Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-17

The Executive Undsrshirt.
One sultry afternoon last week the
callers upon Governor Stanley were
few, the lady stenographer was away
and there was a batch Of ]oficial work
to dispose Of. The governor had
chance to buckle down to it undis-
turbed and the longer be worked the
worse he psrspired. on went the
suspenders, the collar and necktie,
and off went the shirt, and with moth
ing to steam up his chest but q light
undershirt, this plain executive Of the
Sunfower state proceeded to the COM
pletion Of his task. The governor
dresses well in clothes Of good ma.
terial and wears creased trousers.
But his official functions and position
make no change in the man. If he
were called npon to dig a ditch he
would spit on his hands as naturally
as be dotted his outer garments on
this sultry day In the afternoon. 1t
was not always thus with those ele-
waited to high position.
When Leweling came up from the
same town-Wichita-a bald.headed
butter vender, he was more or less
bagged at the knee and frayed at the
waist band. He closed his term OF
office quite a dude, with a new growth
Of hair propagated upon the surface
Of his iertil Uranium, and the look OF
an epicure fond Of lobster and shrimp
salad. Leedy wandered up from
among the cockleburs with some Of
them adhsring to his person, and at
the end Of two years, when he swal'
lowed a big lump and said he had the
pleasure" Of introducing his sue
cessor, some took him for bishop
and Others for Andrew Carnegie.
When John Breidenthal was discov
cred he had an anti-prohibition com
plexion, a lean shadow and warts or
his hands. Now he is as fair and fa'
as il abnormally lined with capon
while his hog-scaring voice has soft
ened into cadence sweet and low lik'
the music Of a parlor auctioneer.
Boyle came in with a mackintosl
and q soft hat and went out with
spike tail, a band box and q bntton
hole bouquet.
The sudden change from the Dut
ton to the Midland never made hin
vince.
Taylor Riddle used to smoke alfalf
stogies and wear a wamus and b
long since began using six for quar-
ter and a tailor made costume.
Jerry Simpson took his bare shin
Washington and carried them back t
, Medicine Lodge arrayed in the mos
gaudy golf suit known to the uppe
: ten Of Coney island, while his appt
tite for Anticipated dewlap was supel
ceded by q taste for tenderloin an
lamb fry.
When Mrs. Lease first took the ro'
trum she was clad in Amazonian ca
leo and amazing seersucker. BIZ
she had only given few advertise
bursts Of her whaleback eloquent
until there appeared on the bosom
r her silk shirt waist a diamond whic
$ dazzled like an arc light along wit
0 the soft salutes of her kissing bu
e vocabulary. Even those two pillal
c of Populism and political chums, Be
$ Semple and Rube Chenault' have al
carded linsey woolsey night shirts ar
now repose in tarpaulins of almo
= Oriental magniticence.
These straws picked from the stu
u Bile Of Populism indicate that pess
mistic buster sometimes covers
J frame prone to optimism and that
y VOW of poverty is now and then 70
: lowed by bender with the boys.
These old spawned nags that pref
e hay to fresh clover will do to waite
Is and it is absolutely necessary
watch the clover II you want to sa'
,, any Of it. The only party that CT
:. stand prosperity is the one led i
. spired and commissioned by Gener
!. Prosperity himself. Topeka Ma
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