St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-05-16

W] - :: s.: :: s.; ); =: :: !:
AsSNxSSSsS" wouldn't be no
why's surprisin if can give you some
rinters as to how to run . winnin
race.
"NOw, mind you. am nothin of q
politicioner myself, and none Of my
folks never did wade SO very deep into
the business" she went on, ''but If in
case you let your general habit of serv-
in the people and savin the country
git the under holt and kinder horn
snoggle you into race like that, natu-
rally. of course, would love to see
you swing down under the wire first
You know 1 am Jest one of these plain
talkin, fiat-footed, old-fashion, stay-at-
hOme-and- nd-do-as-you-please sort Of
women, and it is my own private
opinion that when man goes to
messin and dabblin himself in politics
he must be right tolerable low down
in the world, or either powerful hard
up for somethin to do. But reckon it
is none of my business what the men
folks do SO long as there amt no par
ticlar one BLOWN and swellin and
struttin and bOssin around me"
~Wrastlin with the Boys."
"Ireckon of course you have no doubts
heard of how Jerry rutherford wiped
up the face Of the earth with Gus Crit
tendcn and got elected to congress
from our deestrict," Aunt Nancy went
on presently. "Well, that in what l
rut in to tell you about. Whilst Jerry
amt as old, and neither AZ good lookin
o. you, Rufus, yet still ut the same
time he has got there and been there.
and If don't disremember mighty bad
you are always preachin forth the doc
trine that the man which knows the
woods is the man to blaze the way. Now
Ill be pleg took il Jerry don't know the
woods. l reckon by this time he knows
every man, woman and child-every
cross roads and every fork-cvery pig
path and every cow trail in the whole
entire deestrict.
"You see, Rufus, the honorable Au-
custus Crittenden he had = heap the
70 when Jerry come out on the track.
Al everybody knows Gus Crittenden
has been standin for congress every
since he got back from the legislature.
He is what you mought call standin
candidate for most anything that comes
in reach, but congress in particlar. So
in that way he had got the 60 and had
the inside track, and whilst Jerry beat
the livin socks on Of him when votin
time come he had to stay out mighty
late and git up mighty soon and play 4
rattlin fast game in ortlerment to make
things come his way.
'-Gus Crittenden can put up . terri
hle high-flyin speech and make splen-
difcrous show with himself in COM
pany, cause you must recollect that he
is strappin likely man, but he can't
hold light for Jerry Rutherford when
it comes down to wallowin over the
woods and wrastlin with the boys that
do the votin in general election"
A Vote Lost and Won.
"Now, Jest in orderment to give you
little private notion of how easy It Is
for one man to drop a vote, and another
one to come along and pick it up. ! will
tell you what come to pass at our house
one night, which will likewise show you
what made Dink Ashcraft turn out to
be sich . wild and woody Rutherford
man along towards the tail end Of the
race.
"Dink he was over to our house
spendin the night with us. and about
irst dusk who should ride up to the
horse rack but Gus Crittenden. To
be certainly we ask him to light and
come in and make himself at home.
and he want the least bit meally-mouth
about doin as he wns told.
"Well, that night we had to put Gus
with Dink in the company room, 20 they
both slept in the same bed together.
1t looked perfectly all right and agree
able at that time, cause Dink was then
lettin the grass run away with his crop
50 he could ride up and down the big
road and prach Gus Crittenden as the
onlyest man that was fitten to 60 TO
congress from our dee&trict. But took
notice the next morning that Dink
want talkin any politics to speak Of.
He didn't say much one way or the
other, but you could see that somethin
had rubbed the hair the wrong way.
''Soon ~ after breakfast Gus called
for his horse and lit out for the Fiat
Woods, and we didn't hardly wait for
him to git out Of sight before we got
around Dink and put in naggin At him
to find out what had got up between
him and his favorite for congress. After
20 long . time he come out with it like
man and told ~ that Gus Crittenden
slept in gown.
81 never would Of thought II in the
created world says Dink. and II any
body had told me % wouldn't Of BE-
ljeved II. but dadblamed him. I have seed
It with my own eyes, and seein = believ-
in
~ wonder in my soul II that II .
general fool way with al the candi-
dates for ONCE Dink went On. talkin
sorter half way to himself. Il Il +,
they can Jest simply count Dink Ash
craft out of the game. / doat take NO
female garments IN mine, Il you please.
and no man that dos can git my vote
foe congress. / doat make out like /
IN speoutin any wines = yet sone-
times, - you I'll know, / ct hind
drunk and play ca-ds. and bet On
h0eoe raoea ard eny Co. Woe6a and