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Blii'S USTTER. The Huckleberry KnoTm2Utt;Becomes an . interpreter of Dreamy--Some Whole I some Hints to the Boys. ; "' : i July 26, 1906. Editor Yellow Jacket : I; Bear Sir : Since my letter to The YrJ . last 'week I have beerj called to act in a capacity entirely new; Jo me. But I have ahvays made it a point to assists man in need, whoever he is, j or v herever I find him. And I always j give the person as - good as I have. If he has no coat I give him one of mine; if he is hungry I divide my lunch equally with Mm; and if he comes to me asking advip 3 I simply put myself in his stead, as it were, and dish out such advice as will tefcd to work to the best advantage of b 3th. But my latest experience is what I started out to tell you. I have been, app ealed to as an interpreter of dreams. Yes, ' sir, Pete Snipes, the strongest Demo 2rat in Possum Briar township, came to m) this week to hav me interpret a drean If e had a few nights ago. Pete says it was the most vivid dream he ever had, tnd he is very much wrought up over it. Usually when a fellow has a dream! he soon forgets it hut Pete savs he can't sret khe thought ol his vision or dream off his mind to save him from the Dickens ana the more-he studies about it the worse 1 e feels. y In order to have a chance. to study the points in it, if there were any, I had Pete write down the dream j as near as he could recollect, and here is j the result: 6 1, Pete Snipes, dreamfrljhad been sick for many years with inflammation of the gall and one night asjl was lying on my bed, I died and went to tielL When I arrived at the gate, I was met by' a parfty of my friends who expressed the great est delight at'' seeing ine. They told me that they had been looking for me a long time and that everything had been, ar ranged to make me j comfortable what time I stayed. Bands of riusic on every side were playing airs thst I had often heard on earth. Scores j of beautiful women added to the deligl t of the occa sion. There were chariots and car riages in abundance and beautiful parks and fountains such as I had never seen before, and altogether it seemed that hell was a much better place tnan I had ever heard it represented. could be had on every side, fire and brimstone was co was uuiie m sigiit. oucu a contrast witn the hell I'd read about macje me feel un easy and I seemed to, realize that there was a mistake somewhere and that I had missed connection. This fort of a hell was too good to be true rnd I thought something was wrongi Bi t all at once new sensations began j to c eep over me. 'A strange sound rent the air and partial darkness settled down ovsr the entire place. The sun which had been shining, as if thru smoke, entirely disappeared and my friends scattered j everywhere. As I stood trembling, behold there came from the west a great round beast with two heads and twelve horns. On one of these horns sat a rider wfio carried a mammoth base-ball bat in his hands and Refreshments and so far as cerned there about his head there was ri bbons of court-plaster. shield at his side was written "the Past." wound great On a silver the west and It looked I turned my eyes again to lo another beast appeare more terrible than, the first. There was no resemblance in it of anything I had ever seen auring lite. Thid beast had a multitude of 'heads, some resembling the heads of beasts and others kite the heads of men and there was one horrible look ing head that resembled that of a mighty serpent. Stifling gases and sapors issued irom its mouth and there was thunder in gs and muttsrings all about it. On h -back of the h tul countenance. He carridd large bags' swung finder each arm which appeared to be full of grain of some): sort and he sowed these seeds with each hand as he rode along. There was a lkrge metallic bug at his side which appeared to be halt gold and half silver and on its back was written: "the Present.' i This beast with its rider passed into a strong en closure and areat iron ga ;e was closed against him. ' ''f I turned my eyes and this time 1 beheld another beast coming forth. This beast was larger than both the others and on its back rode a multitude of men all yelling and hollowing to th4 top of their voices The head of this blast was like unto the head -of a horse kvithmt ears and there were two great horns coming out of its head one straight and hollow like unto a smoke stack atd the other forked like unto the horn of an elk. Its uuuy was in the form of a doffin or huge boxmd there appeared ma iy doors and windows ui itside.v -There were twelVe wS'S???6 bbdnl on each llg w written m firey letters the name 'of a Southern State. Tfei KJ. j T 7 A . anu-Danas ana great noise within" Peonlie beff an to . run to and and the beasts and all their riders, com menced to set-upt an-, awful commotion. 