The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1908-10-31

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And others think it's Taft.
A speaker on Pullman,
A little pantomime,
A hasty diagnosis of
The perils of our time;
A farewell and a promise,
A benediction aft
Some folks think it's Bryan,
And others think it's Taft.
A man with twenty dollars,
Another man with ten,
A swift exchange of challenges,
And two excited men;
A showdown and a wager,
A banknote and a draft
Some folks think it's Bryan,
And others think it's Taft.
A homestretch and tumult,
A spyglass and shout,
A feverish excitement while
They try to make them out;
A flying dust cloud leading,
A second cloud abaft-
Some folks think it's Bryan,
And others think it's Taft.
In the old Roman calendar Novem-
her was the ninth month. Blessings
fell early land the empire gave thanks
just before the first frost; but about
700 B, C. the trusts left the people
so little to be thankful for after nine
months that it was decided to wait
and see if anything would come OF
the Roman elections. Numa accord
ingIy made November the eleventh
month and had Thanksgiving fall
with the first SHOWS, Notwithstanding
the month gets it's name from the
Latin novem (nine.).
The frisky colt will sniff the air
and hear the whistling quail, and the
festive calf will indicate the zenith
with his tail. The frost will paint
the forest with deep and redder
dye. the hired man will shuck the
corn, the pumpkin vine will pie, the
politicians will hit up their office
holding feud, and the modest maple
tree will blush and come out in the
nLue.
And then the presidential race
And everyone will exercise
His liver, anyway.
He'll bounce it up and down between
His pancreas and gizzard,
And waltz it through his inner work
From A around to lizard,
And even though his present r.;e
May prove to be in vain,
He'll have the health and strength
to run
Sometime, perhaps, again.
At any rate the candidates will
dash into the stretch, and both Bill
o'-the-Wisps will make themselves
hard to ketch. They'll squirt in spir-
tied response to many wild arousers,
and fan the dust up with their SLACK,
downhanging trousers. They'll come
in sight exhibiting score OF fancy
PAGES, and only hit the trembling
earth In four or five high places. Tne
air will darken with the flight of
gravel, dirts and sods, and the crowd
will sound its battle cries and give
and offer odds And Teddy mean
while will wedge in quite close be-
side the track, with something that
he has concealed within paper sack
and when his entry charges down,
hot-footing like the wind, T. r. will
hang a hornet nest upon him down
behind.
And then there will be doings on
This agitated sphere
The earth will pitch and buck to oea
A frenzied Texas steer.
The snn will spin around and round
Apd blow up once or twice,
TIL ,oon will turn a very dark
And b. ,ody ball of ice,
And no one will remain to see
Who won the race for vice.
The election will be held on the
erd and the trusts will hold an all
night prayer meeting on the End. Mr..
BRYAN will cast his vote for Mr.. TAFT
MT Lincoln. Mr.. Taft will return the
courtesy at Cincinnati. and Mr..
Rockefeller will receive the news at
Cleveland. The quadrennial ass who
wheels another quadrenniai ass
through town on wheelbarrow WIN
start from the postoffice at 1O.o'clock
ON the morning Of the 4th, followed
by 90 boys and the Fool killer. the
complete returns win be in by the
18th.
The annual showdown between