The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-29
4 POWERFUL sPRRcH.
lBili Me, la New vosa Mereury.l

koAA NI0t VI NSW uofG Mefeefy.i l once knew . man who was nominated by his fellcw-citiaens fos q certain office and 6nAlly elected without AavtnR sn- pended cent for that purpose. He vas very eccentric, but he made . good ok 6ceF. When he heard that be vas nom. mated. he went up, as he said, into the mountains to do some asseSsment work on . couple oi claims.
 He got lost and didn't ges his bearings until q day os two afser election. Thea he came into town hungry, greasy and ragged, but unpledged,
 He found that he was elected, and ln answer to a telegram started of for Frisco to see dying relative. He did not get back until the 6Ist Of January. Then he hled his bond and sails<i into the office. He fired several sedentary depu- ties who had been ia the place for twenty years just because they were good " workers" That is, they were good workers at the polls. They saved all tAeis energies for the campaign, and so they only had vitality enough leftto draw their salaries during the balance of the two years.
 This man raised the county scrip nom sixty to ninetv.6ve in less than two yeara. and still they busted him tn the nsxi con- vention. He was too eccentric, Onn delegate asked what la Sam Hiil would become of the country if every candidate should skin out during the campaign and rusticate in the mountains while the bat tie was being fought.
 Saya he, ana a delegate from the precinct of Rawhide ButteA and 1 calkla,e that know what am talkin' about Gentlemen of ihe convention, just suppose that everybody, from the president ei the uoited States down, vas to git the nomin ation and then light ous like house afsTe and never come back till 1t waa time 10 file his bond what'A going 10 become of us common drunk ards to whom electisn Is q noasis h the bad lands, an orange grove in the alkali flats
 "Mr. Chairman, there's millions ol doi- lars in this broad land waiting for the high tide of election day to come and float 'em down to where you and 1, Mir. Chairman, as we'll as other parched and patriotic !aehTiates, can gis hold of 'esn.
 Gentlemen, we talk abou, siringeney and shrinkage cf values, and all such funny business as that but that's scme- thing dont know blamed thing about. Wha. can grappbe with is this; li our county ottices are worth &Jo GOO, and there are other htsls AfeT.ciaps and soft snaps, and walk oveTs, worth say $Io 'on and the boys. say, are willing to do Ihe far thing, say, blow in fifteen per cent. to the central committee, and what they feel like on the outside, then politics, instead of burden and a Teploaeh, becomes . pleading duty, a joyous occasion and a picnic tO those whose lives mighl other wise be a dTeaIy monotone.
 "Mr. Chairman, the past two yearA has wrecked four campaign saloona, and a timer who soeked hts wife'S fortune into campaign torches, is now in land where toFchlighs is DO good. Overcome by . dull market, A financial depression Aad q reserved central eompittes, he ate a package of Rougk on Rats. and passed ur ne Hume. He Is now at res, over ycnder.
 "Such instances you'd be common lf we encouraged the eccentric economy of efhclal cTanks. it is an evil that Is gBaw- ing at the vitals oi the republic We mus, squench it or get let,. There are millions of dollars 10 this eountfy, Mir. Chairman, tha, h we keep t est of the campaign, will get into the hands of the working classes, and then you and |, Mir Chairmen, and gentlemen oi the con vention, can stArve to death. Keep the campaign money away from the soul less hired man. gentlemen, or goodbye John.
 Mir. Chairman, excuse my emotioal lt Is almighty seldom that 1 make s speech, but when 1 do, strive to get theEe with both feet We must either work the campaign funds into their legit- innate channels or every blamed patriot within the sound of my voice viii have to fasten oh t,n bill and rustic tos angle worms smongs, the hens. You hear me f'
 Terrific applause. during which the deilca,e odor of enthusIam vas Boticed on the breath of the entire delegation
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