Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-04-15

krats kant say nuthin agin us kauSe
thav doant kno what we think ontil
we git the offices & that's what we want
s. then we doant care-Jorge Kettle he
lowed sum tellers bettur bee appinted
two kount voats & soon as the cheer
man had time two hunt up his list
which the boys had give him he ap-
ninted then the cheerman he maid
a speech q he lowed he wanted two
apologize two Jawn Moran kause he
fergot to appint him on the komitty
two tell the dellygaits what two doc,
he fergot two apologize to Jorge Kettle
fer not pintin him teller, the cheer
man sumhow found it handy two bee
absint minded at times, but Jorge Sed
he diddent care a darn ennyhoW.
Frank kerslaik then lowed the cheer
man better appint north Cherington q
tom Rowell as telIers two, as he did
dent kno whether the other fellers
Good reed or not & he knode north a
tom Good.
Then the cheerman lowed thay mite
begin perseedins q so Torrance Kite he
got up & sed he diddent low to maik
no speach as the dellygaits knode what
thay was tharc fer x fer Senatur he
wood Jest speak the naim of Skot
Lowery & then you bet they cheered &
you bet them dellygaits knode what
what they was thare fer-then Jorge
Hawkins he got up (seamed like
Jorge was alters buttiu in e tryin two
spoil a screen and smooth meeting
Jorge sed he wanted two put befoar
the meetin the maine of a man that
was a good worker & Good git voats &
that Dallas wanted him & wood voat
fer him & that Dallis had bin lectin
moast all the republicans that had
bin lected in the last years u cndur-
in that time hadn't even had smell
often the pye kounter &now jings he
wanted EN- to yoat fer Chammers
kirkpatrick, Jorge maid Il good
speach & sum of them dellygaits
turned a little pale around the gills
but you bet thay knode what thay was
thare fer, and blame it all what did
Jorge want to but in fer, he knode
things had bin ffXt and it woodent doc
two chainge then. If Jorge aint keer-
full he will be disturbin elemint yit
When Jorge set down thay voated and
Skot Lowery was lected Of kourse q
then he maid a Speach. he lowed he
were 50 blamed Uncertain whether he
was goin two bee nommynated that he
hadn't fiXt up emmy speach X not bein
prepared coodent say much, bat if he
got lected he lowed two doc the best he
knode how-then the fellers called fer
Chammers Qlinder guyin him kause
he was beat you knoy q Chammers sed
he warnt sore & that he wood like two
bee Senatur but it was all rite & that
he never did pledge hisself q he warnt
maxim emmy now. Then they called
fer Hirey Plumber but he eggskused
hisself & sed he never talked only jest
in June on lection day, then thay
voated fer sum dellygaits fer the stait
konvenshun but | doant rickolleckt
thare Mains then Torrance Kite lowed
it bettur bee a informil ballot. Then
Dan Stouffer ask two bee eggskused
and he let Chammers have his seat 4
Chammers he got up and toald the
cheerman the slait he held in his hand
with tom Graves naim at the top was
all fer Geo. Burnett q toald the cheer
man these men woodent let ennybody
trade en-. off Il then he sOrter looked
over towards Newt Hart & set down.
The air were Warm and kinder
dozed off agin & lost track while they
lected dellygaits & when i cum two it
were time to yoat fer representative,
then they waited II long spell x
aftur while sumboddy sed Torrance
Kite & nobody else seemed to care x he
was elected moast unanimous except
about 50 derned fellers that yoated No
a. tride two disterb the meetin, but you
bet you coodent fool that cheerman.
Then thay wanted Torrance two maik
speach & he blusht sum 4 sed he
warnt looking fer ner expecting sech
onners 4 he diddent keer fer the otlis
but if the republican party had emmy
thing thay diddent want he wood talk
| it & he reckoned he wood maili jest as
good a representative as he did when
he was thare befoar
Then thay started two nommynate
a komishoner & Willium Riddull
were nommynated then Jawn Teel
were placed befoar the konyenshun
but it warnt no use Riddull got it q
1 am blamed glad of it-Riddull knose
heep moar than Teel kause he were
razed in Shetland Il has travelled Ii
doant kno WHARF Shetland is at, but
that doant matter.l Then the chair
man called Torrance Kite two talk his
phase & he got down on the fore Il
maid a great speach 4 nommynated
Ed Smith fer clerk and Ed was it, From
this time on things got taime, Wess
hoddson & Geo Mackbees Il my old
friend Hardy Holeman tried two but
in &run for kounty jedge but thay
warnt in it for Ed Code had mortil
sinch on that & landed the per
simmins, Jorge Mackbees got sum
complementary voats fer helpiu to
carry South Dallis presink and when
they began countin the votes | was
awful afrade he wasn't goin to git all
10 of the South Dallis voats, but the
boys had russeld him fewvoats from
the outside to maik things look all
rite if emmy of their crowd went back