The sun., 1896-10-16
NPOLYGLOT CANVASS THIS.
ASS6MBLYMAN HOFFMAN AFTER
SEVEN KINDS or VOTES.

Spoken In His District Untn He Began
TO Get Out Posters-Men Who Got the
| Trnusiatinr Jobs win Vote for Hirn.
| To conduct mpagn successfully the aspir-
| ing candidate should be a regular polyGlot die
tionary. This is being forclbly borne in upon
Asscmblyman Ben Hoffman. Mr.. Hoffman has
| yearnings to continue to serve hio State at
| Albany as Assemblyman, with which end In
view he has been conducting a very lively cam
paign ali over the east side, and doing II In
seven different languages.
To begin with Mr.. Hoffman got out his post
ers and other campaign literature In English
aud German, two languages largely spoken In
| his district. To him came an aiding sub.politi-
clan and said:
| LOOK a-here, Ben. All them Poles and Rus
| SLAMS and Lithuanians down In Avenue G are
breakin' their bloomn' necks tryin' to read yer
! Dutch posters. What y wnuter do Is ter hustle
| out a batch OF Yiddish books or y'll lose hull
| lot o. votes"
| "Gracious! I didn't think OF that" said the
candidate. Just drop around to that printing
shop where they do that work. will your Ask
| 'em to get n chap to translate my anti-monopoly
pamphlet into red-hot jargon. and you look out
that Its spread around where It will do the most
good. Ono more printing bil," he sighed as the
lieutenant disappeared.
But a few days later he had the satisfaction OF
seeing MS name all over E5bSS street
| characters that looked as IL they had been
designed by Mr.. Beardsley Of England. This
was Jargon, a ombination language known only
to tho east side. 1t seemed hard to Mr.. Hoffman
to have his name and principles so distorted,
but long experience practising politician
has Injured him TO discomforts. Still. he thought
he was being called upon to bear little moro
than was in the contract when. q day or two
/ later. Swede from the colony around the
beginning OF Avenue B dropped in on him.
~ yust come tell you how we wote." he OBJ
served placid.y.
VERY glad to hear it." replied the candidate
cordially. ~ hope shall get the votes Of our
Swedish citizens. I know of no nationality
which represents better the sturdy prin--"
II hear all dot yust now from other feller
what want our votes" said the Swede COM
pacently. IL yust come tell you we don't read
English easy. We like read Svensh. by vim
"0h. see. l see You think it would be we'll
II little Swedish literature was injected into
the campaign"
DO know literature or INJECT. l yust tell
| you we want read about politics in Svensh."
knew of any one competent to act as translator
| OF campaign documents from English, German,
| or Jargon into Swedish. the translator to take
his pick. Yes. the visitor knew OF such man.
! Very shortly he departed beaming. leaving the
| II wasn't the last entry in the literature col.
| umn. by any means. On the very next day MIR.
Hoffman was % somewhHt ne, , sur surprised ed to % see
office; Rapidly reviewing his acts for the few
pS, he failed to m reSoers any unpsd
How dor" said the Chinaman. briefly.
| GOOD afternoon. Confuciu,: can do any
| thing for you?" inquired the urbane Assembly,
~" You got few ch!naman do olaundly in dis
Yes: oh. yes: ! know all about that" said
| the politician. I've always taken deep in
/ in the intelligent and UPRIGHT Chineap n
Me Intelligent and uplight chnaman," OBJ
II don't doubt il in the least" Mr.. Hoffman
assured him warmly.
und'stand. Chinamar like see Ill pictu' you in
window All same Chinese. Have Ill Chinese all
"oh. Lord" rroaned the candidate. 81 may
as well set up IN business a. JOSS, JOSS.
-" No, no. not in the least. Never better in my
exeeen, GsS oa anG pae ms
few signs. DO 'em up good in your own style:
and and ana all the
the laundry windows and send the bill to me-"
All light" he said, You speak Ill Chi.
speak it? No. I'm d deuoedly sorry to say
I can't. that is not to amount to anything. Just
this: 'Ch!!pg-hok-tOnE mokka. a.hi:iow-jack-Hnd-
"Velly nice.' said the Chairman eravely.
One piece day you come to my laundly make
Yes. will" observed Mr.. Hoffman. sardon-
ically, an his caller departed. " II you get any
more OF me than my shirt in your laundry i'm
| be because amt swift enough to run away. |
suppose that's worth about seven votes and a
| half Next"
| 1t wasn't long before the next came in the per-
son Of a Hungarian. who exploded in a success
sion OF A2es like seltZer bot tie, anc finally got
| Mr.. Hoffman to understand that the Magyar
vote could be kept in line only by profusion OF
campaign literature in that tongue, Mr.. Hoff-
! man sRhed-and did tho proper thing The
| visitor went away assuring him that ho would
| carry the Hungarian colony Rs one man. Mr..
| Hoffman sat down and began TO reckon up.
| "Stx languages already" he remarked.
! They say there's luck in the seventh. but
| Island"
The seventh couldn't do without him. how
ever. The very day that the Chinese posters
| came out strapping big lrlshman waltZed in
upon Mr.. Hoffman.
| "D'yez t,nk all de Irish has moved ont av yer
dPthric' p he demanded.
Certainly not" cried MIR. Hoffman. - Tho
Irish vote is one of the most influential here"
| Then phwat fer d'yeZ be insooltn' the
| Irish Z"
Yes: insoolt III Irish. Haven't yez bin put
| tin yer dirty Chinnse pacards oop in tn lahn-
dry mindersf"
D." But couldn't help that. Dennis"
kape that name fer ycrself. yer can't
rispct tn Irish citizens nv yer disthric'."
But | do. Anything can do to show it
Gaelic 2"
An it's meself us'll see after the job" cried
the visitor; all his animosity gone. Thatll
square the byes."
There was a brief transaction and another
entry in the &" literature" column. II is the last
whether there are any Zulus or Eslimos In his
| district.