The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-17
Hulnor of Politics.

of one of the great political parties III
this campaign. Like all others it is
to be campaign of education, and
before it closes people may know all
about what is meant by "16 to u and
1.-THE crime of '73." Just now their
opinions as to the meaning of these
phrases is not entirely clear.
a reporter who wanted to know,
asked quite a number Of people yes
! terday: What do you know about
Is to I? What was the crime of '73?
1T means" said woman who was
just returning from the grocery with
a large basket, that you are liable to
get Is rotten eggs to every 1 good
one" and she trudged along.
sixteen to is all right, see?' said
a sport. Il am for sixteen every
time Why? Because it's more.
That's dead easy"
The home missionary had quite an
other idea. He said: "There are
more than 16 churches to 1 Salvation
Army, but | would not be surprised
if the one army was doing more of
real work for the kingdom than the
IS Churches
The gold advocate said: 1T means
sixteen ounces Of silver for one ounce
Of gold am quite sure of that; that
is, | think | am
\ silver advocate said; Its just
this way: There are seventeen voters
living in our block and sixteen are
for silver, while one is for gold. Wen
have him converted before Novem-
Der"
At the depot a young man who had
Just come from South Branch was in
terrogated II know all about IS to
T." he said. Iii takes sixteen minnows
to catch one bass, and sixteen stories
are told about every one fish caught.
There are also sixteen young ladies to
every young man.
What is meant by Is to ~ repeat
ed another young man. Il don't
know what it means, unless it is that
the sixteen is one worse than the tif
teen puzzle was"
You can put it down just as [ am
giving it to you, and | am giving it
to you straight, said a Republican
politician, there will be sixteen vo-
ters for gold to every one for silver i'll
Garrett county this fall
Il can illustrate that very easy"
said dry goods merchant. we have
it right here at the ribbon counter. 1t
is a neat silk ribbon, with a gold stripe
in the center and eight silver stripes
on each side Makes neat campaign
badge. contains no lettering and is Il
, good seller.
1T means said the merchant with
a look of disgust on his face that
there are sixteen people who ask for
credit to every one who pays cash" "
AS the look deepened TO one Of deter
3 minatiOn he added: But you can
say that hereafter we will let 16 peo-
pie pay cash before we trust another
one, OF the goods stay on the shelf"
Sixteen to one. eh?' said the horse
; man. Say, that's good odds. I'd
like to bet against the sixteen If it is
cinch, it's good bet to lose"
Don't you go to blaming anything
onto this force for what happened in
= '73,' said the irate policeman. This
=. force wasn't organized till IA, and
! you can't expect we would know any
thing about the crime of '73.n
Don't bother me" said the elderly
citizen who was reading his news
: paper. 1T means IS fools to one wise
man, | suppose
Don't know or care anything
about it, said the busy man, mop
ping his face, but to-day is Is times
hotter than one man can stand" and
! he walked on.
The crime of I'd" said the much
married man. Really, don't recol-
lect what it was. Let me see, that is
the year the twins We're born, and my
+ wife's mother came to live with us.
: can't recolect anything else that took
, place that year"
= Said q livery stable keeper There's
sixteen Of these darned bicycles used
to every one horse, and don't believe
that more than one out of sixteen is
entirely paid for either
Il am sure can't tell you anything
about the crime OF 49, said the
lawyer. You see | wasn't at home
then, and so didn't know. That's the
year | entered college
This is a free country and every
body IS at liberty to accept any one
of the sixteen hundred and more def
nitions that are daily put on sixteen
to one"
In a recent lptTpr to the manrfac-