The morning times., 1896-06-28
BOOMS AND BOMBS OF THE FOURTH
INDEPENDENCE DAY THOUGHTS POLITICAL AND MUNICIPAL
Red Fire and Rockets That Have Been and May
Be, With Special Reference to the
Chicago Flower Pot.

dency. Even in the brief span Of our own
cbeckered and mostly checkmated career,
we have seen u sky rocket rise In all the
splcndCr OF a new tin god in the State of
Maine and sink out or sight in the pluff
mud of st. Louis.
A tracing Of this career will be found in
the margin.
We have also seen similar meteor blaze
across the sky from Albany and burst high
in the SIX in Missouri. Itcould find no pia &c
in St. Louis. not even second pla ce. Con
currently with these will be ncted the H.
Illustrations representing the rise and fail
or the various sZ-boOm rockets which blaZed
across the armament and which dropped
into the mill pond at Canton, Ohio. where
they were snuffed out.
II will. perhaps, be Observed that these
rockets have Ies the political atmosphere
full Of gold dust. 1t Will also be noted that
some of the rockets had wet fuses and did
not stream or sIzZie to any great extent
These were principally the Colorado and
Utah article.
And now comes the pyrote Clinic party
with the silver dust Rockets and fire crack
ers which are being shipped by the carlf a.
to Chicago. There has already been Or
gapized Gu the grounds party which is in
view as enga gel in a shadow dance. The
gentlemen who appear in black or sill
hoaette suits are the dark horses and they
are mostly mustangs from the 'perarie re-
sgien" There is 40 reiling what these folks
have in store to disturb our present foreign
relations II is believed that Que of the
rockets will be for the immediate embra ce
Of Columbia and Cuba; another for tie
Canadian land grab and certain third is
the bringing hack Of Colorado into the nion.
SOME CoNTRABAND ROCKETS.
THERE'S at present "a rumor thatthe New
York and Maryland rockets will not he
among the accredited stock of fireworks.
This will not prevent the July ratification
at Chicago. Boies, Band, Tillman. Ait
geld and Col. Jack Chinn have fllied the
flower pot to the brim with the most luriu.
If not brilliant, of meteors. and the era nd
stands of the West and South a re waiting
for the men with matches
It is evident that the politicians don't
intend to do thing with this country, but
TO keep it red hot all day and ablaze OF
fire all night until the weather and the other
party cools off in November. Estimates
alrady in indicate the burning OF 4.OGO.Ooo
pounds of pulverized gun-powder in rockets
and Roman candles, 1000 600 pounds OF
Bengal powder and Greek fire. $500 900
boxes of common crackers, and $500 900
cannon crackers. These are the figures for
organization work. There will also be
1000 600 pampos grass plumes on one side
and 2.00O, 900 pitchforks on the other. II.
The unattached party, under Senator 4: b
Teller, has not yet selected its motto(: 4
or sbibboleth of any kind, but it will: y
probably be some kind of IL trust iS'
kismet. Most people think. at present, \..s
that it will be the In God We Trust ~
This kind of trust will practically be
something new in American politics, as
tie head OF the firm referred 10 has general
ly not interf-red i'll the family fight.
The pictorial environment of these July
Fourth reflections is not intended as an
exaggerated map of the visible half OF the
sky on any evening before the Fourth prox.
and certainly not after the date, Deo
voente, on which the boss silver rocket
shall have been fired into space through
the roof OF the Chicago Auditorium. We
look for a total observation OF the Dog Star
and one continuous illumination. and bonn
bardment of the sky with chunks OF stuff