Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-11-22

long enough, bell will ring which is to in
form you that you have done something in
the way Of performing the highest duty Of
citizenship. You will then take your
stickers and stick them thus. After turn
/ ing up few Of the fappers in general
way, to see what is under them, you
will hitch up your suspenders and repeat
the sign made outside. You will notice
roll of paper at the top Of the machine from
which you may help yourself. You will
then take pull at the overhead lever and
go out. Al you pass the judge Of election
you viii utter in low and distinct tones the
retiring pass which is the word dam, he
may respond in like manner and permit
you to pass out. If anyone should ask if
you have voted, tell him you don't know.
This performance went on merrily all day
and by p. m. the machine had recorded
the promiscuous doiDgs of 354 voters out Of
possible 5s4. There is one merit in it;
like hanging as Moyamensing, candi-
dates troubles are soon over and he is not
kept long in suspense.
Five minutes after Z there was a joyful
shout outside the sacred precincts and
crowd rushed into the room to congratulate
the Mayor and his family on the success Of
the whole Republican ticket Oh the
wormwood and the gall
ibid Harry run behind much asked
some,
1857 majority everything elected, 2 to /.
'sBut we had stiekers, everybody took
them; what have they done with our stick
ers ?''
'sstuck them | guess. anywhere"
''Bnt we had an organization!
$50 had we''
s'Where was it /? we didn't see it.
Around back, getting voters and send
ing them TO you to learn how not to do it,
| 'rah for us and the whole ticket The
crowd passed out leaving the bosses to their
gloom. There are in this life more occas-
ions than one when there is nothing to be
said One by one the faithful passed out
the back door, down the lane to Wood st.
and so home. His Honor, the Archbishop,
the Adjutant General and two or three
Others alone were left. Some one said
s'lets get the town to build us water
works; let's promise to do it cheap there
will be contracts to give cut and afterwards
'' the rest was lost in a whisper, the
Adjutant General broke the silence by re-
marking, 'sWell, think I'll move to
Bowerstown. There used to be water
system down there by the road side
A headless barrel sunk in spring
And a rusty tin cup tied to a string
Lets all moye there; get Boyd to incor-
norate the place and run it to suit our
selves. for
You may talk about Woodbury. where the poll
tieansfmeet;
You may talk about this other town, where
often we've been beat;
With the general run of human kind beg to
disagree,
But the little town of Bowerstown is good
enough for me.
The Mayor shook his head sadly, rose up
and took him by the hand and in meaning
words spoke kind good bye.
The Archbishop said something that
might have been mistaken for a benedict
ion; they all rose up and followed in the
footsteps Of their predecessors-the election
was over
Think, if you can. of his term half through
And his friends a wanting his second term, too
Picture him bending over the form
OF his Adjutant General, stanch and grim,
Who has stood the brunt of that Water Spout
Storm
And that Mayor just wrapped up in him
And the Adjutant General with brain all
queered
And solemn look in his handsome beard,
Signing in sort of q sorrowful way,
But soothed to hear His Honor say,
In heartfelt terms (as one well may,
When words come handy and -------'s to pay.
Good bye John! Take care of Yourself.