Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-11-04
The Extra Session-A Chronicle
of TODAY.
By DAVID, THE SCRIBE.

of To-day.
By DAVID, THE SCRIBE.
I. 1t came to pass in the days of
Grover, the King, that a great panic
fell upon all his subjects throughout
the length and breadth of his king
dom.
2. And the people cried aloud as
one man, with a great cry, "What
shall we do that this sore and great
affection shall pass away from US
3. The King heard the cry and the
lamentations of the distressed, and is
sued his edict calling the wise men
and lawmakers together and instruct
ed them as to the wishes of his Males
! ty.
4. Now, Grover, the King, was vers-
ed in all the wisdom of the Tribe of
the Democrats and asked the wise
men to do his bidding as laid down in
the edict calling the Sanhedrim to the
Temple, at Washington, the great city
in which the King lived and ruled his
people according to the Chicago Plat
/ form.
S. And the King loved not all the
laws of his people, ard was wroth
with the statute named the Sherman
Bill, written by one John, surnamed
Sherman, great and mighty man Of
talent and influence amongst the
Tribe called Republican, and wished
it to be blotted forever from the laws
of his realm.
6. But, behold, the wise men amongst
the Kings own people were divided
in their counsels and wrangled long
and bitterly over the demands of the
King, whose valiant henchmen they
were proud to be called, and at whose
throne they were prone to PROSTATE
themselves to worship him.
7. And the tumult waxed great, as
a new party had sprung up as Jonah's
gourd, whose cry was give, give,
give us free silver or we perish from
off the face of the earth, and the place
that knows us now will know us no
more, forever"
s. Now, the Halls of the wise men
whom Grover, the King, had called to-
gether, resounded from the rising
even to the setting of the sun, and
the moon and stars paled as they came
and went, with the cries of the Popu-
list faction that their silver idol
should not be dethroned, and their
god cease to be worshiped as above
all other gods.
9. Then Grover, the King, was ex-
ceedingly wroth and CRASHED his
teeth at the wise men who refused to
do his bidding, and withdrew the
smiles OF his dimple countenance far
from them.
10. But, behold, the King had great
power, and the fairness that followed
his favor was much TO be desired, and
had great weight with some of the
wise men who opposed the King in
his purpose at the first, that they also
came to do his bidding even at the
eleventh hour.
II. And it came to pass that many
wise men of the Tribe of Republicans
who followed not Grover, nor gave
heed to his counsels, were nothing
10th to hold up the hands of the King
against the seditions and refractory
act of his own people.
10. So the battle ragged for many
days, but the victory was with Grover,
the King, and the silver song of the
Popuiists and their allies amongst the
Democrats and Republicans, was
hushed in defeat, and the Sherman
bill was no longer a law in all his
Kingdom, which extended from the
rising to the setting of the sun, and
from the den of the polar bear to the
home of the alligator.
-. Now, while the people still
groan, and the burden has not been
lifted from their shoulders, all eyes
are turned towards the great King,
Grover, and a mighty shout goes up
from his followers, saying: Great,
great is the King, and great is his
victory over his enemies"
IA. And the King was glad, and his
anger passed away in the presence of
his great success, but cloud of dark
and anxious perplexity settled on the
brow of the victorious Monarch as he
murmured to himself, 81, indeed, have
won a great victory, but what, o,
what shall do with it,"
IS. And, behold the drama has not
yet ended, and the people await with
fear and trembling the dawn of the
promised day of prosperity, while the
darkness of the night shrouds as with
the pail of death, the energies and in
dustries of great Nation.