The herald., 1896-03-15
"BLINKER" AND TOM REED

1--WE been down to the ferry to see
George Arnold off, said Mr.. "Binker''
Murphy, as he aliehted from Market
street car in front of Pop Sullvan's.
"Come in and have a cocktail George is
one of them state equalizers from Los An
geles. He's good fellow and don't want
to see him go wrong. He's a-going up to
| Sacramento, and I'm a-feared that Lonely
Morehouse and Dick Beamer will lead him
astray. I've warned him not to play
| Apache with them guys or they'll do him
up. He'd better stay by Chesebrough aud
CoRhian.
"say. | wished 1 could only show you
! some of the letters that uncle writes me
| from Washington. Sometimes | think To
| myself, but not out loud. that if Coils had
| not been brought up so honest in New
| York when he was kid that he'd get rich
anyhow a-running a brace faro game or
| smooth dice box. Uncle would have been
J daisy in the candy graft that me and
| Chris and Jake Rudolph used to get rake
| off on.
''You never heard of that cut-up before?
| Well, don't suppose you ever did There's
| lots a-things you smart snails ain onto.
| Why, me and Chris and Jerry Driscoll and
| Colonel Chochrane and Jake used to de-
| clare ourselves in on every game from
Papa Cornwali's electric lights 10 hokey-
pokey and the steam waffle man.
| "What about the candy graft? Well. III
| tell you. There was a mark in Denver who
was clever. We'd heard of him and sent
word for him TO come along. His game
used to be to roll a tendollar bill around a
stick of candy right under your nose and
drop it in long purse. You couldn't lose.
All The sucker had to do was to put up his
dollar anu get left Where did me and
| Chris and Jake get in? Yes. forgot TO
speak about that. Well. every time the
Denver fakir sold fifteen sticks of candy
either me or Jake bought one. There was
always ten-dollar bill on that stick, you
can bet your life, or he got pulled.
"Of course that story had no application
to Uncle or the Espee. Only some of them
fairy tales he's been a-telling that Alabama
coon who's been asking him SO many qnes-
tions kind of reminds me of the time when
| was in the hardware business myself
and had about a billion dollars, if don't
forget.
whats Coils been a-writng to me
about? Well, don't mind a-teling you.
Say he's a-fooling all them geesers in the
east. Uncle has come out for Mckinley.
He's a-going to be a howting advocate OF
protection. He says the Drector-General
is a-gong to turn loose his organ for Me-
hinley and 1or all OF us to JON IN WIN
hosanners. My end of the play is to get it
published in all the papers that me and
Coils had no bargain with Reed when he
appointed that railroad committee. but
that the speaker did that trick for our law
yer, Tommy Hubbard, who used to go TO
SCilOui way III Nitii tiNtiC Loiii-
my Reed. OF course, you understand, this
is sub roser.
so I've sent down to Hervey LindIey to
start the shout agoiDg in Los Angeles.
Colonel Otis has fell in like a hose cart
horse when the bell rings for fire. All the
people are a-warming up TO the man from
Ohio. We're a-Going 10 send Judge De
Haven to St. Louis "a delegate at large
from this town. The judge is a big friend
of Nc Kinley. He is the only congressman
4. IL So,
ran for speaker. Maybe we'll let Ois go,
too.
"Is Mckinley to have the delegation?
NiXy. I'm to slate it out so that ttleie VIII
be no strings OH them, The eighteen is to
go on to Saint Lewis a-wearing 10 Oregon
boots. But there's To be little resolution
adopted by the state convention that when
the delegation gets TO Missouri, if the ma
jority thinks it wisdom for TO be a unit
then they'll all be one way. Of course,
after all the shouting and hoilering for
Mckinley. De Haven and Otis won't Sis
pect nothing. and we'll jump in over their
necks to have California solid. And the
next thing they knows they II be voted Tor
Tom Reed. Amt that "A corsiug scheme?
It'll work like a charm if they don't catch
on.
"Say, you ought to &C up TO Phlly Grim
Minis and see all the hus,lers in their new
toys. There's about two dozen of them all
dressed up from their heels TO their heads.
| There something i'll the paper last
week that rich men could dress well on
two thousand year. Say, you don dare
to go to John u. and ask him how much il
cost him for duds this month.
whats the reason them county clerks
resigned from the county committee? !
don't know unless it Vas for the good of
the Republican party; only they ought to
have sized themselves up before they went
on the ticket But then. maybe they has
been shown some substantial reason. You
know sugar catches more flies than Jere
Mahoney. They're amt nothing like pure
politics in this world. We're all a-striv-
ing for them. but just about the titne we
reach them some stiff slips lonegreen in
our paw and we can't see nothing Tor the
dust in our eyes.
"Oh, say There's one thing Coils
wrote me think he'll be tickled TO death
to see in print. In talking about Sl:ro, he
says: i guess the old man must be
a-drinling jackass brandy all night so he
can bray all day. That's the way Uncle
gets even on that redhot stove business.
"Well goodby; I've got TO walk past
them cold storage quarters of John S on
Market street and see if any OF our push
is arranging around there. San Francis
CO Examiner.
Trust in the President
The Republicans of the senate and house
paid high compliment to President