The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-09-30
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THE GOVERNOR.
Wnat toe eoVernos Of Georgia said
to the Governor Of Virginia.
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(From Beverages)
Gentlemen said the Georgia col.
onel. who had been on the right side
Of the stock market and was enter.
tanning group of listeners in the
palmrocm of the Hyphen the other
night, 81 suppose you have all heard
what the governor Of North Carolina
said to the governor of South caro-.
lima. Have you ever heard what the
governor of Georgia said to the gov.
ernor Of Virginia? No? Well the
only difference in the two stories is
that the governor of Georgia was
rockribbed temperance man.
You remember what a blizzard
Washington experienced the second
time Cleveland was inaugurated2
Well, the wind blew sixty miles an
hour The snow cut the face like
knife and froze to the mustaches of
the soldiers as they waited in line in
front of the capitol The barrooms
all along the line made big fortunes
that day. and the doctors had their
turn the next day with pneumonia
cases.
The governors of the different
states were at The head of their
troops with their STATS just behind
them, on Capitol hin. during the in
auguration ceremonies. The COVER
nor of Georgia had brought, even for
the South. an unusually large stan
with him to the Inauguration I was
on his stan at the time. but as there
were only about forty other Georgia
colonels there. I don't suppose YOU
remember seeing me Washington
had never before had the honor of
seeing so many Georgia colonels.
There We're so many Of us that.
even with horses touching as we
marched abreast up PENNSYLVANIA
avenue, we stretched from curb to
curb across the widest avenue in the
country. At times. however there
was barely a corporal's guard around
the governor Of Georgia. Many and
varied were our excuses for few
minutes absence from our posts on
the bleak and bitter hillside. None
of us dared to tell our governor open
ly what were our real reasons for our
somewhat frequent absences, for the
governor of Georgia was famous
temperance orator He had never
been known to take intoxicants in
any form, and on all occasions hal
publicly advocated the temperance
cause
He sat straight and stiff upon his
horse in front Of his troops, a digni-
fed and silent figure. apparently com
pletely unaware of the piercing icy
blasts that swept over Capitol hill.
We began to think him more than
mortal, for we felt as if We were rap
idly freezing to death.
Suddenly an aid from the staff Of
the governor Of Virginia dashed up to /
the governor of Georgia and said,
with a salute;
E Governor am going to get
something hot and strong for our gov
ernor, and can't I get some OF ii for
you, toog
The Georgia colonels were
astounded by such rash Ignorance,
and we all settled down in our seats,
prepared to hear temperance lee
ture from our governor as a rebuke
of such audacity Imagine our sur
prise when our goyernor thanked the
Virginia colonel for his kind offer, and
said that he would be glad to take
whatever he could get to drink.
The Virginia aid dashed off on his
quest, but a Georgia aid. not TO be
outdone, dashed Off, too In a very
few minutes back came the Virginia
colonel bearing a huge cup of hot
punch At the same time from an
other direction the Georgia colonel
rode up with even a bigger cup OF |
steaming liquor.
The governor Of Virginia. who !
had also ridden up. intending to offer
a toast to the new president, called
out to the governor of Georgia:
Now, governor, which drink are
you going 10 take?'
The temperance governor Of Geor-
gia dropped the reins, held out his
half frozen hands and said
Governor, / shall drink both.
And he did draining the cups.
too while we an nearly fen off orr