The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-10
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field, but we could not see your husband
there. All az we could see was a Niger
milking cow
Wen. gents she said, that Niger.
as you call him, IS my husband
on, pardon us. says the fellow. of
course we did not think you'd marry a
niger
"And she up and says: That's all right;
l did heap sight better than my sister
Jane. She married a Missourian, and by
gosh went on the Illinois man, I'm
blamed II l don't agree with her"
Felix McCloskey, sergeant-at-arms Of
the celebrated national convention of 1862
at Charleston and of four subsequent ma
uoual conventions, has come to Chicago
10 see history repeat itself. says the Chi
cago Times-Herald. His home is IN New
York but he lives most of the time in
Washington, where he Is an assistant
sergeant-at-arms of the House OF Repre-
sentatives when the democrats are in
power. The late Benjamin Il. Butler once
remarked that he didn't know the age
OF Mr.. McCloskey, but he reckoned he
must be about a thousands years old.
HE was the oldest democrat at the
Charleston convention" said Gen. Butt
Ter, and he doesn't look any different
now than he did then. am sure he was
an old man when the declaration Of in
dependence was signed and there Is no
doubt he witnessed many Of the great
Felix McCloskey is also the man who
missed being a United States senator
from California I'm the early days of its
statehood by only one vote. Felix was a
49er. The first California legislature got
into deadlock over the election of a
United States senator, and at its hight
some member suggested they solve the
difficulty by taking up that tower OF
honesty and strength, Felix McClOskey."
The enthusiasm spread like prairie-fire and
on the decisive ballot his successful rival
had only one more vote than he had. The
historic phrase Throw him down Nc
Closkeyr' originated In that contest.
Mr.. McClosky occupies a position as
sergeant-at-arms on Martins staff at the
Coliseum this week.
The convention orator is not a delegate
or an alternate or anything, but just an
orator, says the Chicago Record. He may
be found In the Palmer house, because he
is always sure of drawing a crowd.
No one seems to know just how an ora
tor gets under way. He has to have some
provocat.on before he begins his speech
Perhaps he overhears two men talking
and intrudes his own Views, or else he be-
gins talking into the air. People begin to
gather around him, and he selects the
smallest and most timid man he can find
and talks to him.
He waves his arms. He stabs the air with
his fists lie shakes his head and occasion
ally rises to his tptoes. The larger the
crowd around him the more earnest he be-
comes Ten feet away from him no one
can tell whether be favors IS to ] or a
never-endng gold standard but every one
wants to get up close TO him. So the packed
crowd pushes, surges, sways and shuf-
fies back and forth, and through II all the
orator talks and talks.
who IS he? Who is her. ask the people
on the outskirts of the crowd.
No one can answer that question.
There are always two or three excitable
men who encourage the orator with cries
of That's the stuff" That's right" and
so on.
No sooner does one orator subside than
another begins. The performance is con-
tinuous.
Well" said the man, according to the
Philadelphia Record special, as he sat
down at the table In the Palmer, and the
waiter asked him what he would have
for breakfast. Il guess I'll eat from the
cradle to the grave this morning.
For God, sah sab, what's dat?" de-
manded the waiter. his eyes bulging out
What is it?" demanded the states
man. Why, 1t Is boiled eggs and fried
chicken, what do you think 1t is, tie! te!
They carried the waiter out on a
stretcher.
The Hon Don Dickson has taken to tell
ing stories now to help along the situa-
tion says the New York Suns special
that his gold delegation in Michigan
would be turned down, when somebody
asked him why Cleveland did not come
out here and take hand in the sound
Why's he said. why guess he
looks at the chances of the sound money
democracy in the same light as an old
Dutch captain did upon himself. There
was a tremendous storm at sea. Every
body was fear-crazed but the captain
who sat reading a book in the cabin. A
passenger went to him and told him the
ship was going down and all would be
drowned.
Il don't care Won tam" the old salt re-
Piled, without lifting his eyes from his
book. Il hat got Won cancer in my stom-
ach and die in six weeks any way"
A delegate from Oklahoma Is stopping
at the Palmer house, says the Chicago
Times-Herald. He is all right among his
friends at home, and can travel from Tah-
lequah to Guthrie blindfolded without los
ing his way. But he got lost in Chicago
night before last before he had been in
the city three hours.
The gentleman from Oklahoma found
himself at Clark and Washington streets
about midnight, with strong desire to
find the Palmer house and retire. A man
told him to take the Wentworth avenue
trolley car, ride two blocks south and
then walk one block east If the dele
gate had needed the instruction all would
have been we'll but when he woke IN the
car had stopped at Thirty-first street. He
got off. at the request of the conductor
and asked two husky individuals the wav
to the Palmer house. They told him. and
minutes later city detective found the