People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1896 — Has Yellow Abscesses. [ARTICLE]

Has Yellow Abscesses.

effectiveness of ridicule has always been recognized as one of the most powerful of arguments, and it is also understood to be the resort of the champion of a cahse that argument wont save. Ridicule seems to be the burden of the speeches made by the talented Hon. Simon P. Thompson, candidate circuit judge, but it is barely possible that he has overestimated the tremendous force of his illustrations, and that hi§’description of the free silver man may be a boomerang in his hands. When a political teacher has to resort to calling his apponents idiots, and characterizing them as a class as beneath his notice, he has reached the desperate conclusion that he cannot answer their arguments, Mr. Tqompson only last week facetiously described the silver man as being readily recognized by the imbecil expression of his face. He very funnily attributes to him an extreme narrowness between the eydfe and an entire absence of any cranial cavity for gray matter, the skull, being drawn to conical point like the hat of a Mexican peon. There is not a doubt as to the heroic size of brother Thompson’s head but it is not filled with gray (silver) matter to any serious extent, for it is honeycombed through and through with yellow (gold) abscesses that smell loudly to the nostrils of the debt ridden farmers ot this judicial district.