Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-10-26
Letter fron1 Artemas Ward, Jr.
ClEYELANp,S Sept. %. 1860

CLEVELAND, Sept. %, 1860.
MISTER EDETER i seez mi quill to in
form the publik thru the medeum Of your
kolums of the grand addishun have gest
maid to my great metropolitician sho biz
hes and DARN Salk rope and GIN nassic
Sarkus Last mite l had an intervu with
Stevun A. Dpglas, the renonnd politikal
ambidixter, and proprietor and Cbeef Kloun
In the CRATE populer sovereignty sho Mis-
ter Duglas is generally kald the little giant
from his heaven purformed the CRATE feet
# walkin the whole length of Mason and
Dixon close line with the dred skot diciss-
hun in one hand and his whole popular
soverently sho in the other and also
pulling up the mammuth tire kald the
missorie kompromze. which was first plant
sd in 1877 by Thomes Jefferson and nth
ers, and set out agin in 1850. Mister
Duglas pulled up this tire and the konstitu-
tion with it and plast them under his feet
But | was going on to sa that be haz
bin traveln thru the estern and suthern
states performin bis triks and speakin his
pees. The wa he takes um in with his
popler suyerenty game is not slo. He
holds out big bill to the people and seq,
there's popler suvorenty--theres the CRATE
principul At first they think they saa
it: but when tha look a little sharper it
vanishes like du on the crientle korn-
stalk when the noonda son rizes in the
east on a thundcrin hot day in the middle
of JUL it cant be found nowhere. The
folks sometimes get mad and korner him
in a tite phase, but he is tarnal smaul and
can krauI thru a mighty little hole. But
tha sa he did CRATE trik-- at wun plase
he ate an OK and 10000 klams.
AS soon as | heard of lis arrive in toun
I went to pa him a witt found him in
his sho room speakin his PEGS thowt |
wouldn't be very formal and sez I, hav-
en't ye got that pees learnt yet? Sez he,
Y;s-but there's sum of the doktrin that the
people don't bleeye, and | have to alter it
occasionally to sut the plase. Sez |, how
doc you like the sho bizness? Sez he. it
don't pa Sez /, mi sho is doom a stavin
bizness. He groned and tere started in
hiz i; and sez he, thowt [ shood make a
good deal out of my pcp!er suverenty but
seq he. it has split the hull sho; the pco-
pie begin to sea thru it, and tha sa it is
humbug, Sez I, what are you going to do
with it? Sez he as soon as hav yused up
mi posters and advertisem ents I shal thro
it overheard.
Sez I, Douglas whattle We take fur yer
popler suverenty? Sez he lie sci it cheep.
told him diddent no how too manage
his triks, but wood 60 into partnership
with him in the sho bizness. I then axt
him whot he thowt of takin along sum
darkies to sing songs and dams the horn
pipe. Sez he, [ wunt hav emmy thing to
doc with the niger bisncss agin-It don't
pa. He said he went into the niger bis
ness in 1854 and had been goin down bill
ever sins he sed it had merely rooind him.
The little giant then performed on the slack
rope, klimb up greest pole and spoke his
pees on the top. One Of hncoln's rales
was next browt in and Douglas was set on
and rode out thru the back dore. Doug
las is about feet hi and thunderin grate
man for wun Of his size. I maid a treno-
logical examination of him. Hee is a man
of tremendous pour. His kavs ore huge.
His bump of humbuggin is as big as a
gooseg Conseeenshusness is kaved in
Heed make a first rate crier in the sho biz
ness his bump of tellin yarns aint small.
Duglas and | have kompleted our pro-
gram for our nu sho. We call it the nu yum
ion she, and greest pole surkus, together
with uther alarmin and DARN feets.
Duglas will preform the grand, bubble
& single handed game of popular suvrenty.
This game can be seen best with the ize
shet. But | must Elose. We are goin
westward no in few daze. Yurs in hast,
ARTEMUs WARD, Jr.
pee es Duglas sez give popler suyrenty a
good bio in the paper.