'Again I looked and 1 saw coming up over the horizon a blazing: star through a clear place in the sky, , but the clouds looked, angry and the wind began to.blow a hurricane. Suddenly a peal of thunder broke loose over my head and it began to hail. I never - saw such hailstones before. They were white as. snow and so large and numerous that they, seemed to beat me to the ground. But all of a sud den it appeared that the hail ceased to hit me and I arose to my feet; yet on all sides it poured and it poured. 1 I saw the great beast with the head of a horse fall over,and the hail beat in at the doors and windows of its sides until it was, eo f nil of hailstones that it set up an awful struggle as if in the agonies of death. And; still i the hail poured in -and it stretched out its twelve legs 'and gave up the ghost, i The hail also destroyed the two other beasts. About this time there was a flash of lightning and the clouds disappeared as if by magic. The blazing, star which. I had seen low' down .upon the horizon was now in the zenith and the noise and confusion had subsided. Great multitudes of pedple, male and female, came about and a new order of things seemed to come -over everything. Two mighty bands of music struek up at once the familiar airs of "Yankee Doodle" and "Dixie" and the appla-ase was so great that I awoke, and behold it was a dream. ' ' Mr. Editor, as soon as I had glanced over Pete's dream I saw the. significance at once. You know Pte has been de sirous of running for Congress for a long time, and this little vision he had is kind of an indefinite outline of what he anfl his party is to witness in the political world in the future. Pete your vision of "hell" was nothing more than a glimpse of Washington City. The commotion was a political campaign. That strange beast that first appeared was the' Round Bale Cotton Trust and -its rider was James Ca lamity Jones, who was one of the twelve directors. The two heads represented the two factions of the cotton trust emerg ing into one body. The base-ball bat represented the policy that Jones and Dick Croker" advocated, in the way of knocking the . poll holders out into the streets in 1896. The shield told you that Jones is "Past" as national chairman. The plaster ribbons on his-head wasuscd to bind up his jaws when xhe finally learned that McKinley had beat Bryan off .the face of the earth. The second beast can be seen to-day. The different heads constitute the different trusts that permit the Democratic party leaders to ride on them. The head that resembled the serpent's is the whiskey and bar-room element that the chairman of the Demo cratic party represents, and the rider of this beast is none other than Tom Tag gar t. The terrible vapors and gases that eminated from the head of the serpent is only such an odor as a party gives off that is lead by the whiskey element. And the thunderings and mutterings that', accompanied this beast - are only such sounds as eminate from any crowd that- is owned and controlled by the whiskey trust. The two bags of . seeds are the seeds that Tom Taggart has been sow ing all along. The one contained Demo cratic literature and the other campaign boodle obtained from his gambling hells and from the whiskey trusty' The bug you saw was a real straddle bug and rep resents, the last financial plank of the Pemocratic party. The strong enclosure into which you saw this beast go repre sents the penitentiary where any man should go who defies law and deeency by running a gambling hell as Taggart has done. The third beast in your vision was the ballot-box oligarchy of the Southern States. The head was really a donkey's head instead of that of a horse and the absence of ears means that the Democrats South wont hear anything pertaining to fair play or reason. The twelve legs rep resents the twelve Southern States which rely upon ballot gambling to hold their place in the Democratic column. The straight hollow horn on the head of the ' beast represents the shot gun so much - relied upon by the Southern Democrats in an election contest. The forked : horn is an emblem of Ben Tillman's pitchfork and repre sents another method of force and in timidation used in the South. The box shaped body of the beast is the Southern" ballot-box and the 'doors and windows therein represent the secret