The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-25
JUDGE PARKER COLONIZING,
But THE ROSEMOUNT COLONISTS
WON'T BE ABLE TO VOTE.
Chance for Every Good Democrat to Send
Useful Present to the Squire, Whose
Fowls Are in Peril--Seventeen Cats
on Hand, but More Are Needed.

Cnance TOT Every bOOu DeH1OCTAt 10 eciu
Useful Present to the Squire, Whose
Fowls Are in Peril-Seventeen Cats
on Hand. but More Are Needed.
EsoPUs Sept. 17.-Ye Democrats who
seek to gain favor at Rosenount, why
write foolish letters to Judge Parker, telling
him how much you admired his gold
standard message or how fine you on
slider his views on the Constitution Why
pay three dollars odd to come here and
grasp his hand?
All this has been done ant done brown
by Others Better bark back to the ad-
vice vo,ir grandmother gave to Uncle
Herbert at Christmas when you were a
boy: make him a useful present.
Send the Judge a cat.
He is collecting cats-nay, colonizin2
them. The cry at Rosemount is not for
votes, but for cats.
When the maids, with trembling lips,
say to Jake Robinson. Have any come
to-day?' and the veteran coachman sadly
shakes his head, they refer not to states
men, but to cats. Better a tomcat than
Tom Taggart. ,--
The mails come, filed with letters from
Democratic worshippers, but Rosemount
looks at them with dull eyes. 1t is the e1-
pressman's arrival that Is awaited with
eagerness. Perchance he bears a cat.
If 49, he is escorted as a hero to the barn,
where the new prize is received into the
feline fold. Up to date seventeen cats
are in the corral and more are to CONF
IT'S harvest time, you see and the rats
are rampant. In other years Judge Parker
took personal charge Of the anu-ra cam
paign and was considered successful. This
fall he Is too much occupied with other
affairs and the rats have fourished
Fred H. Parker, farmer pro tenn. has
done his best with traps and poison. but he
has failed, The rats grew in size and num-
bers until II became necessary to send out
a clarion call for cats
From Accord, where Mrs Parker lived,
and where the Judge once taught school,
came two old cats and three kittens. From
the Parker farm near Cortland three cats
came marching to the fray.
Friends of the family in Kingston AMI
Albany kissed their pets good-by and bade
them to 20 to kosemount The cats pil e.,
night the barn echoes with the sound Of
the determined pounce, the squeak Of the
victim and the cry OF triumph
And yet there are not enough sayers
Not night passes but some fine chicken i,
found In his house with his throat chewed
from ear to ear The 9iacking Of affrighted
ducks wakes the Presidential candidate and
causes Fred Parker to wish that he was
back in New York
So more cats must he had. lie them
be Of the best, with sharp claws, large ap-
pettes and the patience to watch rat
runway for hours. The proud Angora
and the con,monor garden cat are welcome
alike This is n cat democracy
1t must save the Judges fow is and stores.
Cats sent here must be safe, sane and sound.
They need not be conservative. Rather,
they can go as far as they like.
IL every Democrat in the country VII,
send to the Judge brawny cat IN the prime
OF life, adapted to the rafting husL's-
and not afraid cf work, si anxiety lai'0u'
the rats will. be at an end II would he a
proud day for the candidate when he coulf
look from his window and geo s 1000 900 cats
at his beck and call
Democrat, will you help?