Evening journal., 1892-07-08
NATIONAL CALAMITY AvERrED.
The Fact That the Presidential Train /
Did Not stop Here Causes "a Stampede I
in Corruption Hail.

! II.
! fhg-=:as.sy DRANArIs pEnsoNA Bach.
Mahaiiy a Co., with few Silent Partners.
City Treasurer Adams-''Boys. I can't
/ support Harrison and Reid | wash my
/ hands of the whole business. believe
! in a candidate who belongs TO we, the
people, not an oilice-proud aristocrat who
does not deign to notice the men who
] hustled around on election day and got
the votes that elected him. while all he
| did was TO sit at the far end Of q private
wire and read the gratifying dispatches.
Francis Troddendown Bradley WHY.
Joe what's the matterg don't complain.
Here / have been thrown overheard as
/ Jonah by the administration and / don't
kick You have a good fat berth and
yet you do enough kicking for the whole
Republican party / think If anybody
has the right TO kick 1t is the man who
was turned down in my building inspect
orship aspirations by his friends to make
room for Dutchman who never built
anything but cheap water-clnsets and
smokehousesT
John Jeremiah Mahoney- And me, too.
Postmaster Stewart-"What's the
matter now AdamsY'
Well, you see, the President
passed through In a hi of hurry. Just
as If he was afraid TO breathe the Demo
cratic air of Delaware We heard he
was coming through on his way TO the
Addir-how do you pronounce that word,
Bradley
Bradley-"l never pronounce 10. When
| come TO a word like that / say the man
who got IL up was burned fool and
foe to the workngman, and | just let it
slide
Billany-"He went to the Loon
Lakes
Adams-"Well, that's a good place for
a man like him to 60, and If a few more
Of the men who run this country would
60 there they could found place called
L0onytown, in lmbecile township. Insane
county Well, as | was saying, | heard
he was going through. So ! went and
hunted up Bach, Mahalfy, A. b. McPher.
son Johnson. Asbury Sterling, George
Watson, George Hollis, Phil Churchman,
and Mitchell and we went down there.
! stopped at the store and got half a
pack of shootin crackers, and gaveChurch-
man little spinning wheel and n FIVE
cent American flag We waited half an
hour for the train Bach had his little
speech ready and / was to hand
Ben the American flag. We
walked up and down the track Johnson
saw piece of paper on the northbound
track. He pulled IL away in time to save
the Presidents train from coming In col
lision with it. Pretty soon heard sta.
tion Master Brison say Here she comes.
boys; move the train sheds over half
yard and tell Pusey & Jones TO slide their
plant off into the riverr / spit out a big
chew OF fresh tobacco, gave the shooting
crackers to Sterling and told him 20 set
them off. Phil took a pin from the
lapel of his coat and transfxed the
wheel to the train Indicator, Bach cleared
his throat and Hollis reared him.
self back until he looked half as
big as the new Federal Building. We
stood in line held the flag. and what
wind didn't blow through my whiskers
blew through its white and red folds.
| tell You boys It was a sight worth look
ing at All good looking men. with
Mahaiiy ready TO apolize for Senator Hig- |
gins absence from the demonstration.
and his want of tact at Minneapolis.
just about the time we got Strengthened
out we heard her coming How my
heart did beat. We saw her as he got
down by Harlan Hollingsworth's |
Office. loot toot That's what she
said. We got on our political canvass
smiles and stepped TO the centre plat |
form. The train swept majestically up /
TO the station and
Bradley "Wellg'
Adams-'And swept right ON through /
-never stopped. In fact. the President |
didn't look at us Not wave Of the /
hand, the hutter Of a handkerchief; not /
even one of Baby McKee's cast-oif nap.
kins was thrown from the car as q token /
of recognition And"
Bradley "WellY
Adams-"There was no 'welr about It. |
We stood like a lot of assinine block. /
heads and saw the signal flags on the end |
OF the traiu tiutter, while my little flag /
hung limp and motionless in my right |
hand. johnson went and bought q
pocket book roll and sopped up the grease
that dripped from the engine, but the
rest OF us walked home without saying a
word. have had a good many unkind |
cuts, but | think thus is the unkindest
cut of ALL ! think the least he might
have done would have been to get ont
hear our speeches and fireerackers and
walk over to the restaurant and take
beer and some free lunch
John jeremiah Mahoney-"And me.
too
Stewart-,Joe, don't look at it the
way you do
Adams-"I know you don't. You
wasn't down there to look at it the way
did. I'm id glad you wasn't. The
station wouldn't have been big enough TO
hold you. l think the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company ought TO be prose
cuted for running trains through the
city so fast, anyhow I'm agin' the
government now. I've been voting the
straight ticket for over twenty five years
now, but it is the first time that | have
ever been insulted by the President of
the United States
Stewart Joe you don't know Harri-
son. There isn't anything proud about
him The last time ! took dinner with
him he said; Dan, how is New Castle
county going this fallg I SAYS. saws. 1.
Ben. things are in bad shape The Dem.
ocrats have a secret ballot law and regis
tration law that viii knock us slxy-hieh.
Sez he, That's bad: everything depends
on New Castle county. Do YOU think
barrel Of grease would do any goody
Sez /, 4 think it might, but get a good
kind, or half of il might stick. The
purchaseable voters won't take anything
but gold, as they are afraid Of S0-cent
silver dollars. Sez he, What's the pros
Dect in Hedgeville and Brownt0vng Sez