openings that the Democrats have : constructed in their laws and ballot-boxes to permit-fraud and ballot-box stuffing. The riders are the fellows who have been going to Congress from the South by means of the ballot box machine, j The : storm that gathered was a Presidential campaign and the blazing star was Theodora Roosevelt ris ing from; the Northeast. "the hailstones were- Republican ballots which covered uf everything and pelted the life out of the three beasts, and destroyed all their riders; The-fact that you were not de- efewtf is Virobablvue to your: having been reading the Yellow Jacket recently; and have: been getting' your eyes open "to the " enormity ' of the crime of 'political plunder ; that your iarty is committing by being led by such a character as Tom Taggart and being a party to all the sins that have been committed in the South since the war. - r Mr. Editor, Pete admits that there is something realistic in my interpretation of his vision and he says.if be.is bothered with "any more similar dreams he '11 be dadgummed if he don't leave tjhe -Democratic party before the storm; hits it. I have interpreted Pete's dream, in great haste but. I feel" sure that I Jiave stuck to the subject pretty closely" and that the conclusions are fairly drawn. If the shoe1 pinches it is Pete's fault, not mine. He had no business to dream such a dream and furthermore he had less business to come to me jvith it for an interpretation. But in conclusion, I would say that if any of "the Democratic: readers of the Yellow Jacket are troubled with unpleas ant dreams, perhaps you had. better look . well into the kind of political diet you are feeding yourselves upon. . You must keep straight to enjoy a dear con science. Yon can ?t ride into office npon. the beast of fraud without suffering sooner or later with the bellyache of vinpnioTinn A t H 1 r -m n v - loon tf IVHTSIf dreams than Pete Snipes. It may wind up with the real thing. Be a Republican, or a Democrat, or a Socialist, or whatever vou wilL but whatever you are be decent. ELI TUCKER. I : " The Mississinni triIr -,i . ilJiams,- gayly caparisoned Sd IcuS up didoes. x - . uia2 "Col Henrr Patterson, the veter- n Animn.1 tampr fppinr vom i i er 7 o uuuuks of .',,1,1 doctrine .to a group of subjugated eating southern panthers. e "Bosco Tillman. . 'He eats 'em aliv especially the colored ones.' ' -"Empty -cage which 'formerly eon tained the rate bill dodo and the ant trust auk, two exceedingly rare bird1" now missing. Believed to have been stolen by a rival organization. ' ' EDITORIAL NOTES. we have often stated one of th beauties of being a Democrat is the privil ege of voting for what youodon't AVaut . , o Every fellow who wants to see a Demo crat elected to Congress this year either wants an office or has. a friend whom he wants to see get one. - o 'What is there against William .Jen. nings for President V9 inquires a Demo cratic "news breaker." Well, Katy did, one thing is that a majority of the voters have twice said they didn't v-nnt him. The 'IBig Show."- , When you read in the papers on the morning following the Srrival of Col. Wil liam Jennings Bryan at New York yon may expect to see something like the fol lowing, provided vplans materialize v as they have begun. This is about how the correspondent of the Banner of Liberty will describe iti "August 29. Nothing in the history of our fair city has equalled the grand street parade given by the United Democratic Shows along the main street to-day. De-" scription is beggared by the glorious glit tering gorgeous pageant wending its way from the steamboat landing to the show lot up on Madison square. Enormous tableau cars bearing burdens of stylishly attired lady and gentlemen performers, comical clowns, sun-bright chariots, miles of ferocious domestic animals hungrily surveying the surging crowds and rare freaks "from every clime made up a spec tacle the like of which nevsc had been seen in this community within the recol lection of the oldest inhabitant. "When compared to this the displays offered by the Big Sell and Faux Pas cir cuses, which showed here 'in 1896, and again in 1900, fade into insignificance, while no one thinks of putting in the same category the feeble open-air exhibition made by the A. B. Parker dime museum, which, as may be recalled went to pieces a little less than two years ago, and was attached by Sheriff T. Roosevelt to satis fy claims -against it. We learn on good authority that the proprietor of that at traction, whose name is either Albert Par ker or Alton Parker (but which your re porter could