The sun., 1896-10-05
COMEDY OF THE CANVASS.
COLORADO BARKEEP SHOWS HIS
FAITH BIZ HIS WORKS.

patient no longer with David b. Hill. Within
| Ave days he must declare his exact position or
| be read out OF the party.
| Tho parties Of this decision are Arthur Sewall,
Senator Arthur p. German, State Chairman
| Elliot Danforth, John c. Sheehnn, Executive
Chairman Truman, and Hugh Mclaughlin OF
Kings county.-SHrer organ, yesterday morning.
"Ah. Mr.. Sinjn. see you have some distin-
Ruished visitors to-day" said de Insec as he was
| admitted to the august presence of the National
| Popocratic Chairman yesterday. Would you
mind tellin' me d. nature o. der business?"
| "Oh, they just called to pay their respects" !"
said Mr.. SInjln.
| And" added the Insec' in telling the story.
swat dye t'ink he said after dat2 He says
| 'Inseo', ole man. he eays 'dats all anybody's
| payin' dis year, m he was mos weepin'."
| He was Republican statesman OF tho Tender
loin. He approached the Hon. Cornelius N
| Bliss.
"Corney." he said familarly. "Corney. you've
got n damn good character m lots of money
but you don't know a cussed thing about prac-
tioal politics. Now, haven't got any character
and no money. but l know all about practical
politics. What's the matter with you and mo
poolin issues2"
So far, II is said, Mr.. Bliss hasn't replied.
Never travelled through Colorado much,
did you?" asked the st. Paul man yesterday.
We'll, IL you did you'd find there was heap
| of loyalty to the silver cause in some places.
Last time was out there struck n barroom in
a boom town and called for drink. Tho bar
keep put out tho stuff and felt in my pocket
for money. Well. sir. II you'll believe mo-
didn't have cent about me but some gold
dollars that l had carried about as souve-
Mrs. There wasn't anything to do but
! to toss out one OF them. well, that bar
keep picked 1t up and looked at 1t. He turned
1t over and over in his hand. He held 1t off at
arms length and viewed 1t. Then he looked at
me and said. "By thunder. pard. it's pretty
tough T. come against me in that way. but
can't go back on my party" and he turned
around to the till and showed out fifteen silver
dollars and eighty cents change"
YES" said Spellbinder Kemple who heard
the st. Paul mans story. "Those people out
there are certainly stuck on silver. Now. the
last time was out there attended church on
Sunday. as always do The preacher was one
of the good old-style Methodists. He'd grown
up in the country. though. and called a spade
q spade when it was necessary. He had reached
his pcroration. aud when the last day shall have
come he said. and we shall have knocked on
US. we shall enter the beautiful city and walk
up the golden.paved streets and receive
golden gold harp Of 4, thousand strings; then oh
Just then. away down in the rear of the
church: little. peaked, nose rpnt with bow
purpose OF making notion
My motion is said the peak ed nose fellow.
that wherever in that there discourse the word
silver be substituted.'
Well sir about forty of that congregation
jumped up to second the motion. Now that
lust shows what the silver sentiment in that
STATE tss,, is,," .. a., -. ....,.. ., ,
We'll sir" said Kemple. he looked at that
and %adder M Se we
and he looked as II he was going to have a
stroke Of apople1y. He slammed his book shut
said: I'll see you burned hrst""
1t was in the single-taxers' political kinder
Rarten that gathers nightly on the Madison
avenue side OF Madison square opposite tho
Metropolitan Insurance Company'a building.
The regular orators had all finished their
speeches, and the Chairman of the meeting. who
man up beside him
This gentleman" he said. lis an encyclo-
pedia OF political and financial knowledge. If
them."
For the next fifteen minutes questions were
asked about once n minute. The general tenor
OF all was the same. and they were all aimed to
a man with thin voice. who stood on tho out
skirts OF the crowd. said:
Mr.. Speaker. don't want to interrupt but
I'd Ike to ask one question for information"
"Sh-sh." said the speaker. THE gentleman
wants to ask ask question for information. State
well. Just wanted to know" said tho man
with the thin voice, IF you didn't put these
people around in this crowd here with instruc-
tion about what questions to ask 7"
Don't you dare interrupt this meeting"
II you have any questions to ask, ask them,
but don't you dare interrupt tins Meeting.
said the man with tho thin voice as he ambled
away. and in about four minutes that meeting
broke up.
Chair'nan Bynum of tho sound money Demo-
cratic Committee, who arrived last night from
Chicago. talked about campaign literature.
quarters" he said at the sT rate OF three car
loads n day, and the State or Illinois, from Egypt
o tss s Eh
mittee but you'll fnd bales and bales Of doeu-
ments that are unopened. simply because the
men in charge haven't had time to open them.
they've the been so busy with the stuff that was
Yes" said another Chicago man. "the litera-
ture is SO tn lex IN that State that every time,it
rains there's an inch OF paper pulp on tho
ground"
Have you heard of any betting 2" asked the
Popocratic headquarters.
"No-no-oh no." said Mr.. Mclaughlin.
- You see 1t wonld never do to have anything
like that around here. No, we wouldn't permit
any such thing rs that here. Let me see. IL /
remember rightly did hear couple of men
talking about betting before we moved.
don't remember just exactly what it WAS, but as
soon as l heard what was going on 1
wont out and spoke to them. l said, Gentle
men, you seem TO be talking about wagering
money: Now OF course you know that won't do
here. This Is the Headquarters OF the treasurer
here for the purpose of receiving money and
auditing bills. II you are going to IA TX about
wagering shall have to ask you TO go elsewhere
10 it / haven't heard of any betting since
then"
At a west aldo uptown Republican meeting
an orator named Mcmahon delivered fiery ad- i
dress. Tho last part of IL was devoted to the
old flag and national honor. and the flowery
language enthused the crowd. When tho
speech was over. among those that gathered
TO shake hands with the orator was
an Irishman who had passed so years.
He grppea McMahon's hand and said:
"Oi'm glad Z k-n-o-w you. sorr. OF want
Z tell ye, sor. Oi don't believe a domIned word