The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-14
MR.. . . OIL
20 ON x
THE POLITICAL PROSPECTS.
By F. P. DUNNE.
20 ON x
Copyright, 1904, by Mcclure, Phillips & Co

"I see" said Mr.. Hennessy, that tn
pimmycrats have gr-reat confidence"
They have" said Mr.. Dooley. 9TH
Dimmycrats have great confidence,
tn Republicans ARE sure, tn Pop
Visits are hopeful, tn Prohybitionists
look FIR a landslide or a flood or what
liver you may call a PROHIBITION vic
thry, an tn socylists think this may
he their year. That's what makes pol
lytics tn great game an tn only wan
TO dhrive dull care away. It's a game
iv hope, iv jolly-ye' er-neighbor, con-
fdence game. If We get a bad hand
at poker, We lay it down. But If We get
a bad hand at pollytics, We bet ye'er
pair iv deuces as blithe as an English
man who has JUS larned the game out
Nv tn spoortin' columns iv tn London
Times. If we don't win fair, we may
win foul. If We don't win, We may tie
an get tn money in tn confusion. If
il wasn't such a game, wud there be
Dimmycrats in Vermont, Republicans
in Texas. an Prohybitionists in tn
stock yards ward? Ivry year men
crawl out iv tn hospitals where they We
been since last Fiction day to vote tn
Republican ticket in Mississippi.
There's no record iv it but it's a fact.
To-day tn Dimmycrats will on'y con-
cede Vermont, Maine an PinnsylVanya
10 tn Republicans, an tn Raypubll-
cans concede Texas, Allybammy an
Mississippi to tn Dimmycrats. But it's
arlv vet. Wait awhile. TIL wurruk
iv tn campaign has not begun. Both
sides is inclined to be pesslmlstlc. IN
conservative business man who thinks
that if a little money cud be placed IN
Yazoo City, tn prejudice again Rosen-
felt, which is on'y skin deep anyhow,
cud be removed, hasn't turned up at
headquarters. About tn middle iv Oc-
tober, the Republican who comedies
Texas to tn Dimmycrats will
be dhrummed out iv tn
party as a thraitor an yell hear
that tn Dimmycratic party in Maine
is so cheered be tn prospects that his
friends can't keep him sober.
TIL life iv a candidate is tn hap
piest there is. If 1 want anything
pleasant said about me, l have to say
it mesilf. There's a hundred thou
/ san freemen ready say it to any
candydate an say it strong. They ask
nawthin' in rayturn that will require
a civil service examination. He starts
in with a pretty good opinyon iv him
silf based on what his mother said iv
him as a baby, but be tn time he's
heerd tn first speech iv congratula-
ton he begins to think he had a cold
an Indifferent parent Ninety per clint
iv tn people who come to see him tell
him he's tn mos poplar thing that
liver was an will carry tn country
like a tidal wave. He don't let tn 9TH
ers in. If anybody says anything
about him less frindly thin Jacob Riis
he knows he's either a sore-head or is
in tn pay iv tn other campaign COM
ity. Childher an dogs ARE named
afther him, pretty women an some
iv tn other kind thry to kiss him an
TIL newspapers publish pitchers iv him
as he sets in his libry with his brows
wrinkled in thought iv how fine man
he is. TIL opposition pa-ayers don't
get up to tn house an he niver sees
himsilf with a face like Sharkey or
reads that tn reason he takes a bath
in tn Hudson is because he is too
stingy to buy a bath-tub FIR tn house
an prefers to sponge on tn great
highway belongin' to tn people.
If he hasn't done much to speak w.
his frinds rapport his small but hand
4 some varchues. He niver punched his
wife, he sinds his boys to school, he
loves his country, he shaves with a
safety razor. A man expicts to be
A lcIed Pflsldlnt w tn United States
Hinnissy FIR tn fine qualities that tn
r-rest iv US use on'y to keep out iv tn
pinitinchry. All tn time tn rayports
( from tn country become more an
y more CLOWN. TIL tidal wave is ris-
m an soon will amount to a landslide
Il Nicthry is perched upon our banners
an has stint FIR tn family. FIR tn
Dimmycratic candidate tn mos glow
IN rayports iv gains come firm New
England, where there is always most
room FIR Dimmycratic gains. FIR TIL
Haypublican, tn news firm tn South