The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-11-11
DRUMNFR.GRAPHS.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.l


The man, who for three consecutive
days and nights, after the election, per-
sisted in hurrahing for Andrew Jackson,
when repressed and suppressed, by the
exhaustive efforts of thirteen policemen,
was discovered to have 10 moss on his
elbows. On the contrary, he proved to
the satisfaction of the incredulous, that
he was few lengths ahead of the pro-
gressive age, and kept an electric light
constantly burning in bath room with
all modern conveniences However, the
diagnosis Of experts disclosed the fact,
that during his demonstrations of regard
for A. Jackson, Esq, he was help
lessly dominated by the supernatural, as
hundreds We're found to testify that the
ghost of "Old Hickory" walked up and
down the earth on election night.
A good, kind little boy, son of Sem
ate attache, received IS gift from the
President, the pen with which that gen
tleman signed the Mckinley Tariff
am too fond Of sweet childhood u write
anything unkind Of this beautiful child.
But, in the interest Of National safety,
l demand that he be closely watched
Should he, in freak of childhood's
fancy, vary the monotony of innocent
sport by launching into the prophet
business, and, with his ominous pen.
predict a non partisan earthquake, the
brink of ruin, on which We stand, will
be at once presented in appalling per-
spective. The National confidence in
the prediction, melted by the memory
of the deplorable result to the Republi-
can party, following the use of the little
weapon by Mr.. Harrison himself, would
SO reduce the price of corner lots that
| fifty acres Of a boom town would be
| given IN exchange for single seat in
the second class department of third
rate balloon on the morning of the pro-
posed quake. Keep an eye on the boy
with the fatal pen.
When James Blaine wrote his sigma
ture near the autograph with which Benz.
Harrison attested a weak consent to the
proclamation, appointing November the
9th a day of national thanksgiving, the
Maine statesman, with a sense of grati-
tude for veriication of his predictions
Of the verdict of the people on the tariff
issue, saw exquisite aptness in ilumina-
ting a Thanksgiving document with his
name. Mr.. Harrison however, perceiv-
ed IL his own signature, to such docu-
ment traves;y shaming the annals of
burlesque opera. He yielded, however,
to conventional customs. But, for
strictly personal reasons, intmated in q
private missive to one William Mckln-
ley, of Ohio, M Harrison preferred tc
, append his signature to a proclamation
, entitled, LET US pray"
| l doubt not that Mr.. Edmunds woul,
point, with even keener malice, his un
) relenting hatred of the Maine Wizard
possibly encouraging the circulation Q
: a report that Mr. Harrison, now SO ner
3 vously disquieted, is wholly mistaken i
: believing that a rec mt nocturnal visitu
7 to the White House was the ghost O
Andrew Jackson, who, in its rounds, O.
/ election night, is thought by Mr.. Harr
: son to have been the individual ghos
5 who so disregarded the appointed hour
!; for reception as to make pop cal,
!; with the statement that if the aforesai
J; ghost had merely stepped in for fe
S moments while on its way from Indian
to leave the election returns from tha
State, the home of the President NJ
G EdmundS, |, fear, will insist that the III
seemly caller was James g. Blaine in
white sheet. Cruel Mr.. Edmunds!
I contemplated with reverential r
gard the patriotic ends of that age
:. Democrat who has been lately confine
= to diet of Market House sausag
W Realizing, as he cast an unscratche
q. ballot, that his vote would be potter
r unto national victory, he walked co
i fdently from the polls, and, up to th
. writing, has not inquired the resu
"a which was previously assured by b
e political fore knowledge. AS | r
y verentially, walking by his side passil
s. from the voting place, | listened wi
ne rapt attention to his prediction of
Q. return, under Democratic administl
OF ton, of that honest past, when the pc
perry pungency of smoked link sausa
oi conveyed no suspicion of feline funer
l. ID