The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-11-18
weatherwax on Lection.

"Bettin' on lection is immoral" said old
man WeatherwaX as he laid his hat and
cane on the piano in my office the other day,
especially il you lose. When you are the
winner it don't seem so bad, but I've got
scruples agin' payin' lection bet"
'HOw does the result of election suit
yOu9" said l as pushed cuspidOre towards
him and gave him an electloneering cigar
''Suit me? Umph! feel like Lazarus
licked by dogs-'bout the general lection.
An didn't we whOop it up to 'em in this
county and state? Yum, yum, L should
rather remark"
'But you must acknowledge, Mr.. Wealth
erwaX," said l, that we had the names of
exceptionally good men on both tickets, and
further, this campaign has all along been
claimed as a campaign of intelligence.
Where Michigan would naturally"
''Tbats just it," broke. in the old man.
"YOu can talk bout Kansas for corn, Texas
for trouble and Kentucky for horses and
whiskey, but when you come right down to
intelligence, we've got 'em, and the vote
shows it,"
"Yes, but here was man in our town
who thought Blaine was running on the re-
publican ticket up almost to the day of elec-
tiOn."
"Well," said the old man, che didn't
want to vote fur him much did hep"
'NO, but there were republicans here,
and through the county who voted for
Cleveland on account of the low price of
wheat. How about that?"
"Well," said the old man contemplatively.
''there's dead kernels in every pepper full
of corn. There's nOthin' in 'em to pop.
Jess so with man. If he haint got brains
enough to hold an idea you might jest as
well look fur sweat from wind mill, as to
1t aaNs - N,xIIs
the trouble with them rapscaliOns an ex-
rebels down south. lgn'rance, l tell you."
EYES," said /, "a gentleman was reading
me letter the other day from prominent
lady who happened to be in Tennessee on
the evening of election dav, and she said the
crowd hurrahed for Davis, Cleveland and
the southern cOnfederacy and dragged the
stars and stripes in the mire, grOaning and
Kissing angrily wnen the returns were
favorable to Harrison. How is that?"
"Oh, WE'LL" said the old gentleman as he
fills his pipe, them chaps have got their
president an now we'll see what he'll do.
You've hearn of people who passed a five
dollar gold piece for cent, amt you? Well,
you never hearn of a man passin' cent fur
five dollar gold piece, did you? No. They
don't make such favorable fool blunders,
an If the dimmercrats try to pass any
at it,"
"Right you are, Mr.. Weatherwax, and in
the meantime let us remember that Mr.
Cleveland is our president now, or will be
when he is installed into Office, and the
president of all parties and peoples in this
great nation. Further, let us not forget
those beautifully significant words of the
poet,
| "Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
| Who never to himself has said,
| This is my own my native land!
| Whose heart hath ne'r within him burned
| AS home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?
| If such there be, CO. mark him well;
| For him no minstrel raptures SWELL
| High though his titles, proud his name
| Boundless his wealth. as wish could claim;
| Despite those titles, power and pelf,
| The wretch concentrated all in self,
| Lying, shall forfeit fair renown,
| And doubly dying, shall go down
| To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
| Unwept, unhonored and unsung."
"That's all right" said the old man as he
took his departure, but despise to hear
man try to quote pO'try who aint got none
on it in his soul" WARD.
Laingsburg, Nov. 16, 1892.