The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
Old Sport Reviews
York at philadelphia.

Johnny set the bitters bottle down so
hard that he came near breaking it. The
cocktail on the counter danced so that
the cherry almost jumped out of it.
John smiled a glad smile as he extended
his NIT, after hastily wiping it on a towel,
toward the Old Sport. "Jumpin' juleps,"
he said, but I'm glad to see you Sport
The Old Sport looked wan and weary.
There were wrinkles around his eyes that
hadn't made their appearance before he
went to Philadelphia He carried about
him an atmosphere of detection which the
gin rickey he drank on Johnny didn't dis
pei. His checkered vest was wrinkled
about the arm pits. as if he had sat up in
day coach all night
You lock like plain settler to me.
Sport" said the thirst quencher did
you ride home in a side door sleeper?"
See here, friend" was the reply in
somewhat testy tones, don't you go to
gettin' gay with a old mans sorrers
Don't you dare to make merry with a
man who's got his last stack in the pot
an nothin' better'n a two-spot in the
hole. I'm some fond of you, Johnny, in a
dotin' sort of way, but I can't stand for
no such play as that I'm in the discard,
son, an it don't set none too well on me-
Johnny saw that the Old Sport was
really troubled, so he took on a more
modifying attitude. ''Why. Sport" he
declared, I'D just as soon think of hurt
in your feelins as I would of putin
creme de menthe in a silver fizZ. I never
meant no harm by my remarks. they bein'
of a purely jucular nature"
Somewhat appeased, the Old Sport took
up the thread of his story.
We had right warm time of 1t in
Philadelphy, Johnny Right at the soda
card I seen that it wasn't in the deal for
US to win out the permanent chairman
ship for Tommy. 1 wrote you all about
it an so there amt no use of my repeatin'
the tale. The RELY interestin' play was
the row over who should be national
committeeman. There was Tommy an
Hebe an Ed Loose pullin for Orangelets
and Brown, Hansen an Sutherland
thought Mccormick ought to have it.
Pat he was there bossin' Hebe and the
Orange crowd around like ne owned 'em
an I shoreIy recl1Ons he does. They das-
sent take a deep breath without askin'
Pat whether he thought it would be
proper. It made me sore, Johnny, the
right. I know its true that Orange has
always been a liberal contributor of his
time and his money to the grand old
party. 1 knows there's never a primary
he don't attend He never overlooks a,
chance to vote an his pOcketbook is al
ways open when the finance committee
comes around.
When the campaign gets warm,
Johnny, Oranges voice is heard on every
stump in the state an on some stumps
outside the state. In the old days when
the federal court insisted on maxim him
prominent before the community, he'd
neglect his star route business any time
to put in a lick for his party. A man that
does all of them things is entitled to
recognition an I don't know that I blame
him for hustlin' a little bit for this unso-
ncited honor
when 1 left Philadelphy it looked like
Orange was goin to get thrown den.
never figured on Pat playin' the still hand
like he did. It was great, Johnny, it was
great. Just at the time when everybody
thought somebody else was goin' to land
this here plum, Pat puts Heber an
Tommy an Ed up to this $4,000 play. 1t
looks to me like cold bluff, but it shore
won.
& don't suppose them checks was Ger
titled a little bit They wouldn't have
bought, all three of EN-, one blue stack
here at the Sheep Ranch, but they was
flashed before a innocent crowd an they
went. They talked louder an said more
in minute to Mark an the other lads on
the executive committee than Arthur
Brown could say in a year. Argument
don't cut no ice with Mark alongside of
checks, whether they're certified or not.
THE part of the play that 1 can't get
next to nOway, is Hebe's lettin' Pat work
him. I know Pat amt had no use for
Hebe since Hebe refused to mingle in the
game when the legislature was lawn
Arthur Pratt out of job. He amt liked
Hebe, an furthermore, he amt taken no
pains to keep Hebe from KNOWN il. Still,
in spite Of all that, Hebe throws the soup
into the men that's befriended him an
works all kinds of plays to make a ma
tional committeeman out of Patrick
Orange Henry Salisbury-Lannan.
I'D be willin' to make a small side bet
that Pat has got Oranges proxy in his
pocket right now. What he'll do to
Arthur an the boys that's been fghtin'
him will be a genial suff1ciency. An by
the way, Johnny, let me suggest in con-
clusion. that if Hcbe Wells, after a little
more than four years as governor at
1,5OO cases per, can give up $4,000 to a
campaign fund, it ought to pull out a
right smart sprinklin' of candidates for
the place this fall.
81 might take flier at it myself, for it
certainly looks good to me. It would be a
dern sight better than sittin' in a lookout
chair or boostin' in stud game, even if
the coin does come every night.
1.-THE Ioosenin' up of Tommy an Ed
shocked me consider bic, too. know they
never coughed up a bean to help Jim
Hammond out, an their general past in
the line of seDaratin' themselves from
coin amt none too exhilaratin' for the
men who's tried to touch EN-. It's puz-
zler, Johnny. 7 wish I'd stayed in Phil
adelphy day or so longer. I might have
got next.
Hereafter I'm liable to train with Pat
If ever he gets out Of politics I'm goin'
to put him on the road in the big nit line.
He can pass it up better'n any man on the
road now, so far as I've been able to dis
cover I worked an sweated like a niger
for Tom in Philadelphy and got skinned.
It never occurred to me to ask Still Hand
Pat to help me, but 1 sees the error of
my way. Pat could have pulled Tommy
through, an instead of bein' the busted
an rejected manager of a two-spot boom,
I'd of been ridin' in glass front carriages
with a vally to fan me-"
The Old Sport signed, large, loud, deep
sigh that came from under the lowest but
ton on his vest. Johnny sympathetically
set out the cut glass bottle that holds the
two-bit whisky. Approaching the attempt
at consolation, the Old Sport slowly and
reverentiauy poured out a few fingers of
it, In another moment it had disappeared
toward the Mace where the sigh came