Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-15
Dooley on Politics.

Mr.. Hennessy appeared later than usu-
al, and wore a battered and tired appear
ance.
Where ye been, little MANI" asked
Mr.. Dooley.
Down lookin' at tn rayturns," said
Mr. Hennessy.
AN how'd they look?" asked Mr.. Doo-
bad" said Mr.. Hennessy. bad
Teddy Rosenfelt's ilicted. an tn only
CLEAN iv hope we have is that Swede
dimmycrat has won out UP be Minny-
"A Swede dimmycrat." said Mr.. boo
ley. lis onthrue. They're no Swede
dimmycrats. Swedes comes firm coun-
thry wher tn liquor thrade's in tn hands
~ tn governmint. an ivrybody votes Fl
tn administration. No sir. This year
mans a fusion. or whitiver It's they calls
thin. an like as not whin he gets into
tn job twill turin out that he's ray
publican with lanin' to'rd dhrinkin al
oohol out Nv pop bottle. If We was rs
old as am-but We ar-re as old as am,
man alive
I'm not" said Mr.. Hennessy II, was
ony 8 year old .whin ye swore ye'erslf
out " tn dhraft because We was over
age
I'VE lie said Mr.. DooIey. But be tina,
as 1t may, if We raymimbered as well as
do an wasn't given to ,fiSin' up in tn.
air Wanst year befure Election day. an
think iv ye'ersilf goin' over at TIL head
" a comfy to congratulate tn success
fnl candidate. ye'd not take this highly
disthressin' event as a gr-reat sorrow
We have a few good la-ads holdin jobs
over in tn city hall, safe firm tn win
thry gales. an what tn divvle do we
care whether Teddy Rosenfelt has bit his
way into good thing or not? AS tol
We wanst before, the stronger we are in
Wash nton tn weaker We ARE in tn
ward. When big Cleveland was prisidint
liver carrid torch swingin' tn r-red
bridge ,,
| not doomed to victhry
:" Ills like me cousin Mike waflst whin
he was in dhrink, as he was part iv tn
time. he come along to where a man be
n. name " Grogan was layin' brick.
Grogan between tn river an tn packin'
house. an he was layin' brick tn way
some men shovels coal. Lave off, there.
ART. iv bricklayin',' he says. That
WALL he says. III look like tn homeward
thracks iy a wake, he says. May hivin
nywan.' he says. FIR twill desthroy tn
poor women an childher that moves into
it. he says. An he. wept. He was sim
rat man W main in ahrnk Well S
says; come up here, We great omad-
hon. he says, am see if We can do bet
Their. he says. An me cousin Mike win;
up. He was as good a thretrical brick
layer as We iver see, but he'd no sooner
got TIL trow'l in his hand an called
Mort; thin along come man firm Mayo
begun sthrippin' off layers, an whin tn
polls come that Grogan called he had dis
thributed tn first sthory an was pluck
in At tn foundations.
$50 be tn dimycratic party. Th ray
publicans gets into office an begins wur-
rukin' at what Hogan calls tn naytional
ediiice An they do pretty well fl
that some 0aV the naVfiOnal p0jfipp III he
fit to live in, 10 and behold tn bricklay-
ers goes, WRONG. They begin to put
bay windows all over tn naytional edi-
fee an mansard roof on the basemint,
an towers an stained glass windies so
no wan can see in. an thin they get tired
an. TURN over tn job to jerry builders,
-four paste an putin in onsaisoned tim
Der an. gettin a rake-off firm tn man
that sells tn slate f'r. TIL roof 'Tis thin
be saSs e. d Rars IS pa Glory
kind Of an old gazabo is that they're
stickin' over TIL fr-ront SCOOP or, Lord
;,, us fr.m harm, is that man thry-
IN to mix mortar without hair? An they
roar. an kick an wake up tn neighbor-
hood an r-run tn jerrv-builders up an
alley. An they take tn contract on
their own hands. an wan man thries to
another man on tn opposite side is build
in shot tower. Between wan party an
tn, other Whin tn nay.tional edifice is
through with you an I'll want to go
I'm dimycrat, but I'm not looking f'r
victhry.. I'm standin' over here, r-ready
an willin, to correct tn man that's put
ting two bricks together wrong acrost tn
sthreet. Ills safer, an tbs more injy-
~ think I'll TURN popylist,' said Mr..
Hennessy, despondently.
'Tis not SO bad" said Mr. Dooley.
Their naytionaI edifice is a cyclone eel.
lar. "-Copyrighted, 1898, by the Chicago