The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-04-18


what commers is. The object is TO
drink Just as much beer as you can hold,
smoke just as many cigars as you can
bite the ends off Of and see who can sit
in his chair the longest 1t is an institu-
tion worthy the gods And, bless US.
how the beer pours down. It's up we all
stand. and down she all goes; and here.
waiter. fill 'em up again. The man Who
can drink the most (aud the reporter
will pledge his word that Bayard Taylor
is no slouch at the busiDess) is the b. st
man There is nothing tn eat-and who
would eat when he can blow off the foam
and have her filled up.
The hill of fare was varied and exten-
sive Following i translation:
Beer,
Cigars,
Beer.
More Beer,
Cigars.
Beer. Beer. Beer. Beer. Beer
Beer. Beer. Beer Beer,
Beer. Beer. Beer.
Beer. Beer,
Beer.
The proceedings were begun with the
singing OF one OF the songs. and at the
conclusion. as we'll as at the end OF every
song and speech of the evening, the
President arose and raped three times
loudly upon the table At this every
hody else stood up Fins, zwei, drie 7
shouted the President. Every body drank.
Ems, zwei, dreil' he shouted again, aud
! 500 glasses ratified and iingled on the ta-
BILE Fins, zwei. drei = a third time,
and every glass was held above its own
er's head. "Eins, zwei. drei!' fourth and
last time, and the glasses were pounded
down on the table with a dull thud.
The Times reporter came away when
the rounds of beer were somewhere up in
the three hundreds. II the beer held
out, the 500 are there yet.
The New York Sun copied the Times
report, and says editorialiy:
Bayard Taylor had better get off to
Germany II would seem that his head
has been turned IL is certainly an ex-
traordinary spectacle that he is making
of himself lie cannot be far from the
end Of the ridiculous round of feasting
and carousing to which he has given
himself up ever since the Fraudulent
President gave him an Office in Germany.
An account of the very latest roaring
in which he was the leader is published
in TO days Sun. IL is copied from our
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leading Republican organ in the the
United States. The affair is even more
astounding than the one Immediately
preceding it in which he took part-the
saturnalia got up 10y the beer barrel Bo
hemians Of the Lotus Club. The whole
of the crew. according to the Times. were
drenched with beer They sat through
the greater part OF the night swigging
beer-ive hundred OF them. They drank
aud smoked as the hours rolled on. and
drank and smoked while the revelry ran
high. Fins, zwei, drei" resounded
perpetually through the room. Fill EN-
up again = was the ceaseless cry Of five
hundred beery voices. Beer. and more
heer, and beer" were the words Of the
bill of fare. The Times reporter, who
witnessed the bacchanalian spectacle,
pledges his word that Bayard Taylcr is
no slouch at the business" of beer guz
zling The Object, il appears. was to
drink as much beer as they could hold.
and see who coul d sit in his chair the
longest; but how many remained in
their chairs at the end OF the affair we
are not told The Times reporter left
the place when the rounds OF beer were
somewhere up in the thre9 hundreds =
but the torrents OF beer were still flowing
from the buDg holes OF the barrels. We
wish that the reporter of our esteemed
Republican contemporary, the Times.
had stayed till the thing was over, 20
that lac might have described the scenes
at its close.
Thus opens the diplomatic career Of
Mr.. Bayard Taylor. lie soaks himself
with beer. lie passes from one carOu-al
to another. 1t is strange and dreadful
exhibition. Schouvaloif and lgnati-i.
and Layard and Lyons. and the rest of
them do not lit astride a beer barrel
Mr.. Blyard T vi n is going to G-rnant'
as Hayes Minister, that be may write
the lite OF Gothic. Let him get off quick
ly. The Germans OF Germany, 5 we'll as
the Germans of New York. drink beer
but the dc facto American Minister must
not sit up all night IN Berlin dTinkin Z
beer IL he does, Bismarck will get the
advantage Of him in some OF those pro
found and complicat, d negotiations in
which they will be pitted against each
other Bismarck himself drinks beer
but he likes brandy better than beer.
Hayes, whom Mr.. Taylor represents,
does not publicly drink beer, and he will
be sure to make wry face when he
hears Of the bacchanalian carousals OF
his representative during the past few
days. Evarts--we don't know whether
he drinks beer Let Mr Taylor be of
No more carousals in New York And
let his friends refrain from presenting
him barrel OF beer at the wharf.
The Sun next day contained the fol
lowing communications:
To the Editor OF the sun:
SIR: ! must say that ] felt deeply
wounded upon reading in To days Sun
the Times report of carnival of beer
buzzers. in which Nc Bayard Taylor dis.
tinguishrd himself in "A most shameful
way. IL appears from the Times that
Mr. Hayes's new Minister to Berlin.
who is described as no slouch" at the
beer business. actually swallowed more
than three hundred glasses OF beer with
in a lew hours. Now, /, as a church
member and Christian, ask you wheth
er such an exhibition is seemly. IT Mr.
Taylor must drink beer why not buy a
few kegs and consume them OF an even
ing in the privacy Of his chamber, in
stead of making such public and de
moralizing exhibition. Surely Mr.. Hayes.
who. ! understand. is Methodist and a
church. goer, cannot approve of Mr.. Tay.
lOrs open indulgence of a depraved aud
abnormal appetite. When Mr. Hayes
recently gave a reception, he showed his
devotion to the cause Of total abstinence
los ingeniously concealing Roman punch
in oranges tor the benefit of his bibulous
guests What can NJ think of man
who publicly drains 800 glasses of beer
in quick succession? A CHRISTIAN
New YORK, April 10
! To the Editor of the sun: