1888 Humor of the Campaign

== Print Info: ==
* The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
* Wheeling West Virginia
* Saturday, 8th September, 1888 
* Page 2 
* Vol. xxxvii (32) No. 14
== A HUMOR OF THE CAMPAIGN. ==
In campaign times good things are set going for the fun there is in them, not always because they are true. The American mind is active, and likes to sport itself at the expense of the gentlemen who are running for office.
It is no joke and no secret that the nomination of Mr. Atkinson for Congress tilled the Democratic ranks with panic. It was not only undesired but unexpected by our friends, the enemy. 
Here is where the fun begins. As soon as the news was flashed from Clarksburg an excited Democrat rushed off in search Mr. Pendleton, shouting:
Johnny, get your Vampire,
Vampire,
Vampire;
Johnny, get your Vampire,
Vampire,
Quick!
The humor of the thing lie.s mainly in this, that the friends of Mr. Pendleton think that one of his Vampires shall chase a thousand, and two shall put ten thousand to flight. This overconfidence in the Vampire as a campaign weapon will prove the destruction of the Vampire Brigade in this Congressional ruction.
== Sources: ==
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026844/1888-09-08/ed-1/seq-2
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026844/1888-09-08/ed-1/seq-2/ocr/ *
* errors in the autotrascribed text have been corrected.
== Citations: ==
Chicago: Unknown. “A Humor of the Campaign.” The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. September 8, 1888, Vol. xxxvii (32) No. 14 edition. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026844/1888-09-08/ed-1/seq-2/.
APA: Unknown. (1888, September 8). A Humor of the Campaign. The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, Wheeling West Virginia, p. 2. Retrieved from https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026844/1888-09-08/ed-1/seq-2/
MLA: Unknown. A Humor of the Campaign, 8 Sept. 1888, p. 2, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026844/1888-09-08/ed-1/seq-2/. 
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