The herald., 1896-04-13

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Glad to see you," remarked the dep
uty zaniero, as he greeted his friend the
handsome Mckinley colonel very ef-
fusively, having just fastened pro-
lection button with the Ohio mans
vignette in a prominent place upon the
left lapel of his working coat
Our mans strictly in it," and the
deputy zanjero's look of ecstacy made
the colonel grasp his fellow-leaders
hand with overwhelming affection
Then the great man hieG himself to the
sanctum of the eagle, there to dictate
to a terrified slave a philippe against
bossism in his own party.
dis is de most velvet me an de push
has struck in years" remarked the dep
uty Zanjero to few personal friends,
as soon as the other mighty man had
disappeared from the scene. You see
it's like dis. De word has been passed
along de line to dem as is on de inside
dat SO soon as de colonel is seen acomin'
down de street, we must all of us, real
sudden like, fish up a Mckinley but
ton. De colonel sees de ting an it
makes his heart glad, cause it proves
to his highness as he's de real big chief
in dis end Of de land. He wants
to know hOws tricks, eff de family is all
well. l.when de baby's best teet is acomin'
an eff de cow still has de epizoodic. Den
he passes along awipin' his hands where
he touched flesh wild good people, an'ex-
Cuses hisself for bein' good natured,
cause it's all politics an everything goes
till after de lection When he's out of
sight, we takes down Gle Mckinley
signpaintin'. an de protection flag, an
hoists up in it's place de face of Tom
Reed or Bill Allison, de is to shot as
III be dancin' fandango on McKin-
ley's vest in St. Louis when de sum-
mer is de hottest. De idee is de boss
political trick of de season. 1t was
borned down on de corner of Fourt
street an Broadway, where Herv.Lind-
ley's yellow-curled whiskers. eff he had
any. would grow de greenest. Walter
Moore an Col. Teed puts on a Quay
button when de colonel amt around.
but dat's to play favorites where de ice
amt cut"
Say, de last few days has been fer
me one continued lap of joyful expecta-
ton. Dis spielin' fer harbor or not
red fer San Pedro has made me a kid
again. and I've had more from outen
1t dan / could have lookin' behind de
door on de board OF public works when
some odder Teller besides Fred Wood
wants a 'lectric franchise in a month.
Walter Parkers 10y fer de jaded" he
fixed up last Monday was dose dat
went straight to de head of more peo-
pie. quicker den any liver pills I ever
heard Of 1t just paralized Frank Mum
son afore de bottle left Johnny Muir's
big iron safe. an he stayed under de
weather all through last weeks wind
storm. Muir says to Parker to try it on
de dog first by teasin' de councilman
from de Third ward an Munson come
early to de play to avoid de rush. Bye
an bye. when he got in de open air, he
begin to see elephants an worms in de
blamed ting, an it made him shiver
a I a a q
wet towel round his kidneys an went
to bed a-dreamin' what damned fools
Blanchard an George Pessell was to
be hypnotized, an what a fly high
bridge he'd been to unload his stom-
ache in time. An de mex day Gle wind
blowed so hard dat Pessell an Blan-
chard come near hein' drowned off dc
long wharf down by Santa Monica cam
yon, am George amt altogether over
his sea sickness yet"
'Derc aire no big bottle flys down in
Redondo when it comes to gettin' Free
man G. Teed in a hole, either eff yuse
II let me tell it you straight De dan
dy colonel from de Fifth ward wouldn't
take to Muir's bitters no more dan Per-
~ Howard would quit BUM asphalt.
Tced took de glass of doped medicine
from Walter Parker all straight
'nough, but when it come to gulpn' it,
he an Billy Dunn an meself was u
matchin' nickels down in de synagogue
to see as who'd take de mex batch OF
KartWells bonds on to New York"
DE rest Of dc nine fell into de fish
pond me an Muir an de railroad dug
for en' down by de Arcadia hotel, SO
quick it drives me to eatin' tamales
now when 1 thinks of it. Dey bucked
a little, but when we got 'em in de cor
raj an put de collars on, de scrappin'
turned out bluff, as we knowed it
would. All 'ceptin' M. P. Snyder, who
spit out de gag just when Parker had
called time an saved llisself by q
scratch. l feels sorry for Snyder, an
what wild de water octopus an de rail-
road both round his neck, de shoe
man from de oil district IL soon be
a. peddln' peanuts stead of a-signin'
ordinances of intention in RAIDERS in
side Sanctum."
DE cash fund is again top heavy de
wrong way, an some more tall people
as do de swift rustlin' when de 'visory
board meets an votes is to be counted,
will have to be again thrown out on a
unfeelin' world. Stockwell's financier-
in is asavin' de country wild both feet,
an Georges understanding covers nigh
onto de whole First ward. Eff he don't
fix onto a system purity soon as II make
both ends meet, de 'sociation IL have
to put him over a barrel to once again
sell hay an chew on it in his brothers
store over on de east side"
DE mayor has come outen his shell
at last as between me an Huntington
an de people an de colonel. He says
he stands on bot feet in dis fight for
principle, which means of course dat
one foot is on de long wharf an de odder
is a-standin' off San Pedro. Dere is
a position dat makes of RAIDER a livin
picture of good horse sense. His frien'
de colonel has been a-tryin' to prove to
Frank dat he is 'twixt de devil an de
Third ward, which aire Herv Lindley
but Lindley says the mayor can't fall
wrong no difference where his ship is
a-landed. De good book says dat dere
aire times when it hain't good fer man
to be alone, dats why RAIDER is asleep
in in two beds dis season."
Frank Munson is in de fight some
more for mayor, an it's me as put him
dere. De 'sociation wants good man
as weighs bout 210 pounds, an Nun
sons dat spry young gent fer a hundred
De railroads agin him of course, cause
he coughed off his stomach Johnny
Muir's dose of slave harbor bitters a
week ago. But he made hisself strong
Wid de people in turnin' dat trick, an
were wild him. Besides, NIunson is one
OF dem kid-gloved dudes in de chamber
OF commerce, and eff he's nominated
he'll take hisself an a frien' or two
outen de pampas plumed palace owned
by w. Z. Patterson, away from de col
onel. DE colonel thinks well of Munson
an SO do Parker, an Teed, an Billy
Dunn, an George Pessell an
Blanchard, an Tom Savage, an
Jim Ashman. an M. p Snyder,