People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — Chickens Getting Home. [ARTICLE]

Chickens Getting Home.

It will be remembered that Cobb of Alabama was the congressman who got so drunk that he had to ask the speaker “where was I at,” which incident Mr. Watson wrote up in his

campaign book and caused the phrase tohave a run all over the country. A committee was appointed to investigate Mr. Watson's charge of drunkenness on the part of members, and Boatner of Louisiana, who was chairman, acted the part of prosecuting officer instead of judge, and did his best to have Watson expelled, but failed. Now, Boatner was deprived of his seat a few weeks ago on account of the gross frauds by which he obtained it; and now Cobb has been unseated and Goodwin, one of the leading populists of Alabama, declared elected. Justice has been a little slow with these fellows, but it finally got them in good style.—McDuffie (Georgia) Enterprise.