Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-03-17
A REPUBLICAN YEAR.
The Tune That Comes
From the 0rganettes.
HOW THE CRANK IS TURNED.
The Scramble to Get in Out Of the Wet.
Breezy Communication.
To The Editor OF the Tribune:

To The Editor OF the Tribune:
"This IL . Republican yeari" s~eh 10
the music that IL played on good many
wind instruments, from the big orehes.
trion manipulated In Manhattan By the
chap who didn't get elected Vics-P Prssi.
dent, down through intermediate sizes
and styles, till we come to the little gas
cite, or sort Of oonoertina In the interest of
His Nibs the Mayor and the Garfield
Club. Well, may be 1t II. Haven't We
seen the well known and frequently sx-
pressed wish of the senior Senator 40 to
the selection of nominal colleague de-
iiberatelv set one side; tho brainy at.
tornsy of the United Traction Company
first allowed to smell of the prize, and
then forced to realize that it had q string,
and good strong one, tied to II with .
hard knot that wouldn't slip; and the
New York clrbman, who has q good fat
pocket. book, not to say bar'i, and who
does spend q month or two occasionally
In Rhode Island, set up as "the ohoice OF
the people and the favorite son OF Roger
Williams plantationsf" Haven't We seen
all this, and don't We hear Charley Bray
ton, the boss who i've years ago footed
his baEoo for poor Nate Dixon, and said
that "he" (msaning G.. p. w. "aint
worth . cussi", now blowing his key
bugle way up In q for that same Mr..
w. aforesaid OF Broadway and Bellevue
avsnuef Isn't this harmony and don't
We 'uns all believe In 1T OF courss We
do; what else are We here fort And 20
believing, We rejoice to 500 the ouss (of
probable Democratic success) removed;
from the Knickerbooker Club to the But
lsf Exchange, from the foot Of College
Hill In Providence way down to the sin
uous windings OF the Potowomus river
through the maEes Of East Greenwich We
all rejoice and are excsedingly glad, for
"Harmony" with q big Fl reigns, the
''long and the short" of Newport have
triumphed, and the goose hangs high.
Yes indeedyi But 1t was little funny
Just the same to ZEE some of the boys who
didn't happen to be posted. and 20
shouted on the wrong side at first, hurry
and scramble to get In out Of the wet whsn
Charley B. met with . change, and de-
W. "Is worth o cussi" There was ~
much hustle mp In Woonsocket a. there
was when young Lochinvsr reached the
door In the maxy whiri Of the dance, sud-
denly swung his darling up into the sad.
die, and started OF on his famous ride.
But, when the hustle got fairly under
way, didn't they make up for lost
timef They came into camp
faster than the winds come when
forests are rended. Tho senior Senator,
forgetting tarif, seigniorage, sugar bonn.
ties and silver "oame homo to the we'd
ding, Mr.. Roelker wrote his little piece
like brave little man, Hunter White
and the State Central Committee said
"bullyi", poor Nathan r. calculated
"Kismet" and climbed up on his lonely
shelf, and yet we wonder ut orimei
Verify, tits q mad world, nv mastersi
Brains are well enough In their place, but
bonds and bullion, doubloons, ducats and
dollars make up q royal straight flush
which can drive brains 30 far out into the
cold that the mercury will freeze In the
bulb. The "tattooed man" 10 dead and
buried, Benjamin the grandson Of his
grandfather IL teaching The young idea in
the Golden State end gaining much pelf
thereby, Major NICK. has gone out of the
endorsing business, aud Tom Reed has
come 80 near being "vindicated" for his
quorum rulings that he nearly fell OF his
bicycle, and why In biaEes shouldnt Il be
. Republican year, Now II only Dave
Baker gets busted, and Garvin II knocked
ont, II Aldrich resigns (O and Rocker
"sucoeeds", II blackbirds turn white
and Eilery Wilson honest, then truly We
shall believe that the ihaloyon IL really
brooding on the troubled waves of Rhode
Island politi,s, and that Pitt Allen
wouldn't be highway commissioner II he
could just a. well ~ not. Until then We
shall keep on believing that butter at ~
cents q pound 10 not all pure Jersey
cream, that money "talks" good deal
more to the purpose than some folks who
might be named, that he laughs best who
waits to see where the Cat will land when
she jumps, and that the millennium and
purity In politics will arrive when they
get here probably not In this year OF
grace, A. d. 1894.
been requested to print this they would
have refused, and so we were forced to
ask the courtesy OF your columns for this
ceed In "paying OF anything on the
mortgage, maybe we'll be In q position
where We won't have to trespass on your
kindness again except for spot cash
through the advertising department.
The boss and his heelers have set up their
man,
Titwillowi titwillowi titwillowi
And we must elect him, II only we can,
Titwillowi tit-willowi titwillowi
It's no use any longer to sit on the fence,
Let's work for the ticket and darn the ex.
pense,
IL we can't catch a dollar, wen take fifty
cents,
Titwiliowi titwiliowi tit willow
A SECOND WARD REPUBLICAN.
MODEL GRAND RANGE FOR 1904.