The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-01-19

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President Cleveland did not stick to the rabbits
foot and there are some people superstitious
enough TO believe that he broke his luck. It viii
be remembered that when Mr.. Cleveland was
nominated In 1884 an admiring friend down south
sent him rabbit foot, taken from one Of those
animals killed In q graveyard at night, with
instructions that he should keep IL In his pocket
throughout the campaign. He did 20 In 1884, but
this year he was occupied with the tariff to such
an absorbing degree that he forgot ell about the
rabbit foot, and some of the believers In tins
emblem of good luck think that he should never
have put Ii aside Congressman Dougherty Of
Florida Is an earnest believer In the rabbit foot
He says that when he was first nominated there
was great opposition to him. One day during his
compaign he was training lot of young hounds,
and they scared up rabbit, which ran into Q
burying ground and disappeared under q tomb
stone. When he went home he mentioned the
circumstance, and his friends decided that he must
have that rabbit Some Of them were 90 SUPER
stitiOus that they vowed that they would not vote
for him unless that rabbit was caught. The moon
was shining brightly, and q party went out one
night and caught the rabbit. One Of the feet was
cut of and mounted, and Mr.. Dougherty says he
carried it and was elected in spite of the odds
against him.
Judge Hare, one of the Texas congressman was
threatened with defeat for q denomination last sum-
mer. His rival had carried two three counties In
the district, and apparently was going to win the
rabbit foot, which he carried. It had gold band
and chain, and q beauty of it's kind The
judge put the talisman in his pocket and not only
walked away with his competitor in his own party,
but had practically no opposition at the polls In
November. He thinks there Is nothing to equal
the charm OF q rabbit foot.
Representative Mansur of Missouri ran three
times for congress and was defeated. He got the
Democratic nomination in 1886, but things looked
quite uncertain for q time, as Colonel Hale, his
competitor, bolted, and was supported by the
boilers and the Republicans. Colonel Mansur's
majority was only $50 In 1886. A month or two
before that closed old friend and client
who had moved from Missouri to Florida sent him
the foot of a white rabbit killed In q graveyard.
The foot was beautifully mounted with gold.
request that he should keep it constantly about
him came with the present. The instructions were
carried out in q spirit of compaisance more than O
belief in its charms. Colonel Mansur "got there In
1885, and this year he carried the rabbit foot again
and had q majority of ZOO. The same gentleman
who sent Colonel Mansur a rabbit foot sent one 10
his sor, Fred Hoppe, who ran for treasurer Of Liv
iDgstone county, Missouri, and he elected by .
majority of three when every body said he couldn't
be elected at ALL Colonel Msnsur loaned his rabbit
loot to young man who got legislative Office at
jefferson City in the winter of 1886 's7, and he,
too, successful beyond expectation. It Is
often said that when this became known at
jefferson City number of the senator's and repre-
sentatives who understood the art of shutting
cards supplied themselves with rabbit feet.