The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-22
MEsMERIC MONEY.

MEsMERIC MONEY.
The NEWS has noted with interest
and has taken pleasure in setting before
its readers, rs a matter Of scientific inn
portance, the progress of Mr.. Stephen G..
Cleveland's hypnotic campaign for the
Democratic nomination for the Presi-
dency. With innocent curiosity it has
observed and has drawn the attention of
Rhode Islanders to the well-attested
materializations of money at Mugwump
seances, controlled by the distant
Grover, wrapped in contemplation OF
the sublime ego in the quiet recesses Of
his Lakewood library.
1t now appears that the concern of the
commonwealth in the dollars, not made
TO futter down from the ceiling, but pre-
senting themselves quite as suddenly
and Unexpectedly in an empty treasury,
after the manner of the manifestations
produced by the late Nine. Blavatsly,
who when she wanted cash would open
her lean and yawning pocketbook and
forth would flutter bills, is more intl-
mate than the News in its spirit
of natural and even frolicsome Curl
osity had supposed. For if the telegraph
wires from New York tick truly, the
greater part of the fund which the
clairvoyant candidate has charmed out
of the safe deposit vaults of ex-Mayor
Grace, Fairchild and Stetson and
others is to be conveyed, but not by
aerial currents, to this State, "for invest
ment in the vote market" as one
authority who speaks after the fashion
of the world and not according to the
mysterial formule Of hypnotic or theoso-
phic Mugwumpery, has put it bluntly.
The spirit of the great hypotist is
even now brooding over Rhode Island.
IL is the belief of those who on the
psychic plane are near to the newly de-
veloped adept that the present Democra-
tic State candidates in this common
wealth are sensitives of peculiarly
refined organisms, susceptible to the
faintest watt of ETHEREAL influence from
Lakewood in the matter of the tariff
and such other worldly concerns as with
out loss of spiritual caste a Mugwump
may venture TO feel an interest in. The
new idea in politics is being worked
at the moment therefore almost eXclu-
sively for Rhode Islands benefit. In
daily seances Grover enters the trance
sleep that his soul may go ont to meet
Wardwell's, and that their two souls
may hold sweet converse about the April
election. and the immediate budding
forth as the sweet first fruits of it of a
blossomiug Cleveland boom.
Rhode Island has not a great many
votes in the electoral college, but her few
are worth capturing, and so with shut
eyes. handkerchief over his face and n
gentle snore making monotonous lull-
ably for the sympathetic slumbers of
Baby Ruth, the hypnotic campaigner
devotes long, well spent hours TO scan
ming with his inner vision the possibili-
ties of Providence and Newport and
Pawtucket, and playing, as upon harp
strings, on the hearts of the faithful.
Mr.. Brennan, by the utmost exercise of
sleepers will, he has not yet been able
to move. Upon the Telegram he has
had certain influence, but when
lac would have inspired it TO
hymn him birthday ode, the presses
got out from under the power and rat
tied and banged off something
quite different. Even the Journal
has been less responsive TO the
oversoul than the oversoul could
have wished but by his latest de-
vice of mesmeric money, the Lakewood
theosophist has strong hopes OF magnet
izine this little State and making it
point, true as a needle to the pole, TO the
New Jersey arm chair and foot cushions.
For the $40. 900 which is coming into
| Rhode Island is mo- ordinary doodle fund.
" is consecrated cash. made sacred 10y
the power under which it has been