The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-02-03
FUNERALS AND POLITICS

Form Interesting Themes for Hon. Tom
WatsOn's Washington Letter.
Washington is curious place to a
cracker like me, in several respects.
was much struck with the way people
attend funerals here. 1t may be the Gus
tom in all cities. Doubtless it is. All the
same it is queer place to me. This is
what / mean: A friend of Brown dies.
Brown feels that he ought to go to the
funeral. He doesn't care to go in person,
so he sends his empty carriage. Inside of
this carriage Brown puts his visiting card.
That's all. The carriage drives to the
house of the deceased. The driver waits
till the body is put in the hearse, and
started. Then he gravely steers his empty
carriage into the procession and follows
it to the cemetery. Sometimes half doz-
en- empty carriages will be in one funeral !;
nothing inside except the visiting cards
of the mourners. It's about the easiest
way to get rid of troublesome grief ever
saw.
Brown sits by the fire at home and eats
COOLERS.
His visiting card goes to the cemetery
and weeps over the ashes of his friend.
You can see, almost any day, goodly
line of carriages speeding along at a
cheerful trot as if nobody in the crowd
owed anybody cent, and in the middle
a hearse-occupied. The first time |
saw it my breath almost left me as stood
and looked. 1t made my flesh creep, 7
must say, to see man trotted off to the
bone-yard as though he were stick of
wood. In big city, though, | suppose
it is all right. A live man don't amount
to much in acrowded place like this, and
a dead man is nowhere.
And SO they want Evan Howell to
run for Governor.
They wLo?
Why, the Rail Roads and a few mild
ly-insane newspapers and quite a street
cornergroup of Shrivelled, back-number
politicians.
But why shouldn't the old man run?
There's no law "agin it, anywhere
whatsoever
Let him run
Get Calhoun's palace car ready, and
let the fun commence.
We wantto see Bullocks fat Solicitor
General meandering through an old
fashioned stump campaign.
We want to hear him repeat in Geor-
gia his great Des Moines speech
We want to hear him tell our boys. as
he did those up No tn, how glad he was
that we got whipped.
We want to hear him say again as he
did at Des Moines that he would slap his
son over if ever he heard him mention the
word "Confederacy'' again.
Trot him out! Sober the old chap up |
and toddle him forth.
The men are hungering aud thlrsting
for his electoral advent.
The women lose sleep at night long
ing for it, Oh, they are SO anxious to
see the "Grangers' friendn who opposed |
the bill which took taxes off salt and |
jute bagging and iron ties and wool, and |
who favored bill which increased the
taxes en- axes and hoes and plows and |
chains and knives and nails and cotton |
ties aAd tin buckets, clippers, spoons,
plates and pans.
These toii-worn men and women want |
to see this dear friend of theirs face 10
face-they want to hear him talk and |
they likewise want him to hear them !
talk.
Trot him out, boys! We want to see
him ''sweep the State" We really have
a ravenous desire to see what the State
will look like when Des Moines Howell |
gets through sweeping it,"
This is our first ravenous desire.
Our second ravenous desire is to see
how Des Moines Howell will look when
the State gets through sweeping HIM.
Why hold back the conquering hero?
Clear the track and trot him out!
T.E.W.
The Mems Prayermeeting.
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