The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-16
The Election in squawviIIe.
From the Denver Post.

The Election in squawviIIe.
From the Denver Post.
Fur somethin' like a score O. years oil I'm
Gle Billy Reese
Has ladled out our Squawville law as jus
tice o the peace,
An I've a notion when the caR from Angel
Gabriel comes
tn find him VT a-settin' there a-twirlin'
of his thumbs.
A notion struck us. t'other day I'd be bong
Fur us to have a lection day as outside
people do
An when the idee fust was preached 1t
seemed so new an strange,
We coupled to it with whoop that seem
ed to Jar the range.
We wasn't fly on politics, but had notion
that
We'd manage fur to pull It off with laud-
able eciat.
An as a sort O primal move we counted
up our clans.
An found bout half was Democrats an
half Republicans.
We'd never had no officers IN that hull
mountain belt.
Exceptin' jestice of the peace, which Uncle
Billy helt,
But all the same we cottoned to the nrm
belief that we
Could handle an election day in style way
I'D in G.
Both parties helt conventions, an I want
to tell you, pard,
They wasn't Sunday school affairs con-
Quoted by the card,
But all the same each party chose its lead
er fur to pack
It's standard in the race along the candi-
datial track.
Us Democrats put up a man we thought
"a win fur sure;
A man that could both read an write, OIL
Col Jack Mcclure,
Whilst them upon the other side named
Faro Tommy Ward,
AS SOAR a fellow citizen as ever dealt a
card.
The battle scurcely had begun, afore we
heard it said
That Ward had left a. eastern state, a
price upon his head
An that if it was run to earth the death
o Texas Jim,
A Teller that was slugged an robbed,
might be ascribed TO him.
or Faro turned a whitish cast when
charged with this offense
Which seemed to show his guilt without no
further evidence;
Then party lines was cast aside an poll
tics forgot.
An jest to purify the camp we hung him
on the spot.
Then come a painful rurnor that oil Col
Jack Mcclure
In former antecedents wasn't absolutely
pure;
That someone had it from the states that
he had choked his wife,
An had to change his residence fur safety
10 his life.
We brought the accusation home to him,
an then the cuss
Allowed his previous record didn't cut no
ice with us,
An then ag'in the party lines was Civ a
restin' berth.
An Reps, an Dems. both Clipped m to
rise him from the earth
Again we called conventions, with the stat
ed view to fill
The vacancies created by a moral peoples
will.
But every candidate we named declined
with skeery face
Each claimin' that he had no time to mon
key with the place,
There want a rooster in the camp that
wasn't asked to run.
But an Oh EN- shled at the game, an every
cussed one.
I'm willin' fur to bet my head ag'in a lump
O. clay,
Had records that they was afeared d never
stand assay.
An so. as remarked afore, OIL Uncle Billy
Reese
Ii likely hold the honored seat O. jestice
o. the peace
Till Gabriel toots the final horn, or cruel
death creates
A vacancy fur which wen have no ready
candidates.
Somebody started up a yarn that Uncle
Billy had
A story chasin' him around that was al
mighty bad,
But we unanimously tossed the rumor to
the wall
Fur If we had to hang the jedge we'd have
no law at all.