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Show HasNot Dis banded The Liberal Party Resumes Under the Name American. ITPUTITS TRUST IN DOLLIVER The Meeting in Front ef the Metropolitan Hotel avery Ch.il ly Affair Please S zcuse it for liiving. It wai rumored on the street yesterday yes-terday afternoon that the Liberal party had disbanded, but after Searching the town it was found tha t Judg .' ltaskin and J. R. Walker could be counted on until after the school election. To restore confidence an open air meeting was called to meet in front of the Metropolitan hotel, and ,i .:.. .i 1 . l w u uiuiti tuia vrcic uiniAL.iict iu parade the streets to gather up the fragments of the exploded party. When the fragments were gathered gather-ed together, the question was asked: "Is this all that is left of the Liber-party?" Liber-party?" The temperature had fallen to the chilly point, and the forlorn hope of the once grand party chattered its teeth as it . listened to the icy speeches. f Tbe Liberal party was seldom mentioned, the name having be come too oJius, but there were frequent fre-quent references to th American party, .1. the chrisietung of the American party, Jake Greenwald offered the incense by firing off several sev-eral pounds of red.light. Tne "no irish need apply" American Amer-ican party, successot of the Know-nothing Know-nothing party, was chill-born. ... Dea con Dolliver,of trie Methodist church schools.adniinistered such scriptural rites as are in harmony with that persuasion, per-suasion, and Heaven seemed to stoop low to whisper some good thing to Dolliver's capacious ear. The inspired Dolliver spoke as follows: "I like a respectable Dera ocrat, if such a thing were possible, and, "hi, added, "am honest when I Biy it. This raisad the hair on the few Democrats still freezing to the Liberal Lib-eral forlorn hose, and even Judge Powert felt the thrust as it fitted his case. The Punch and Judy show opened up by Boss Powers pulling a wire, when A. L. Williams popped out of the box as the foreordained chair man of the meeting. 1 his nice arrangement was but part of the ""Ian to booit him in the race for the senatorthip. . Judge Goodwin was the first mourner. To find an excuse for the Libtralparty living, the judge went back twenty years and dug up a few graves, which had been torn up 10 often that tcarcely a tuft of old hair had been left. JudgeDickson made one of his "white isblack" speeches and maintained main-tained this hypothesis with the sound reasoning for which he it noted. He agreed with Chief Justice Zane that he had no right to invade the sacred domain of conscience, and then he left the judge in the lurch by invading the consciences in a conscienceless con-scienceless way. Charley Stanton asked: "It is true that all the mats of people I see in front of me ii a funeral party?" A voice in the party cried out: "You can gamble on it Charley.'" Charley did not like his inference of a fancy for chips. The chief of police was introduced introd-uced as "Hon. John M. Young" with honorseasy. Judge Powers wrined up the chilly meeting by reciting his ancient romances, adding: "No man can be a leader of the Liberal party but a man who voices its sentiments. It has no boss," said Boss Powers. |