The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-02
BLINKER AND UNCLE
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the Occidental hotel and laughed until le
had to be slapped on the back to stop
his choking, IL wish you'd been along
here minute ago, you'd have had some
fun. What am | a-laughing at2 Wei,
! Eli tell you, but don't go and repeat .
because our clsims agent m ight be joshed
up in the knockery. You know Byron
Waters? Well, he's kind of what the
/ Scotch called near. He's always fol-
lowed uncle's advice not to be tracked by
the quarters he's dropped. Well, l was
in Garcia's just now, a-drinking royal
shandy- gaff. when in comes Byron all
a-sweating and mopping his brow. He'd
been a-carrying uncles big valse up from
the depot.
- Is that cool drink you've got?' he
says. a-looking at the brown stuff that
was in my big glass.
Just the thing for hot day, l says,
diminishing 1t up.
Make us two more, he says, and l
inks at young Frank.
Then | gets Byron attacking while the
barkeep goes over in the corner and
splits bottle of porter into two glasses
and slows small boz into each glass on
top. Byron swills down the royal as
though il was Matt humans best steam,
ana says, That's pretty good Then
he dips down in his clothes and fishes up
a hall and puts it on the counter.
Garcia looks at me and looks at
Waters. But our claim agent was waiting
for his change and the paikeep didn't
dare TO touch the four pits for fear it
would burn his hand off. Then 1t struck
Byron that maybe royal shandygaf IF
was a two-bitter. The thoughts of it
made him scowl and he turns TO go out
the door. -Four dollars more, says
sweat on his face turned into icicles and
dropped a-cracking ON the floor. -Four
dollars more. The porter is four bits
and the two small bots at two dollars
apiece.
81 thought was going to have dead
ing all over, pulls out flyer and throws
| it down, and a-glaring at me he says.
To he'll with your royal shandy-ga
''Ill bet you that sweet little curl on
| the top of Charley Shortridge's forehead
against Dennis Spencer chance of getting
George Knights salary that Byron will
stick to bit whisky all the rest of mis- life
Speaking about Charley Shortridge,
he was a-telling me about his plans for
the future the morning he was a-going
over on the boat to 60 east. He wants to
take General de Young's place on the ma
what California needs is a good young
hustler, and tnat when he gets east he'll
show them jollys like Quay and Platt
what San Jose can produce. did you
ever hear uncle's story about the tlrst
time he met Jim Rea? No?
well, Jim had been raised on a farm
down in Gilroy, you know. and the first
time he got into politics and went to
convention he thought he'd asset the
world afre. II was early in Harrison's
ad IN nistration. and Jim wanted an Office
for friend. They told him at Fourth
and Townsend that Huntington would
fix it for him. So Jim buys a new straw
hat and REQ necktie and goes to New
| York. Coils was in his Office a.talking
10 Jay Gould when Jim walks in and
says: Hello, l want you to jump on a
| trsin with me and take me up TO WASH
| ingtun to see the president
% I forget your name says uncle.
| kind of coldly and besides, my time is
worth a thousand dollars minute
Don't gimme no guy says Jim.
| you've heard of me. I'm Jim Realm
Rea of San Jose.'
d" Oh, yes. says uncle, you must ex-
cuse me. Mr.. Gould, this is one of our
| native sons.
g He Looks like it., says Jay. 1T
struck me that he was when he came in.
| So Jim spits out what he wants, and sure
enough uncle went up to Washington in
| Jim's friend.
"But somehow the appointments didn't
come along quick enough, and Jim asks
| Charley FELTON, to introduce him to the
| president. Charley wasn't much stuck on
| Jim's straw hat and red necktie, but he
didn't ike to refuse because he was a
| representing Rea's district. So be told
| him to call at the White House the next
| day, when Harrison was a-going to re-
ceive the California delegation. Jim
was there all right. and when the doors
! was opened he pushes Judge Morrow out
| of the way and gees in ahead.
! " How are you. Mr.. President" he
says. a-reaching cut his fin. Harrison
! looked at HIM as though he was fresh:
When are you a-going to give my friend
that job what Huntington told you
about?' says lin. a-jerking his ooattails
out of Charley Felton's hands. Harrison
scowls and says. Affirming away: APP
| pointments come in their routine, sir,
come IN their routine
Routine be blowed, says Jim Per
haps you don't know how much IT'S a
| costing me dag down at Wilard's'
What are we a-going to do about them
railroad commissioners? l don't know I;
me and Coils is a-going to talk that
over in dav or so. No. Herrin ain t
a-going to be consulted. I'm little
sorry for Herrin. He's a-going to get
the overlook. There's a New York law
yer coming out here and Herrin is to
be moved down TO a room next to Steve
Gage. Will ne resign? 1 wouldn't be
surprised. He vas a-telling me the other
| day that he had very tired feeling.
| You see Herrin had the notion that he
| could run our menagerie someway clean,
| but he didn't know the habits of some of
our animals. Anything new in poll
tics? Well. not much. We've had Her
very Lindley and Insurance Com
sioner Higgins a-ixing things up a little
| bit down south. Bulla is to go to the
senate in General Mathews place. Hig-
gins don't want Corney Pendleton to 60
! back to the assembly. guess we'll send
| Tom Fields to the senate from Monterey
| instead of Tom Flint. You see Flint has
had eight years from San Benito. and
Monterey wants it this time. Dick
| Thomas wants to go from Sierra and Ne
vada, and we've got him under advise
ment. We've decided on, Assembly
McKelvey Of Orange to succeed Ed Sey-
mour in the senate from the San Bernar
dino district. A young fellow named
Harry Sinclair, who lives in Redlands,
| wants to be senator. Skipio Craig tells
me, but Higgins and -Lindley says that
he'd be likely to kick if, we asked him
to do anything crooked, so we'll shut
him out. No, there amt any fear that
the people in that district will turn the
tables on us like they did with Withing-
ton of San Diego last November. We've
got them better ir hand in that district.
Judge Carpenter runs that part of the
state for us.
"Lige Hart Is going to the senate
again from Sacramento. Colonel Dan
knocked Brusie out.