El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-15

pulverize his mmittee, sprinkling tn
whole thing around among other com
rnittees having something to do, to TIT
end that he might be heard from Otter
enough to at least satisfy half dozer
of his constituents that when elected
he took his seat in the council, Instead
of swiping sandhill on the "StakeG
Plains' aud sitting on it for year I'M
beknOwnst to them.
railways appeared; tOhim, gentlemen,
that after we were elected we should
all have used the same toothpick aud
been social each cutting his full share
| of uuderbrush in an effort to get out OF
the woods. And if we were bound, like
Grover Cleveland. to get lost
| through the sometimes uncOrquerable
force of various circDmstsnces,.t hen we
could all have got lost together-all 10
bunch, each being posted before
hand on the exact quality and quantity
of comfort adequate to the perfect
smoothing down of the ruff1ed feathers
of the other bird, in the event of our
never getting back again to our regu-
lar roosting place.
He came into your little society with
rake and pitchfork, prepared to do
suns have shone brightly, as usual
thing, especially for him, he feels that
he has made but little hay for his con-
stituents, and gained no glory for him
self as harvest hand, having simply
stood around playing with a straw, and
keeping track of the jig, while you
gentlemen composing a seven acre
democratic ms jority moved the grass
and otherwise dealt with it. OF course
his expectations of making, as q coun-
Gilman, much heftier noise than an
army reveille played on wet
blanket stretched across one of
the regulation q mud-holes on San
Antonio street. with q pair of over-ripe
bananas for drumsticks, we're only fin
ished off with single coat of half.tone
red paint-as was natural under the
friend of the ''Robber Barons'' that
flew into this crowd at the last cleo
ton. Still, he expected to be treated
as sort of TRUSTED compadre' at
least about once month, outside of
the authorized salary days.
But he wasn't. He didn't cut any
more figure as cOmpadre than the
pound of dry feathers which Lot car
ried around in his liver pad when he
cient Sodom. AS q consequence, he
will, at this late day, be wholly unable
to impress his friends and constituents
with his statement that he has been
here, or anywhere else. Such q state
of things, wiping itself up with the
once roseate future of man and BROTH
err ought not to exist. He forgives you,
however. And when you hand over
this same old committee to the repub-
lican successor of it's present chairman
it is hoped you will help him to rich
er plate of plum duff" even though
you give him chance to earn it by
putting and carrying a motion now and
then. The new chairman, however, is
full of fear, even now, that you will
make up your minds, on the spur of
the moment. perhaps, to somewhat
poratirg with its duties these OF IN |
spector for tanyards and limberger |
cheese factories" also those of ''custo- |
dian of rooster tracks on the tin |
roof shanties standing along the mar |
gin of some OF our main thorOughfares. |
Do what you can to make him hap
py, make II chun of him: he is just q |
little sinful in casting his bread oa the |
muddy waters OF politics. But all are |
sinful, in some shape as other, and it
pleaseth him to sin in this particular
way. When, however, the bread only
drifts back within hailing distance.
with no butter, and ''nary smell" OF
Jam on it he will reform and become
3 successful citizen later.
YOur present CHAIRMAN tn8nKS you, |
one and all, for the kindly way in
which you have always treated him as
a "lost goslinq" from the republican
and provided for him a
cons tant ''Rrasshopper tine" clear
n any way disturbing his
lreams or his salary. And he now saith
into you-Reform!le let your regulations
ret a hump on themselves. that they
nay grow and prosper. And when for
,ou also. the time shall come, sneak
ng around like burglar after dark,
hat each of you must take your little
eticule and go home with the last Gu
lumber or persimmon which you will {
'ather from ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS or tree,
1sy none of your political suns go
own, like the small one now sinking
Or the chairman Of ''the scequia, the
iver and harbor, the aqueduct, and the
udd n committee" behind a cloud.
Yours for soft time and a salary,
Ow, and heretofore. 7
ED. G SCOTT,
Chairman.
VINO SING & Co has purchased the