Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — THE WOMEN KILLED HIM. [ARTICLE]

THE WOMEN KILLED HIM.

Colonel Bain Anderson's Theory for the Defeat of Breckinridge. Inter Ocean. Colonel Bain Anderson, of Kentucky, who is now in the city on his way to New York, was asked last night what effect he thought the defeat of Breckinridge would have in his State. The old gentlemen looked about, found a cuspidor, spat in it, pulled his beard, and replied: “I gad, sah, it will teach an important lesson, that even in Kentucky it is becoming dangerous to get caught.” “Bid you oppose the colonel?” “Who, me? Well, I didn’t until a few weeks ago. Upto that time I was strong in favor of him.” “And some new proof changed your mind, eh?” “Well.! can’t say that it was a proof. I will say, though, that it was stronger than proof. It was a woman. You see, lam a widower, without children, without moral responsibilities of any sort, and I didn’t see why Bill shouldn’t go to Congress about as long as he wanted to; but I gad sah, a woman that lives near Paris changed my mind. For a long time I have been after her to marry me. and she has been putting me off. But a few weeks ago I met her and she told me that if I would work against the colonel she would marry me as soon as the election was over. And then I took off my coat and fit Billy about as hard as man was ever fit. I gad, sah, it was the women of my State that killed the colonel.”

The new two-cent internal revenue stamp, which under the new tariff law must be attached to every pack of playing cards is only for temporary use, until the regular stamp is ready for issue. It therefore promises to be exceedingly rare, and the stamp coHteetors are all buying packs of playing in order to get one.