The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-02-26
Mr.. DUNDER DISGUISED.

Carl Fails to Catch On to the Tricks a
American Politics.
"Well, what's the matter with youPr
queried Sergeant Bendall as Carl Dun
der limped into the station house the
other day and flung himself down on
the nearest chair.
Sergeant. vhas here to bid you
goodbye"
Nor
81 vhas going back to Shermany."
al declare! What put that into
your head?"
81 vhas seek und tired. l can't I'M
derstand desc peoples. Nopody 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"
"Dot vhas my troubles. / belief l
know all aboudt her, but | know moth
ings. / vhas going to run for alder
mans. promise dot hay scales to
feefty men. | promise twenty men dot
dey shall be ianitor of der City Hall.
l promised more as one hOonered fell
lers dot dey shall work for the city for
three dollars day."
THAT was right That's the way
most of the candidates do"
Yes, but don't understand. Three
days ago a Teller comes in my place
und says vhas / Carl Dunder? / vhas.
Did you promise dot eastern hay scales
to my brudder if he vote fer you?
did. Und did you promise her to more
ash twenty odder fellers, too? L did.
Well, you vhas fraud und a liar,
und now you take dot on der nose!
Und he gifts me sOOch thump dot i
see more ash feefty stars flying aroundt
How does it come dot some Americans
can work dot dodge und be all rightp"
s'Wcll?"
"Vhell, / told you der odder day dot
promise more ash feefty men dot dey
shall be engineer of the City Hall IL
dey vote for me. In comes q man in
my place NIT his hat on his ear und
says vhas | Carl Dunder? / vhas.
Vhas you going to run for some alder.
mans? Ivhas. Did you promise all
my crowd dot each one of US should
run der engines init der City Hall?
did. Den. Sergeant, he gifts me sooch
a blow on my mouth dot / can't eat
meat for seek months, und when he
goes AWAY he says dot forty-nine more
fellers vhas TO come after him. Some
American candidates can promise dot
shop to one hOonered fellers und be all
right. How vhas she?"
81 don't know"
''Und poorly queek feller comes in
my place und says vhas / dot oldt
Dutchmans who WANTS to be an alder
man? | vhas. If vhas elected he
shall get all der paving shObs und
: makes lots of money. He calls me a
liar und says promise dot same thing
more ash two hoonered times. und he
mops me on my floor und goes AWAY
| like lark Ii it vhas some American
candidate he vhas all peaches. How
vhas She?"
81 don't know"
''Yhell, eafery day sOmepody Gomez
und calls me liar und says should
be kicked. Eafery day comes some
Teller NIT his hat on his ear und
charges me nit holding him oop for a
sucker. My boy Shake vhas scarf
AWAY, my wife vhas seek abed und j
hat to lock up my place or be kilt"
'It's sad lines" unused the sergeant.
"Und so guess / shall go back to
Shermany. In dot country vhas all
right. Ii a man spreckens to me in
Dutch | know What he vhas. If he
shpeaks to me in Yankee may be he
makes a fool of me. | like to go by
dot Common Council and be a great
man, but can't stand sooch a racket.
/ vhas a good enough liar, but leaf
something else out all der while und
der dear peoples tumbles to me. Fare
well. sergeant. You vhas always two
times alike. und shall feel good by
you when / am far AWAY. If yor
meet some odder Dutchmans sbusi
spheak nit him und tell him to keeI
out of dose politics. Detroit Ere,
Press.
Marion. rejected Mr.. Darringer