not learn) is attached to the magnificent enterprise now "in our midst in the capacity of a canvasman. "Your correspondent sends the follow ing account of the order of the parade: "Solid gold band wagon containing the celebrated Eighteen Carat band, formerly the W. J. Bryan silver cornet band, play ing popular airs. Your reporter noticed a tremendous rush of newly signed per formers to get on the wagon.. In the scramble several of the old wind instru mentalists, who formerly had prominent places, got-shoved off. Senator Jones, the Arkansas bass drummer, was among those who suffered this sad fate. After he fell off the wagon ran over' him. ..His place was prominently taken by G. Cleveland, bass tuba. - "A. Belmont, piccolo, and Bourke Cock ran, trombone soloist, were amojig the new players who attracted attention. . There were also many encomiums, for the band master. Prof. Nathan Strauss, who -succeeded Prof. George Fred Williams of Massachusetts, he latter having been de posed for leading non-union concerts. "Large catafalque, bearing the em balmed remains of Jeffersonian Princi ples. Positively; the most perfectly pre served mummy in existence, a-connecting link between the antiquity of the dead past and the live issues for the day. v . "Open tank, containing Joe Bailey, the ! blood-sweating behemoth of constitutional writ. The most ponderous zoological ex hibit alive. ' ; V Steel-barred den cctaming rthe "fa-, mous Taggart tiger recently captured in the jungles of French Lick Springs, Ind., and7 now, for the first time, seen in a cage. Lives exclusively on, poker' chips and makes constant efforts to escape to its native fastnesses. - - . According to high Democratic author ity the issue of free silver is not dead. xuc ixvi&y viiiu.g is aiuiyiy atauuiilg Oil the side track, with the wheels dry and rusty, but ready, on short notice, to be hooked onto the Bryan Bullgine and car ried shrieking off down the Presidejitial track to the utter disgust of the "travel ing" public. o. John Sharp Williams, the Democratic leader in the Ho.use of Representatives, used to occupy a room in the Metropolitan' Hotel adjoining that of Judge Tate, of Georgia. One evening Williams was dressing himself to attend a fashionable dinner. -He had a lively wrestle .with his collar and another with his tie but he finally got them adjusted, whereupon he went bolting into Judge Tate 's room and said, "How do I look?" -"Really, John1 replied the Judge, "I think you would look much better if you would put your trousers on." Say, Mr. Democratic candidate for Con gress, if you want to set in motion a regular ' stampede among " the boys to vote for somebody, why don't you remind your audiences of the blooming good times we had under the last Democratic ad--ministration? Why don't you remind the old forgetful farmers of what fabulous prices they received for their stuff along then? Why don't you refresh all our minds of the great "demand for labor and how easy it was to pay debts and lay up money and wear good clothes in tiiosa good old Cleveland timesT llad't though of it, had you? a- We are sending out a few copies oi this issue of the -Yellow Jacket to tiu ad dresses of those who were on our list a few years ago, but for some cause or other have failed to renew. Boys, we invite you to join our crew of readers again. We are still firing it at 'em, -and have been ever since you dropped out of our ranks. We are trying to make improvements on the Yellow Jacket from time to time, and it will inspire us to do more than ever to have you enlist again. Place three ita in a letter and direct it to us and we'll put you something warm, and worth your you on our roll for another year, and give money many times over. JTo. Republicans. We are anxious to have every Repubn-. can- in close touchy and working in har mony with the Republican National Con gressional Committee in favor of the elec tion of a Republican Congress. The Congressional campaign mu " based "on . the administrative and legisla tive record of the party, and, that being so, Theodore -Roosevelt's personality must be a central figure and' his achievements a central thought inthe campaign. . - We desire to maintain the work of tins campaign with the popular subscription of One Dollar each from Republicans. To each subscriber we will send the he pnblican National Campaign Text Boo and all documents issued.by the Commit tee . .;.,V - Help us to achieve a great victory. JAMES S. SHERMAN, Chairman, p: O. Box 2063, New Yon- ' v CLUB RATES FOUR SUBS 1.00. ".V .
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