Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03

| the police court at the same time. The
republican waited for the democrat. hoped
pie of Justice and had his innings. He re-
duced the Bryanite to the merest frag-
ments wes yanked back to the Police
Court. paid an additional fine. and depart
seen his duty and done 1t noble
One night last week a political truck
pulled up at a corner Of Sd avenue, not
far from the point where that thoroughfare
separates itself from the Bowery, and its
dozen or so of occupants began to do the
preliminary coughing and spouting neces-
sary to attract the attention of the pass
ers-by. Their attempts to attract the at
and in short time some 500 men stood
expectantly around the cart.
They're the right people," muttered
some OF the men in the crowd. Can tell
by the cut of their jib they're going to
line EN- out for Nc and Teddy"
Guess were going to have some of the
real talk. hey?" said others of the crowd
massed around the truck. Them fellers
Fellow citizens" shouted the man on
the rear end of the truck, I'VE are here
tonight in the interests of the wise, calm
statesman"
Ray FIR Mckinley shouted the parti-
sans thus constructed in the neighborhood
of the truck.
that peerless orator and champion
of the rights of the oppressed
shrieked the element of the crowd with
leaning toward the Nebraskan.
and the friend of the workingman,
Eugene V. Debs!' shouted the cart tail
orator
What Happened the Cart.
Workingmen they were. nearly all of
them around the truck, but 1t was perfectly
obvious from their conduct that they
weren't Debsians by an overwhelming ma
40 Il, III
and democrats alike, overturned the cart,
literally standing all of the occupants
thereof on their heads, and then mingled
in one whole souled and sanguinary con-
hict among themselves, which they only
deferred when hundred cops came charg-
ing down upon them.
Two gentlemen were having an animated
conversation on a 9th avenue surface car
last week. One of them appeared to be in
terrogating the other. The gentleman under
cross-eXaminaton eventually slapped his
thigh and exclaimed in a tone that could
be heard over the car:
Ihat, sir, is my own personal business"
Hey, what's youse dom? Knockin'?
Tryin' t frame up rough house?' yelled
fiery man in dungarees, with a cotton
hook stuck in his leather belt, on the
other side of the car
He leaped across the aisle, grabbed the
two astonished gentlemen by the collars of
their top coats banged their heads to-
gether with great force and energy, hauled
them both to the rear platform of the car
and thrust them off while the car was still
under full Roadway. A bicycle cop pursued
the car, climbed aboard and was promptly
reduced to pulp as soon as he climbed
aboard the car by the man with the cotton
hook Then half dozen policemen took a
hand in the game, and they contrived to
arrest the huge chap who had taken ex-
ceptlon to the private conversation between
the two gentlemen.
What allied you?" asked the magistrate
on the following morning in the police
court. Were you drunk or what?"
Drunk, nottin'.' growled the prisoner.
Desc blokes was knockin' de boss an I
stayed along wit EN-, OATS ALL"
His Idol Was Mocked.
1t took some time for the magistrate to
develop the fact that the violent citizen
had derived the impression from the con-
versation of the two gentlemen in the car
that they were casting aspersions upon and
making mockery of Mr.. Richard Croker
When the latter was before the Mazet
committee, it will be recalled his stock
phrase in his destinations to give testimony
was this:
That Is my own personal business"
The man with the cotton hook thought
that the two gentlemen were engaging in
frivolous conversation at the expense of his
political god, hence his violence The mag
lstrate, one of the lights of Tammanyytlie.
pretended to be very severe in his attitude
toward the prisoner, but the prisoner was
loose, grinning, exactly six minutes after
appearing before the bar of justice.
From all Of which and more ii is obvious
that one can find himself in trouble over
politics over here whether he knows or
cares anything about politics or not.