The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-10
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q Fair Sketch Of an Animal that il II
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| e Dallas (Texas) Herald.
I La every political common you will see
the. old war horses browsing peaeefuhy.
His hair is unkempt, his clothes seedy, bis
face full of stubble beard aand warehouse
redness, as ever. He doesn't take asmaay
drinks per diem as when there is canvass
tgoing on. E His anxiety about the party
was as great as ever, though, and be seems
oppressed with the idea that II will take
all that he can do to save the city, the
county and the state from goingto she bad
The degeneracy of the times, too, Is tell
ing on the war horse, and his only comfort
| is in chewing tobacco and squirting Q
stream Of juice to the right and left, and
/ wandering about among the public Offices
! and those Of, his friends IN, -s51.- 8: .r.,.q.
Seeing him leaning pensiYely against
the lamp post, a Herald reporter spoke to,
him. ~ g-i.-.n -sa... IN -rn.i 5ya.E
| GOOD morning, squire; beastly cold,
isn't it = -...=,..,.. -.
l The war-horse changed the quid Of to-
} bacco into the other side of his month,
blew his nose with his fingers, as an Old
war. horse should, took off his hat, fumbled
in thetop of it for dingy red silk pocket
handkerchief, and blew blast like the
snort Of hippopotanlus, -.
L believe you, said he. ms.
What do you think of the future of
Dallas, 'squireY' a u af.i."J 5tt
The old gentleman shook his head and
. said a;s E c1 I-t g- sz..r g
''The railroads, sir, have ruined the
country. sir ruined it. Dallas don't begin
to be the place she was twenty years ago
These new tangled people with their tom
foolery have played the devil, sir, with the
. country. 1t amt fit to live in no longer.
Lord, Lord, the times have seen in this
, here town. In my time, the boys of a
summer night could sleep in the square,
and man with a fiddle could scrape up
dance, and get the boys and girls for miles
to ride in for dance, but nowhere
= squirted literally with tobacco Juice and
turned up his nose, Il don't take no inter
lest in nothing now: my party amt dons
1.-THE square thing by we old ones, as hal
\ been carrying aloft the banner for year.
> and working in the harness till we was al
of lather. Now, mind you, I don't com
plain, if the party will elect men to Office
5 some on EN-, too, as hasn't been here ever
twenty years. I can't help it, | have livet
a Dimmyerat, and damme Ill die Dim
:, mycrat, you hear me? By the way. di
- you see what the Waxahachie Bugle- Hor
of Liberty said about me? I'll just lr
you one thing, the papers in this deestrie
81 ain toting fair with me-, They are a
ways mentioning this man and that mar
EaH~sver done nothing for the Dlmnlycra
J, larty nor the Amerikin people. and don
x>,l Al
care cuss, you know, but it hurts m
Feelings to see the papers noticing and
ipuHing fellows, that amt beginning TO b
Herald has always been mighty neighbour,
though have differed with it often, an
have often felt 1t duty owed to til
! Dmmyerat party to lend it my aid and il
huence. Here lately. though, the Heral
folks amt said much about me. The pre-
is the palladium Of our liberties, and Il
great bulwark of freedom: sir, the hone
lyeomanure of the land look to it to infor
them of how its leading men stand, L
Is. me see, I've been reading the Herald f
twenty years. although have never su
| scribed, as my political enemies would q
have hesitated to charge collision up,
me, and branded the Herald as my orga
am done with politics. Gov. Coke is
1good man; so is John Cochran, but if
was iu the legislature should throw L
entire influence towards eniarging t
sica sphere of the press by a judicious graft
BILE tous distribution Of the Herald ,amo
those who. like me, have stood by it
twenty years. s-r.sf.
Squire, do you propose retiring frt
the political arena 2" 90
SWELL, yes Ireckon so. have felt it
.lduty always to place myself in the han
! of my friends. and they have very of,
submitted my claims to the people. I
people have decided as often against u
- and, as freeman, bow to the will of I
- people. ....-.
THE excitement of politics is very
use.) hiliaratinp, is it not?'
L. Nightly so; powerfully exciting.
fact is. when don t see my name in
Herald now and then gets fdgety.
feel that the people are forgetting me, I
g.. | either get up meeting. just to get
n chance to mash the Republican party
q" the efete despotisms of Europe and asl
u ish the boys, or look out for something
N the Herald don't like and write an int
~ nant protest The excitement of this
Of thing will run me until the people bt
, NEW to doze again, when come for 'em aga
allied Don't you see" and here the war b.
It and scrambled into the street car and was
rings to view. i