The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-22

+ pass lightly on 70 W. Taft. He's an
excellent good fellow. Bill Tart 1e
must know that or 1 wud niver have
made him me sicrety ~ war an give
him q lettec TO carry to me imperial
brother tn Mikydoo. There's two
I've named. There are many others.
/ cant recall thin. but there are
There's Fairbanks. disturbance IN
the a~ujence.) He's been our vice
prisidint fr four years. an a good,
kind, funny-looking old thing he Is.
too. He has q falling, as ye all know.
But there are few Nv LIS perfect tn
throubIe with him IS that tn very
smallest amount goes to-but WY
mention il / wasn't aware w II Whln
l lunched with him an see him shak-
ing a mixer Nv cocktails in each hand
like q MINSTREL performer playin tn
bones. He says now / made tn
iniquitous but agreeable beverage l
don't blame him. fellow, he
f'rgfts. But I wish to say 70 me TIM
prance frinds here m that II
C~huckling Charley Fairbanks shud be
livated TO tn PRESIDENCY we VIII all
turn in an do our best to keep him
away firm that pernicious fluid that
biteth like an asp and stingeth ike
an adder those tina don't take It. If
n~icissry secret sarvice officers cud be
kept in tn white house an whin he
begins to take cough medicine or
calisaya, lock him up till tn craving
has past Indeed, I nave great hopes
that he may masther tn habit yet
y nave now given re ivry reason l
know why We shud cast ye'er impeer-
val suffrage fr amy iv these men l
will now speak a Wurrud iv advice to
We. To tn Numbers iv tn grand army
iv tn raypublic befure me I say don't
be cow'rds, weddings an milk-sops.
If | had had Weaklings with me at San
- lETT 49, Z.--+ 49, ! ~ !
iv our counthry's histhry, how few
wud've come up an jined me on tn
top iv that miInrable hump. To tn
befure me | say bring up
ye'er boys to keep on a fighting edge
L don't mean tn kind iV a fighting
edge a boy Cud get at Charley Fair
banks house, but that kind iv a sober,
prudent, sane, Observation-Disclosures
at
tichood that with tn other things /
have been able to do in a too-limited
peeryod has made US tn nation we are.
| now arrive at tn main point iv me
argumint, an | ask We to give me
ye'er undivided attintion. VIII tn lit
tie lady near tn dure PLACE stuff her
apron IN tn mouth iv hat beautiful
brat tina will wan day grow up to
be a prisidint, I'm sure? Will tn gin
tleman with tn plug hat that / recog-
nize as a fellow mimbe Id tn knights
~ DlN lIIdS, hIIlLis 80 -
men an women iv the State " Miz-
zoury, all together, three cheers fr
the Rosenfelt administration. Hip, hip,
hoorayi'
Thousands rushed around him to
grasp him be tn hand; tn gOv'nors iv
.forty-two states waited on him an
begged him on their knees to save his
country an their states be runnin'
again: in tn aftheTnon he rayceived
tn prisidint " tn local 'Tiddy as long
as he wants it. Marchin' Club. An
in tn %evenin'. with bands playin,' fire.
works explodin an little childher pelt-
in him with roses, C~incinnatus return
ed to his private car an win on to
tn next retirement ratification
Hes a gre-reat man" said Mr..
Hennessy.
He is that said Mr.. Dooley.
We've not had a dull moment since
he's been prisidint. don't know
whether tn administration is a NC
cess or not. Me frinds differ. Rosen-
felt says 1t is. ROCKEFELLER says it
isn't. But anyhow. whether It's a
success or not, it's been injyable. He's
a gr-reat man, an tn thing I like best
him is that in tn dark We can
hardly tell him firm a ~dimmycrat.
Dye think he want a third term ?"
said Mr.. Hennessy.
IT do not" said Mr.. Dooley. "But
he's a good deal like Hogan. I want
ed him to stay an keep me comp'ny
It's Just as We'll" says I. Dorsey says
he's comm around at ten to throw We
out says I. Thin I'll stay says Ho-
gan. AS tn matther stands at prisint
tn on'y people that can illicit him are
those that are again him.