The Chanute times., 1900-11-16

ed at the chance quicker than hun
cry fish jumps at a worm and said
yes, he would bet me three to one
On general results. He put up three
hundred agin my one hundred and
thought it wuz jst like fndin' that
much money. Then he come at me
agin an offered to bet a hundred
even that New York would give Nc
Kinley hundred thousand major
ity. | thought the feller wuz gettin'
plum crazy and l took that bet.
An then he offered another hun
dred tnat Illinois would give McKin
ley fifty thousand majority. There
/ he'd that estimst: NV chairman
Jones sayin' that Illinois wuz sure to
60 fur Bryan and took that bet.
Then he kept comm at me offerin'
to bet me anything frum ten dollars
up that Nc kinley would carry Mary
land, Indiana, South Dakata, Cali
fornia, Washington, Kentucky, Del
aware and Kansas. I he'd sold a
load Nv hogs an he'd quite a good
deal Nv money and put up twenty
five dollars on each NV the states
hamed. Then the blamed cuss off
cred to bet me twenty-five dollars
or fifty dollars or hundred dollars
that Mckinley would carry Kansas
by ten thousand majority, an ! put
up twenty FIVE on that. Then ne
wanted to bet me hundred on the
same proposition and as l kinder
hesitated he offered to bet hundred
that Mckinley would carry the state
by fifteen thousand. Thought con-
| siderin' the estimates that he'd been
made by the fusion committees, that
| this wuz cinch and l dug up an
other hundred. Then he wanted
to bet that Mckinley would git more
electoral votes than he did four years
ago. l jist laughed at him but l
he'd all the money he'd in the bank
up. Then he says Il will bet you
a hundred that Mckinley carries
Kansas by twenty thousand.
Thinks I that is too good thing to
lose so l went and borrowed hun
dred an bet that. l hev thousand
dollars up on different propositions,
all NV them sue things l supposed,
an burned if hewitt lost every bet.
Now l don't expect no committee tc
tell jist exactly how things air goin'
but there amt no sense in com
mittee missin' it by forty thousand
in the state Nv Kansas nur more than
a hundred in the state NV New York.
1t looks now as if when the full re-
turns is in Bryan won't hev nothin'
outside NV Texas and a few other
southern states. There is jist one
NV two things: either that man Jones,
NV Arkansaw is an old liar or else
jist an ordinary burned fool. When
a chairman NV a national commit
tee gives out statement that a
state is goin' his way and when the
votes air counted it is found out that
the state went the other way by near
ly two hundred thousand | conclude
he must be an OF fool. want to
tell you right here gentlemen that
this here Democratic fusion party
can 60 where it is lot hotter than
it is here so fur as | am concerned
till they git men at the head NV
the outfit that hez some sense.
hev lost good hard dollars by put
tim dependence in what our fellers
said an | amt goin' to lose any
more. They air a lot Nv chumps.
" Right you air. said Lige Jar
Wis as he squirted mouthful Nv tob-
acco juice at a post. I've lost
twenty-five dollars myself; and Abe
Shootmouth here wuz the feller that
advised me to risk it. He ewuz chair
man NV the county committee an
told me that he wuz on the inside
and that Bryan wuZ sure TO carry
Kansas but if l could git bet that
Mckinley wouldn't carry the state
by ten thousand to gether it in an |
did. 1t appears now that other fel-
ler hez gethered in my money.
"'Lige, you know is closter than
the shell on a pig nut before frost
an l could see that it riled him
nightly when he thought about get
TIM separated frum the twenty dol
lars.
WELL" says Abe Shootmouth,
"you fellers needn't insinuate that l
am to'blxme fur your losin' your
money. We couldn't win agin all
NV that slush fund that Mark Han
ma he'd collected
well, it occurs to me 1t is a
leetle la.e fur you to give us that ex-
cuse'said Bill Swartz. You didn't say
nothin' about not bein' able to win
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