The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-03-24

machine operators begin to withdraw
from among the voters and go behind
the scenes. The successful bogy eats
nothing but pie which has been taken
from the voters and placed at his dis.
p0sal on the pie counter by the ma
chine operators; and by a chief Cp-ra.
tor elected for that very purpose, this
! pie is put into the bogy's mouth In
his back there is a large opening from
which the pie Is taken by the said op.
orator and distributed among hIs faith
ful assistants behind the Scenes Some
Of the pie 10 passed through the secret
connecting pipe and out through the
other bogy.
The most curious feature of the bogy
men Is their tells. 4ch tail has eieUen
JOINTS, One tail is white and the olheI
Is very dark. Ole is label, d with the
letters IS D. ?" and the other with
the letters IS. r P" The las JOINT
on each tail IS hlsO lab led IN land
Is now partly broken off The orner
joints on both tails are labeled 5. G.
ia" "F,a.," etc. Both tails ere ad-
Unstable, are put on during The fight
and taken eff during the feeding. This
adjustable feature has given rise to
many bitter controversies and fzhJq.
some voters ~c0nCendlng That rGe tails
grew naturally out Of tue bogIes, wDil8
others maintain they are only screwed
on for show and 20 deceive hose voters
who are only or manly tan worship.
pers.
Another controversy arises as to
whstner the tails receive any part of
the PIE given to the bogles. The bIacz
tail, attached the bogy labtled Re
publican Party" is VIGOROUSLY Galn
and poor. In fact both the black and
the white tails receive 50 little Susie
nance during the feeding 5ine that
they have TO be CREASED" just before
the great quadrennIal sham fight IN
order Il b. timber enough for use.
During this fight they are each carried
higher than any real part OF the Oogy
TO which they respectively belong; on
account Of which some Of the tail par
tlsans are very much el8ted, because
there is n whole section of voters
who would not belong to any bogy at
ali out for it's tail attachment, which
indeed they deny % be a tail aG all, and
ever affirm that it wags the b0gy.
Desperate eff prts are now beng made
20 wrench off the white tail IN order to
show that it Is &C adjustable, ana IN fact
no part Of the bOgy. But the tail Is
Kept 50 we'll CREASED" on the Gu s!de,
and the operators Of the machine
throw up so much dust and keep UP
sU n confusion and strife among tne
voters thai they cannot be got 40 gull
together. The last joint, with N. Q.
marked on it, has indeed been more
nearly broken eff than any other, but
il is generally believed hat most Of it
will hang on ana continue to be curjed
highest during the fight and lie lowest
during the feeding.
The last pie distributor" has caused
great scandal by bis contempt for the
bOgy with the white tail (3ho7a par
tisans elected him), and for The tail
also. He has outraged the FEELINGS Of
its wOrshipper8 by attempting to saw
this popular idol, tail ano all, INTO Two
partG, for the purpose of making q new
bogy, by joining one half of i6 t. a sim
ular lateral half of the other bogy,
which he intimates will be sawed sun
der for the same purpose. During Jnis
operation he has also mingled freely
and frequently with certain machine
operators, supposed servants Of the
bOgy with black tail, whom ne has
been elected AID hired to hate. Such
conduct has tended Toexpose che whole
game. A sincere bogy worahlppar told
me the other day, paUhetlcally, that ne
had Olmost broken up bogy worship.
A practical PIE eater whispered 10 his
pal that the election of another sucn e
pie distributor would destroy the prof
It's of the machine.
w. J. PEELE
1t is a fact that the New Y.rk FL