New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-20
Was Series of Fights That Started Doc Akin the Road to Congress
Upstate Representative Who Wants Lots OF Invitations to
Dinner but Never Accepts One, Gives Chief Credit
for His Election to Lemon in Bucket.

reduced 20 three miles. It all lav with me.
BE liberal nv father once told me, and
you'll have no trouble I'm dealing win
men The notice being posted, 7 ordered
John. the constable. 10 neck the first galoot
who broke tie regulations. John stretched
a big rope across the road and brought m
five students from the Rochester Cniver-
sitv who had a great deal more money
than brains They had said An. there" 70
me as they went roaring past ny place.
sitting on the front porch. chewing hay
and looking wise
$50 John brought them into the court
room Ia built adjoining my house. When
they called me Judge laughed - my
self. knowing less about law than
Poiand-Cn'na pig knows about high 500
cietv I'm New York. After fninE The driver
Of tine machine 30 and getting the cash
on the spot. I sent John down the road
again with hls rope. Your honor he said
in departing. business is pretty brisk.
"'Catch en-. replied, and III 90 80
rest
so ! stopped the scorching business.
The money 7 collected is still Boo bank.
waiting for a ruling BY the Attorney Gene
era. of the state. I wasn't after money
learned afterward the farmers We're tlckled
to death. The fool Automobiles who wers
soaring their horses and killing their poui-
try we're promptly getting necked by Doc.
Akin. Also. they laughed about the ki5osh
worked on the New York Central They
remembered. too that I brought the trolley
line 70 time.
by this time old Doc had become an
! fait az the game OF putting the blocks 10
/ insolent corporations People were talking.
/ The Erie Canal is just across the Mohawk
River. It's run principally By misnts and
political derellcts. Walt Riley had a good
+ old mother. She was kind 70 ne when l
was a boy. and Is kind 20 everybody. l
knew that she was poor 81 and crippled.
went 20 John X Stewart, the local boss
in politics. and asked him 90 have Walt
Riley made tender az Yankee Hih lock-
He's been IN state prison. I said, which
+ is no testimonial. I know, but his mother
needs the money Besides. Yankee HlN
+ lock ia as isolated and steady as a peni-
Tertiary
F Stewart read me a lecture 7 wasn't al
WAYS loyal as a party man. The machine
didn't depend on ne. Riley couldn't nave
the iob III I kept along with the boys,
however. some day / might be sent 70 tho
state assembly
I John I said. 7 used 70 go 20 school
with YOU and YOU didn't know any more
than I did We have lived long while
since then. John. ana this year 1 am gong
10 tell YOU where 90 get OF. I'll pick the
Office I want when I want IL. and right
here I notify YOU John. that l have de-
cided this very minute 70 be candidate
+ Tor Congress. Stewart hawnawed- IN
smash your machine, john ] continued
.ts 49,, ,sonle want me to. and " they done
want me 10. I don't care hoct'
Next day started out in an automobile
with a notary public. / got l.o57 names TO
my peut!on within forty-eight hours mora
tban enough 20 make me- candidate. The
/ liberal League and the Democrats Ia
Continued On seventh ~