The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-06
BY FlNDLEY PETER DUrllNE.
Copyright, 1910, by r. P. Dunne.)

reglsther as Dimmycrat 80 get into
til socyal rcglsthcr.
An we're livin' UP to our station,
dates. Ye no longer r-read in TIL
|obitchury notice w. tn Dimmycrat can
dydatc printed just bcfure iliction:
'Willum j. Groggins, bother known
as Ate-em-np- first come into mo-
tice as Dimmycrat leader whin he
was arrested in tn year ninety siS,,
hut it's Opposed to tn sinister polly.
tician that has been imposed on tn
decayed Republican party be an arr
rogant usurper. Is a well-known
statesman an mannyfacthrcr Nv paper
collars, who has sarved his country
we'll in NANNY important public posi-
tons. Alonzo f.. Snivv., althouE not
a mimber " tn wellknown bapk'n,
firm ~ that name, is wan Of our most
thrustworthy public mon. He first
attllracted tn attintion of conservative
people be his vigorous measures durin'
sthrike in 1892. Misther Snivvy is
wan ~ TIL wheel horses " tn Dimmoc-
with his party. TIL onforchnit vaga
ries iv tn Dimmycrats csthranged him
for awhile, but with til EXCEPTION ~
tn INTERVALS between 1875 an
1894, an between 1906 an 1910 he
has been stanch Dimmycrat. Durln
TIL peeryuds whin his conscience f'r-
bid him to jine With th'party organ
ization his articles entitled. "Shud
Kansas be Put Undher Martial Law"
an rs tn West Inhabited be Canny-
bals?" VIII be REMEMBERED be readers
Nv this pa-apcr. Among tn pollyti-
ckal Offices whicl, Misther Snivvey has
held with distinction ar-re prisidnt
w the First Naytional Bank, Vice
president Nv tn paper collar thrust, an
horny threasurer iv' tn Dimmycrat
Pr.tictive Tariff Assocya,ion. He has
been prominently connected with a
lumber iv Dimmycratic organizations,
such as TIL Rutherford B. Hayes Dim
mycratic Club tn Tippycanoc Dimmy-
Gratis, TIL Blaine Jeffersonyans, tn
Hanna Dimocracy. TIL Down-witll-
Bryan Old Line Dimmycrats an SO
on. But In local pollyticlss he ha.
always been lndepindant. votin' f'r tn
best man offered by ayethcr party II
he was Republican,
An there We ar-re. In Moo Jarsey
our candydate Is not only a colledge
prisidit, he's Prisbyteeryan as well.
4 There's style f'r We. In Moo York We're
rallied aroun' wan W. tn most ardent
mannytacthrers Nv wall paper in TIL
tounthry. In Matsachoosctts TIL hot
old pilgrim blood got TIL best Nv our
fellows fr awhile, an they f'rgot thin
silvcs an acted as though TIL party
was still what 1t used to be in TIL
dissraccful days that AFRO so pleas
ant to look back onto. was frighten-
ed TO think iv what our new recroots
would say whin their fellow DimmS-
Gratis was argyin' with table legs. But
forchnitely. a betther spirit prevailed
an tn democracy iv Massachusetts Is
! now march!n to gloryous victhry be-
hind leader that knows all tn weak
ness ~ III Republican party. havin
just left ii. Like most ~ our heroes
this fall. he has not always or otter
been a Dimmycrat. But IL is his
proud boast that since he cast his frs
lvote f'r Foss he has niver wavered ii
his allegiance
DO like it? Ye bet do I'm al
arrystocrat be nature an It's littl,
pleasure I've had all these years con
sartin' on'y with TIL likes ~ we. IT.
Il, comfort to mingle With me socya
? an fi-nancyal akels. It gives me
thrill to find that me an Heidelbacl
o Ickleheimer ar-re Nv tn same way l.
J. thinkin' again afther all these wear!
y years ~ SEPARATION, that I can follow
j Alton F. Parker without givin' th' ide
n that I'm pursocIn' him to take his If
Q an that Jawn u. Rockytellar has FIR
t give me me past. I like bein' Spoken
n iv as a prop ~ TIL Dhry Goods Thrad
: an tn hope ~ our legal tendher sys
y TEN.
: Nv coorse 1t amt always a!sy to re
n mimber me new surroundings an no
r to give a yell ~ JOY whin I hear tina
a bank has busted. I don't find muc
0 to talk about. have to pass owe
u most Nv mo old topicks Nv conversatio
e f'r fear ~ hurtin' tn feelin'sl Nv m