Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-11-01
THE G. o. P.
Crimson Rambler Takes It's Lead
ers Down the Line-Poetry and
Prose, Pertinent and Pointed.

looks like a clothespin with a Mission
finish and talks like a graphaphone
with bronchitis, blew into the city
Saturday in his private car. The
Vice Presidents lower features were
beautifully festooned with brindle
whiskers and a highly ornate carna-
tion decorated his buttonhole. He
came to help carry Missouri ION pur-
posen and he invited the people to
'tlook at the record" Let us have a
look. The Vice-President is the long
est, richest and self-madest statesman
that ever honored she rural districts
of the commonwealth with SO distin-
guished a presence. In 1874 he was a
modest indianapolis attorney with a
burning ambition, long legs,and veal
thy relatives, His uncle, General
Superintendent Smith, Of the Ches-
peake s. Ohio railroad got him a job
as attorney to the receiver of the In
diana. Bloomington and Western Rail-
way and for fourteen years. thereafter,
he devoted bis time and talents to the
gentle and lucrative pastime Of as
sisting railway w~reckers, reorganizers,
stock-waterers and kindred financial
him.fams and he then and there laid
the foundation for a great
fortune. For bis clever work In this
congenial field be was rewarded by
securing the favor Of Morgan and OF
course, grew richer and richer and
then some. He bought Indiana Re-
publican healers, financed Indepen-
dent and Republican newspapers, In
GLIDING the indianapolis Journal and
the indianapolis News and made them
an active factor In his political ma
chine. In 1901 he fell out with Nor.
gan and allied himself with the Har-
riman branch Of the Interests. As
senator he always supported Aldrich
against the people and he is still a
Wall street speculator of skill and
daring and he is now ehalked up on
the boards as a 80 to ! shot candidate
for President. Here's confusion to his
programme. He is SIX feet four inches
high and about as portly as a skewer
and soon account Of his being a physi.
cal curiosity and also on account Of
his exalted position a fair sized audi
ence tolerated his sixty minutes har-
angue. He has a reluctant and pain.
full delivery and when he cfanked up
and cut loose to the Post1ffiee employees
the last remnant Of the G. o. P,
a bunch Of trailing federal appoint
ment seekers and an ebony fringe Of
fifteenth amendments in the gallery,
also a few business men and Demo-
cratic yoeman attracted by the pros
pect Of getting a Stree look'' at the
most expensive living skeleton ever
born in captivity, it was about as
tame as an exhibition ball game pulled
of by the Moberly Signals.
"The V. P. wiped his festooned beard
And Strengthened out his tie,
And said, My friend, unless it rains
The weather will be dry.
And when this thought into their
brains
Had percolated through
The Postal Clerks they whooped her
up
And proudly cried, How true
Then Fairbanks blew his Roman nose
An cleared his gasplpe throat
And said, the ship will never sink
AS long as she's afloat.'
At that the O. o. p. approved
And shrieked with main and might
They hunched each other in the ribs
And shouted out, He's right
The skewer mar then waxed quite
warm
His voice riz 10 a roar.
he yelled, 81 say to you my friends,
That two and two make four"
And ~thereupon all doubts dissolved
All fears we've put to rout,
Pie seekerssaid that Fairbanks knew
Just what he was about.
He did not name un-busted trusts
Or mention Standard OH,
He did not talk Of Senate Graft
Or speak Of childrens' toll.
He said the crops looked mighty well
The cattle all seemed fat,
The sky was blue, the grass still grew
And the G. o. P. stood pat.
And he let IL go at that.
Mr.. Vice President Fairbanks was
accompanied by Mr.. J.Burton CARRIER.
OF Warren County. this state. Mr.
CARRIER has an Illusion that is getting
chronic. He thinks he is running for
Congress and that be will skin Chanp
Clark In the 9th District. His faith
In himself, in the face Of the facts and
information at hand Is a beautiful
thing TO contemplate In 1902 Clarks
majority tyer-Tcbbs was 1921, but on
account OF the 'stay-at-home Vote In
1904 this majority was reduced and
Clark cply laid over Carter TO the
tune Of 1868. This did not mean any.
thing especially except for various
aphathy that was active copyrighted.
But to-day conditions are different.
The importation OF elongated pluto
cratic Vice President, ID inch Cannons
and senile decrepit childish and er.
~asperating tPlShaws into the state to
supplement the efforts Of the brewers
state chairman Neideringhaus, is act
ing on the yellow dog democracy like
n fly blister. 10 accelerates the cI,