Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-10-20
SCENE ONE.
[From Macbeth with more heard than seen).
Enter the Three Wierd Sisters.


school, and you know a fellow always
wants to stand in with the board
You've got to work the board, for
what you want. Well, if there was a
fool on the board would just turn my
attention to the fool, and I'd work him.
Now you boys know that old Dan Coun-
tryman is a fool. so you just leave him
to me, know just how to work him. !
viii just say to him that the boy
whats his name?'
Cox: Luther.
Omnijack: Luther, yes, well III just
say to him, now you see here that young
man will be wanting something and we
will see to that. You see can just
work old Dan, SO you just leave him, to
me, etc
(Soft murmur of applause from Boss
Frakes).
Omniiack with his gentle bray, the
soft crow Of the bird from the Land
Office, with the chime of his Boss i:
when shall we three meet again"
Oh, they'll meet when there are some
more ''fools" to be "worked." Now
you three, Kirtley, Frakes and Cox
come out and say you did not hold this
conversation if you want dates and
places. And don't you remember that
this one was not the only man in
town whom you characterized as fool,
and decided that he would have to be
worked"
Can you fellows recall anything else
that you said on that veJy remarkable
occasion when so many of our respecta-
BILE citizens turned ''fools?" Can you!
Well, if you cannot, we can.
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Hello! Mr.. Fool Worker, how do you
come on with your farming?
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Say, how does it strike you ANYHOW,
do you like to feel that you are labeled
and known in the secret caucus as Tom
Kirtley's fool.
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Thomas boasts that he has been a
catspaw from away bach. He told us
that time-the time wnen he talked too
much with his mouth at the meeting of
the ''Three Weird Sisters" elsewhere
reported, that he once worked whole
township up III Nebraska for the demo-
Gratis when there were only three Tor
was it FOUR democrats in the township,
by actual count, that he delivered"
whole townships Here's pointer-Wa-
Keeney township is not in Nebraska.
See?
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Right you are Tommy! you can't do
my thing with the intelligent voter, for
hell play you at your own game as some
nave already done.
Ky
Dollars to doughnuts Mr.. Kirtlev that
you are mistaken in your estimate of
your power to ''work" Mr.. Countrvman
Did it ever enter your egotistical mind
hat Mr.. Countryman might be in the
'fool-working" business himself a little?
Chomasl Thomas! have you been
worked for fool
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Pointer to the Fool-Killer: I saw
here, You Bloody Majesty, what's the
natter with your ROYAL Nibs, the Fool
Killer calling upon his Royal Nibs, The
Cool Worker, for the name OF that town
hip up in Nebraska, that His Nibs used
o work, and exercising your royal
few times.
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Rather bad example TO set out before
he school teachers, that is Tom Kirt-
ey's method Of finding fool on the
5oard and working the fool for what he
wanted.
The only mistake that Thomas makes
n his Fool Working efforts is that he
nder estimates the mental capacity of
is would be victims, but let it be said
D the credit of the sagacious gen
Ieman and his co-workers in this line
hat their perceptive qualities really are
cen enough to enable them to realize I
hat if he expects to work" any
ne at all, be must confine himself to
ne class of people, who in his opinion,
ave reason to be thankful that the
Fool-Killer" is neglecting his duties.
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Now laying aside al feeling in this I
natter we want to come right down to I
lain facts. Ii there is young man I
no has been led to believe that this
opuHst party, that is making such
.antic efforts to retain their Ieech-like
old on the public crib, will make good t
ny pledge they have made that they {
ill take care OF him" in the future I
he has been led to believe this, let !
i'm disabuse his mind at once. We |
ave seen the last pop rule in this state. l
he republican party has always taken ,
ire of its young men and viii continue !
} do so in the future This is repub- !
can year, and the republican party i
ant the young men to line up beside a
lie old wheel horses and be ready to |
ep into their shoes when the time !
,mes. =
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Now let's hold this matter up and Z
ok at it seriously. There were three r
rangers came to this town. Out of r
rarity and courtesy to all strangers our
sople took them up, and treated their f