The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-22


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This lovely country county in the
hills will get her share of the city
cynic's coin before this summer
Waynes.
The fool that rocks the boat is on
the job, blank blank him; but wait
for the fool that rocks the aero
plane. He's coming!
Don't laugh at Oklahoma for hav-
ing two capitals. Look away from
Oklahoma to the nation. Consider
Beverly and Oyster Bay!
How many bills are up for popu-
lar constitution? Well, there are
four Bills willing to be governor of
York state, if that's what you've driv-
ing at.
Who says the Returned African
Hunter has no dignity? Think, just
think, of the money he could make
only by penstroke if he'd sign up
with the moving picture fellows!
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The report that Col. Jim Guffey is
monetarily busted is not likely to
wiring anything more than crocodile
tears from a pair of luminous black
orbs that glow from $4,000 man
sion on farm away out in Nebras-
ka.
The wet and dry fight comes into
the Indiana senatorship this year of
grace 1910. And, just by coinci-
dence, one of the men who wants to
go to Washington again from the
banks of the Wabash is a man nam
ed Beveridge.
Gov. Hughes has been househunt-
ing in Washington-with Herbert
Parsons to help him. Now one of
the best men the Empire state ever
had in Albany knows $17,500 is a
wee, small sum in the City of Extor-
Magnificent Distances.
If all the words of praise Mr.. Pot
ter gets for having those unfaithful
road bosses in Bradford county pull
ed were gold dollars, or plain paper
dollars, or even William j. Bryan
silver dollars, God only knows the
plucky driver of the government
mail would never be buried in his
namesake field.
1t cost Mr.. Senator Grim $465 to
be nominated. What will it cost
him to be defeated? Why, he need
not part company with one solitary
copper if he feels uncompelled to
the separation. Thousands of great
and good Pennsylvanians will be
glad to help the Bucks county gen.
tleman for nothing.
Once more the Billy Sulzer boom
for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination in New York is oiled
and slides down the ways. 1t ought
to be moderately easy for any half
way decent man on the other ticket
to lick the Tammany congressman
whose long suit is his ability to go
to the district leaders, picnic once
a year and clear nine feet in the
standing broad jump.
Quit talking about what the gov
ernor of South Carolina (AnseD said
to the governor Of North Carolina
(Bobby GLENN over the banquet
board in Washington. That famous
nag of 1907 is now stale, fiat, un-
profitable. Talk about what the gov
ernor of Nevada said to Tex Rick
ard and conclude that the sage
brush plans of Nevada are $3.50
feet lower in the moral scale than
Newber battlefield, the rice swamps
of Beaufort and the "old dram tree"
on Cape Fear river. The evidence
of a single sentence is sufficient.
Ollie James, the hot-headed young
Kentuckian who admires Col. Bryan
and even thinks he may yet live on
Pennsylvania avenue in Washington,
has a simply splendid unconcern for
figures when they involve somebody
else's money. The Democrats, he
says, could run the government on
100000 year, not on $1,000,0
600, the way he says the Republi-
cans propose to continue to run it.
Well, suppose they can run it on
$50. Suppose they can run it on
$5. Suppose they can run it on five
cents. What difference does that
make in the long run, the way Con-
gressional elections turn out now
days, Ollie?