Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-15
REV. SAM IS
GOOD JOKER
Jump Into the Life Net"
He Says to the Demo
Gratis" But When the
Democrats Jump the Net
Is Pulled Away.
AND THAT'S WHERE
THE JOKE OCCURS

Did YOU ever hear Of Casey-that
is. of Casey Of Kalamazoo? Did you
ever hear Of the joke PLAYED on him
by the firemen of that town?
Casey was a fireman himself. and
the joke happened on this wise:
one day Casey's department was
called out to fight a fire in a big
ten story building. Casey mounted
To the roof and there he was cornered
by the flames.
Jump. Casey" his friends below
yelled We're holdin a life net for
you"
Well. Casey jumped. but there was
no net. And that's where the Joke
came in.
This justly celebrated joke has
never been duplicated but once. and
in the Kalamazoo renaissance the
part Of Casey is played by the demo-
cratic party Of this county. And the
man who coaxed it To jump into the
life net-the life net that wasn't
there's the Rev. Sam W. Small, Of
Atlanta. Georgia. Waterloo, Iowa, and
Phoenix. Arizona. incidentally, the
life net" is the Rev. Smalrs toy
newspaper. the sun.
When the Rev. Sam came here
about six months ago he got cor
dial reception The democrats needed
a real newspaper badly-or at least
they thought they did. which amount
ed to the same thing. Here's your
life net" said Sam-"here is a paper
that will be run on principle. Am
not a preacher and prohibition
list? Am I not likewise a democrat?
And have I not more real newspaper
ability than all the rest Of the Phoe-
nix crowd put together? Yea, verify
I have. and then some. So, come ln'
the waters fine"
Well. they came in. in considerable
numbers. Not enough to hurt' oI
course. but there were some hundreds
of subscribers. And just about that
time the devoted democrats found
the life net wasn't there.
Sam and his little newspaper had
announced frequently that they were
first last and all the time, for the
democracy Of the pure and undeilIeu
brand They were for the people
with the biggest p in the alphabet-
They wouldn't pick out any man Tor
office no Stree, not before the prl-
uaries. II was a fair fight, ana no
favor and may the best man WIN
Tho democrats-at least some oil
tbem-soemed To rely on that. Very
many people- never took Sam serious
" but naturally some of them dld.
| But. ennyhow. as they say IN no
boken, just when the party cdiiu'
dates made a dive for the sun, sam
uel dexterously pulled it aside ana
good many of the said candluaIes
landed on the hard, hard ground. II
ie NOT certain vet just what candl-
dates did get into the net. Ihere -
no certainty about any but one ana
that is Louis Melczer, candidate lor
CORPORATION commissioner
Mr. NeIczer is a resident OF Phoe-
nix He is engaged in the wholeSaie
liouor business. He has been receIN
ing the cordial editorial support OF
tho Phoenix Sun, OF which the ReV.
sam w. Small is editor. That Is
where one Of the jokes comes IN.
Also Mr.. Isidor Wolpe. another
,ic,,or dealer. now holds an offlclal
nosition with the Sun. Mr.. Wolpe Is
rar, owner of that newspaper.
AIso and again. Mr. Small, preach-
or and prohibitionist. is still editor
Of the sun. Moreover, he says II Is
nobodv's business who owns the pa
per. -. oho,+ that
it is nobody's business. But Wiie"
he mills off so stupendous a joke ne
can hardly object if the communi'!
indulges in a grin or two.
II was way long last winter that
Mr. Small wrote to a man in PhoehiN
and asked if Arizona was IkeN "
become a prohibition state. II 'here
90. euch a prospect, he said, ne
lwould probably locate here
Well. the gentleman from Atlanta i
and waterloo arrived. He celeorateu
his arrival by a strong Temperance
speech in the First NJ. T. chuIo"'
Then he delivered temperance ora
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