Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — BABY M’KEE’S GOAT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BABY M’KEE’S GOAT.

SAID TO BE A VICIOUS THOROUGHBRED. The President’ll Grandson Expresses • Longing Desire for a Little Red Wagon and an Animal of the Goat Kind—Senatorial Fighters. Another Resignation Rumor.

WASHINGTON correspond - ence: Another resignation rumorls abroad this time which seems to be founded upon fact. Kw. It does not involve either Mr. Blaine or the President, but instead a member of the official family whose f u n ct i ons. I ornamental, are quite indismrrrtrTTjn- pensable to the .■u,.—- President. This sif]rlltlme Is th o PresiII J 1 1 dent’s squint-eyed II 11 * coachman, "Willis,”

and it was all brought about because of a Harlem goat which Baby McKee acquired recently. A week ago Baby McKee suddenly formed an idea that he wanted to drive out on his own account, and concluded that a bearded goat and a red waeon would bo about the proper soit of turnout. When he suggested the scheme to his illustrious gi uiiufather, the latter vetoed it, but there went up such a wail at once that Baby McKee —who, by the way, is an infant industry old enough to be spunked Instead of encourag d—was g.venhlsway, and one of the liverlei servants of the executive mansion was sent out into tho hedges ami the highways, commissioned to a< quire a sadeyed William goat with unimpaired digestion, a creditable Imperial, and which would drive well hitched to a red wagon. Such a goat was found to bo a commodity only in tho Harlem market, and one was bought and Installed, a day or so ago, in the Presidential stable at the dictation of the grandson. It Is believed that th, purchase of the goat in New Yoik was a shrewd political move to strong!hi n tho administration. It Is said on the authority of a gentleman who is quite id ar to the Administration —being a doorkeeper—that tho purchase of tho gout was Hibcusbi d in a Cabinet meeting: Secretary Tracy proposed a Brooklyn goat and said that very vivacious and Intelligent goats nbouuded in Brooklyn. I’ost‘mast >y-Genenrt Wunaniaker proposed an Angora goat. I’nisidt nt Harrison objected that it would be unpattriotlc to Import a foreign goat. All the members of tho cabinet then agreed that It would excite the antagonism of the goat industry of tho United States to bring a goat from abroaif. Secretary Rusk, speaking for the Agricultural Department, thought It would bo wise to get a goat with long whiskers, like Senator Peffer’s. Secretary of War Elkins

proposed tq buy a goat in Harlem, which ho said would strengthen the Harlem Republican Club and make the administration popular in Now York City. Tho president and a’l the members of tho Cabinet indorsed Secretary Elkins* ideas. A confidential agent of the administration was sent to Harlem, and he bought a promising goat of the owner of a goat farm on the rocks north of Central Park

It happened that when the goat arrived "Willis," the coachman, had taken the President’s Cleveland bays and gone out for a drive. By an inadvertence of one of the servants the goat was not assigned to any particular suite in the presidential stables, but allowed to ramble around at his own sweet will and feed on lap-robes, harness and other luxuries- which had been denied him in Harlem. When "Willis" returned and opened the barn door the William goat resented his appearance. He bleated loudly, stood on his head once or twice and prepared to greet the coachman. When the greeting was over “Willis" was worse for the wear. By the aid of one of hie staff ho managed finally to lock the goat in an empty stall, and next proceeded to take an inventory of the supplies of the stable. He found two or three boxes of axle grease grfpe, the harness chewed up in a frightful manner, and an old mackerel kit, in which he hod a stock of lins cd oil, had been drained of its contents and upset. “Willis” instituted an inquiry at once to learn how the goat happened to be 'installed in the barn, and when he learned the true cause he went into a case of sulks and hasn’t got over it yet. "Willis” has submitted an ultimatum customary with high officials when they threaten to resign, that the President must cither accept the resignation of his hated rival, the William goat, or the coachman’s.

Senatorial Fighters. The Northwest has two Senatorial fighters. These are men whose Hv<»e have been spent in the wildest parts of the frontier and who have grown strong with fighting among the Indians and the desperadoes. I refer to Senator George Shoup of Idaho and Senator Wilbur F. Sanders of Montana. Shoup Is a tall, straight, broad-shouldered, blue-eyed man. There Is no hair on the top of his head and he has not even a scalp lock. He lost his hair naturally, however, and he has had a number of scrapes where he might have lost It to the Indians. Born in the East, he started out for Pike’s Peak when he was 22 yeais old, and during the war he was one of the independent scoyts of the Colorado volunteers. A large part of his career during the war was as a scout, and he has known well the Indians and desperadoes of the West. .He is now at the head of the Indian Affairs Committee, and he has been Governor of Idaho and left the executive chair to take his seat in the Senate. Senator Sanders is noted as having rid Montana of the noted gang of ruffians which overran the Northwest some years ago. He was at the head o’ the vigilants and has a number of times looked death in the face. He has made many a speech in his State with his pistol in his pocket, and while he was speak ng pistols have come out before his eyes in the hands of his audience. During the rebellion he was in the army as a soldier from Ohio, aad it was through fail ng health that he had to resign end go West. In the camp where he settled there was a band of Southern sympathizers, and these undertook to haul down the stars and stripes from the flagpole in the public square with the idea of raising the stars and bars. As they caught hold of the rope Sanders, who was standing near by, pulled out a revolver and said to them: “No one shall haul that flag down while I live." The mob looked at the flag and then at the revolver and into the eyes of the determined young man who held it, anJ they decided to let the flag stand.

BABY M'KÈ AND HIS GOAT