Evening journal., 1899-01-16
HON. WILLIAM JONES
Iconunued From First Pace

tltmln9 an telef udmcu Nteetl
helped him git that Bue don tell any
Of the neigh0ors ABOUT me sayin' 50,
fur I'm maxim hit fur pass an Il
might interfere With my prospects.
don spcse you know Massey. Mil
Wilson sez he's a long-headed attenu-
ated individual who lives up in Phila
delphis I'm not shore what attenu-
ated means. but l think hit means
smart. ast Milf when Massey wuz
here helpin' Tharpe git that chairman
ship He sed ghat Mr. Massey wuz
here he.plu these fellers when they
didn't know it. He lows that Mr..
Massey don generally let one OF has
fine Eyetaiian hans know what the
others doin' when the General AS
sembly's In session. Min sez as how
ne is sort OF an ex-ofisho member OF
both houses. an CASTS the decidln
vote when the fellem can't agree his
way Min sez he never Gums here in
person but that he's mos always here
in spirit HITS the fIst time I ever
knowed as h1w the State House wuz
hanted.
Hit wuz a shame the way the fel.
lers pulled an hauled at Speaker
Clark on that there committee busi-
ness. Some Of them didn know whad
they wanted, but they acted as though
they wuz boun to have hit The Reg
Tar Republicans is raisln' hellbore an
Onions because Tharpe's made chair.
man Of the corporation committee. To
make matters worse there wuz a bis
raiTcad meetin' here to-day an Frank
A-ee refused to 81 up an drink tc
the heaish Of the merger agreement
They prest him 10 do it. but he saiu
no, he wasn't thirsty There is some
talk Of the Reg'lhrs ilyin' to throw
Tharp outten The chairmanship when
the committee meets and organizes. Ei
they do you'll smell brimstonce cleai
down TO Slndtown, for therell be a
revolution. an you'll behold the phe.
ncmenel spectacle of the Tharp meI
baclun up Speaker Clark to a man
Hitll be reglar political twist
around. The D,mocrats is with Us now
that we're with Clark. ! admire them
more an the time fur their stirlin
consistency Donahoe an McNulgy is
an right now; Rtse would smell as
sweet by any oiher name, and Shall
cross has sed as how &C is the bisness
OF the Dmocrats to protect their
speaker agin both the Reg, ,ar Repub-
Leans an Union Republicans. Speaker
Clark puts his trust in the Lord an
the Dimocrats. an he's not foolln
himself when he does Il.
"There hahn no end TO the things
I've got to hx up before J kin gii
home Hit may be corn-piantin' time
before III git home. The new con-
etitushun limits the members to sixty
days pay, but Thar don't agger this
time. Mr. Addiclas has tol' Frank
Alice TO tell the members TO stay
ies' as long as they wants to an send
their bills to him. Ef that haint liber-
ality donx know wat hit is. He's a
philanthropist, an no mistake about
hit Bui az we're afraid Of is thar
DUPONT viii tell the fellers to make
an estimate IL the number of days
they ought to stay here over sixty
10 make il pay. an then adjourn
.f. If.4I.
fur les time to him. Et
he does that Tine afraid that
Addicks can't hold the felers.
"Jes' now we're al tore up about Sc
lec.in' a lawyer fur the House. We
Audicks fellers want Walter Hayes an
the Res'lam want Phil Churchman
Neither is specially ornamental. hut
their friends say as how they'll he
useful Hits a deadlock Church
mans the felier that said ef / didn't
quit whoopin hi. up fur Tharpe he'd
choke the livern lights outten me- an
nov I guess he's sorry he didn' I've
consented to a deal which will give the
House both Of them. don't know
what the taxpayers viii think OF hit
buE I'm willin TO shoulder the reepon-
eihility. an ] don see that. ef I dc
that, hits emmy OF the pubHc's busl-
ness ef we have a dozen lawyers.
I'm soITy Clark couldn' please
everybody. He had enough help in
tryin', God knows. Hits my candid
opinion that he wuz pulled an hauled
about so prOmiscuous like by the Eel.
lcrs who wanted to set up the commit.
tees that he ies' collapsed frum gen.
eral debility incident TO bein' devilet
90 death. A feller who hahn bin elect
ci speaker needn' wan to be. HI
hahn no feather bed.
II wuz standin' out on the Greer
this mornin when feller GUMS nj
an sez: You oghter 90 UP in the Hal
Of Representative an Gee the DuPon
machine at work. sez, Thank youi
an Wen mp. You know I've allus bin
powerful fond of machinery. When
looked aroun' an didn' see no ma
chine / ast a tall felier with a Van
dyke beard as I've hearn nit called
20 please tell me where the DuPon
machine WIZ bein' run Tie looled "a