Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1886 — “That Reminds Us.” [ARTICLE]

“That Reminds Us.”

The Democracy started out with the warcry, “Turn the rascals out!” That was.rich. Mr. Cleveland declared, “a public office is a public trust.” In thg light of after events this was luscious. Then he declared no official would be removed without cause, and refuses to furnish to the body that must act on the cases the causes tor the removals and suspensions. This is immense. He has secured the hatred of the mugwumps, the dislike of the Jacksonian Democrats, and brought dbwn on his head the wrath of the most powerful and influential journals of his own party. This is good. He has split np and. hopelessly divided his own party on the silver and tariff questions. As Abraham Lincoln would have said, this reminds us of an old story. A sleight-of-hand performer reached a certain town autL advertised his entertainment. When came the show opened to an audience composed of two sailors who carried a poll-parrot. The ambidexterous artist was a man of nerve, however, and decided to go ahead. „ He opened out with a startling optical illusion. „One sailor nudged the other and whispered, “That’s good. Jack! Wonder what will come next?" Then other performances followed, and the sailor each time showed his appreciation by exclaiming, “Infernal good, Jack! Wonder what’s next?” Finally there was a grand transformation scene, with red, white, and bine lights, in which a spark dropped down in a keg of powder under the stage, nnd stage, performers, and audience were blown up a hundred feet in the air—the duly thing possessing life that i was not killed being the parrot. It was landed a hundred yards from the scene, and, with its feathers all turned the wrong way, its eyes filled with powder, and generally demoralized, it lifted its drooping head, and feebly and hoarsely croaked, “That’B d—d good! Wonder what comes next?”—Chicago Ttibune. ■ ■■ ■ The President will find the Senate a very difficult body to bulldoze. He will be glad to sublet the contract before the bloom is oh the Tje.—Philadtlphia Press.