Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-06-22
WAS SIMPLY NO "UYoLoNE,

The people of Hot Springs were
told that a "Cyclone" would sweep
down upon them last saturday night,
in the form of j. Ii. Davis, Of Texas.
The gentlemen came but no CYCLONE
nothing but q little wind. True he
oavoorted in rather a funnel-shaped,
odd maner, but then he didn't rip and
tear things to pieces in any cyclonish
way. He may have doubled himself
up several times and somersaulted
over 1.-THE speakers stand a few times
but mo damage resulted therefrom.
He may have struck several poets Of
"E-u-r-o-p.e," but no one viewed the
effects of such a shock with alarm. OF
course he twisted things very seriously
once Or twice-especially himself and
the truth.
He declared that $4,000 men own
the wealth of the nation-and incident
ally included himself, mentioning his
prolific law practic, extensive Texas
acres, ETC., ETC., but declared that he
was giving up a large part of that each
year to travelling about the country
trying to enlighten the ignorant north
erners upon political matters. He
frightened nearly all us republicans
into the pop party when he declared
that the interest on the public debt is
$50 q year for each person and that
according to the way the republicans
are manufacturing money we would
have to pay that much interest right
along throughout eternity, and then
some-and that this ponderous debt
was the result of the present financial
system-though Of course the debt
was mostly incurred under the double
standard financial system. Everybody
held their breath while the cyclone
was blowing and twisting laround, con-
corning the coming of all the silver,
all the gold, all the copper Of the
world and setting the printing presses
going making paper money, and large
ly increasing the facilities for that
kind of Misunderstanding and then
after all wanted to know IL people
would then object to having too much
money, and who Of we poor creatures
who never expect to see foreign land
would care il that money wasn't good
in "E-u-r.o.p.e." But this wind storm
gave truth about the toughests twist
when it was declared with all the gusts
that q Texan can inject into the di-
alect of the ranger, that 800 officers in
the Philippine army had resigned.
No authority vas quoted; none was
needed; none was wanted. That was
Just o little side breeze from the escap.
ing wind storm. Then somebody
wanted to know what that roar
meant when it was declared that
Mckinley had opened u ports to the
Cinnamon, and that as q consequence
800 Japanese had just been shipped
into Wyoming to take the place Of
American miners. There was no code
Of explanation passed around, and we
were left in darkness as to how the
Japanese had landed as Cinnamon,
and as to what paticular point they
had swarmed at in our n%eigboring
state. That was another pretty severe
twister-of truth. But then, everyone
enjoyed this threatening cyclone
Seeing such things are rare, though it
was sort of q burlesque on the cyclone,
only providing to be Q south wind
Honestly, however, "Cyclone" Davis
makes the best burlesque on the stump
speaker we have ever heard. His form
his dress, his voice, his language, all
contribute to giving him facilities for
being q good take-of on the sstump
speaker,"-iust as you have sometimes
seen in the darkey at the show. But
he doesn't seem to pretendto be serious
or state facts.