The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-03
THE ELECTION in SQuAWvlLLE.
1t Was Non Partisan as to the Fate o
the Candidates, ...

1t Was Non-Partisan to the Fate o
the Candidates.
Fur somethin' like a score O. years oil
Uncle Billy Reese
Has ladled out our Sqawville law as jes-
tice o the peace,
An I've a notion when the call from An
gel Gabriel comes
TIL find him yit a-settin' there a-twrln'
of his thumbs
A notion struck us tther day I'd be bong
tong a few .o
Fur us to have a lection day as outside
people do,
An when the idea fust was preached it
seemed so new an strange,
We coupled to It with a whoop that
seemed to jar the range.
We wasn't fly on politics, but had notion
Wed manage fur to pull it off with laud-
able eclat,
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 O. the peace, which I'm
Gle Billy helt,
But all the same we cottoned to the firm
belief that we
Could handle an election day in style way
up in G.
Both parties helt conventions, an want
to tell you, pard,
They wasn't Sunday school affairs con-
Quoted by the card
But all the same each party chose its
leader fur to pack
Its standard in the race along the candi-
datial track
Us democrats put up man We thought d
win fur sure:
A man that could both read an write, OF
Col. Jack Mcclure,
Whilst them upon the other side named
Faro Tommy Ward,
As SOAR fellow citizen as ever dealt
card.
The battle had scurcely begun, afore we
heard it said
That Ward had left a. eastern state
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
ties forgot
An jest to purify the camp we hung him
on the spot.
Then came a painful rumor 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
to 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 Demos, both Clipped in to
rise him from the earth.
Again we called conventions with the
stated view to fill
The vacancies created by a moral peo-
pies will,
But every candidate we named declined
with skeery face,
Each claimin' that he had not time to
monkey with the place.
There want a rooster in the camp that
wasn't asked to run,
But all of EN- SHE'D at the game an ev-
cry cussed one.
I'm wiln' fur to bet my, mead agin a
lump o. clay,
Had records that they was afeared d
never stand assay.
An so, as I remarked afore, or Uncle
Reese
Il likely hold the honored seat O. jes-
tiCe O the peace
| Till Gabriel toots the final horn, or cruel
! death creates
A e., =, ia
| 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 tc
| the wall,
| Fur if we had to hang the ledge wee
have no law at all.
Denver Post.