The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-18

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lent money for two days, and then ha.
to borrow, but they had all quit lending
| when pas turn came to borrow Gosh
but pa and are out of politics from thi
out. Pa says he will never vote again
He SAYS the country is. all gone to The
dogs"
well, what was your pa down there
for, nyway? He wasn't a delegate was
he 2" asked the grocery man.
mo, pa was only an assistant delegate
and was pas assistant" " said the boy, as
he gathered in groceries and provisions
with both hands, and ate az though he
had tasted for several days. "You see,
the politicians have. been playing it on
pa for six months. They get him to
work in ward politics, by encouraging
him to think he is an important factor
in the country's affairs. He wanted to
be a delegate, and they encouraged him,
but he got beat, and then they told him
he better 60 as an assistant delegate.
They told him that delegates did not
amount to anything without some smart
fellows to tell them how to vote, and
what they wanted waps lot 6 outsiders
to go along and brace up the delegates,
and 'whoop it up There is nothing
that pa likes any better than to whoop it
up, and he took me along to give me an
insight into politics, and carry the sat
chel. don't want any more insight in.
to politics. have had insight enough
to last me until l am twenty-one. Pa
told me, all the way down to Chicago,
what an important position it was to be
assistant delegate, and how much de-
pended upon clear-headed outsiders, who
really managed the whole business /
expected they wonld carry pa on their
shoulders. There was band at the de-
pot, and pa pulled up his collar, and
pulled down his xest. and looked around
as much as to say watch me now, and ]
thought he was going tn make speech,
when the crowd walked right over him,
and his hat come off and rolled under a
car and somebody picked it mp and left
an old dirty hat on the ground. Pa was
mad, but when the crowd got away that
was all the hat there was, and pa took it
and gave it to me, and he took mine. 1t
was too small for pa, but it made him
look as though he had great big head,
and 80 didn't kick We went to Il hotel
and man grabbed the satchel, and told
pa to 60 to room twelve hundred and
fifty, and IA was tickled, cause he
thought a room had been saved for him.
Then fellow came along and said for
thedelegates to put on badges. Pa took
badge and put it on, and he looked
proud, and fellow he used to know
asked him for five dollars till he could
see the chairman Of the delegation. Pa
took out his pocket book and let him
have it, and before he got the pocket
book in his pocket another fellow asked
him for change for ten, and pa handed
it to him, and the crowd closed in so
tight pa could not find the man to get
the ten. Then we went to find our
room, and wandered around the hotel
until we found there were only six hun.
dred rooms, and no such room as twelve
fifty, and porter told us to get out. Pa
chel, and a big fellow took hii'rr@1a.s SAT
..aol. end led him out on the sidewalk.
Pa said he would make 'em smart for
that, and then we tried to hunt up the
rest of the delegates, but no delegate
would have anything to do with pa, and
they all laughed at him except colored
delegates, and they wouldn't do anything
only drink with pa. They laughed SO
much at pas badge that took a good
look at it and found that it was an adver-
tisement for plug tobacco printed on sat
in with fringe ON it. Pa was mad when
he found it out, but he couldn't find the
delegate that gave it to him. Well, we
went to a restaurant and tried to get
something to eat, and all we could get
was bread, and pa had his pocket picked,
and we couldn't get a place to sleep, and
walked around town all night. Pa got
little sleep by spelling policeman, but l
didn't sleep a wink. Half the night
there were delegates marching around
with bands, and pa would fall in behind,
and the delegate at the rear of the pro-
cession would drive him away. In the
morning we went over to the depot and
borrowed fifty cents of a conductor that
pa knew, who goes to our church, and
then we got coffee for breakfast, and
started for the convention. We couldn't
get within four blocks of the building.
and didn't have no tickets. and they
drove lis out of the line. Pa found one
of The men who encouraged him to 90 to
the convention, and tried to get a ticket,
but the man told pa to 60 over on the
lake front, back Of the exposition build
ing, and he would bring him ticket.
We went over there and stayed four
hours, and the man never came. Pa got
thirsty, and followed a crowd INTO a
saloon to take drink with them, and
the bar tender fired him out. o, it was
one continual round of pleasure. Pa was
discouraged, AMI said We would 60 to the
hotel and get OUR sattlel and 60 home,
so We went there and asked for the sat
chel, and the porter threw this old sat
chel at pas head. 1t was one somebody
had tried to get board on, and there was
nothing in 1t, hut pa took it. He said it
would look better to travel with sat
chel. So we got enough convention and
went over and got on freight train, and
the conductor put us off at Evanston, and
we walked to the next station and got on
another. and was put of, and We kept
it up, off and on, till We got here. Say,