma that mister blister hindricks is a faine mon moll agite hell be a darivin along the athrea in his barab and boog Y in an hell ee oo a poor mon an hell an give hint a tie an ali thin hell drive along a little further an ho be liell hell eee see a little boy or a li litlo alc tlc gairl a cr crobin 0 yin aliffi an uc hell 1101 sloop an take 0 cm em in i his biogy an ki give vo cm cin a roide the kind of a mon men w we want aidi for prisident I 1 niver have voted for blister Ilin dricks if it been abeen a for me frind from 4 In andeana Ind deana cana during the short which followed pats remarks a voice ewas was heard far down the street shouting no N 0 sir mr no sir never get there in the world ta this 1 is was followed Q ved by fly a laugh which caused a smile of recognition from the crowd in II 11 tho he postoffice post office there comes conics jo john a mcginnis said a dozen waa ds soon ibi the of 01 them smiling ho he took off his hat laughed and scratched his head lead IVO it ivo ive he heard ard it ho lie paid isaid an and d I 1 never was better satisfied in my life why it will be bethe alie greatest walkaway walk away for the republican party panty that you soil ever heard of sow now 1 if fit it h had been bayard or thurman Thur roan ith slocum I 1 might have had some w doubt but to head lit ad their ticket with cleveland who is nothing b bay a political acrid accident ent is too good why V ay iy gentlemen I 1 have been playing the pat lart C ota political physician for twenty years year sund and I 1 leavo I 1 lave studied the he physical boudi condition tion of tho the democratic party it ased to have a wealthy body and sound limbs but year after year its sinews have weakened and it broke a hamstring when tilden dropped out lct let mo tell you that the democratic party is js almost a corpse when the cold winds of next november strike its emaciated frame franic it will yield up in life and gentlemen by the mustache i ajohn I 1 A logan I 1 will assist in ill giai giving ug it decent burdall bu riall when the applause had subsided arch locked the tile postoffice post office and the went yet home ionic the moonlight down upon the dog 11 in the street and tho the tall liberty pole polo pointed heavenward and like a pointed long 0 ig finger calling tho the moona moons attention to the fact that was there P 0 11 |