The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-06-25
Captured Dispatches,
THE SENTINEL HAS A SCOOP
ON THE MOVEMENTS OF
OUR MAGNATES.
The Start of Vickes for St. Louis
Accompanied by His Min
ion, Reformer White.
Some Inside Thought of The
great Hooking Republican
Leaders Exposed to
Public View.

We are told that all things are fair
in Love, War and Politics. This is
the season when the sign is in poll
tics, and everything in politics goes.
Feeling that a crisis impended when
Elector Vickers and his staff left for
the St. Louis convention, we set
about watching their movements, lest
unawares, the town mighs tip at the
leaving of such heavy-weights, or
that a spell might come on the
country from the magnetism they
diffuse when both their batteles are
in united volt, we connived to con-
trive to capture their dispatches back
to the home stayers, and by a new
process tapped the underground
wire which led to the Journal Office.
The frs. telegram was from Re.
former White and is
'sHELL's HALF ACRE, Sunday !
Evening. Vesper Time.
Gallant Old Comrade and stalwart, Stand
by and Stay-at-HOmer Tom Allen:
promised to wire or rope you of
the Great Electors movements, for
the edifcation your Gideon Band of
readers, SO that they might be COM
forted in our absence.
l am acting as his amenuensis, his
chiperoeo, his purveyor and portman-
tau, also his baggage master and hat
holder. I also scour his vice presi-
dental lightning rod. Acting under
orders.
1 sent Mckay by way of Lancas-
ter to see Pursell, who made him
Surveyor, to get instructions to send
10 Eph Shaw, so that the acting sur
veyor might not forget to measure
the outer curve of the road travelled
by Commissioners Webb, so that full
allowance of mileage might be Sc
cured for him on his daily trips to Lo-
gan to see Alex. Sands and to issue
orders and let contracts to parties
who don't live in the county nor pay
taxes. We must see to it, Tom, that
the Republican commissioners are
protected on the mileage matter, and
also to see to 1t that the Logan fell
lows are kept down at 81. Is a day,
while the contracts are let to out
siders.
If our fellows got some of the fat
contracts they might get stuck up.
We must keep them ground down.
That's the way to keep them in line,
and make them vote our way, you
know. Yield nothing to the labor
ing man, but promise everything.
We shipped Count Yerges by box
car. He was too insurrectionary.
He wanted to straddle the money
question. We tolerate no bareback
riding in our circus that way. Must
ride side saddles, and have both feet
in the one gold stirup or they can't
ride with us, Brother Tom. We
shipped Yerges in the manner
state, and shipped him by the Big
-Four as perishable freight. He
howled a good deal, and in his raw
ings claimed he was Prohibitionist,
and in favor of anything or nothing.
But we were up to his scheme, Wick.
ers and I, and we left him with the
straddle bugs, in the cold storage
car. If he-never comes back, write
him an acrostic obituary and bury
min at Sand Run in poetry.
While waiting for the train at
Athens l kept composed, meditating
on my next move in the council, but
Vickers kept prowling round, invok'
ing the malediction of the Unknown
Quantity upon the delayed train. All
of sudden be set up shout, and
began calling me to where he stood
bending over and peering on the
ground. He carried on like love
sick girl when she finds a four-leaf
clover, or a southern McKinleyite
when he discovers in a letter, a pure
gold certificate (of his election of
course). On my soul, l thought he
had found the natural gas we'll upon
which l SO kindly gave him the fran
chise Of Logan.
What, Old Friend Tom, do you
think the Elector had found? The
track of Gen. Grasvenor, in the mud