Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-10-22
OkA'luK liam
AND
THIRD-P ISM
IN GEORGIA.


of genius. She has had her Hill, her
Toombs, her Grady and her Sam
Jones Now she comes forward with
her Ham. whom the recent campaign
has developed. A little report of his
fame may already have reached you.
but it will go on growing unless Ham
comes TO an untimely end. He is a
stump orator who dropped down
from the North Georgia mountains
into the heated campaign in the
Tenth Congressional District to ridi
rnle Watson and his Third party
followers.
Ham is II smooth faced. boyish look
ing fellow. His face is that of the
comedian, and his campaign argu-
ments are almost entirely iii illustra-
tive anecdotes. Everything reminds
| i'm of n story.
THE conditions in Georgia now"
he will begin his speech, are signiti-
cant because all the old elements
which have always fought Delnoc-
r.cy, the FOUNDERS, snollgosters,
sloulder-hitters, and sons of guns,
HE diScordant elements every atom
OF which is q storm centre Of political
disintegration, are mustered under
this piebald banner of so-called re-
form. They remind me of little
story.
johnny was reading IN his third
reader and he came on the story OF
the three Hebrew children. Their
names staggered him. The teacher
explained to him they were pro-
nounced Shadrach, Meshach and
Abednego, charging him to remem-
her this. as he would probably en-
counter the names again. A day or
two after he did, and he fell over
them again. The teacher explained
Tor second time, and warned John
ny that the next time he failed to
pronounce them he would lick him.
A day or two after, while reading
along, Johnny suddenly stopped,
raised his fists to his eyes and com
menced to blubber.
what's the matterY the teacher
asked.
'''Them same three burned fellows.
Boohoo.'"
In discussing the platform of the
new party he tells of how they started
cot with the st. Louis platform, then
the Ocala platform. the Federation
Of Trades at Washington and finally
tie Omaha platform. The Omaha
platform does not represent any idea
of the Ocala platform, which is the
pride of the farmers.
1.-The Omaha PLATFORM says he,
reminds me of Johns pants. John
was going to a party and had bought
!, new pair of hand medown pants.
When he tried them on he found them
three inches too long. He asked
SALLY TO cut them off and hem them
MP. Sally didn't want John to go to
tie party and vowed she wouldn't
colt. They passed some pepper-and-
sau words about it. The good old
ITO .ner-in-law. learning of the alter
cation. thought Sally too hard on
John. so she quietly got the pants,
cut three inches off and hemmed
them up again. The sister-in-law,
vi O, from another room, had heard
the alteration, thought she would
he hand in pacifving matters.
81 e found the pants later and took
eft another three inches. Sally, after
oking after the household affairs.
JCpentpd and took three more inches
eli them. Then she aroused John
rom his nap and told him he had
hotter 60 on to the party. John
dressed quickly in the dark and
went. When he got to the party and
.epped quickly into the light he cut
about the same figure as the Omaha
platform when you turn on the Ocala
search-light.
Then he goes right into another:
When talking about their plat
fclm.n says he, 'you cannot tell what
they mean. 1t is like the little boy
hose mother made him his first pair
Ct pants and proudly sent him off to
lie kindergarten. He returned home
owing. The boys at school had
LAUGHED at him He went to his
1rt ther and told her that he wanted
6 pair of store pants. for with these
on he couldn't tell whether he was
going to school or coming home
Into another he goes in this way:
MIR. Watson, elected as q Demo
crat. abuses the Democrats and says
they have done nothing for the coun-
try, but have gone back on every
pledge. Wien hear man say that,
want to tell him the story of a fell
low who wanted to jump a stream on
!, Texas prairie. The stream looked
like it was about seven feet wide. He
didn't notice that the grass dropped
ever on either side about three feet.
Ee went back to take a run and go
ever. Here he came lickity split.
When he got within three feet of
where he thought he was going to
rise, he went through the grass into
The water over his head. He couldn't
swim Eek. He caught hold of the
wet, slick grass and got his head out
of the water. He thought it was
time to pray He said: 20 Lord, l
never stole horse His hold slipped
and under he went again. He man
;ged to grab the grass and get his
] cad above the water second time.
This time he said: Lord. have mercy
upon me- I never branded another
mans COW, ran away with another
mans wife nor burned a house in all
my life His hold slipped again and
he went under Getting to the sur
face third time, with greater diff
Guilty, he thought he would be honest
with the Lord. He said: But, o
Lord God, what a liar l have BEEN
Speaking of Watson's followers he
saws he is afraid many of them don't
lnow Just where they are going in
their blind chase after the dema-
gogues who are leading them.
Some of vou,' says he, 'remind me
of Johnny Bizirn, who undertook to
break the yearling. and to make sure
he did not get away, tied the rope
around his waist. The breaking
process angered the yearling and he
split a crack in the atmosphere to-
wards the swamp. john only bit the
ground in the high places. In their
mad career they passed, a neighbor.
who yelled to John:
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