The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06

"Mlnions-no. that isn't right 1 beg
your pardon JIMMIE mean my merry
men, tomorrow, at the band wagon!'
Tomorrow"
Tomorrow"
And they tiptoed off conspiratorially.
When they tiptoed back again at
call from Robert Henry.
I forgot said he. I'VE swearr'
"All right" said Jimmie. L don't
care, if you do too. Dumhaste it,
mo, nor said Robert Henry hur-
riedly, Just we swearr
I'VE swear said all in the most
tragical voices imaginable, and they
tiptoed off again.
The next day an event of some i'm
portance was to take place on the
vacant lots beside the only mill in the
little town. Quite number of voters
were employed in the mill, and it oc-
Cured to the Van Gravaelsoecldtes
that it would be a good idea to drive
down there at the noon hour with
band and deliver final and convinc-
ing address to the men while they ate
their lunch and took their recess. The
arrangements were made, when the
rival party got wind of it, and, in
most ungentlemanly way, as Aunt
Robina protested, hired another band
and another wagon and proceeded at
the same hour to the same place. This
/ be ''f1usterated." OF course all the
boys of the town were there in force
and divided into factions, subsidized, it
may be feared, by grinning politicians
/ of a greater age. The Republicans
| drew up at one extreme end of the
muddy vacant ground, and the Dem
| ocrats drew up at the other. The one
| band blared out, Hail to the Chief"
| and the other-it was Aunt Robina.
who said they were vulgar-drowned
| them out with "a Hot Time in the Old
| Town" Then they were silent, and a
/ young gentleman in one wagon intro
duced an old gentleman who said,
Fellow citizensP' while an old gentle
man, in the other wagon introduced
Robert Henry's papa who said, Eel
low citizens" Then there was a great
deal of cheering and then both candi-
dates said at the same time: Fellow
citizens, l am proud" and then they
both got mad because a cOhort Of
small boys with tin whistles and pans
began to make an awful row near one
wagon, and another cohOrt similarly
equipped made a hideouS din beside
the other wagon.
Fellow citizens yelled the lawyer.
you see here the evidence of the
weakness of our opponents platform,
when they thus resort to such con-
temptible measures to silence argu-
menti
Fellow citizensp' yelled Mr.. Van
Gravaelsoeck, you now behold in this
lawless band of children, prompted to
their villainy by INSCRIPTIONS cor
rupters of youth, a miniature of the
disgraced rabble which dares to aspire
to govern our country
They yelled a lot more, but theil
voices were drowned, for the tin bands
got mixed and the boys began to fight
and smash each others merry little in
nocent faces with drum-sticks and tir
trumpets.
At this, which he had not expected
Robert Henry, seated beside his papa
in the wagon, with the box of cracker!
beneath him, grew very indignant, anC
wanted to jump out and join in the
fray, but was restrained with grea
. difficulty by Jimmie McTaggart anC
! Wartie, who were clinging to tn,
wheels.
''Be quiet" said Wartie, in great ex
? element, "our time will come. Remem
Der we swearr -
: So Robert Henry sat down again
, fidgetting a great deal and continu
: ally asking Jimmie and Wartie in al
earnest whisper if they had tn
t matches ready.
In a little time the entire police force
i in his best uniform, succeeded in dis
j persing the rioters, and the speeche
recommended. But what the farseein
= Wartie had feared would happen tool
l place now. The lawyer, well practiceC
d with jokes and louder voice, drew tn
crowd away from the unexperience
S Van Gravaelsoeck, and Robert Henry
papa found himself talking to tn
:. winds.
'Ahha!" whispered wartie. Nov