The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-06
OCCULT SCIENCE.
HOW 1T WAS TO HAVE BEEN
BUT WASN'T EMPLOYED.
Display of Psychological Powers
That Was TO Have Occurred at the
Meeting of tho Legislature
That Didn,t Take Place.

News Democrat Washington dispatches
announced Saturday that there was little
hope for the opposition to Senator Hanna
at Columbus, as the Honorable Robert
W. Tayler, of Columbiana, had been sum-
moned from his country saving job at
Washington to put to flight the Kurtz al
lance and incidentally to hypnotize and
put In pliable mood the Honorable John
p. Jones, of the more or less sacred pre-
clncts Of North Lawrence Everybody
noticed the gradual tipping up of the
east as the Honorable Mr.. Tayler's train
sped westward, and one could tell by the
degree Of angle when he got to Colum-
bus. The east remained up until $3.50
o'clock yesterday, when suddenly the
earth tipped back again. No one could
that the Columbiana statesman had just
stepped In some place to get a drink and
his absence from the map was only tenn
porary, but as the east staid down until
nearly noon, half an hour after the tum-
ult In the Legislative halls, inquiry was
made and word from Columbus today
makes 1t possible to explain the peculiar
phenom, non.
Upon his arrival at Columbus the Hon
orable Mr.. Tayler decided that the situa-
tion was trriao. Judge Day had failed
to land the Honorable Mr.. Jon in q
Canton conf renee, and the Honorable
Mr.. Tayler, thinking that mild m thods,
such as SO suave a oitlzsn as Judge Day
would employ, would not avail, decided
that the conditions and the temperament
of the Honorable Mr.. Jones demanded
that he be taken in hand by somebody
fierce, so the Columbiana statesman as
signed himself as envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary, with special
reference to Jones. 1t was arranged that
just as the Kurtz fellows thought they
had things all their own way, Mr.. Tayler
was to burst upon the vision of the house.
and while the members were temporarily
blinded by the effulgence of his halo, he
would make few passes and Jones, un.
der the spell of this psychological won
der, would so amend his previous remarks
as to say, If Kurtz and Bushnell are our
friends, who in hell or heaven are our
enemies" or something trife tangent
to what he had said before.
So the Honorable Mr.. Tayler station
ed himself at the door Of the house and
waited for Jones and an opportunity to
display his occultsm. Soon the house
NUn in Ap
wearing broad smiles and awaiting the
signal to shade their eyes so that the
blindness wouldn't come over them too
when the coup was sprung. The prelim-
inaries were gone through with, but the
hypnotic expert didn't appear. Boxwell
was named, in rather a mechanical man
ner, but still no signal came from the
outer door, where members who came in
early remembered to have seen the pro-
jector of the great scheme. Then Jones
moment had arrived This was the time
to act.
But the dazzler came not
The voting began. Still the occult ex-
pert was absent. The voting continued
Mason was elected--Boxwell was beaten
Hanna had been thrown down in con-
fusion-but the Honorable Mr.. Tayler
and his halo remained yet upon the out
side.
Chagrined and crestfallen the Hanna
fellows sneaked out, swearing vengeance
on the alleged filler of McKinleys con-
gressional shoes. He could not be seen
anywhere, The ante-rooms and cloak
rooms were visited in vain. Mr.. Tayler
could not be found.
Soon the stalwart, defiant broad -jawed
statesman from North Lawrence elbowed
his way out entered the cloak room, Sc
cured such outer habiliments as he had
taken off upon entering, and walked out,
shifting the fresh ozone like a fellow that
had had too easy time of it and was
going out to look for something worth
fighting.
Then the Honorable Mr.. Tayler was
found. Robert was discovered-his
total disappearance from the scene of ac-
tion was explained
On going into the house, Jones had
hung his hat on him.