Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-22
JOE THE JOKER E!
The Right Honorable Joseph Mulhat.
tan, the Greatest Liar in America,
And the Candidate Of the National Drum
mers Party for the Presidency.
LoulsvIlle courler- journal.

throughout the length and breadth of
the land. The name is so familiar,
and so little is known about its owner
that IL 10 not uncommon to hear the
question, SIS there really such per-
son as Joe MulhattRn ~ Emphati-
cally, there Is. Now that Joe has been
nominated as presidential candidate,
this question will not be asked 80 FREE
quently. Mr.. Mulnattan has hitherto
been chiefly distinguished as the most
versatile and adventurous liar alive.
IL Is, perhaps, on this account that the
drummers recently selected him as
their standard-bearer in the pres
ent presidential campaign. Null
haitian himself accepts with
complacency the epithet liar, though
in speaking of himself he does not
apply II. He alludes to his achieve
ments as short newspaper novels, as
harmless fabrications of his imagina-
tiOn; and he claims TO be doing in
journalism Just what jules Verne has
done in the world of romantic litera-
ture. That this claim is well founded
there can be no doubt Mr.. Mulhat-
tan never told lie that was not wor-
thy of the highest talents in this d.
rectiOn, and he never told one that
fGct, he never told u lie at all; ne has
written all of them and had them
printed in the newspapers OF the coun-
try. While he has thus given his fab
relations the widest possible circulation,
he has also removed their stings. In his
private dealings with men his word is
as good as his bond. No mans state.
ments are more reliable, no mans con-
duet is more upright, and no mans
conversation is cleaner OF purer. In
fact he is a gentleman in the highest
sense Of the term.
Mr.. Mulhattan was born near Pitts
burg, Pa, April "A, 1853. His father
was Presbyterian minister, who died
several years ago, leaving a widow,
who still lives, and several sons and
daughters. Young Joseph was cdu-
Gated in PittsbuTg and received an
academic education In the high school
there, where he graduated with honor.
HE BEGAN HIS ACTIVE LIFE
with hardware firm in Pittsburgh,
and soon went on the road as n drum
mer or travelling salesman. In 1877
he came to Louisville and accepted a
position with Hart 81 Co, wholesale
hardware merchants. He Immediately
began to travel over the Southern and
Southwestern country, and continued
to do this tor six years, when he went
to Galveston, Tex, for Bridgeford II
Co., of this city, who had a branch
house in Galveston. Ie travelled in
Texas and Mexico for one year and
then returned to Louisville and re-
sumed his old position with Hart
K Co., where he is now engaged. He
has been a drummer for ten years, and
in that capacity has been all over the
country east Of the Rocky mountains.
He has a large trade and is valuable
man TO any firm who employs him.
He has refused all offers OF marriage,
and says he has never made any. He
is rs popular as any man in his calling
and is as tender-hearted as a woman.
He organized the Kentucky HUI
name society year ago and has
done much to establish IL in Louis.
vile and throughout the state. On
October he was nominated as their
| candidate for the presidency of the
United States by the drumnlers'
national convention, which met in
this city. u. i. Collier OF Ohio is the
nominee for the Vice-presidency.
Mr.. Mulhattan is little man, but
wiry and compact. He Is five feet five
inches tall, weighs 1875 pounds, has
dark bair and beard and heavy dark
| eyebrows that meet across his nose.
! His eyes are blue and they seem to see
everything that is going on. All OF
| Mr.. Mulhattan's movements are very
| quick, and he talks so rapidly that 1t
is sometimes difficult to understand
him. He is
ESSENTIALLY A HAPPY MAN,
being of sunny and energetic tempera-
ment. Evidently he does not regard
his nomination as candidate for
president entirely as joke. In speak
| ing of this matter he said:
"There are 80, 600 drumh.ers in the
United States, and though we do not
expect large vote this time, we will
make Il good showing, and organize
for the next campaign. This year we
had TO do everything inside of week
and we did not have time to get prop
erly organized. The dTummers are
good canvasseIs, and they will stump
the country from Maine to California;
so, you zee, we will have lots
of stump-speakers on the road
We may carry state or two,
and thus throw the election into the
house, and in that case the present
political parties will have to com
promise with us. / have always been
Democrat, but now l suppose / will
have to call myself the leader of Che
Business Mems Reform party. In
1883 the drummers propose TO down
the bummers.p
Mr.. Mulhattan's stories have been
read not only all over this country but
In Europe. They are written only fol-
amusement and are dashed of at ode
hours, Mr.. Mulhattan never devoting
more than an hour or so TO their com
position, He never fails, however, Il
have them complete in their details
and they are not only well conceived
but are also well written. MIR. Null
haitian says he has invented new field
in Journalism, and claims 10 stand in
the front rank Of that profession. III,
says:
"People haven't time to read book,
nowadays, yet they must be enter
tained and they should get theil
amusement from the newspapers So
write short novels OF the Jules Vern,
order, aud they are read and talked