OF THE TOWN POLITICAL
E COCK BY MUG- WUMP.
Alas! Alas! the clay:
That this most mournful lay
I now am called upon to write:—
Perhaps you may have heard
About Will Foster’s bird
That recently was upset quite.
I mean, that brilliant rooster
That all of us know, use ter
Look through the glass at Foster’s store.
Alas! lie’s badly ’‘played out
In fact he’s surely ‘ laid out,”
Indeed my friends he is '‘no more.”
Did hill (McKinley) knock him?
Or Bill (force) badly shock him ?
Did Grand Pa Williams hut crush out his
little game?
Ah I hero were causes enemy
That spoiled the little game he
Had of living on G O. lVs gamecock all
the same.
On Wednesday night he rallied
Hut when more votes were tallied
Ills name seemed numbered with the dead
He staggered, giving warning
That’twas “all up \ ’—and the morning
Found him calmly standing on bis bead.
Had bo only crowed for Grover.
Ho might have lived in clover
Through many, many, many, many, years.
But be mixed up with the tariff
And we Mugwumps do not cure if
Wo have to shed those fuucraliflc tears.
Other things came unexpected
With Harrison not elected,
That whitewash wegave to poor Bucknell
I am sure could he hut know
Ho would flap his wings and crow ;
Sounding out his final college yell.
OF THE PRESIDENT AND
'RESS OVER THE MILITIA.
uccasions of the calling out of the citi
■v in several Stales makes it of some in-
THE FREE LANCE.
terest to the public at large to know how and un
der what circumstances it maybe done.
A few words may be prefaced as to what consti
tutes the army of the United States. The army
may be divided into two great divisions—the reg
ulars and the militia, the former being generally
known as the “standing army,” the latter as the
“citizen soldiery.”
The Constitution of the United States has the
following clauses with reference to the army and
militia (the land forces):
Art. I, Sec. 8, Clause 1. The Congress shall
have power to lay and collect taxes * * * to
provide for the common defense and general wel
fare of the United States.
Sec. 8, Clause 14. To make rules for the gov
ernment and regulation of the land and naval for-
Sec. 8, Clause 15. To provide for calling forth
the militia to execute the laws of the Union, sup-
press insurrection and repel invasions.
Sec. 8, Clause 16. To provide for organizing,
arming and disciplining the militia, and for gov
erning such part of them as may be employed in
the service of the United States, reserving to the
States respectively the appointment of the officers
and the authority of training the militia according
to the discipline prescribed by Congress.
Sec. 10, Clause 2. * * * No State shall
without the consent of Congress, * * * keep
troops or ships of war in time of peace, * * *
or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in
such imminent clanger as will not admit of delay.
Art. If, Sec. 2, Clause 1. The President shall
be Commander in Chief of the Army of the Uni
ted Stat s, and of the Militia of the several States
when called into the actual service of the United
States.
Art. 111, Sec. 4, Clause 1. The United States
shall guarantee to every State in this Union a re
publican form of government, and shall protect
each of them against invasion, and on application
Sec. 8, Clause 12. To raise and support ar-