Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-21


be presented. | wish to refute now,
however, the report that my health is
out of repair. | was never in better
health, but my name viii not be pre-
sented. This narrows down the fight to
Jerry Rusk and member of the senate
who last term received a beautiful red
Testament at the close of the session for
being neither absent nor tardy. 1t is
certainly to be hoped, for the good of
the party at least, that man will be
selected who has been careful all his
life to avoid giving offense-a man who
can speak for hours without making a
statement.
l met man yesterday who looked
like Ignatius Donnelly. am told that
it was Donnelly. He said that senators
ought to be chosen by the popular vote
Orchestra seats in the senate are too
high now, he said, considering the char
acter of the entertainment. He said we
ought to be more careful, too, in the
manner of inviting men to fill important
offices. Out in Leadville there was an
elderly German whom we Will call Mr.
Frankfurter, for that was not the name
of our hero. He was concerned with
Mr.. Tabor at the time the big strike was
made which turned them into million
aires.
One evening Mr. Frankfurter was
prowEng around the same old lager beer
place where he loved to linger before
his prosperity He was talking with
Colonel Yowler, of Bucksbin.
BY the way, Frankfurter," says
Gowler, ARE you going to the big ban
ket:' He always called it blanket"
''Not banket?' says Frankfurter
why, the banket up to Tabor's. All
the great men of Colorado will be there,
and all of the gentlemen of Leadville."
Ply kolly, is dot posseaible? get 10
invite for dot banket"
why, You are a partner Of Tabor's,
amt your
"Taw, vas still pardner, but Tabor
he has pegoolier notions about dose
tings. He invites no one but chenille
mems. But look here, Colonel Yowler,
some day will get me my revenge on
Tabor. l will give already a big oxpen-
sive banket myself, and | won't invite a
- chentleman-not a - gentleman!
You are all right, colonel. By Chinks!
you will be the first man | Will inwite"'
The presidential battle is near enough
to the northwest so that the occasional
boom of a big gun is heard above the
squeal of the planning mill, the squeak
of the logging sled and the roar of the
griSt mill
The presidential campaign costs too
much and comes too often, but it has
healthful effect. 1t has the same effect
on the republic that well agitated els
tern pole has in a cistern. 1t gives it q
good oxygenation. The purest water
becomes offensive if permitted to stand
perfectly stagnant for too long. Let in
the light and air and you prevent decay.
That is where we have the advantage
over kingdom or an empire. 1t is said
by those who are familiar with foreign
potentates and their methods that there
is not throne in the Old World that is
not alive with cockroaches and other
bacteria.
/ That would be impossible in this coun.
try. Just as a man gets to think that
he and Tammany together can make the
axis of the earth incline little more
than it used to something is heard to
fall from a great height, and on light
ing a candle and scorching few feath-
ers it is found to be that man,
Word comes to me recently that in re-
arranging the list of the Four Hundred
my name has been overlooked, and there
has been considerable carping about it.
This makes twice that Mr.. McAllister
has counted me out. His only reason
for doing this is not that my standing
and wealth at present are not all they
should be, but because l inherit a coarse
integrity together with tendency to-
ward trade.
But why should the thoughtless and
i'll advised toll of my parents be thrown
in my face now? Why should be de-
barred from leading the march at the
Patriarchs' ball or be compelled to eat
tea by myself, while up on Fifty-seventh
street and Fifth avenue the dreamy
measures of a Strauss waltz are floating
out at window and the gas bill is run
ming up on Mr.. Vanderbilt at such a
frightful rate?
Why did ever tell Mac that my fa-
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