The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-20

boss is aristocracy 10 him. an so II 90.
Up to tn Car Nv Rooshia. He's tn psck -
tn bunch. tn high man Nv all. tn popa NJ.
goin' in society. Well, Mrs. Cassidy ~.
aristocracy 10 O'Leary. He niver see sncs
stylish woman as she was whin 81.
turned out iv a Sunday afthernoon in hs.
horse an buggy. He'd think to himsn,
If liver can win that I'm settled rr H..
an Nv coorse he did. Twas a gran uoa
din: nanny iv tn guests didn't show =.
FIR weeks.
"O'Leary done well. an she was 90
wife to him. She made money an kent b,-,
straight an started him fr constable u.
won out. bein' sthrong man. Thin she %.
him 70 r-run fr alderman. an ye shud'v.
seen her tn night he was inauguratedl p.
hivins. Hinnissey. she looked like fire in
pawnshop. fair covered with dimons an,
goold watches an chains. She was cut ou,
TO be an aldherman's wife an twas worth
goin' miles to watch her leadin' tn gran.
march at tn Ar-rchy Road Dimmycratic
Fife an Dhrum Corps ball.
But there she stopped. A good woman
an a kind wan. she cudden't go tn dis
lance. She had tn house an tn childer
to care FIR an her eddycation was through
with. They isn't much a woman can learn
afther she begins TO raise a family. But
with OLeary twas different I say twas
different with O'Leary. Ye talk about yeer
colleges. Hinnissy. but pollytics is tn poor
mans colledge. A la-ad without enough
book larnin' 10 r-read a meal ticket II
We give him tin years of polly-tical life
has the air Nv a statesman an tn manner
iv a jock an cud tax amy job fr m dalin'
faro bank to r-runnin tn threasury iv tn
United States. His business brings him I'D
again tn best men If tn community an
their customs an ways iv speakin' an
thinkin' an robbin sticks 10 him. TIL good
woman is at home all day. TIL on'y peo-
pie she sees is tn childher an tn neigh
bors. While tn good man in a swallow-tail
coat is addhressin' tn Commercial Club on
what we shud do fr to reform pollytics.
she's discusin' tn price iv groceries with
tn plumbers wife an talkin over tn back
fence with tn milkman. Thin O'Leary
moves up on tn boolyvard. He knows he'll
get along all fright on tn boolyvard. tn
men'n say, 'Theyse good deal iv rugged
common sinse in that O'Leary. he may be
a robber. but they'se mighty little escapes
him. But no wan speaks to Mrs o'Leary.
No wan asts her opinion about our foreign
policy. She sets day in an out behind tn
dhrawn curtains Nv her three-story brown
sthone residence prayin' that somewan'n
come in an see her, an IL annywan comes
she's frozen with fear An tbs on'y whin
she slips out to Ar-rchey r-road an
finds tn plumbers wife an sets in tn
kitchen over a cup iv tap that peace comes
to her. BY an by they offer O'Leary tn
nommynation fr Congress. He knows he's
fit f'r it. He's stronger thin tn young
lawyer they have now. People'n listen to
him in Wash;nton as they do in Chicago.
He says. III take it, An thin he thinks iv
tn wife an they'se no Wash'n fr him.
His pollytical career is over. He wud niver
have been constable IL he hadn't marrid.
but he might have been sinitor If he was a
widower.
Mrs. OLeary was In to see tn Dargans
tn other day. 'Ye mus be very happy In
ye'er gran house. with Misther O'Leary
dcin so WELL says Mrs. Dargan. An tn
on'y answer tn foolish woman give was 10
break down an wep on Mrs. Dargan's
neck"
Yet We say pollytician oughtn't to get
narrid," said Mr.. Hennessy.
up to certain pont," said Mr.. Dooley,
he must be marrid. Afther that-well, I
on'y say that. though poIlytics is a gran
career f'r a man, It's a tough wan fr his
wife,