The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-19
the most prominent planks In your plat

Down with the trusts.
Prison for the grafters.
Honest insurance or no insurance at
all.
Federal supervision OF everything.
including peanut stands.
The Chicago st~ockyards to be turn
ed over TO the Salvation Army.
NO man to have above SI.OO0.c00.
Those are as far as we have goaa
but others will be introduced this e~aa
ing. 1t will be a popular party with q
popular PLATFORM"
Il see it will. Have you w.oe and
cigars in the library?"
Il will see to that You will 81 up 70
your roam. ! SurDose7'
E@S You u"n d11't think oar sex
advaor"i enough yet to give you Do
l.ti~ai pointers"
.f:'~t then t:e bell rang and a bog re-
i1'et THAT some one waited 70 s-e Mr.
ItoL<rT on To. cornar The new party
c~au.IjdnTe for E~overuor looaed Ii D..
an-31'.~ a. he put On his hat and took
M las enc. Int he got of the trout
steps IN good shape without any unf-el
ing remarks from Mrs B0wscr. On
tie co;llcr was one of the wheel horses
In fact. il WIS the man who had dis
covered the crying need Of Il new par
ty. He discovered it il Oshkosh and
brought 1t home in his grip.
Il am coming IN Il little later. Bow
SER" he began. with easy familiarity,
but | wanted to see you alone first
for a moment. The act Is my board IS
a couple Of weeks behind and my land
lady is kicking. / told her that we
were going to have q plank in the new
party platform to oblige butchers to
sell the best beefsteak to landladies for
Z cents a pound. but she wants her
money just the same. If you could
lend me So for a few days could 90
my share Of the work more enthusias-
tically."
IL can only spare $40 tonight" was
the hesitating reply.
well. that will keep her quiet for a
few days. III hand 1t to her and then
come along to the meeting. You are
going to be the next governor as sure
as you're born"
If he was Mr.. Bowser didn't smile
over it as be walked back to the house.
| On the contrary, be looked very solemn
for a candidate as he sat down on the
steps and hoped that Mrs. Bowser
would not come to the door and ask
questions. He had been sitting for tea
minutes when another boy came up.
His message was the samoa second
man wanted to see the governor on the
corner. Mr., BoWser walked Up there
1t was another wheel horse Of the new
party. He was the man who suggested
-four of the platform pIanks already
adopted. 1t had taken him a whole
week OF constant brain work to bring
them forth.
Say, governor he observed after
shaking hands. II wanted to see you
for d minute alone before the meeting
opened. Owing to my being SO busy on
the platform | have let my rent run
behind. and tne landlord is threatening
to bounce i've out. Well put in a plank
abo!:*lins rent altogether when We get
around to t. but meanwhile could you
lenG me S3H:'
Governor Bow>er guided and turned
pAic. and for n few minutes he s~erl3"..
about 20 refuse. Then he pIiied ont $
and handed it over. saying Il was AL
the m2npy he had on honi.
81 wanted the thirty . that | coUi,l
stick it under the landlords nose 81
hle wheel horse. "but I'll try a.
make this DO for the tllne being. !,
can let me hlv the rest in a day 81
two. III be around to the house in i
few minutes. Thanks, GOV"
Mr.. BGWSCr Went back 20 the hoUet
and sat on the steps some more The
peddIer selling w~aterme!)1S smiled n
him. but he did not return it. Then thl
boy who had come first returned. =
third wheel horse was Up or the saII.
corner He was the wheel horse wnt
was going to move in the state conven
ton that Mr.. BoWser be nominated b.
reclamation.
Mr.. Rowser sauntered up to the cor
ner. The two shook hands. Their
wheel horse No. 3 said that he had beer
"touched" on a street car for 500 anG
wanted to borrow $50 to send his wife
in the country.
MOI one UIduucu CtA EtpllSN LIZ
new party candidate.
What! What's this!'
"IIl see you hang first"
"Oh, you're that sort Of a man, ar
your Well. I'm glad to find you out
You'll never be governor Of this state
and you can lay to that. No old bald
beaded skin1int can
Then Mr.. Bowser had him against th'
fence. and a policeman and a crowt
came running. Altogether the entir'
campaign had not lasted an hour. Thu
policeman induced Mr.. Bowser to g
home and sit down and repress his en-
thusiasn. and the wheel horse wa.
pushed in the back and showed acros
the street. Mrs. Bowser came out OF
the steps presently. She knew prett,
we'll what had happened. and yet in tn
goodness of her heart she simply said:
Don't there seem to be more bug