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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 16 January 1931, Page 3

A 'good story of the election aftermath is told in the United States wherever two or three Democrats arc gathered together. One of (he defeated Republican candidates decided to look for a new j,oh, and offered himself to a circus proprietor, who engaged him to replace an ape which had died. The ape’s skin had been preserved, and all tlie applicant had to do was to step into it and live in the ape’s cage. To his horror he found that he was not the only occupant, for a lion lay asleep in the far corner. The wretched Republican shrieked in a vain attempt to attract the proprietor’s attention, hut the only effect was to wake tlie lion, which advanced towards him, raised a paw and struck him on the face. "Don’t make such a din you fool,” said the lion, “you’re not. the only defeated Republican candidate.” — “Peter Simple,” in the “Morning Post.”