Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1890 — Why Allen Is Cailed ???" [ARTICLE]

Why Allen Is Cailed ???"

This is the way, says the Boston Herald, Private Joho All*«<, the ccngressional wit, got his title: He run for Congress in Mississippi against General Tucker, who opened <ie campaign with a rhetorical ill usion to his service in the war, describing a battle in which he had commanded the confederates, sleeping in a tent on the mountain side on the night of the bnttle. When he had linished Allen got up and said: ‘jFriends and fellowcitizens, it’s all true what General Tucket* told you about his sleeping in his tent that night before the battle. I know all about it, for I was guarding that tent all night long in the cold and wet on picket. And now I ju3t w&nt to say to you who were generals in the war and slept at nights in your gdarded tents like General Tucker, vote for him. But all you follows that guarded the generals’ tepts In the wet and cold like me, you vote for ‘Private Allen.’” Private Allen was elected.