The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-13
FLYER AT POLITICS.
Dicks PLAN TO BREAK UP AN OP-
POSITION MEETING CAME
TO GRIEF.

Got Into the Wrong PIace-Pepper
and Water Put the Enthusiasts to
Flight and Then There Was
Trouble for Dick.
John Habberton, in Pittsburg Dispatch.
Dick Burkett knew all about politics
IN Washington county, and, indeed. in
the whole of the United States, for he
was fully Is years of age. and he had
read every Notwithstanding the adver-
tisements. in the Washington Pallad-
ium-for a period of four years; there
were very few adults of the county or
whom that much could be said. Poll
tics in the county, like politics almost
everywhere else, consisted in never
ending fight for offices, and a general
suspicion by everyone who was not an
office-seeker, that everyone on the other
side was either a numbskull of a scoun-
drel
OF course the contending factions
ranged themselves under the banners OF
the two great political parties, but for
local reasons the two parties were more
Dick was an Out, for the good and suffi-
Gent reason that his father and big broth
sf ana ms grandfather and uncles We're
outs, and the Palladium was the organ or
the outs. Why any honest man in his
senses could be an In, was more than he
could understand, and it was also so silly
that he was not going to waste any time
IN thinking about il. 1t did enrage him
that he and lot of other boys of his age,
All on the side OF the Outs, were debarreQ
by mere matter of age from voting,
When they had so much more sense than
the whole adult mass of the ms.
AS matters, stood, however, there SEEM
ed nothing they could do toward the puri-
ncation of politics and the saving of the
nation except by taking part in flag-rais-
IOFGnllRnT a NJ htr oh.
ing az all meetings of the Outs, and
groanlng-from safe dlstance-when-
ever the ms held public meeting.
This sort of participation in politics be-
came HOMOGENEOUS in the course of time
to the youth who aspired to higher Levels
OF usefulness, so Dick thought and
brooded much as the customary autumn
campaign got fairly under way. when
de ole hen broods, somefin's gwne to
match, was comman saying of the col
ored people in the vicinity, so it came to
pass that one day Dicks Drooding re
suited in an idea which promised to be
Of more value to the Outs than all the
fags and torches and cheers and groans
OF campaign.
The idea seemed so big when it first
came to him, that it was too big for hin
10 carry without help, but he pulled him.
self together by recalling his father
cardinal principle OF action, which was
that II you want thing done entirely tC
your liking, you must do 1t yourself, Sc
he expanded his mind until it entirely
encompassed the idea, and was large
might come of the accomplishment OF
the plan.
The ms had for some time been talk.
ing of holding a mass-meeting, to ex.
plain the harm whiah woRld befall a pros.
porous, intelligent yet unsuspecting peo-
pie should the Outs succeed at the com
ing election. One fine morning in early DC
tober the ms decided to act at once. foI
il became generally known that the Outs
had planned a great public gathering fol-
the purpose of ventilating some of the
treacherous tricks to which the ms hao
subjected their oVer-trustful fellow citi-
zens during their period of usurDation OF
all the public offices.
No sooner had the date of the Outs
meeting become public than the ms, with
their customary cunning and maignity
appointed their own meeting for the very
same night, so that none of the members
OF their own party would have an excuse
10 stray into the enemy's camp, and, per
maps, be turned from the errCr of his
ways.
It was at public meeting of the ms thai
DICK had intended to distinguish him.
ser and serve the party which he knew tc
nave all the right and virtue on its side