The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13
ASHATESMAN DEEP SEA
ONE OCCASION WHEN POLITICS
AND SAILORIZING MINED


Warn sG = natIIeuhlp LAID 20 ~ q Tent
peranee Port-ThC Thirst % seStty
4 Triple Alliance Beth Wat-hes
a the IrrsgaIIsa the Result.
A clear sky above aud n calm sea below.
The bAttleships were On the long run from
Trinidad to Rio. Barney. q,IHrtermaster.
was talking:
this mans navy and the Congrs~s u
these United States IL run by a lot Of
white ribbOned hens, IL I lives and this
packet ever gets into Frisco. III"
-Aw. fergit iti What could youse do
On the outsides- interrupted Flanagan.
the turret captain. Politics and sailor
iSin' don't mix
-Gin'ally speakin' you're hrrect.-
agreed the bo's'n's mate. Politics and
sailOrisin' don't mix: hat knows a case
where they did mix most material. and not
80 vurry long past at that.
You remember old Scotty McCandllsh
on the Oklahoma Great card he was.
hest all around seaman in this navy or
any other. Great spor,in' man, too.
-Scotty's only trouble was rum. All
right at SEQ, but ashore IL was usually
ID. ". drunk and dirtyI 10 he came back
on time. and worse II he didn't.
We'll. we'd Just finished target
practice in the bay when the chief en-
GiRseT reported hlooEsia' pump gone 20
smash. Well. that meant the dock for
ours. an all hams was Akin for a gran
time: hut there was q strike ashore. mean
in long stay-an' they'd just passed a
-
Scottv after he hit the beach-he was
crazy.
-Scotty brooded an brooded. Till We
begin gettin' kinder worried for fear he
was gOin' to hit the list. Well. ON" day
he overheard the First LuiY and the Chief
Engineer a-talkin'. Exec. said he couldn't
say how long the strike ashore was goin'
to last and the other yards was all busy
with ships waitin' for overhRulin.
-ScotSy. he was a dif'runt man from
that minnit. He asks for leave. has luck
and gets forty-eight hours. shifts into
liberty clothes and heats IL. all Smiles.
His forty-eight was up on Sunday and
he come hack C. and y. lclean and sober
convo vim the head OF the local trade
union and a guy who owned the biggest
saloon IN town afore this reform wave
wiped him out. SunthIn' Of a politician
on the side too. ScOtty shows en- around
the ship an they all three seems happy
an contsnted. quite a. u they hadn' Z
come 81 a dry liberty,
Monday I thought a. how Id take a
look around the dry town for myself
I'D no sooner hin pa-~esi out the gate than
a smooth lookin' hombre come along
side an after maxim a few observations
about nothin' at all rayr. Say. did you-e
ever voter
-'Shbve or says |. Eivin' him a look.
what do yOuse think this is' A hotbed
q political xrRftr
No says he. ! thought mebbs the
dryne-s Was a-Ecstin' On your nerves like
IL H. on mine.
You kin bet I Frightened up Consid-
dable after that. for thought mehbe he
knOwed where a drink could lie got. hut
no, " was deeper than that.
-'Ye see. it's this way, he says.
A respectable gent at one time could
live around here and take an eye opener
now an then. hurtin no ones feelin .,
but these reformers butsed in and nov
look At IT, Their tenner Of ONCE IL up
this next September. and some u ~ u
leadin' a movement TO make tho old town
a. II should be. an we wants your vote
-'Sorry.' says I. I'd like TO help We.
but I amt no Hoater nor repeater. an
the only residence I've got - the old
Okly over there
That's all right says he. you've
I...,,, a-h,r.s IN ar on III ,bts S,sfa for
a year and you're goin' to be here in this
r. La ra,n,,s.
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