Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1901-11-15
Mr.. O'Hagan Out Again.

Mr.. O'Hagan Out Again.
why Mr.. O'Hagan ''said the SpEoTA.
TOR man a few days ago, when be me5 |
hat gentleman on the street for the
irst time in some moons, II am glad o
see you again, have you been ill, or
why do you remain SO close at home ?"
1--we been close at hame," said Mr..
O'Hagan, ION account Nv me bisiness
intrusts and me rumatis. l was allus
so afraid too NV bein run over by thin
strate cayars OWN to my being old and
deaf, but they've quit runnin over
people, SO vintured out agin. What
is this l hear about the COUNSEL and me
friends who is Numbers NV that boldly
Its late in the day now. be jabers, to
be findin fault wild gintlemin who is
min bers NV that boldly for turnin an
honist pinny. Times is little hard in
this town jist now and man who
wants to liz must stir hisself. Why,
sur, l was a radin that able an official
origin. the "Owld Diminion Sum-" the
ither day, sur. which kapes close up
wild the times an the changes Nv ad
ministration, where it said that grass
and wades was CROWN in our strates
sur. Pom my word, l cud hardly
believe me own eyes whin l saw the
statement sur. But 1 knowed it was
official. Thin that official origin said
our people was out Nv work an trust
had been organized on the water, an
the origin was findin fault wild the
trust. Now | meself have allus bin in
favor Nv trusts an combines, because
they cheaper articles, an it rifles me
to hear thin spokin Nv lightly, espec-
tally by them that's paid to talk the
ither way. Me blood billed sur, an l
said to mesel, is the death Nv our hon
ored prisidint goin to be the cause Nv
change NV views everywhere on all
the CRATE QUESTIONS Now sur, / am
not in favor Nv Numbers Nv our coun-
sill maxim too much money at the city's
expinse. When say too much, don't
mean to say that they mustn't make
an honest Twin. If they've got things
to sell, an the clty's in the markit fur
thin goods, niver did think that
counsllman, which the people had call
ed him to be, by an overwhilm1n ma
jority, should resign his office jist be
kase he had the goods the city wanted,
and was bound to have. Its right fur
city attorneys to resign, but COUNSEL
men is not hid by them strict rules.
Why, sur, l was sayin to me friend
Tim O'Flarety few days ago, l know
Tim, ses 1, that minny Nv our best
cOunsilmen has served the city wild
great profit to themselves widout a
cints pay, but thin was men who
didn't have no stores, and nuthin to
sell, an THIN fellers didn't have lot
Nv other fellers who had somthin to sell,
but couldn't get rid Nv the goods,
jumpin on thin all the time, ses l. If
a fellers got nuthin in the way Nv
worldly goods an no reputation. ses /,
he amt III trouble about sellin it to
nobody. ses l. But heres men, ses L,
who the people WOULD make COUNSEL
men Nv, they couldn't help thimsilves.
the people wanted 'em, an must haye
en- Now these was bisness men,
thims the kinds we had to have, bisness
men, they was always out for bisness,
they meant bisness, ses /, and whin
they got a little more Nv it than their
Majors, ses l, then there 3 fuss, SEES /.
RETURN to the official origin agin we
find-'All things combine" ses the
origin, ito show that our beautiful city
is on the retrOgade movement"
| reminder its very words Tim, ses L.
TaIkin about combines agin, ses l.
Now any one radin that sintence
would Nv course see that if all things
combine, Nv course that included our
COUNSEL, ses I, and whin SIGH talk ap-
peared, the first thing | knOwed here
| oil tina TT 40
a Seein who had sold things to the city
an who had not, an sturren up strife
an hwy, all about few bisness trans,
actions on the part Nv some Nv our
best bisness cOunsilmen, ses l. Now
If thin had been lawyers, SEES 1, an not
bisness men, cOmpOsin that COUNSEL.
SEES L. thin maybe Their might a bin
somethin crooked, ses l, but as our
| prisint boldly, ses l, is made up Nv OuI
Dist citizens and bisness men princl.
pally, and widout legal talent, ses l,
tber can't be no fraud or corruption
in thin, ses 1. You'll find, ses l, that
our counsilmen has made less money
out of the city than any counsilmen in
any other city Nv its size, wild equal
chances, ses l. You'll find too, ses
Tim, an mark me expressions, that
whin the city tries to get back any
money that should not hav been paid
out, ses 1. they'll find gold mine right
in the COUNSEL chamber the same day
they git that money back, ses l. Pm
wurried, Tim, SEES 1, you know how we
had the small pox in our city and the
papers blowed it till they run livery
body away, but the newspapers. Thin
| Tim you know this hard wather we've
got, you can't brake it wild sledge,
ses I, an can't put out no fires wild It,
ses l, and we voted soft wather an
can't git drop, ses L. an our people
they is forced to qulnch their thirst
otherwise, ses l. Then sum fellew uI
in New York he got reckless an spint
all the strate cayar mummy and the
cayars had to quit runnin, an the foot
ball boys wouldn't cum thin, ses l
| Thin our counsilmen got sum clubs
an began clubbin each ither. AN insinu
attn, thin the grass and wades grew
in the strates, thin Gums the muse that
our Prisidint has ate with mayer, and
then Virginny she wiDt DimmycratiC
which is awful, ses l, an Augusta has
whit Republican bekase the Dimmy-
cratic ringsterS Was run out Nv the
party, seS l, and honest men took
how'd, saving an exciptin in Staun-
ton, where thin ringsters was not
killed off and silenced, SEES L, but which
they ought to be silenced, ses 1, an the
DEVILS been to play generally, SEES l.
Tim, ses L, times is not like they used
to be. SEES l, an SIGH as US had better 70
home and stay there, SEES L." And Mr..
O'Hagan ambled off in the direction
of bis humble abode.