The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-10-21
Boggs as q Torch Bearer In q
Political Procession.

Boggs as; q Torch Bearer In n
Political Procession.
IaGltl,,r 10 Cincinnati Saturday Night
Husband at homer queried neigh
Dor, looking in on Mrs. Boggs the other
evening.
"Husbaud at homs" repeated Mrs.
Boggs, dejsctedly, @husbands never at
home evenings now any more. He Is of
trudgin' up and down the streets with a
torchlight procession. Ever since he
Fined a Hayes Club in his ward be has
neglected all business 'cept luggin' .
nasty coal oil lamp around on the end OF
pole nights, and tell you Pm mighty
sick Of il"
"But he isn't out every night, Is he"
"Its pretty much every night now.
When they amt receivin' distinguished
men at the hotels, or serenadin' candidates
at their homes-Boggs says the capdi-
dates git up the sererade themselves
and pay all the expenses-or attending
out door meetinS, they are visitin' some
club in another ward.
WHAT HE GOT FOR II.
@Dont he get something for all this
aGi. something! we'll I should say he
did. He gifts cold in the head, and he
gits coal oil spill. over his clothes, gifts
muddy clear up 10 his suspender buttons,
and he gifts drunk pretty often. he got
abrick saide OF his head the other night,
and it swellsd up as big as a water
melon" 49,
"The brick p
"No, his head. he comes home every
night 20 hoarse from hollerin' that he can
hardly tell the truth about where he has
been or who he is going to vote for, Oh,
I shall be glad when the election Is over"
"What excuse does hs make for turn
ing out SO often?" So
ale says the country has got to be saw
ed and Is his dutyas an American citizen
to help save II. tell him It is his duty TO
sayeh his boots and clothes, for he is ruin
| ing all the .wearln' apparel he has got.
WiRmen don't know nothin' about poll
tic, he says, as he buttons on his cape,
and shouIderin, his torch, he starts to
jine the club singin'-
Tramp tramp the boy, arc uarrhIn,"
That's fist the way they look to me, 4
lot Of illuminated tramps. The other night
he was late sittin' ready, and his Climb
came along, as he supposed, while he was
lishtin' mp q Transparency he was goin' TO
carry on which was printed
"powE WITH rIIpEN!"
"WelI, it wasn't his clab. It was .
Democratic club, goin' for reform levery
man Of fem looked IS though he needed
il; and when Boggs, not noticing his
mistake, jumped In among EN- hurrain'
for Hayes and solid North, the effect
was tremeniuS. When they got through
trampin' on him we had 10 use street
sweepin' machine TO get him all together
again. We brought him in and put him
TO bed, and after lyin' insensibfe for =
week, he opened his eyes and inquired II
anybody else was hurt when they blew
up He'll Gate |"
aThat ought to have cured him" re-
marked the neighbos.
~ know il ought, bat II didn't. The
first night he Was ont be marched In
three different and distinct professions.
Seemed like he meant to make up for lost
time. One night he felt perfectly mis'blei
because there wasn't goin, to be any pro
ceasion that he knew Of. BE moped about
a while and then he put on his cape, Id
his torch and went trampin' through the
parlors, smokin' up the Collins and drop.
PIN oil on the carpet. believe he would
have set the house A6re II he hadn't heard
the sound OF drums. He ran 10 the door
and there was eolored club mGrchin' BY
What do you think that intnriated man
did, Why he ran back into the house
BACKED his face With burnt cork, and
. fined the black brigAdsr ID.
~ am afraid your statements are 4 LII
lie colored; but 60 ou.n - 7,a
@Fact, every word Of Il. The brigadt
was mobbed In pa1sin' through 4 Demo.
cratic ward. Boggs was knocked sense.
less with chunk q Nicolson pavement
but the brigade didn't forsake him. They
carried him TO their headquarters, b1l
when they tried to wash the blood OF his
! face and discovered white man lurkin
there, they would have hung him up TO q
lamp-post for \ Tilden spy II the poliet
hadn't interfered."
ABE viii get through with this wher
the election Is over, Mrs. Bogss."
@Lofd knows, l hope 90. He has in
i vested q good deal Of money in torches
, and uniforms and I don't see how he L
: going 70 get itbaek again. Whenever hG
seeE an advertisement Of . new kind O
torch he goes right of and buys Il. II
! look In the Woodshed where no keepl
|, 'em you would think he had . toEChliehl
procession to board. He hAl mora cape
than you can find on the mApof the Al
/ lnntie coat. Tnlk about economy Til