Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-13
SATURDAY, APRIL 1s. 1889.
ne wanted "a ssGtrI ina Jerseys

NE wanted ssGtri Ina Jersey.'
There has been OF late robust growth
In the United States known as the
drummer guild. Particularly during the
last Presidential campaign was this class
demonstrative and numerous. The
drummer is a creature who has attained
a marked prominence, with flavor as
pronounced as that of musk or patchouli,
as the centennial of WashiRgton's first
Presidency approaches its zenith. The
drummer is ssti generss, as distinctive an
outgrowth of our later civilization as the
cigarette or liver-pad.
With all his faults President Harrison
loves him still; because, while the re-
suit of the late Presidential election was
still swinging in the balance, the
drummer rallied to the grandson of
Tippecanoe and Tyler too with even
more than the enthusiasm of the famous
refrain which assured Lincoln that
his own fortunes, and those of
the Union, were safe, and which
ran, "We're coming, Father Abraham,
three hundred thousand strong" In
the long travail which introduced Harri-
son as President by a slender majority in
the State of New York, the drummer
seemed to be ubiquitous and sempiter-
nal, and was three hundred thousand
strong, or stronger.
In consequence, as Democratic jour-
falist, we are oured on drummers as a
class. We think that they ought
10 lave drummed and drummed
again to the fine fling of the
Presidents December message of 1887
and to the Mills bill. Not having thus
responsively drummed, We dismiss the
drummers as class to the limbo of
things lost upon earth, or to that Fid-
dler's Green which is said, upon good
authority, to lie 1--WE miles beyond Sheol.
But, while we repudiate drummers as
q guild, we must say that there is one
individual drummer who attracts our
sympathy. Drummers, like sailors, are
characterized by exceptional devotion to
the tender sex. With Jack 1T is
any port in storm and
q wife in every port. No moralist
could countenance programme like that
in scheme of ethics, any more than
would Doctor of the civil or common
law recognize marriage contaminated
by blacksmith at Gretna Green. Never
theless, the drummer, like the sailor, is
specially responsive to the attractions of
Ewes granddaughters.
The other day gay young New York
drummer was arrested for a breach of
promise of marriage to girl residing in
New Jersey. Hailed before the court,
his cheek, which ought to be of adaman-
tine consistency, was momentarily at
fault. He bethought himself for mo-
ment, however, and his powers revived.
He admitted that the young lady's accu-
eations we're true, but he thought that,
as drummer, he ought "to have girl
in jersey
The action of the Court on this novel
plea has not yet been recorded. Doubt
less that tribunal is just now engaged in
searching into precedents.
For our part, we think the defence,
though unique, is good. Jersey is, par
excellence, the Sweet Potato State, and
just think of the attractions of a girl
raised on sweet potatoes Out in Indi-
ana and Illinois and beyond, they have a
great deal to say about the attractions OF
the eorn-fed girl. Down in the charming G
blue grass region of Kentucky they grow
damsels rich and rare. But the distinct
i've feminine efiiorescence of the sweet
potato might well captivate the drummer.
His desire to have girl in Jersey, a
staunch Democratic State, might we'll be
pleaded in bar to the ridiculous prefer
ence of the drummer guild for Harrison.
Really we sympathize with this drum
mer, and with his preference for DEM
ocratic girl from the Democratic Sweet
Potato State. It is fine thing to have
ga girl in jersey" and we have for this
particular drummer the indulgence
which is generally extended to the
volant fellows who go down to the sea in
ships.