The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03
Knew the sound too well.

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quell;
He rushed into the field and foremost fight
ing fell"
! SO Teddy knew too well the familiar
aroma of his partner, and rushing for
ward pulled Steb. off the stove.
you've spoiled the stove" said
Lou E. mournfnlly. But the
weak-minded little man scraped the
top of the stove with his pen-knife
and fed the cat Never before had
Steb. afforded so much nnalloyed en-
/ joyment to any living thing as he then
did to that cat.
George Reed got down on all tours
and tried to roia the cat But he fail
ed. The eat knew him.
The convention voted down the
Judges third resolution alem cor.
Steb's disaster absorbed all minds.
At this point tile weak-lninded little
man lifted up something and set it
squarely on its pins on the counter.
Good Lord J. cried Il farmer from
Lakeville, whats that -
THAT 5 Tom Thumb said @ Eureka
man.
cts one Of the Midgets. 1scried q
OreeliVaie man.
Its Jack the Giant Killer said
another.
No faint. said the weak one,
Its cousin Fred Fred make EN- a
speech"
Fellow citizens saueaked cousin
Fred. when eur Dan wrote me from
Winona that the fifty per cent was in
70 10
and made EN- u rousing speech Two
more such speeches as that would
have killed Donnelly deader than a
smelt. But unfortunately it was cleo
ton morning. / was like Talleyrand' S
description OF she woman's ball dress,
Il began too late and ended too soon. ;,
[ said to myself in the words of the
infants epitaph.
IF 80 soon that I am done for.
What on earth was begun for.''
ssBut, gentlemen, hereafter there
will be no more holding me in. /
know my worth. 1t runs in the blood
to know their worth. Hereafter I
shall take the stump at every election
and proclaim the great principles of
the Peoples Party. -
A voice here cried. .sWhat are
thevs'
.'The--the-great principles of the
Peoples Party Of Dakota county
and the--yes and the superiority Of
tire great sAnglo-SaxoR Race. s5ensa-
/ tion. wherever the Alglo-Saxon race
goes it is the master race, whether in
England or India, Ireland or America.
+ Here there was Il disturbance in the
crowd.) The mission OF the People 5
Party is to establish that same supe-
rioriLy here in Dakota county, There
are brains enough-Anglo Saxon
brains l might add,--in two dry
goods stores In Hastings, that / could
mention, to run the politics of the
state. That's what told EN- at Yer
million Station What we want is to
put on orr banners the grand old
maxim, NO IRISH NEED AP-
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.Ghildren sksaG fools tell the truth, y
said d tall, gooa-looking Irishman,
] look, formerly from Manitoba; and
with that he grabbed cousin Fred by
the nape of the neck and muttering
stake that, you little 1nanikin !" he
flung him heels over head to the far-
Their end Of the store.
The truth Of history compels ts to
tell the whole Of this mournful story
We do 50 with reluctance.
Steb partially sobered by the stove
had retired, far from the maddine
crowd, to a corner, where with The
aid of a looking glass ha. was ssss.:,
engaged ex ari;1.i ,:y::t:.: :.ter. 1f:t.e
injuries he: a:d: :a::st:a:aet-' teddy
standing by. tn. while, ana ho!.sn., Z
/ :'stebIi SAID :T'a:d,y; .'dv y'olr Know
| why you are Like Shakespeare > play
ers
No" moaned Steb.
"Because, said Teddy, t.vou art
holding the mirror up to nature. -
don t--don't" cried Steb. 'ithis i:
no time for conundrums.
Now when the vigorous arm of tn,
Manitoban sent cousin Fred fiyine
through the air, like q boomerang OF
stuffed clab, he described a curv'
. and coming head first struck Steb
tamidships: and Steb. who was in
, stopping position. sat down promptl-
on the looking glass, worse damages
than before. Not even the cat profit
II cd by this new disaster.
Teddy wiped his eyes and exciaim
. ed.
''This is the end Of ulan;--to-day he put
; forth
The tender leaves Of hope; tomorrow bios
SONS,
And bears his blushing honors thick upo
! him-
The third day comes a stove, cruel STOW
t And, -when he thinks, good easy man, fl
+ surely
: His greatness is aripening- his root
And then he falls as Steb does; never to ri
again
Vain pomp and glory Of the world [ hate Y
feel my heart new opened. =
s ssBlow out the candle, Teddy, sal
Steb. "blow out the candle and i