Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1888 — The Red Bandana. [ARTICLE]

The Red Bandana.

The red bandana which has been so quickly <.s the standard of the democracy,and which promises to play a picturesque and conspicuous part in the coming campaign, first came prominently into public vie v during Judge T urman’s service at Washington. It was a l uge affair, of the brightest scarlet, and was generally stuffed into the breast pocket of his coat or into his hip pocket. The judge was an habitual snuff taker, and after »e galing himself with a big pinch from his capacious snuff-box wp’d pull out bis bandana and sound a blast that would shame an able bodied bassoon. Another use to which the bandana was put was somewhat malicious. When a friend, iike Edmunds, Mrtt. Carpenter, Conkling or Bayard, was talking, Judge Thurman carefully refrained from sending out that distracting snort, but when some senator of smaller calibre was speaking, especially one fond of spread-eagle rhetoric and eloquent addresses to the gallery, the bandana wou’d appear at some particularly brilliant point and a blast would be sounded that would knock out the flow of eloquence and scattec the speaker’s fine rhetoric. —Philadelphia Record.