Life — November 9, 1893 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“ PooR LITTLE REGGIE! DRUNK AND CARRIED TO THE STATION-HOUSE.” “YES, RUT WHAT WOUNDS HIS PRIDE 1S THAT THEY MADE THE POLICE-MATRON PUT HIM TO BED.” HE Jeffersonian chicken has a good right to crow over Silver Repeal. Not because the Democrats in Con- gress were responsible for its victory, but because the most Jeffersonian and most prominent Democrat in the country insisted upon Repeal. If President Cleveland had wavered or weakened in the slightest degree, the trimmers and com- promisers, backed up by the Populist cranks, would have been masters of the situation. Once more Mr. Cleveland has shown himself worthy of the trust reposed in him by the people. Democrats of the Tammany and David Pot-house Hill kind are always ac- cusing him of posing as better than his party. If this posing consists in his sticking out for sound currency and refusing to be governed by Democratic politicians, the people approve of it. The fact is that Mr. Cleveland isa truer Jeffersonian and a truer Democrat than any of his c Therefore, let the Jef- fersonian chicken rejoice and sound high its clarion of victory. comicbooks.com