The herald., 1893-07-15
THR GREAT STUMPrAILRD PREvARI-
GATOR.

WH6HeV6T tuo 1Ous DlhuOn DuuChu
gets away from home, or gets home, or
gets anywhere, there is an immediate
perturbation. The world is then treated
to the old episode of show we apples
swim 7" This elegant gentleman of great
renown is loaded UP with the notion
that the infinite cemplexity of this
worlds affairs is regulated by the mys-
terious symphony of his utterances.
He has lately planted himself upon the
rib of the Rocky Mountains, and he is
loading up the newspapers of Denver
with utteranees that were jejune before
Cagliostro, the only liar to be mentioned
in the same day with Blanton Duncan,
was ever invented.
Our sweet friend. who has left us go
recently, is filling the columns of the
Rocky Mountain News. of Denver, with
the way in which he secured the elec-
ton OF the presidential electors in Cali
fornia for Cleveland and Stevenson. 1t
appears that he, with the aid of the Los
Angeles Times. did the whole business.
As the writer of this scpeed happens to
to have been one OF the eleetors-st-large
On that ticket, and happened to have
been elected, he thus learns for the first
time that his election was due to the
Hon. Blanton Duncan. As he is to as
cribe his election to the efforts Of this
gentleman, he presumes that Brother
Thompson, the other elector- -at-large,
away up in Humboldt county, owed his
defeat to Mr.. Duncan. The whole epi-
sode shows how mysterious and unex-
pected are the springs OF human action.
The successful elector-st-large had not
known how much he was indebted to
MIR. Duncan. He had certainly never
counted on his influence, and had
looked upon him as an all.round crank
of eight hundred and ninety quintillion
horne power. AS to the part the advo-
cacy of the Los Angeles Times bore in
his election, he had supposed it to be
intinitessmal until the gracious Blanton
turned himself loose on the virgin field
of Denver journalism.
We really dislike to initiate Macbeth
of happy family in numbering the Dun
can family, fgurstively speaking. Blan-
ton Duncan of that ilk introduced Texas
oysters of an excellent quality into this
community, and we therefore feel very
grateful to him. But we confess that we
do not believe that his temporary energy
in that line justifes him in assuming
that he controlled the electoral votes of
the great state of California. We are
perfectly certain that we threw enough
OF his wonderful contributions into the
waste basket to insure his undying en-
nifty. As one OF the editors OF this
journal was the only elector-at-large who
was elected. and as the other eleetor- at
large was defeated, being modest man,
he is tempted to ascribe his personal
success to the enmity OF the aforesaid
Blanton Duncan.
With all due respect to his chivalric
character and recondite claims. we are
inclined to think the Hon. Blanton Dun
can can knock the Hon. George Francis
Train into cooked hat as a breezy and
interesting fabricator of political roor.
backs. He can take the cake. the cakery
and the bakery and all the dips, spurs
and angels of the confectionery when it
comes to frosted combinations of the
Ananias and sapphira variety. AS an
ingenious inventor of interesting but
gauzy impossibilities he can knock
Munchausen higher than the plane on
which Mahomet's coffin is supposed to
swing.