Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-10-21
CARL DUNDER.
He Falls to Catch On to American Poll
tics, as He Anticipated.
Detroit Free Press.

u. raus to Catch On to American Poll
tics, as He Anticipated.
/ Detroit Free Press.
"Well. what's the matter with you?'
ousried Sergeant Bsndall as Carl Dundel
l;mnsd into the station house the Other
day and fang himself down on the re.res'
chat.
sergeant, vhas here to bid You good
BY"
"Nop
81 yhss going back to shermany."
eI declare! What pat that into your
head?"
stand desc peoples. Nobody vhas two
times alike in America"
"But you told me you were going to run
for alderman and that you had caught on
to American politics.
"D,t vhss my troubles. belief I know
all aboudt her, but know noshings, l
vhss going to run for aldermans. l prom
iss dot hay scales to feefty men. promise
twenty men dot dey shall be janitor OF der
CITY Hall. IFromise More as one hooner-
ed fellers do. deg shall work for the city
for $3 a day."
"That was right. That's the way most
of the candidates do"
"Yes, but don't understand. Three
davs ago a Teller comes into my place and
saws vhss I Carl DUNDEE? 1 vhas. Did
YOU promise dot eastern hay scsles to my
brudder if he vote fer you? l did. IND
did you promise her to more ssh twenty
udder (eilers, toe? I did. Well, yeu
yhas a fraud uud liar, und now You take
dot on der nose! UGd he gives me sooch a
thump dot I sees more ash fsefty stars Il wing
aroundt. How does it come DOT come
Americans can work dot dodge uud be all
right"
''Well?n
"Vnell, I told you der oddsr day dot |
n,oniss more ash fsefty men dot dey shall
be engineer Of der City Hall if dssy vote
for me. In comes q man in my place init
his hat on his esr, upd says vhas Carl
DundeI? vhas. Was you going to run
for some aldermaus? l yhls. Did you
promise all my crowd dot each one OF rs
should run der engines nit der City
Hall. did. Dan, s,jeant he gives me
socch blow on MY mouth dot l can't eat
meals for seek months; und when he goes
AWAY he says dot forty-nine more fellows
yhss to come after him. Some American
candid tes can promise dot shop to one
hoor cred fellers und bo all right. bow
vhss she?"
81 don't know"
"Und ppoty queek Teller comes in my
place und says vbaI l dot oldt Dutch
mans who yhaants to bs an alderman? l
yhss. III vhas elected he shall get all
der paving shcb, und make lots of money
Hs calls me liar ind says l promise dot
same thing more ash two hoonered times,
ind he maps me on my floor and goes
AWAY like lark. If it vhGs some Amerl-
can candidate hs vhss all peaches. bow
vbas she?
~ don't know" -,
"Vhe!l, esf.ry day somebody comes uud
calls me liar und says should Re kicke1.
Eifery day comes some Teller nit his hat
on his ear und charges me nit holding
him oop for sucker. My boy Shake scarf
AWAY, my wife vhas seek atej, uld hat
to lock oop my place or be kilt"
cts sad lines" unused the Sergeant.
"Und 80 guess shall go back to shsr,
many. In dot country vhas all right. II
a man spreckans 10 me in Dutch / know
what he yh,s If ne sbpsaks TO ME in
Yankee maybe he mikes fool OF me. l
ks TO 20 By dot Common Council und be
a great man, bat can't sand soec1 Q
racket. Ivhss good enough liar, but |
leaf something else ont all der while und
der de,r peoples tuubies to me. Farewell,
Sergeant. You vhas always two times
alike, uud 1 shall feel good by you when /
am far AWAY. If you inset come odder
Datchmsus shust shpsak init him und tell
him TO keep o1t of dOse politics.