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ReWcrflI Speech.
fRnINye N 1seW Yosk Nercurya
q ] onockneN 2nzAn who was nomi-
iiated byshis fellow w-citizens for cer-
tain office and finally elected without
having expended cent for that pur-
pose. He was very eccentric. but he
made good oflcer. When he heard
that he was nominated, he went up,
ss be said, into the mountains to do
some assessment work on q couple Of
claims.
He got lost and didn't get his
i,earings lsntil . day or two after cleo
lion. Then he came into town hung
and ragged, but unpledged.
BE found that be was elected, and
in answe,, to telegram started off
FOR Frisco to see a dying relative.
BE did n,t get back until the first of
January. Then he fled his bond and
'tailed into the office. He fred fred several
'sedentaly deputies who had been in
the place for twenty years just be-
cause shsy were good ''workers.
That is. they were good workers at
the polls. They saved all their ener-
gies Ter the campaign. and so they
bad vitality enough left to draw their
salaries during the balance of the two
years
This man raised the county scrip
from sixty to ninety-five In less than
two years, and still they busted him
In the next convention. He was too
eccentric. One delegate asked what
IN Sam Hlu would become OF the
country Il every candidate should
skin out during the campaign and
rustieste in the mountains while the
rattle was being fought.
Says he, II am adelegate from the
precinct OF Rawhide Buttes, and /
calklate that know what am talkin'
about. Gentlemen OF the convention,
Just suppose that everybody, from
the president OF the United States
down, was to GIT the nomination and
then light out like q house afire and
never come ~ till it was time to
file his bonolats going to become
OF US common .drunkards to whom
election Is q noasis in the bad lands,
nm orange grove in the alkali fats!
''Mr. Chairman, there's millions of
dollars in this broad land waiting for
the high tide OF election day to come
and float 'en down to where you and
l, Mr.. Chairman, as well as other
parched and patriotic inebriates, can
git hold of 'em.
Gentlemen, We talk about string
ency and shrinkage Of values, and all
such funny business as that; but
that's something l don't know
blamed thing about. What 1 can
grapple with is this: II our county
offices are worth $50, 900, and there
are other little after-claps and soft
snaps, tnd walk overs, worth say
slo,oo9 and the boys, say. are willing
70 do the far thing, say, blow in fif-
Teen per cent to the central commit
see' ana what they feel like on the
outside, then politics, instead of a
burden and reproach. becomes
pleasing DUTY, q joyous occasion and
. picnic to those whose lives might
otnerwise De q dreary nenotone-
sir. chairman, the past two yeais
mas wrecked Tour campaign saloons,
ana q tanner VINO socked his wife's
fortune INTO campaign torches, is
nv" IN : iana "uere sofeoiignts Is no
gooo. overcome by dull market, a
haahcla depression and a reserved
centrai committee, he ate package
OF hough on kats, and passed up the
hume. he Is now at rest over yon-
aer.
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such instances would be common
II we encouraged The eccentric econ
omy OF omciai cranks. Its an evil
tnat Is enawing at the yltais OF the
epaoic. ne mus. squenchit II or get
lett. Ihere are millions OF dollars in
this country, Mr.. Chairman, that if
we keep it out of the campaion will
ees a"'o .ae hanes oi tiie WORKING
classes, ana then you and i, Mr..
Chairman, and gentlemen of the con-
vention, can starye to death Keen
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