The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-12-07
Mr.. BlINKtR MURPHY
ON THE GOLD BRICKS

"Say, but my insides is all sore a-laughing
over that combination between them two
editors" said Mr.. "Blinker' Murphy "a he
leaned up against a pillar in the Palace.
Me and Herrin has to grin every time we
thinks of Colonel John ahugging General
Harry an a-tellin' him how he loves him.
Say, amt it enough to jar you?
mo wonder our big lawyer put the wrong
end of his seegar into his feeder when he
waltzed into the coloners Office and finds
him a-trying to bang the generals hair. Say,
wasn't that enough to paralyze whale!
"Herrin says he nearly had fit when
the general commenced a-sobbing that he c
been buncoed some more. Never mind,
Harry says Colonel John a-wiping away
his tears, me and you ought to be used to it
by this time
"But when the two guys commenced "a
beating themselves on the breast and assay
ing we is the people, that must have been
sight to make a horse laugh. Anyway,
what do you think of the cheek of them duff
fers a-wanting to drag the Espee into poll
tics after they'd been a-shouting for the last
six months that the railroad wasn't no issue
in the campaign. That's the kind of thing
that makes man have that tired feeling.
"Here's me and Uncle and Herrin been
a washing of our hands and a-keeping them
off all the fights in the last election, except
maybe the legislature and congressman and
railroad commissioners and equalizers and
supervisors and judges and few other lit
tie things like them, and now them two ed
itors wants for us to get in again and help
elect a United States senator. Amt it aw-
full?
"What's the trouble all about, anyway
Well, I'll tell you. You see the general has
got to be sort of moneymaniac on the SEN
atorship, but not enough to put up his own
stuff. He's been a-trotting after me and Her
rim and Colonel Dan for the last year a-want-
ing to know what his chances was and where
he was a-going to get off. 1t got to be so bad
that me and Herrin couldn't go into the
grill and eat a forlfull of crab salad without
the general a-pulling up his chair and a-talk-
ing about how he'd make Perk look like
thirty cents when he got to Washington.
"Of course that made Colonel John sus-
picious that something was adding, so he
gets his dander up and begins a-batting the
general in his organ and ascending around
a-telling people that he'd roast the Iivers
out of them if he found them a-pledging
themselves to vote for DE Young.
"Well, of course, as Republicans who had
only the good of the party at heart, me and
Herrin tells John and Harry for to keep
their hands out of each others hair until
the election was over, and then we'd consult
with them about the senatorship and we
kept our word Didn't we let the general
know he couldn't have the job within three
weeks after the votes was counted, and
didn't we let Colonel John know that he
didn't cut no ice just as soon as we could
get around to him. If that amt a-consult-
ing with people don't know what is.
"Dead low down me and Uncle and Herrin
would have sent General Harry to Wash
ington if we could have got away with it,
but the general himself got adding politics
on his own account and made mess of it..
We was a-keeping Palo Alto in the dark
about what was a-going on, when what does
Harry do but sends friend down to San
Mateo for to straighten things out for him.
"Well, Palo Alto just makes things hum,
and gets word on to Hubbard and Stillman
that me and Herrin is a-getting ready to
cough up Estee dough for to make the gen.
cral a senator. Then Georgey Croker he