The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-01
MUaTFAH TURNED The TABLES.
Why the Politicians Who Toysd With Him Are
Whiting snowbaas
CVashlngton -

(Washington starr
There's gang of polticianers out my way who
Won't tse chance en- t5 s,5 10 s sFf l5 mort %
l9I .ols ne ~ 9all ~ vasbiSgfoT recently
Just about year ago this Turk that caused a mem sI
opened up sort Of cosmopolitan drug store lie spoks
braaSs Of anay tal JBat are heard uP our way
gVeiy knoMn No mo q i SSlH B,, 10 Ivbe dummed He
vas smooth sargeF IN any ola tongue S Sss M S8er
way was fixed up about right
well there wasn't mueh doing in local politics at the
bunch Of politicians maElpuiaters q sns No. f over
~' He looks IKE live one they said TO each other,
and they decided 20 nudge him along some i, enc
boss Of the knot Of politicians % Mustaph walking into
the drug store 2he day soon a5eF P oB4 Won want 10
kind jar the place along in the esteem OF the people
that drop in, for instance-that d be good way to
Turk srnnsd agessoy sad eo as9 d w6 ot the
Poesn lie asked ne latter "nat 9FSIo li3rt have
any Of that KIND In s9ef but ne sent GoT o Sef with
ION The following evening about dozen zen Of ths P9ii
orug store and he staea them an N tne way o. s Sd
ia his They didn't have spend 40 cents on their
"on the following night the politicians, happened to
sugsested thai e game Of draw in the rear room Of
Musaphs drug store would about 60 an right Musapn
already seated the table IN the back room
have So any playing cards IN stock Yet and so they
layout of cards and ehips-at Musaphs expense. Mus
taph out for the gear and it was brought in The
ucans, but that all right
of them y the pogsd drugs and Masaph dug The
others tuned him up for 5Tos ana taees ana LTe7
enough politicians had to hold onto themselves
This sort of thing went for couple Of months,
o b on nv I us t5e 5 We're ban6i3 n ont 10 him.
and day one Of them passed 1t out TO Mustaph
Siusteph this district needs good. clean, solid.
conservative on-theeyel for It's representative IN
the legislature. You, Mustaph, are IT, Dye want the
"NIustaph smiling agreeabIy replied yes. He wanted
the nomination in an the thirteen Of his languages but
DE mild ina his assent.
AM Hght-tts yours said, the politician BY the
way. Alustaph my wad dropped Of my pocket this
morning while dressing and 1 just happen to need
''of course, those politicians had no idea whatever
ade-de-camp TO the eighth dog catcher, but
passed he word around as Joke that Musaph was 80
is 20 De lle rrI 49, n frosfr ban that iiftie
while before the primaries they began 20 make speeches
bat as they were addressed mixed audiences Of Sr
ans and Turks and Huns and Gooashes Of an sorts, the
tcal balance Of power IN the district failed TO pereeye
how much FUN me PoltieiqnS were aS'5as 0ly
7 Tds 81 o6s idsa t6at Suck 36 tas Nd,
the politicians woke up i'm "a state Of frenzed alarm To
the fact that their advocacy Of Musaph had been taken
them. but they found it to be the fact
knife M I at The iast moment It Was Toe late
Mustaph had been ex95lted tee much by them IN the
taph had the district solo for Musaph The sung pol
iucans pulled handfuls of hair out but it no good
Alustayh nomination and the election repre-
sentative IN canter and under pull on the night ina
he the nOmina ton. when the politicians who hat
been having fun with him and grating him called at tn
drug store 10 tender Nustaph their crestfaen congrat
uations he met them sc the door and told them tha
from then there would be nothing Transporting IN IN
way poker iu the back room, that the free list o.
cigars entirely suspended, that he rgged hinnse
with dough pockets and that they hdN
out a search warrant for another hang-Out Mus
taph that he had einch for the district over
whemingly with him The politicians tried TO lnlf
Mustaph the polls bqf they landed the Stag hear
and. / say, Mustaph Won 'Ou the bit
Now he's the boss of the works, and those poll
ticans are not getting a smell Mustaph fumbes an
draws an the graft himself. He's not only reI
rsentative the legislature but he's the cheerful worE
all his constituents ia the city When the Syr
get to rioting with the Greeks ana az hands 90
pinched breaking each others conks Mustaph doe
The little fixing whereupon the released rioters each an
every make little presents 70 Mustaph-ths graz
IA You, being of the big perks OF on
politicians who had amused themselves with Mustapl
Aiustaph gets am the contracts hOuseo-hOuse visits a
Of his people and spins che dialect or patois OF an
them is the Top TOohOo. The politicians who toYe
with him are the fritz and whiting snoWbails Ain
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