Evening journal., 1892-10-22
MONKEY pnllrlcs.

This is a sober and serious campaign,
but there are many funny things in it,
There is not much fun, and generally
no pleasure, in enduring the stencil
Of geological garden to see the NANCY,
ugly beasts imprisoned there but a
crowd always collects to laugh at the
antics Of the monkeys,
There is the same curiosity to see the
political antics Of the fools of this cam
paign. On the same night that the ex-
plosive Foraker appeared in Brooklyn to
show his distress because the Demo
cratic platform declares that "Rspubh-
can protection is a fraud" and is uncon-
stitutional, but not to expound the con
stitution and show that Republican pro-
lection is In accordance with it, small
wing Of the Typographical Union tried
to have a Reid seance in New York.
The Ohio performer was a success Of
course, and the Reid meeting was sue
cess too except in respect TO numbers OF
the 1900 or more printers in New York
less than fifty Of them were there The
music, however. was loud and aggressive
and the orators were louder and more
aggressive.
One of the mildest orators of the col
lection was a j. L. Kennedy, Of Washing
ton, said to have been sent from the
government printing Office to appeal to
aud to enlighten his fellow w-craftsmen
He made a terrific onslaught against
Tammany, and said that in England
wages We're 20 and 100 (sic) per cent.
lower than they were in the United
States.
Almost any grammar-school boy would
have smilediat such a startling deficiency
in English wages but the fifty printers
did not even groan. They were willing,
it seemed, to rely on the band
A mild acquaintance with arithmetical
evolutions would lead any man to
suspect a tin plate orators intelligence
when he said that wages in England
were 70 per cent. lower than wages in
the United States but when he said that
there were no wages at all-that
wages were 100 per cent. lower, in
England, sane man, IL there had beeu
one in the audience, would have fallen
of his seat in it,
After Mr.. Kennedy had talked himsel
into quiescence, Mr. Thackery, a huent
but not an accurate statistician, from
Maryland, arose.
Mr. Thackery excited, perhaps, at The
terrific industry Of Mr. Kennedy, incens
ed at the awful condition Of a working
man in England with no wages at all, ant
aggravated at the patient apathy OF Tn
fifty printers began resistless attacl
on the Democrats the object Of whic
he did not define. While in this state O
pious and patriotic imhamability Of Beu
Harrison enthusiasm, he forgot if h
ever knew, that Census Porter was
Republican, for he declared that III ju,
tice were done to New York the stat
would have 104 representatives in tn
house Of representatives and 106 votes
, instead of 38, in the electoral college
q The fifty printers did not groan q
, that statement, even thongh, if it wer
true, every Democrat in the countr
= should be hung ON a sour apple tree wit
C JEFF Davis.
q After catching his breath, he coul
not wait for his brain to work, II, indee,
he had it with him, Mr., Thackery wer
over to Europe.
S It is popularity Of Republican orr
e tors TO travel In Europe. They do
S huently and intensely. Mr. Reid, WI
,- entertains vague expectations Of IL
a vice-presidency, does it. He proves thu
the Democrats intend to destroy the il
II dustries Of this country, with an und
r fined but unlimited free trade besom
4 demolition, from the London Times.
.e Mr. Thackery is no better than NJ
s. Reid He fell upon Europe vigorousl
y and mixing a lot of bad things wit
al Democracy and free trade, he seemed
Il imagine that Germany and Italy we
free-trade countries instead of high
he protected ones. He declared that
ID Munich, Germany, women sawed wol
N for 10 cents day, and in protects
1T Italy cotton factory operatives got
he cents a day, and girls were paid and
he cents a day for making lace
is The people Of small town In Ne
Jersey became incensed because Seth
n Milliken, a Republican congressma
a from prohibitory Maine, appeared ON Il
oI stump too hilarious to know wheth
Il. ID 90
n either OF both; but those fifty printJ
a and the brass band listened TO N
a. Thackery without murmur. The p,
pie Of that little New Jersey town sent
"a telegram to the campaign commit
.le telling them that a drunken congre
man. who did not know "where wa
- at, would do the Republican eau