The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-07-18
Editorial Correspondence.

Editorial Correspondence,
What are you going to do about it?
There are scores of pious Dimcrats saw
ing the air with their hind-legs. Things
failed to pan out according to the prom
Uses in such cases made and provided,
and against the peace and dignity of the
gang. The kick comes with principal
list violence from patriotic members Of
the Legislature who had dished up sew
eral little private snaps for their own
special delectation, even building shun-
pike around the constitution to equalize
their chances for appointment with 9TH
er citizens. Now there were some few
dozen Offices of various sizes and styles
to be filled, the filling of which were
wisely deferred by your Uncle Peter
until tho boys decided his little case, and
it is said that promises were as profuse
as leaves in the fall. The vote was solid
and wabbling members chuckled over
the good trades they had made for their
sons and brothers and nephews and un-
Giles and cousins and friends, but your
Uncle Peter got his pie and ran off and
sat down and went to marinding it and
he got so dod-gasted interested in the
taste of it that he clean forgot the other
boys, and now the members are racking
around on their fore-legs at the head of
procession of kinfolkS and friends try
ing to kick the everlasting stuffin' out of
the situation.
The school-book trust was nickled
concern beside the state-trust organized
in the back room Of the pie distributing
syndicate. 1t is said to have been as
big as a blackboard with gilt frame,
and the members names were chalked
up in great white beautiful letters over
column of names of their kinspeople
and friends and nice, fat, pot-gutted
office placed opposite each name. When
member got to wabbling on the count
he was tolled off with jug stopper into
the pie emporium and told to behold
And he named a few more kinfolks he
had before forgotten and saw their names
ehalked up, and he went back chuck
ling and soldering over the pie taste in
his mouth to vote her straight" and
the syndicate it sat there and chuckled
few chuckles on its own private account
and took their'n straight too.
Cordell Hull, Jones Beane and Morgan
Fitzpatrick have taken out charter for
a kicking match to be held on the slaugh-
ter house campus the week following
stink harvest, LedgerwOod will hold
stakes, and there are already 70 mem
bers entered. The other one got his son
in through some overlookshun by the
perates. Come up and bring your knit
ting
The penitentiary commissioners have
organized with Judge Morgan at the
hind-teat again. They advertised for
bids, drew months salary, took chaw
OF tobacco, and are now head-over- heels
In business splitting in a crack. Poster
ity will award these patriots. The Ad-
ventists have set 1905 for the millenni-
um and it is rumored over on Crappy
Schultz that the commissioners will de-
fer action until then. Peradventure pen
itentiaries may be useless luxuries and
crime be one of the lost arts.
Did you hear the cannonading at the
tabernacle Friday night? 1t was far
the most enthusiastic, magnificent, po-
tentous meeting ever held in Tennessee.
There have been few men laboring
and sweating along with the Centennial
load on their shoulders and they gradu-
ally heaved it along to the point where
success was in the distant view and as
soon as the big fellows saw the thing
was going to be go without them, they
came rushing in with yell of newborn
patriotic enthusiasm, seized the whole
dod-gasted thing out of the hands of the
mon who made it, and are going to run
1T themselves.
-Four weeks ago last Monday night to
. second, this scribe went to a meeting
OfCentennlal directors, officials, canvass
ers, subscribers and promoters called at
tho chamber Of commerce with great
flourish and loud boasting. and found 10
OF the $1,000 people of Nashville there
with faces as long as fence rail, The
Centennial corpse was there laid out on
the table and they were paying their
last sad respects TO il and arranging to
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