Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-07-19
THE FESS - FUSS - FIZZLE
PRE-PRIMARY CORN DANCE

Republicans under Chief Black
Cloud Fess hold annual Corn Dance
Many visiting tribesmen in attend
ance at Powwow. Chief Black
Cloud calls down curse of His Faith
ers on NEW DEAL. Performs In
dian magic with NEW DEAL rubber
dollar to the great delight of his
audience.
If Republicanism in Morgan
county is to be judged by the Fess
meeting here last Thursday after
noon, it has reached very low ebb
With an ideal day and widely ad-
verified meeting, and announced
that all stores were to remain open
with a big carnival on the common
| to help draw the crowd, yet there
were fewer people in town than OF
an ordinary Saturday. The crowd
at the speech was estimated at from
| 900 to 1900; and of this number
only about one half were from Nor
gan county-fewer by several hun
dreds than attend the pictures of
Saturday nights. The balance of
the crowd was made of candi-
dates, their official campaign litter
ature" dispensers, and other work
ers.
At II o'clock Malconta Post
band gave fine concert on the
| lnyn nd ofr
one at the Chautauqua building
about 1870, both of which called
for much applause. Other musical
features included xylophone solos
by Atty F. S. Doudna and select
ions by colored quartet from
GAINESVILLE.
The annual pre-primary Corn
Dance of the Republican tribesmen
and squaws was preceded by a
great and elaborate advertisement
campaign to whip up the old time
enthusiasm of the Braves and their
Squaws as inducements to attend.
Like the pioneer settlers of old who
offered beads and trinkets to win
the friendship of the Redskins.
the scouts of Heap Big Chief Black
Cloud Fess, promised the braves
and squaws cheap big time" with
the assurance of at least three
bands, and possibly as many
more" However, to the disap-
pointment of the tribesmen who as
sembled from far and near, this
promise did not materialize. They
had to content themselves with one
band. They however beat the tom
toms for an hour on the public
square sounding the tribal war cry.
Responding to the war cry. the
braves and their squaws began COM
ing from all directions. The ad-
vanced advertisements invited them
to picnic dinner, but notified them
ito bring their own dinner" At
the appointed hour, Chief Black
Cloud and his retinue arrived. and
were greeted by broad expanse of
Republican coat-tails Great eff
forts were made to get Hughie
Donahue interested enough at least
to come as far as the Kennebec to
witness the preliminaries, but they
couldn't move him with derrick
Hughie is an GOLD LINE DEMO
GRAFT" His idea is: 'Fess is inst
another candidate-the ms want to
stay in-and the outs want i'm
When the time arrived for the pro-
gram to begin, the tribal scouts
wondered where all the people
were, and went out on scouting
tour and found that half the people
got in the wrong place and were
over on the carnival grounds and
thought they were at the Repub-
lican Powwow. However, they
were rewarded for following the
tribal scouts over to the Chautau-
qua building, as they arrived just
in time for the Punch and Judy
show which was the first number
on the program, and the carnival
didn't have this attraction. Judging
from the applause of the audience,
they enjoyed the Punch and Judy
show, when the various candidates
were introduced and took their Gus
tomary bow. After this number,
many started to leave, and Master
of Ceremonies Geo. o. McGonagle
rushed on a colored quartet to
stem the rush for the doors. AS the
second act Of the Punch and Judy
show started, there was another
mad dash for the exits, and George
sent an S o S call for the quartet
and they were rushed back on the
stage to save the day, as the Big
Chief had not yet had chance to
deliver his message to the as
sembled councils Of braves and
squaws. AS reports reached Hughie
Donahue of the stampede for the
doors, he suggested that somebody
telephone Geo. McGonagle to have
Matson, Humphries and Dale Smith
do war dance around their Big
Chief BLACK-CLOUD Simeon, and
perhaps this would hold the crowd.
One fellow kept hollering for
"Fess," SO George cut short the
Punch and Judy show and finally
yielded the floor to Chief Black
Cloud. He was in true Republican
form. He talked, ranted, raved,
jumped, threw his hands in the air,
shook his fists, grinded bis teeth,
danced, and went into such con-
tortions of physiological proper
tions that one man thought it was
the Fiji Islander from the carnival
doing hula dance. At this point
of the performance, two men got
arguing as to whether the editors