The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-03

IL Was Non-Partisan rs to the Fate o
the Candidates.

IL was NOn-bartisan as To tho rate d
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-twirlin'
OF his thumbs.
A notion struck US t'ther day ia be bong
Fur us to have a lection day as outside
people do.
An when the idea fust was preached II
seemed so new an strange,
We coupled to II with n whoop that
seemed to jar the range.
We wasn't fly on politics. but had a notion
that F-N
We'd manage fur to pull 1t on 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 @.
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.
Cs democrats put UP a man we thought d
WWN. AnR
A man that could both read an write. OF
Col. Jack Mcclure,
Whilst them upon the other side named
Faro Tommy Ward.
AZ soar a fellow citizen as ever dealt a
card.
The battle had ~scurcely begun. afore we
heard II said
That Ward had left a eastern state, a
price upon his head,
An that IL 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 came a painful rumor that oil Col.
Jack Mcclure
In former antecedents wasn't absolutely
pure;
Thai someone had ii 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.
a. then fha A.Da
Allowed his previous record didn't cut no
ice with us,
An then as'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 MI
The 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 I'm the camp that
wasn't asked to run.
But all OF 'em SHE'D at the game. an ev-
cry cussed one.
I'm willin' fur to bet my head ag'in a
lump a. clay.
Had records that they was afeared a
never stand assay.
An so. as I remarked afore. or Uncle
Reese
IL likely hold the IGNORED seat O. jes-
tice O the peace
TIL 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.
the wall,
Fur II we had 10 hang the jedge we'd
have no law at all.
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