Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1909-07-29
From The Queen City.

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Editor kinloch:-I have just received
a copy Of the Morgan County REBUILT.
CAN, and must say you are getting up a
paper those people should he proud of.
I was greatly interested in that Dr. S ex.
perience. I will bet you rs cents that
DR.. is success. A fellow like that ia
made of the right kind of stuff. He is
practical; no only that, when he gets his
gun loaded he knows just where to draw
the bead to hit the spot, and when a fell.
low can do that he is sure to get results.
Bet that fellow has never been sick since.
If lie has, will bet he has never had a DR..
that raised him as quick. Here's my
hand, Doctor. and success to you. You
aud I practice on tlr same line, but no
always in the same way.
Mr.. Editor, while my gun is loaded,
and I am SO anxious to pull the trigger,
l will just fire loose, and if any Of these
squibs stray over your way and you want
to use 'em just fire in. Sometimes you
know a few squibs from old home folks
makes a fellow feel good, and if you
think l can hit the spot will fire in every
twice and a while.
We have been having all awful lot Of
trouble down our way. Two or three
years ago a fellow named Earnest moved,
located and settled in II town. He is a
good man, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Re-
s,,,h1t~a~ a,,a, IS 1a A;.1 >o,,,a frp,,, c0,,,o
little town back east. Well, sir, he
hadn't been here any time till lie was
elected a member of the council on the
Republican ticket from his ward. Well,
sir, he did fine. He could read pretty
we'll aud write some. Well, things went
on all right until we had to have a
change of mayors. Right there was
where the tug of war came in. A few
fool Democrats made up their minds that
that fellow was the only pebble OH the
beach, and could out-run any fool Demo-
crat ever born, so held a secret meeting,
got everything cut-and-dried and had
that fellow nominated. We had a few
sore.headed Democrats, who split off
from the Earnest ones. and concluded to
try their hand, and put out a Democrat.
Then was when the fun commenced.
The Leader came out for the DEM
ocratic candidate, under the plea that the
Republican candidate was from a little
town, and it would be impossible for a
fellow like that to make a good mayor
for a town the size of ours. But the
LEADER Democrat fell down, and that
fellow was elected. Those Democrats
who nominated him soon had the Offices.
A few %dispruntled Republicans, left out
in the cold, went to the new mayor aud
told him it would never do to let those
fool Democrats have the Offices, 80 he
boosted them. OF course this kicked up
all awful row for a while. and the Leader.
Democrat cut quite an awful swell, but
we had a mayor who knew his business,
and it just simply had to go his way.
Our dear old Leader has quit harping
about people from little towns not having
sense enough to be mayor of a big town.
We understand that the Democrats are
"fggering' on a fellow by the name Of
Rufus Rastus Jackson Brown from Jerk
tail, Dallas county, Missouri, for our
mex mayor, but l hardly think he cali
make it. 1t is my opinion u next
mayor will be the same mayor we To-
have-he can do things-and there's a
lot of these fellows just beginning to find
it out. BRO. SHEEPSKIN.
What puzzles us is, which side was the
writer on, the "~Soreheads" or the Fool
Gang" It is time wasted to even try to
guess what those "fool Springfield Dem
ocrats will do, it is the nut,iest bunch
ever. The idea of electing a Republican
mayor in order to get Office proves what
they will do for pie" They should lie
sent up to Kansas City to help Mayor
Crittenden, or down to St. Louis to work
for Snake Kinney.-Ed.