Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-09-09
A SOLD POLITICIAN.

Politics, though by many reduced to an
almost infailibe science, now and then
do fall through, mos, essentially and rid.
iculnusly, too, as we shall have occasion
10 show. Some years ago, when the fe.
yer for office was raging in the various
wards of New York city, the well.known,
wide-awake German musician, Max 70.
RER, relates that he go, very unexperte fly
in the political arena as an electioneerer.
'Une day. says Max, Il vas kom down
town, an meets a gentleman vat vos
know some two or three yare; ave nol
see him for some time, an he says
'Ah! ar. Zorair, how you do 2
I say poo y WE'LL lie den say
Il am very glal to see you Mr.. Zorair
i won't 10 speak one word vid you; sup.
pose we take a walk 2
Veil, yees,' say, Il will 60 leete vais
wild you; vat for, sair,' eh un he say
'' will tell you somting, we go in here
and ave somting to take
Well we go in place anu have some.
ting To drink, un he say
Mr.. Zorair won't to tell you somting.'
Vert veil, say, un link to himself
vot the difel he wont to say could no,
link, so / say, 'veri veil, sair.'
Den sair,' he say, 4 tell you somtiug
suppose we take q drink, Mr.. Zorar!'
and say
'Veri well, SIR un tink vot de difels
ee won't
Now, Mr.. Zorair,' he say, Il tell you
somling, wont YOU TO lec,ionaif for met
Mine Got! = Isay--Iectionair p
Yes, sair, l nm going to run for Mag.
israto; | won't you to lec1ionair like dc
d'lel for me !!
| vos ,stonish, you see ! I never lee.
tionair in mine life. | do not like poll
tics, no way, all e'lime. 'Sair,' | say, j
can do noting
oh yes, sair, you can; toll you
'spose we take somting to drink?
'Veri veil, l say, den we drink some
more.
Now tell you, he say, 'you can
speak ver fast, you can speak veil You
see | can speak veil wild ze Irish; drink
wild dem and get der votes, you see, all
de time, easy; | no speak German: de
ward ish plenty German-you know mos,
all of.dem 2
YES say.
Den wont you to lectionaire for me
like de dlfel among the German; den do
somting for you som odder time, Mr.
Zorair.'
/ say tink it over, see 10 morrow,
bime-by. Veil, we take anodder drink,
he call up some more tellers, we all drink
drink like de di(el so it vos most night
van 60 home un my wife, she ask we're
| been all day and get so full ov beer
say noting, go to bed, l wake up in de
mornlns nit headache in mine head
like de difels. | stay home all day. Mr..
Bunkum he kome see me; he say vos
holin ward meetin dat night, un | mus
KUN I'm leclionair for him.
mine Gott, Isay, 'vot can do!'
He say snever mind Zorair, you kun
un tell you vot to do. You go to you,
German friends, you call EN- all out to
night, dere is somtng for .rea. EN- al
nice--you treat dem, you talk nit EN-
you smoke nit em un you tell EN- 10 vote
de hole 'og for Mr.. Bunkum, dat is me
and dat ish vot We call lee ionairin, yor
see :!
say yes see. So I take de twenty
tollars vot he gives me to lectionair, un
say 10 miile wife 'here lsh ten tollars va
| earn for lectionair, here ish anoddel
ten ,oIars vot treat my German friends
un Isay you all KUN down tonight t;
de ward mee,ins un you hear me lection
air, un lo-morrow you can votes foI
yourself as you likes.
! Veil Ileclionairs like de di(els all tay
un dat night my German frients kun
down in great big crowds. un Bunkum
he vos tick led most to death 10 see how
can ectionair, and he den say:
Kun up poys un takes drink me.
'Yaw. yaw. yaw,' dey all say ane
dey drink.
Veil, bime by Mr.. Bunkum, he got up
un he make de great speech, he say h
loves his con,airee, he loves his libairtee
| fights 10 death for m. lie say he love
J de Irish frients, un he say he loves TO Sc