The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-05
ALL HAIL, THE MONARCH,
HIS MAJESTY ISSUES STRICTLY
HusINEss PROCLAMATION.
The Fair and Exposition Projectors
Greeted Make the City What Ma
ture Intended Her To Be. the Great
est or All.

Out OF confusion and chaos has risen
order and great promise. On account Of
the short time in which Mardi Gras prepa.
rations were to be made many there were
who contemplated the display with feaI
and trembling. Approaching the good
name Of the city far more than any tenn
porary benefits, these good people were
not taken with the idea for the present
year. The managers sailed into the un'
dertaking with coats off and sleeves rolled
up however, and now there is no hest
fancy in inviting people far and near io
come and the crowd, drinking in the
-pleasurable excitements until tired nature
refuses TO bear up longer under the strain,
The King has issued the followingstrictly
business proclamation:
Fair and Exposition Projectors, We Greet You
We approve your plans, and your zeal
has pleased us. Build your exposition,
hut don't hide il in some corner like our
color-blnd citizens would Memphis. In.
augnraie county fair, rear your bridge,
arch the Mississippi and help us make
Memphis what nature intended her TO be,
.
We have risen Phenix-like from the Stun.
her of seven wears. and with the magic
touch of enterprise, determination and
energy have we surmounted innumerable
and almost insurmountable barriers, and
the lukewarm friends OF our cause who
damned us with faint praise and fainter
subscriptions But from the prophesied,
impending and assured defeat have we
plucked signal and a glorious victory,
and men shall marvel how much we have
crowded the toll and campaigns OF months
into weeks, and the magnilicence of our
coronation and pageant shall excite your
admiration, amazement and wonder. Our
victories faunt on every breeze and all the
railroads from the broad Atlantic to the
Pacific have taken up our cry Of victory,
and pit us against our sisters OF the Ores
cent and Bay CITY. and We trust not IN
disappoint them.
TO the fair contestants upon the field OF
beauty we pledge our kinely honor that
we will only draw our sword in the de-
tense of the fair unknown who shall pierce
our roval heart with her witching ewes.
and 10 her will we bend the knee and rem
der IN 10 her the circle of our glory. And
when We Weld her hack we will bnt have
added another chaplet 10 her beauty. love.
illness and purity.
chr invitations. DELAYED by tardv winds.
now bear in sight. and will lie Transmitted
with ali dispatch 10 the mobiles of our
realm whom we propose 10 honor. Pre-
plre 40 attend our court. Our cousins OF
Tennessee have appraised us of their com.
ing and we coneicp them and our other
quests 10 the well.known omen door hos.
FATALITIES of our subjects.
We decree thai our loyal Chickasaw
Guards. Mempbis Zouayes. Bluff Civ
Guards and all the royal army shall 90
forth 10 meet them and do them honor.
W. snproye the ukase Of our MIGHTY bigh
and dry Tycoon. that men shall not mt mn
enemy into their mouths 10 steal their
bnins-proyided they have any
Far NJ. slorIon. thing
,a' TO he a prohi King.
And We further decree that our Mystic
Mcmphi shall attend our pageant and
shall pear witness to the splcndor and
glory Of our return. and shall again renew
their glorious allegiance TO our cause before
entering into the merry sports of their
pantheon. We trust upon our return next
year to dispense with our electric motor
balloon and TO cross the bridge from which
Harris wisely pushed the van. Had he
failed II would have been a life long regret,
even IL no outliyed Methuselah.
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