The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-09-04
WRITTEN FOR THE srYpAr REPUBLIC.

WRITTEN FOR THE srEDAr REPUBLIC.
Fevely sadiers came 10 town uE-Eyec'
ed!y last week On wednesday met h!l
% appointment out at the livestock 81
hieit. and hs said 70 me: Il tell 80
what's =. fact. J. " Foote. boOd,ers an
vH-Ti.in Is whole lot alike"
There's more Truth than poetry bb5u
that. PeEsiy." / replied. Did you eve
hear OK the Pe!iculus Ves;imen;i.'
No he answered. bat Ia bet Of
Grief Mawiey had EN-. Grief slg2tted Of
sons railroad timber Land down IN Web
sieT. AID no lived "a ho.ler all BY hisse
and no didH't have nothin hut = cool
dog aHI 4 mln'raI spring and crop .
hair. and the coon dOs looked Ike IL Nd
shamed o Twin with anything 20 awnry.'
/, Maybe he had l said At any rate.
pedicuiEs yesJiIaenti IL a small anJpiurou
insect. which Is parasitic Oh and sucks th'
| blood " IHamma-s while "a bOodier Is az
| iilsUfieTubie residential parasite of th'
| body polite. OF the Two. the pol!ilct! q
| civic kind - tho worse. Missouri has u
ways been rather seF sitiye about It's skin
and when Doodle titten has wTithe1 more
or less
The trouble vas" interjecte4 Pevely
Secderz,, tina; until Joe Folk come ATOMS
1t never could git doctor ~ tackle tl.e
Job But he's cured It up
Yes / Assentei. Folk has L pretty
g1Od cNterninatOT !yr the trOgule-plenty
.! Prosecution IN the courts. foIloSc 81 by
liberal applications OF clean. vEgleayJiri
administrator The prosecution Kills the
big ones and tho administration drives
the others enay by rendering the Gtfllls-
ynere AID conditions iIsd4gb.IOus. ] ne Ui6
ones are dead. al but one OF two Win
wings. and tie rest % them have ais
APPEARED
4 know whair they air said Pevely.
They're hidin ia the Odd Republican SUI
o clothes that's been Eangin' - IN the
closet for about thirty years. waItia 10.
the State - put IL On. Iaey re inlitg.y m
and replea!shin' that Ole su!t y clothes
I'll! It's fairy alive with EN-
That's 50. I'D the old Republican or
sun, % yog can imagine that the Doodle,
insects which took refuge In II found
plenty OF company when they sot there
aS hsh is dsSsef u iSst ie STATE q Ms
souri viii ever put ON q O. suit that .y-
eryfoiy snONs Is alive with yarmin- " ny.
they might even be smallpox IN III.
BY IN. way" he continued. "spsEkin o
the old Republican ofsAnizatiOn-l wise
you'd tell me s0metE.n' about this here
Colonel keTens they're all the time talkin
about. WAC Is he, anyhow. and whatr ne
sinin' att As uear's can nsger It out.
al! he Goes IS 10 scare the PosimasieEs
once IN awhile;
Missouri delegation In the National Con-
yeutlon and me minority senatorial nom
nation. and he often got what ne sent
after. too. He delivered the goods and
Mark Hanna used TO tell him secrets lie
called Mark by his 'front.' name and cut all
this PIE n Missouri He wanted TO be a
United States Senator himself. and he act
ualIy seemed to think lie might bs one
sC.ns day. Whether he's given up tie idea
I don't know. \ politician told me the
other day that ~ vsIbridge IS elected the
game IS to have kerens succeed COci1rell-
But 20 may he that the Colonel! ; ambition
has been cut OF short b often that there >
nothing left o: g."
