Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-10-12
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keep quiet"
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Then Bettersee swore eternal
friendship for his friend Wontlisten
and went away, promising to keep
quiet.
lf.hey had been going to catch the
most wary old fox who was asleep, the
request to keep quiet could not have
been more urgent.
Wontlisten had long talk with
Magrew, and Magrew it vas thought
had better keep quiet also. But Won't
listen busted himself among the farm
ers who came in and read the Crust.
eater also. but more as a duty which
they owned to their party organ than
as a pleasure
On the Snowflake was less politics
than appeared on the Crusteater, but
the reading there was Of a chaste kind.
The terms "long eared' mon de-
SCRIPT" or donkey" was never seen to
blot the fair white surface of the Snow
flake, while the sides of the Crusteater
were pasted an inch thick with the oft
repeated phrases of Col. Pinglory.
Crookstake found himself almost
pushed away from his gate post, while
Bittersalt continued to heap up the
bitter invectives suggested by Col.
Pinglory and his friends. They were
running candidate TOO, soon to be
nominated before the convention
named Anything. Crow, Pup and
Slickfellow had suggested that their
political enemies nominate Cabel C..
Strut as they they thought 1t would not
do, and apologlzed for not being able
to accommodate the leading thinkers in
the Setter Party
Often in the Silly night while the
working men, who tree out with the
labors of the day or stormy speeches
made by the leaders of the Pullers and
Settlers, slept, these same leaders of the
Pullers and Settlers would meet ard
hold whispered conferences IN some
dark alley. Why should these men
who were such open enemies in pub
lie, meet and whisper and confer, is
still wonder to many.
There were some Offices in Tanbark
Township filed by Pullers and other
Offices, strange to say, filled by the Set
tiers. And the Puilers who we're in Of
fee. were intimately friendly with the
Settlers who were in Office in these
secret .nooniit conferences. in which
they even consulted how to perpetuate
themselves IN power without regard to
either party. The Pullers of the Snow
fake persuasion never took any part
III these conferences, and held that the
grand old Fuller party ought to brace
up and hoe its own row, without dick
ering or bidding with the Settlers at all.
That they should fight it out on their
own line. and not perpetuate A and B
Of the Fuller party and c and D of the
Setter party in Office to the exclusion
Of any other men in the Fuller party.
On the other hand 1t was asserted
that some of the Pullers who were SO
strongly opposed to the Snowflake,
we're going to secretly vote for Mr..
Pension, Setter who was in the fight
On the Setter side, Mr.. Pension was
going to be candidate for reelection
o the Office Of repre- sentative OF the
ownship before the county court.
Although these Fuller orators had
educated the working Pullers to hate
he Settlers they were actually plotting
With them for the accomplishment of a
certain end, the chief of which was to
seep all the leading Pullers and Settlers
lbout SIingtown in Office. and break
Town the new enterprise established
~ Magrew.
The Pullers denied this and Mr..
Pension, Mr.. Crow. Slickfellow and
Pug among the Settlers swore it was all
IN unrighteous lie, started by Won't
isten and Philip Magrew. They urged
he Pullers to stand by the Crusteater
" all means, though we never could
understand why they were so much in
crested in the Crusteater as it was
hey claimed, their bitterest enemy.
The day OF the Pnller convention
anne, day long to be remembered
y many of the characters of our story.
,ol. Pinglory was notpresent. He had
worked up the matter so he was sure
he entire slate made out two months
efore would be nominated by an over.
majority and went off saying
e did not care Who they brought out
o they were good men, and belonged
0 the grand old Fuller party.
The convention assembled in a hall
here public assemblies sometimes
net in Ssringtown. They were all
'ullers engaged IN the convention, but
landing out on the corners, could be
cen the Settlers gathered about in little
roups, hoping that Tucker Bettersee
'ould be defeated.
Smasher arose before the conven-
on with a long preamble resolution
nd rules. which he hoped the conven-
on would adopt. There was a bigger
Urn out at this convention than Smash
+ had ever seen before, and he was
tile alarmed. Those fellows who
orked on farms and plowed corn were
npudent enough to think and talk for
They seemed determined