Who Kissed Billy Judson?

WHO KISSED BILLY JUDSON?

A Historical Scene After a Recent Convention

A STRIKING OCCURENCE

Which May Give Rise to a Saying Which May Pass From the Ages of Time.

Who kissed Billy Judson?

Billy Judson is the Hobson of Michigan politics.

"Who struck Billy Patterson?" must now give way to the saying, "Who kissed Billy Judson?"

For Billy Judson has been kissed, not by a bevy of young and gushing schoolgirls, not by a Carrie Nation, nor by a sedate matron, nor by a little child, but Billy Judson has been kissed. Kissed by a man whose name is known in Maine, in Texas, in California and of course in Michigan. It was not a conventional or perfunctory kiss, but a good square old-fashioned hearty kiss.

Did Billy blush? Who knows? He has been called the Red Chieftain. Was he red then? Who knows?

But who kissed Billy Judson? Gen. Russell A. Alger, ex-secretary of war, ex-commander of the Grand Army, and at present by an act of Providence, the grace of Gov. Bliss and the activity of Billy Judson, United States senator from Michigan.

When and where was Billy Judson kissed? Immediately after the passage of the resolution at the republican judicial convention in Grand Rapids, which made Gen. Alger the choice of Billy Judson and his satellites, the republican party, for United States senator. After the stormy time at the convention had come to a successful issue, Judson carried the good news to Alger. He went to the hotel and up to Gen. Alger's room. Gen. Alger threw both arms around him and - kissed him fairly and squarely on the mouth.

This story is told only on the best authority. It is history.

Now we know who kissed Billy Judson.