Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

Mr.. Editor:
The election has come, and gone,
and the shores Of time are strewn
with the sad remains Of defeated can
didates. and now we are caring tor
the dead and wounded. In regular
battle Of bullets during the civil war,
20 per cent was considered heavy
loss, but in the battle of ballots Just
passed, fully &c per cent. we're slain,
and nearly all Of them thought they
were dead sure of an election, The
amount Of misplaced confidence was
appalling,
The hopes and aspirations Of about
so candidates in the county have gone
up in smoke, and now we can return
to our respective duties, feeling that OF
all the kinds Of Ticks that ever dio
Tick, Polly Ticks out Ticks them all,
This cyclone of disasters, that like a
besom Of destruction swept over the
land on August lst would not teeI
that it had done its duty without pay
ing its respects, to so distinguished a
figure, as the man from Owl Holler,
and he was made to resolve aever to
run tor Office again, without having a
glass eye put in the back Of his head
to watch the fellow behind.
| knew a man that ran tor office in
Monroe county. He figured out l2OO
votes promised that could be relied
on. When the election came Oft he
got 200. When asked for an expli-
nation, he said there is 1000 Of the
biggest liars in Monroe county thai
ever drew the breath of life" One
old politician told me the more you
tried to explain, the worse you made
it, So will say if it had not been
for The propelling power Of the majors
personality, It might have been wus
1t don't become me to kick. for have
been preaching DO your best anc
keep in a good humor," for all these
years, and now the time has come fol
me to take my own medicine, and ]
you have any sympathy you are no
using, give it TO the other fellow, for
am still doing business at the same
old stand, ready and willing at al
times to do, and say something to help
along my fellow man, and fellow
woman too.
To those who stood by the Perkins
ship, when the storm ragged herces
and kept it from going down; | want tt
thank you Tor the favors rendered, anC
commend your sound judgement, and
hope to live long enough to write
every one Of your obituaries, and give
you a good send of to the Kingdom
Come. Some time before the cam
paign ended, took stock Of the pros
poets ahead, and wished some rict
relative in a distant state wound die
and leave me fortune, so that would
have to quit the canvass. and go to in
herit my portion in due season. Blu
the rich relative didn't perform hi'
part Of the program, and had to 6Gh
it out to finish. never would havt
died satisfied without a Political Re
cord, and now | am supplied-ii'
short, but all wool, and a yard wide
and not punctured by false promises
or any other kind Of rascality Some
say the experience was worth th'
money, but | don't want any more a
the same price, and would like Il
close out at SO cents on the dollar
| have a fine platform left over, bu
am told ! can get my campaign money
back for it, when the legislature meets
| have got to repair my confidence il
my fellow man, but the biggest holt
I've got to repair, is the hole in m,
pocket book, by taking a $1,000 bill
out to get all this derned information
that II didn't'need. Iried to get Jerush,
to ask Providence to lend helping
hand, when times began to look SquaI
Iy, but she said Providence aint &c