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Show How to Tell 'Em. "How can I tell a Democrat from a Republican, papa?" asked little Billy recently. re-cently. "My son," answered the parent, "if you see a man with new clothes and a plug hat on, picking his teeth in front of a first-class hotel, who last year struck your fond father for four bits for a meal, you are gazing on a Democrat. If you observe a man in the faded shadow of a diagonal double-breasted coat, meandering meander-ing turbidly into a free lunch and a drink for 15 cents saloon, that man is a Republican. Repub-lican. He is putting in four years at hard labor a thing to which he is totally unaccustomedand un-accustomedand he doesn't expect to tap Uncle Sam's money chest any more until 1888, when he will rush frantically into the fight, on the principle of 'affection for his country.' " "And these mild-mannered, quiet-looking men, who look so contented?" "These, my child, are Republicans Re-publicans who swear that they voted and worked for Cleveland, and who have not been kicked out so far." |
