The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-18
HIS BUSINESS AT AN END.
The Dealer in Campaign Goods
Who Has keaped a Rich Harvest.

1.-THE election of Grover Cleveland
breaks up my business" said pros
porous merchant to a Star reporter,
shaking his head forbodingly as his
eyes took an inventory of his goods.
"Pshaw! NONSENSE" interrupted
the reporter. "You are too bitterly
at may not close me ont at once. he
continued, not noticing the reporters
Impotence, "but my business will not
live day after his Inauguration, if it
continues that long"
"Blind partisanship!" broke in the re-
porter. Look at "a. Predictions
Of"
Yes, 1 know" continued the mer-
chant calmly. but repeat, IT will
knock my business for the next four
years."
The indepen lent reporter began a
lecture on intolerance and the folly of
such arrogant partisanship. but the
merchant was still unm )v+d He only
interrupted the rebuke to say:
TT won't make any difference il Mr..
Harrison is elected His election will
have the same effect upon my business. !
"You see" he added after pause,
during which he whipped at the toe OF
his boot with HARRISON cane, You
ses, de ell in C mp 4ign goods. To-day's
business will pretty near do me up"
and he calmly Flew his nose on Thur
man bandana. and then busted a
portrait of Harrison with the sane
patriotic emblem.
"But," continued the merchant, with
brighter oountensnce, this has been
an awfully good campaign I could
not expect it to last always. Never be-
fore were so many buttons and other
emblems worn. Four years ago it was
pretty good, but nothing like this The
variety OF buttons and badges is larger
and nearly every man wears one. The
number sold is too big to estimate The
most popular has been the very small
button to be worn on the lapel of the
coat, but q large number of silk stream
ers with portrait of Mrs Cleveland
have been sold There has been q tre-
mendous demand for little flags and
bandanas, and even campaign neck les
have sold well. It has been a very
prosperous business OF course, it is
drawing to close now. might make
a discount if you want to buy anything
| III LQ8G line, 1Ou SEE Tue UeubuU 1OI
some sort of button will keep up until
the 4th OF March. The only question
Is as to which it will be. The defeated
button will drop right out of the
market as soon as the result is knowns
twill not be quotable at any price.
But the bearing of that will excite to a
bullish tendency in the other button.
Immediately after the election the
demand for the victorious button will
be almost as great as during the excite
ment of the campaign. No; We never
exchange! If you have the wrong but
ton just throw it away and buy another
If we exchanged it would be as good ss
giving up all our after-eleotion trade. }
"Do people actually buy badges after
election" asked the reporter.
"Buy them1 Why, of course they do
Lots of folks won't buy button at al
until they know which is the right one
Then they put it on They like them 6
little soiled, to look as if they had been
worn some time. The victorious but
tons are worn until after the 4th o.
March There isn't much use in re-
ducing prices The buttons run from
10 cents to 25 cents When they fall
they won't be taken at any price
But he added. with a look at the
half-empty cards of Harrisons ano
Mortons and Clevelands and Humans
lying on the counter, I'VE haven
enough of them left to lose much on
whichever way it goes "