Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21


| Chorus:
we are walking thro' a slaughter house into
an open grave, ETC.
Ringing the Changes on Tin.
There is less gore-is really kind of set
'em-up- again hvsterieal hilarity-abopt this
verse of ten, half of which consists of
''hurrah" and "hurray:"
TIE Democrats who hope TO win
Will be boxed ND in american tin"
And we'll all feel gav
While Bennie holds down the chair.
Mr.. E J. Seymour has Just issued book
of campaign poetry in the interests of the
Republican marty. Some knowledge of Mr..
Seymour's idea of poetry and politics may
be gained from the following verses from
different poems:
Though he wears Grandpapa's hat,
1t seems to fit him very pat;
He never gors out upon bat"
And ALWAYS knows just CIV here he's at.
Ia ra IA boom ter Reid,
We're GER ain to succeed
With Harrison and Reid,
For they're the men We need
(Repeat.)
Tommy wrote little book in which he blew
has horn,
How be held that Congress up to ridicule
and >corn,
How he waded into Cobb. for being full OF
Hurrah for Tom Watson of Georgia
Chorus:
Hurrah. Hurrah! was Democrat;
Hurrah! Hu-iah!I don't know where I'm at
But when l catch Congressman talking
through his hat,
I'll show him up, said Watson of Georgia.
On the whole, the campaign poet deserves
well OF his country, as his is about the only
really patriotic campaign work that is
done.
Hasn't Decided Which to Leave.
Colonel Lee Crandall, of Washington
City, able editor, political speculator and
prominent leader of the Peoples party,i is at
the Imperial.
"No, sir; am not visiting Republican
headquarters nor Democratic headquarters"
said he. 81 should like to see the brown
stone mansions with their gorgeous Fl fittings
and high-salaried occupants" he continued,
eff only to contrast them with the Peoples
management. 1t is fitting and proper that
the plutocratic powers should seek Fifth
avenue in New York. Next to Wall street
it is the most significant location. We have
no national headquarters. Our headquart-
ers are in the saddle and on the tended field.
And we are soaring these fellows to death
yes, sir; soaring them to death"
"What States do you think you will carry
this fall?" inquired.
ave have not decided as vet what States
we will leave for the two old parties. We
will carry all of the States west of the
Mississippi and south of the Ohio, ard
probably Maine and Illinois. We will
leave few scattering boroughs here and
there-iju1t which ones we have not deter
mined upon. There is going to be shak-
ing up all round this fall-yes, sir, shak-
ing up all round"
RivaEBeautirs at H~adqrarters.
Secretary Lewis f. McComas, of Repub-
of that political establishment His claims
are not wholly founded on a white flannel
suit. Mr.. McComas' style of beauty is un-
doubtedly of a high order and goes in
Baltimore, where handsome men are rare
and handsome women are plentiful. Bu.
in New York we have men in the Bowery
who can knock him out, though some of
these have, it is true, been taken in out of
the sunshine BY the police. Mr. McComas
has rival in his own Office. 1 dislike to
call his attention to it for fear of the con-
sequences to one or both parties This
rival is a young man named Smith-think
OF that! Not common, every day Smith,
but an aristocratic Fl. Van Y. Smith. /
don't know what "H. Van v" stands for,
but it is something way up on the
tree. Young Smith is private stenographer
to Colonel Tom Carter. He was with him
in the Land Office, and with him Colonel
Tom Garter is enabled to do land Office
business in New York. Smith is so hand
some that he dare not look out of the
window upon Fifth avenue for fear of the
disastrous effect upon the bellies that reck-
lessly promenade that thoroughfare The
other day the handsome stenographer for
got himself and gazed pensively out upon
the sidewalk just as couple of ladies
passed. Now one of those girls haunts The
neighborhood for glimpse OF Smith One
of Colonel Shepherds stage horses caught
sight of him the other day, and staggering
along for few yards fell down and gave up
the ghost. In the early evening when
Colonel Carter is out of town young Smith
comes down town and decorates the front
of the Fifth avenue. Go long with your
McComases! They are not in it
Wants Pay for the Slaves.
''The South will never be solid again
until we get paid for our niggers," said
Colonel Durham, eminent Kentuckian, at
Democratic headquarters. "When the
Democratic party puts a plank in its ma
tional platform pronouncing for pay for our
niggers who were stolen from us by the
Emancipation proclamation, it will receive
the undivided support of the Southern peo-
pie"
Negroes and alp"
'tNiggers and all-yes, sir Every old
Niger in Kentucky would vote to 60 back
into slavery, for it would give him COM
Portable home for the rest of his life What i
we want is not slavery-we are better with
out it. But we want pay for those niggers?"
"The State OF Indiana is to be lively
fighting ground this campaign," said Hon.
w. D. Bynum, OF the Hoosier Common
wealth "The skirmishing has already be-
gun. 1 think Harrison would rather be
defeated for the Presidency than lose In
diana"
"How about the Scott Ray kickers
against Cleveland?"
"Why, they're booked for one of the
biggest demonstrations in Shelbyville ever |
made in the State" said Mr.. Bynum. |
'Governor Gray will take an active part in |
the canvass" said Mr. Bynum. "Hc will
be at the Shelbyville barbecue next
month"
CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY.