Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-11-17

a a RECONCILIATION CANDIDATE.


SAY, my dear" cJaculated Mr. Spoop-
eEltkr a, be tore into his wlle's room and
dashed hi, hat into the baby, crib "Sa,.
my dear, Wha, do YOU think"
II don't know. replied Mrs. Spoopcn-
d,kc. Il, II something about name for the
bah,,"
"Dod ga.t the bab, :" roarrd Mr. Spoop-
endNke, drawing up char. tits some
thing better than that. have been nom
mated for Mayor on the reconciliation
ticket"
"Why. how many are they going to have"
asked Mr.. Spoopcniyke in some amaze
mrnt. "lherr, Mr. Tracy and General
Kup,, and Judge Slocum and Major How
eli lnd Mr.. Low. and are you 10 be MAYOR
tuu3"
They have all withdrawn in my favor"
>ald Nj, Npoupendy ke, "and they haze put
me forward to reconcile all the conflicting
element, and contrnding factions. fhey
-a, around town that Spoupendlke is the
only man IN BROOKLYN lit for the mayoraIIy.
/ THINK of that
IL don't know about the elements. argued
Mr.. Spoopendy ke. "Do YOU think YOU
could regulate those2 always supposed
the weather Was takeu-
w hat about the weather. What do you
suppose MAYOR Is, anyway? Got an idea
he's dod gasted barometer Think he run,
up and down in u wooden box and points
himself out with q brass thumb? Well he
doesn't. He sits around and takes the
responsibility while other people manage
his office for him. See into il now?"
Certainly" replied Mrs. Spoopendyke.
'And so they can't really agree on anybody
but you2"
III seems so, responded Mr. Spoopen-
dyke. The most respectable delegation IN
the city waited on me to-day and said that
the welfare Of Brooklyn depended on
Spoopendyke.
I'm glad II was respectable, dear because
some of them are not. | saw that the
Jefferson Mclaughlin delegation had their
seats protested"
"You saw" growled Mr.. Spoopendyke.
"lou're always seeing. If you mad one
more eye and sold by the bushel you'd
make first-class potato patch. My del
| egstion was composed of DIR. Talmage and
DIR. Van Dyke, General Tracy and Mr..
| Ropes, Mr.. dunno and Judge Morris Mr..
| Beecher and DIR. Storrs. Mr.. Klnsella and
| Mr.. Mclaughlin, and Mr.. Howell and Mr..
| Low. The chairman was Mr.. Dewitt, and
he SAID that my nomination was the grand
est enterprise ever 'intrusted to the intellect
of man.. Think Of that now"
Isn't that perfectly splendid? | wonder
| if We couldn't get Mr. DE Witt to come a.
round and name the baby. How do you
reconcile all those elements?"
by being mayor, don't YOU understand?
Each one wants his own man, and as he
can't get him they agree on me and in go.
| DIR. Talmage made some eloquent remarks
about me. He said. We nominate YOU, sir,
to perpetuate perpetuity. Down with our
opponents. Let reconcilia ion reign. When
Moses became mayor of the lsraelites he
smashed the tablets! Let Spoopendyke
break the i'll conceived, misbegotten, bigot-
ed, rotten slate Of our adversaries Q.od
erat demonstrdndumr | declare he was
perfectly wild over it,
"What does it mean, that foreign Ian
guage?' asked Mrs. Spoopendyke with
warm interest. at was very good of him
to say it, but don't understand it,
"Quod eraf deaonstrand,na That
means If you expect something and don't
get it, it's all right anyway" explained Mr..
Spoopendyke. ''Dr. Van Dyke followed
him and said that he had spoken with charac-
teristic accuracy and hoped that | would
help IN the viney ard, and something else I've
forgotten. That made Mr.. Talmage cry
..rhe poor man." sympathixed Mrs.
Spoopendyke, 81 don't see how you can
reconcile men who can hurt each others
feelings"
"If he'd hurt his feelings there'd have
been row instead Of tears. These minis