The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-29
CUTTERS
AND
STAY. j ): !;

night and day for you, Mr. Ely" he ss'o'
..and good many times I've run therisk OF
running my voice in order to furnish your
rallies with campaign music you're Inc
chairman OF our county committee and
the boys will stand by&anything you say.
All Sller wants is to find some one WHO
won't deny liking up that Democratic
ticket You're SO s, 5I,o M ln e Won,s hurt
You bit-but Lord a Mighty! It'll ruin
me for all time.
"Iook here!' cut in Watt, you've done,
as dirty /! lex as eyerttWas5 Lu1 up ~
a low-down city. politician But you haVe
rode for mo When4the fight was close
Besides want TO show my gratitude 10
the Almighty for not making me respon-
sible for the spelling Of your voice So
YOU can lust 60 ahead with the lie you've
started out with and I'll not deny fixing
the ticket to Nose or anybody eise-not
until elections over. Does that satisty
you?" G eIsp 5sa2 - 5a,4It
.Lume was SO overjoyed at this that he
didn't quite catch the full force Of the
qualifying CLAUSE and he rode back home
feeling that there was still nope. ttis
first move was to send word. IN rout:u
about way, Ito Nose that he better lake
his question to Watt Ely. He DID, ana lne
county chairn.an's answer was:
"Well, what Of It? I don't deny It.
Lume says It's so, an he sings IN the
Disciple choir an Is mighty respectable
member Of the community.
That gave Lume new lease OF il1e;
| He caught at the straw that way ,,i naa =
thrown out and In an hour was te!llns
| his excited uncles and cousins that the
! county chairman had done him Dirt
| probably for the reason that he wanted
T, to XIII him off once for ALL The whole
township was torn up by the tght ana
| the result was the heaviest vote tiat
, was ever polled. 5
! Meantime, Lume. who was considerable
green at lying, began to hear from his
| conscience and grew white around tne
| gils. And when the votes were counleo
and the footing OF the tally sheet an.
nounced he had mighty sckly sn'e ,s OF
| Triumph on his face for man VINO had
run ahead OF his ticket
after the election clerks had put up
| their papers old Watt mounted cracker
box In the general store. There was a
! light In his eye that meant business ana
the boys knew It.
Before I begin TO talk want any man
! here who thinks I'm Gutter or VINO
I has ever known me to break my word m
any political deal to speak right out IN
meeting" ti .
Not a man spoke and he took swig
from the cider pitcher before going anead,
While he was clearing his throat Lume
slipped out Of the crowd, saying that ne
forgot to shut the hen-house door hut
the thing he'd forgotten was the quality
Ing clase ia old Watts promise.
I II jes. want to remark" continued
/ Watt, that having whole ma tlon OF gooo
honest kin-folks sometimes won't save q
man from doing things that would shame
polecat. and that tenor voice hahn !
any particular Guaranty OF truthful '~s:
| Then he laid open the entire clrcum'
stances regarding the loaded Demoera nc
r,1... .tr,lstL ti1n -
length and breadth of Gahunda Valley ant
all over the Hill Country beyond Judea,
The next afternoon every relative O.
I.un,e's in the whole region was attend
Ing another family reunion at the horse
sheds, Lume bawled and begged, but tn
podds were made Of hardy stock anc
didn't propose to have their good Mans
dragged In the mie OF Gahunda withou
letting the natives know that he WASH
upheld by his kim folks. When they SO
through with him he had been oficiall,
thrown out Of the church the choir anc
nation from the Board OF Supervisors ane
! packed him off to Ohio, bas and baggage
The last heard Of him he was 800
a turn In minstrel show that wa
making ons-nishl stands thfoush NJ
! souri, and Arkansns-which Is some dif
ference from throwing tenor voice q
, the Speaker OF the House, In Albany.
, Whenever any one mentions the sub
ject Of Cutters ard stayers, somehow
, can't help thinkir- that old Wait Ell
, got about as near the right dividing lin
as most of us IAN. There's such thin
, as being stayer--and Us almost as ba
: a hresd as the re~' Qnltter. Bui on
thing Is sure; the politician who don
; MAKE his bare word better than llrs
{ mortgage on an Illinois firm don't kndN
, the first principles Of good politics II
can smash the moral law into kindlin
a wood In q lot OF other particulars, bu