Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1886 — A Campaign Story with a Point. [ARTICLE]

A Campaign Story with a Point.

In one of his speeches recently delivered in Pennsylvania, Mr. Blaine pointed a moral as to the advantages the Deffiocrats have in the “solid South,” with this little parable: A Southerner said to a Northern man, “Let us play a game of billiards for the next President il election two years hence —4Ol points,” just the number of electors that is. 1 Laughter. J So they went down to the Fifth Avenue Hotel to settle the election two years in advance. The Southern* r took up a cue —I go on the presumption that yon all know the game—and said, “Well, i will count off 153 points in this game; those are mine without playing them-” 1 Great merriment.] He added, “I will have to get only 48, while you have to get 201.” (Renewed laughter and applause.] “I confess, gentlemen,” added Mr. Blaine, “that I am utterly at a loss to denounce the fraud and the wrong which is so well illustrated by that story.”