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who kicked his son off the farm for coming

home from college in 'golfies.'
The poor man OF New York dresses q,
we'll as he can. and would always like tc
gets SIS ahead-so they tell me-he investi
1t IN clothes, cut according to his ideas Of
style, but in imitation OF the clothes he
sees on the Fifth avenue swell. But wher
poor man OF the West grows suddenly
| rich he usually dresses Just as he did In
the days OF his adversely
If he doesn {, he gets awfully unpopular
You see, throughout a good part Of the
Far West democracy is a real thing, not
a name. The populace likes to feel that
ITS idol isn't any better than the rest OF
them
$50, as a general rule, any Western poll
tician who wants drag with the populace
doesn dare to dress very well. He affects
SLOUGH hats. soft shirts and careless man.
ners,
an Nebraska and thercabouts the fashion
Tor statesmen is the Jennings frock coat
and white tie. Provided the coat ism t
too well cut and the whole outfit is little
soiled, it makes great impression on the
Populists. 1t looks like the ministers
clothes: but the dirt and carelessncss show
that the statesman isn't stuck up and won I
hobnob with the trusts.
Last fall Henry j. Croker of the wealthy
family OF that name ran for Mayor of San
Francisco on the Republican ticket Dur
ing the campaign he dined one evening
party managers He wore. of course,
his dinner coat.
About black coffee time a messenger
arrived to say that an important speaker
had failed to show up at a meeting in a
doubtful district south of Market. That
part Of San Francisco corresponds to the
Bowery in New York. The chairman
wanted Crocker to stem the tide, and he
wanted him quick.
"All agreed that Crocker should GO
But there he was in dress clothes, and no
time to go home and change. There hap
pened to be no one about the club from
whom he could borrow a sack coat.
so he put on his top coat buttoned 1t
to the throat and took cab for the meet
ing On the platform he took off his derby
hat and apologized for not removing his
coat on the ground of cold.
j., During one OF his vehement gestures,
the top buttons Of his coat came loose.
There, plain as could be, was dress shirt,
a set Of dress studs and bow tie.
The audience heard his remarks in
frigid silence, and he lost that district by a
big majority. In fact, the incident was
used against him with great effect in other
districts.
He came down and tried to swell over
u u with his dress clothes" said the citizens
Il know another politician In a Western
State whose drag with the populace is as
long as your arm. He is by birth and
breeding man Of gentle manners, but he
Keeps them for home consumption.
city. Some close friends OF his had an
dinner and, happening Ly
chance to have an open date that night,
he attended 1t, He would have felt hin self
out OF place In mufti so he sent his dress
clothes up to the house Of his friends, made
a change there, and changed back to a
sack suit and SLOUGH hat before he left the
house
He didn't dare to risk being seen in dress
clothes on the tria from his own residence.
could tell YOU such Incidents al night.
On the other hand, the Western opulnoe
rather likes to sec the wo- on folks Of n
candidate dress we'll, The Westerner figures
that women so in for that kind Of thing
anyhow, and TO provide them with swell
OF the candidate