Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-04-01
Mr.. Dooley On Political Events


oilce stephen A. douglass day tn
sturdy but sparsely settled dimmo-
cracy iv Illinye have had no such re-
vered leader as Jakey Dickinson. His
cosy little office in tn ulinye Cinthral
buildin' was tn shrine iv dimmycrats.
Often have | seen old, battle-scarred
dimmycrats firm Winnybago county
who voted tn ticket whin it was pun
ishable with death or Imprisonment
! FIR life at tn discretion iv tn coort,
often have | seen thin takin' their
boys around an pintin' him out an
sayin' There he is, me lad. Look well
at him an in future years We can
say to ye'er childrher that We have
seen tn face iv Joe H. Dickinson As
a leader he was bold to tn pint iv
lrecklessness often bein' carrid be his
lenthusyasm into tn republican ranks
But in tn dark hours iv defeat he
wud come back to our councils an
tell us why we lost. 1t is not without
a sinsation iv grief, Hinnissey, that
see him lave to take up his jooties
in a higher spear that knows no
brother. Us old dimmycrats, we will
meet but we will miss him. We have
missed him often on ilictiou day. Now
we will miss him~fr tn four years
between, too. He will make a gr-reat
sicrety iv war In time iv throuble We
may be sure that his soord will flash
firm its scabbard an his voice be
heerd proclaimin' in claryon tones:
Me brave bogus, before us lies tn
inimy's camp. Follow me an we will
soon be in it
But even more important thin tn
department iv war is tn departmint iv
green goods. TIL hand that cashes
tn pay check is tn hand that rules
tn wurruld, as tn pOte says. An
here again We have thried an
thrusted dimmycrat. l do not know
him though I've often pasted his lithy
graft in me front window. But he's
a gr-reat frind iv Hogans. Hogan
was very happy over this appointment
Whin he read about it in tn pa-aper
he burst into song: AT last he says,
we are in power. To We, Misther Sic
rety iv tn Threasury, me greetings
an tn top iv tn mornin' Lithry
colleague, fellow grocer, brother dim
mycrat, Oft in me impechuse youth
have | hoped over ye'er skids, or
gazed with wondhrin' eyes into yeer
pear, an pearline an prune! Oft have
seen We with a sugar scoop in wan
hand an copy iy Marcus Aureelyus
in tn other, Oft have | voted fr We
whin Roger Sullivan led tn way, Oft
whin tortured be some republican to
name wan dimmycratic' leader that
shaved ivry day, wore a stovepipe hat
outside iv a parade an didn't have an
Interest in a faro bank have l shout
ed ye'er name. An now to think id
We, me brother in Apollo an Andhrew
Jackson, settin' down there in Wash |
ingtOn at tn cashiers window itsilf !
be hivens, almost makes me weep. I'm
goin' to take a thrain,' says Hogan, !
an ask him FIR a job. l wanst broke
a transparency bearing his name |
over tn head iv a German in Halsted |
Sthreet,' he says. 1 wuddent go, |
says /. I'd write tn application und- |
her an assumed name, dhrop it into a |
letter box an run, says l. If We wint !
down We might find him busy helpin |
to construct a tariff bill that wud |
PROTECT our infant industhrees an he |
want to be disturbed says l. /
An there We are. l don't know |
what tn republicans wud do if it |
wasn't f'r US dimmycrats both befure |
at an afther tn ELECTIONS Ye heerd |
how we thwarted tn almost inhuman |
against Uncle Joe Cannon. |
'Tis a romantic story. We know !
Uncle Joe? Anyhow, we've seen his |
face in pitche rs-a handsome face but
an incautious out here in
nlinye where we have seen his wur-
ruk. we know this sainted charackter.
FIR many years Uncle Joe has ruled |
tn house iv REPRESENTATIVES be love an
be love alone. His is a soul, as tn |
pOte says, that is a star an dwells i
apart He niver shud've been in poll
Iyticks. He is tn kind iv a man ye Il
wud get to judge a flower show but 1
he wud be useless in a horse thrade.
He knows no more about pollyticks II
thin Canada Bill knew about three
card monty. He had been in Wash II
ngton NANNY years more thin tn II
but what does eXpeery- II
ance count to a man who had done II
lawthin all his life but take bad n
money in change FIR good. An these
savage, pow'rful an injanyous men
determined to creep up behind this
Inwary, imprudent old philanthropist
IN desthroy him. They almost did it
90. Havin' absolute confidence in
human nature, he niver SUSPECTS amy
hing. He was like a timid fox among
horde iv feerocyous hens. 1t was
1itiful to see him setting up there,
With a cigar. tilted in his mouth an
IN expression on his face like a man
With four iv a kind in his hand !
an Englishman wondhrin
whether he ought to come in an !
lbraw four Meanwhile III crafty