The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-13
in Maine is so cheered be tn prospects that his
fr1nds can't keep him sober.

C H LIFE iv candydate is tn happiest there
is If want anything pleasant said about
me, have to say it mesilf. There hundherd
thousan' freemen ready to say it to candydate an
say 1t strong. They ask nawthn' in rayturn that
will require a civil service examination. He starts
in with pretty good opinyon iv hmsf based on
what his mother said iv him baby, but be tn
time he's heerd tn first speech v congratulations he
begins to think he had cold an indiff rent parent
Ninety per clint Nv 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 others in. If anybody says amy
thing about him less frindly thin Jacob Riis,
ne knows he's either sore-head or is in tn pay
" tn other campaign comfy. Chidher an dogs
ARE, named afther him, pretty women an some "
tn other kind thry to kiss him an tn newspapers
publish pitchers iv him he sets in his libry with
his brows wrinked in thought iv how fine a man
ne IS IN opposition pa-apers don't get up to tn
house an = he nivir sees himsilf with face like
Sharkey or reads that tn reason he takes a bath
IN tn Hudson is because he is too stingy to buy
bathtub IT tn house an prefers to sponge on tn
great highway belongin' to tn people.
Ii he hash t done much to speak w. his frinds
rapport his small but handsome varchues He niver
punched his wife, he sinds his boys to school, he
loves his country, he shaves with safety razor
man expcts to be ilicted prisidint iv tn United
States Hnnlssy FIR tn fine qualities that tn rrest
" us use on y to keep out iv tn pinitinch1y All
tn time tn rayports from tn country become
more an more CLOWN. TIL tidal wave is rsin'
an soon will amount to landslide. Victhry is
perched upon our banners an has sint FIR tn
family: FIR tn dimmycratic candydate tn mos
CLOWN rayports iv gains come firm New England,
where there is always most room f'r dimmycratic
gains. FL tn republican, tn news fir m tn south
west IS so cheerin' to be almost incredible or
quite so.
But iliction day, comes at last. TIL people iv
this grreat country gather at tn VARIOUS temples
iv liberty in barbershops an livery stables an indi-
cate their choice iv evils. A great hush falls on
tn land tn public pours out iv tn side dures iv
tn saloons an reverently gathers at tn news
paper offices to await with baited breath tn hrillin'
news firm th' first precnt iv tn foorth ward iv
Sheboygan, Wis. An thin again we hear tn old
but nivir tiresome story: Texas give di1nmycrat
majority iv five hundherd thousan, but will reopen
tn polls if more is necessity; tn dmmycrats hope
" tn prisint ratio is aintaned tn Republican
victhry in Pinnsylvanya will not be unanimous An
candydate rayceives six millyon votes an lis
overwhelmingly defeated an tn other rayceves five
millyon, nine hundherd thousan' an is tri11m-
phantly ilicted An there we ARE.
me Willum 'Brien put up German
be tn name iv Smeerkase or some such name FIR
alderman FIR tn fun v tn thing It was great
joke an an aven tn Dutchman knew it. But befure
he d been nommynated two weeks, he begun to take
it seeryous They good dale " dissatisfa action
in tn ward with tn prisint alderman, says he
'an' ye know I've lived here long time an I'm
popular with tn boys STRANGER things have hap