Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-09-05

Of the band wagon he shouted and held
up dangerous looking reptile and
1t with unwonted familiarity,
but pretty soon he found it dangerous
and then he dropped it. 1t was known
in the circus as a Trust.
Then he took out some innocent lit.
tie creatures and fondled them and
showed them to the public. These
we're prosperity, and reciprocity and
good citizenship. They were harmless
although in Teddy's hands they
squirmed and twisted and looked as if
they really amounted to something.
When be had told the people of their
good or bad qualities, and grinned and
showed bis teeth, those awful, hides
cribable incisors, CANNES, bicuspids,
and molars, the people shouted. that
is the people up in New England
shouted. Then as the show proceeded
many features of interest we're added.
First came up an old guide in his tog-
gerry, sunburnt and withered. Watch
him. He holds out his horny hand
and the president seeing broad hat
with gilt spangles on it, dirty blue
shirt and hearing the Jingle OF pair
of Mexican spurs instinctively knows
that this must be guide, an old guide,
from somewhere. Dead Eye Dick, or
Scarfaced Charley, or Buckskin Bill
SO he stretches out his hand and says
in q loud voice, show are you Bill ?
I'm glad to see you old fellow" Then
Bill, or Charlie, or Dick, as it may be.
for he has many aliases, answers, "YOu
be no gladder than / be' And at this
outburst of eloquence the cheering
goes on and loud outlaws resound.
The crowd is told In whispers by
some one who knows, that Bill once
guided the president to a hole in a
barbed wire fence, when the president
was hunting and had forgot his wire
nippers. This makes the crowd feel
good and they twist their bodies in
their clothes in great satisfaction, and
grin and stand first On one foot and
then on the other. Bill takes a seat
on the stand beside uncle Ebeneezer
Sponaugle who is just 40 years old,
and has walked 80 miles to see the
president. He never saw any presi-
dent but G. Washington prior to this
Time, but has voted for every one who
ever occupied the White House. Then
The Congressman of the district comes
on the stand and the president tells
them how impossible it is for them to
be bad when they have SO good Con-
and the Congressman blush
IS. and the women litter, and the men
outlaw, because they all know the
Congressman.
Such has been the show that has
'een going on triumphal march.
rhe:president and the 'old guide" use
he same classical English, which |
hows conclusively that the president |
s very close to the common people.
lie, however, does not dine with Noah
3cruggs, the chief of the blacksmiths
lnion, nor with Orlof Reiniski, the
eader Of the Polish lnvincibles and
IberatOrs, but with Governors, and
enators, and lawyers, and literatteurs.
lost indescreetly has he allowed Win
ton Churchill to sit on the same stand
Nth him. This seems unwise for a
nan who is seeking a nomination, un.
ess Winston Churchill can be put
own in the ''old guide'' class. The
resident, if Winston gets too hot to
old on to, can drop him just as he has
ropped that reptile the Trusts. Still
: is drawing card to a circus to have
II kinds of wild animals, and men of
IL nations, and such other curio as
lost well equipped shows carry. The
how is billed for number of points
nd it may be safe to say that it will
raw, as it costs nothing but remorse
D see it.