The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-20

T see," said MT. Hennessy, that the
 dimmycrats have gr-reat confidence.
 .'They have," said MT. Dooiey. 'Th' ldimmycrats have gr-reat confidence,
 tn republicans ar-re sure, th popy- lists are hopeful, tn prohybitionists look fir a landslide or a flood or what iver you may call prohybition victhry,
 an tn socylists think this may be their
 year. That's what makes pollytics tn gr-reat game an tn on'y wan to dhrive dull care away. It's game iv
 hope, iv jolly-yeer neighbor, conf- dence game. If ye get bad hand at poker, ye lay it down. But If ye get bad hand at pollytics. ye bet ye'er pair | iv deuces as blithe as an Englishman who has jus larned the game out iv tn sportin columns iv tn London Times. If ye don't win fair, ye may win foul. If ye don't win. ye may tie an get tn money in tn confusion. If 1t wasn't such a game, wud there be dimmycrats | in Vermont. republicans in Texas, an tprchybitionists in tn stock yards ward? Ivry year men crawl out iv tn hospitals where thy've been since last | iliction day to vote tn republican ticket in Mississippi. There's no rec ord iv 1t but it's a fact Today tn | dimmycrats will on'y concede Vermont,
 Maine an Pinnsylvania to tn raypub- licans, an tn republicans concede |
 tn dimmycrats But it's arly yet. Wait awhile. Tn wurruk iv tn campaign has not begun Both sides is inclined | to be pessimistic. Tn conservative
 business man who thinks that if a little
 money cud be placed in Yaxoo City. tn prejudice again Rosenfelt, which Is on'y skin deep. cud be removed. hasn't turned up at headquarters. About tn
 middle iv October, tn republicans who comedies Texas to tn dimmycrats
 will be drummed out iv tn party as a lthraitor an yell hear that tn dimmy- cratic party in Maine IS so cheered be tn prospects that his friends can't keep
 him sober.
 l Tn life iv a candydate is tn hap piest there is. If I want anything
 pleasant said about me. I have to say 1t mesilf. There's hundred thousan freemen ready to say it to candy date an say t strong They ask nawthin' in rayturn that will require
 civil service examination. lie starts in with aapretty good opinion 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 cold an indiff'rent parent. Ninety per cint
 iv tn people who come to see him tell him he's tn mos popular thing that iver was an will carry tn coun. thry like tidal wave. He don't let tn
 others in. If anybody says amy thing about him less frindly thin Jacob T,iis. he knows he's either a sore-head
 or is in tn pay iv tn other campaign comity. Childhern an dogs ar-re named after him, pretty women an
 some iv tn other party thry to KISS him an tn newspapers publish pie lures iv him as he sets in his libry with his brows wrinkled in thought iv how fine a man he is. Tn opposition pa apers don't get up to the house an ne niver sees himself 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 f'r tn house and prefers to sponge on tn er-reat highway belongin to tn peo' pie.
 If he hasn't done much to speak iv, his frinds rapport his small but handsome varchues. He niyer punch ed his wife, he sinds his boys to
 school, he lives his counthry. he slaves
 with a safety razor. man expicts to be ilicted prisidint iv 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 counthry become more an more glowin.' The tidal | wave is risin' an soon will amount to a landslide. Victhry is perched up on our banners an has sint fir tn family. F'r tn dimmycratic candy dat tn mos glowin' rayports iv gains come firm New England, where there is always most room fir dimmycratic gains. FIT tn republican, tn news
 frh tn Southwest is so cheerin' as to be almost incredible or quite so. But iliction day comes at last. Tn people iv this gr-reat counthry gather at tn
 varyous temples iv liberty in barber
 shops an livery stables an indicate their choice iv evils. A gr-reat hush falls on tn land as tn public pours
 out iv tn side dures iv tn saloons an
 reverently gathers at tn newspaper offices to wait with baited breath tn
 thrillin' news firm tn first precinct iv
 tn foorth ward iv Shebogyan. Wis.
 An thin again we hear tn old but | niver tiresome story: Texas gives a l dimmycratic majority iv five hundred thousan,' but will reopen tn polls If
 more Is necessity; tn dimmycrats hope | if tn prisint ratio Is maintained tn
 raypublican victhry in Pennsylvania 1 will be not be unanimous. An wan candydate rayceives six million votes
 an is overwhelmingly defeated an tn
 other rayceives five millyon, nine nun 1 dherd thousan' an Is triumphantIy | iltcted An there ye ar-re.
 | "Why, Hinnissy, wanst whin l was | in pollytics, me an Willum OBrien | nut up a German be tn name of Sheer | kase or some such name fir aldeher
 man fir tn fun iv tn thing. It was d | er-reat joke an even tn Dutchman knew 1t. But befure he'd been nom . mynated two weeks, he begun to take it seeryous. They'se a good dale W dissatisfaction in tn ward with tn prisint alderman says he, an ye l know I've lived here a long time an I'm popylar with tn boys. Sthranger | things have happened thin iv this joke | was to turn out thrue. Well, says |, If we're ilicted I want ye to make me Uncle Mike Chief iv tn Polls. Hes licked thim all an he raaly holds tn lob ex-propria vigore, as tn Supreme Cuort wud say says I Sure l will l says Smeerkase. Well. he come into me place ivry day to tell me how his campaign was gettin on. He had as
 surances firm more people thin there
 were in tn ward that they'd vote fr
 him. He had his pitcher took an hung
 on tn ullygraty poles. He hired a
 man to write his ooichury firm tn time he took his first glass iv beer as a
 baby to tn moment when tn indignant
 citizens iv tn Sixth ward arose an demanded that they shud crowd their 1 suffrage on him. That meant me an | OBrien, dye mind? He got up mass meeting with bands an calceem lights
 an tn hall was crowded while he | talked not on'y broken. but be hivins,