'Llks a o.. grapevine had in ny gar
ccn,' suggested Pevc!y. I pruned 10 back
20 often that II turned around and growed
down the other wa, and 1t sin't nothin
now but hole In the srouB'.
politician vas right. and 81 seems reason
able to believe that Colonel kerens WIZ
never got out uf politics And it's true
convention. There was Weinbrenner and
Aloe and Jep Hove and Seldom Right
spencer and others fighting Akins"
we're iookln' E;tle pale" PeveIy essev-
Grated.
AT any rate" I pursusS. you can
count on 80 that the Colonel Ia IN the IN
mixed UP with the Butterflies here IN town
and arc crawling into every opening But
you really can't tell just what the Colo
ncl's UP 10. From Mark Hanna to John
ny Owens - "a long jump. yet u may re
that the Colonel will satisfy his political
propensity this year with the mere nam
lag Of dog catcher a, the hands OF the
colonefs a kind Of aiEebraic z this year
Is that anything like a zeb-ag'' inter
rogated my companion. y no was at That
moment leaning on the fence. chewing
straw refectiyely. and contemplating come
OF those nie Boone County hybrids which
have adGed so much TO the States repu-
tation-
Tell you what's a fac though he d.
crossed. pursuing his own train OF thought.
"a zebra IL jest naturally whole lot Ike
a convicted boodler. amt Il
Wei. us a jackass IN stripes. I reck-
But he odded. TO CONS back to Colo
mel Kerers-whai does he stand fer. any
In politics, Um-m-In. I eouidn., tell
you-unless it's for the principles Of Ham
a Postmaster up the State" he volun-
teerei. ''tOT me that ne didn'c stand fer
nothin' but tho touch. How is THAR
That Is probably true In part MIR sad
ders. and 1t reminds me OF a little urn-
breiia transaction involving. myself and
Colonel y. Il. Dyer and Colonel kerens.
In which Colonel Kerens came out at the
hort enc. IS Il were. II shows what a valg-
vas here In town on election day. Late
IN tho afternoon the sky grew cloudy AID
happened to be going out 10 Colonel Dy-
sT's house 10 see him and his son. Dump
happened to have an old cotton UNI
or.IIa With me that was not worth .
,ents. I'm satisfied you could buy dozen
md frszzied rs an honest Democrats rep
Itat!on after the Doodle papers get done
With IL II could collect and distribute
Epre water than sprinkling cart. a l
A
When I got there i put II In the umbrella
: tand in the hall. As Il was not raining
When departed did not take the UMBRELLA
With ne: but Colonel Dyer. who left some
moments later. old take IL with him He
vas going out 70 Colonel Kerens's. where
pr.vnte wire had teen installed over
when Colonel Dyer came hack from
-o.onsl Eercns's late that night he did
lot bring my old cotton umbrella with
I'm. Instead he brought one OF the hand
o-nest sfIver-tandled SILK umbrellas you
yer saw. colonel Dyer. as everybody |
.nows. Is a gentleman Of the highest hon
r and Integrity. but he f. nt-n.nded.
IL Sadders. very sbsent-minded. To |
how hts absolute good faith IN this trans |
ction. he seat this elegant umbrella 10 1
ne. and I. not wishing 20 ernbarrass him. |
nd borrowed from me. Afterwards. ! |
nay add some rascaily Bcoundrel stole /
he beautiful umbrella from me. But the \
olnt is that no good politician ever came
ms"
II keich the pint" said Pevcly. mis-
hievously. Was you ever out IN Colonel
.erers's neigh borhood yourself
NO. but some Of the Republican nomi-
ees for the State Legislature used TO tell
lie how easy lie was. The Colonel would
Unit EN- IN as soon as they got the nom
nation ana either make EN- a loan or
ontribute 20 their campaign funds. OF
purse, you know that was perfectly 1e-
itimate' as far as the Law gocs"
That may be So" said Peveiy. but
oes the law go FAR enough IN sech a case7
Io.nehow IL don't seem to go as fur as
ight and wrong goes. does xT
4 smiled ar fha stmrla fgnorAnce Of nv