The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17


 is th' sr-rea; campaign IL ain't like annyrhing l iver see before It's so pleasant an homelike Ivrybody cailin each other liars and crooks not like pollytickal inimies. dye mind but like old frinds that has been up late dhrinkin' together No batin' about tn bush. no standin' on amy formalities. but l picked ye out iy the gutter an where's me thanks 1T 'Whin we roomed to- gether ye stole me watch-all fine an manly like tn pollytIckal debates l have to decide on a Saturday night with bung starter Sure 1 wud- den be surprised if they wint step further an yed pick up pa-aper some mornin' an read that Prisidnt Taft and exPrisidint Ros- enfeh had met in front iv Monk kennedy's policy shop an th' polls had heen obliged to pry thim apart but not befure tn prisident had bit In hand that fed him
 It's grand. like 1t. il times pas7 Whin ye voted for prisdent ye didn'f vote fir a man? Ye voted IT s kiH3 iv a statue that ye'd put up in seer own mind on a marble pidistal Ie niyer heerd iv George Washin'tou gon' around tn coun- thry dis,hrthutn five clint see-gars aa' teliu' Heople that Thomas Jef ferson run an Illicit still. No, sir; George Was h father iv his coun- thry an, ike father, he sndom spoke in tn prisince iv tn family onless he was cross with thim.
 Why. Hinnissy. whin l was young fellow an in pollyticks, though l was captain iv me precinct an great power an with a wave iv me hand cud make or onmake tn very polisman on this beat. l niver wGnst see a candydate fr prisident Whn a man had tn impydince to think he was entitled to this here exalted job Th' first thing he did was 10 get out iy me sight, knowin' if I had a chanst 10 see him an hear him talk I'd say 10 mesif: He won't do If that fellsw is fit to be prisident I'll have 10 go to see tn leaders an run Tr pope Afther tn candidate had begged his hat in th' ring, which he done in those days be writin' a let ter sayin' that while he wud not engage in amy vulgar scramble f'r tn most exalted job in tn wurruld an wud much prefer tn quiet iv private life at half tn pay, he wud consint to be candydate on'y if tn convinton felt that he wud best car ry out h. principl,s iv Washin'ton CT Jefferson, he tucked Tfther that th' neighbors on'y see him occasion ally sittin al tn window with smile on his lips an a frown on
 
 iv his Prince Albert an tn other holdin' a copy iv tn declaration of independence. Wanst month whin his inimies spread tn report that he was dead comity wint to see him an he come out on tn front porch an read piece out iv tn Fourth Reader.
 As fr a prisidlne that wanted to be ilicted again minglin' with tn high pulleye, as Hogan calls his frinds, wuden't know what to think about it He stuck in the White House an pretinded that he didn't know whether iliction day was in July or April Amy in- formation he got about tn way tn money was comin' in at headquarters he got firm pollytickal managers two called on him in false whiskers, got into tn White House be tn back way, an consulted with him behind th' furnace in tn cellar. He left his part iy tn talkin' to th' candydate fir yice-prisident, who wint around tn counthry pleadin' with th masses an stoppin' their brick bats with his head To few con- fidintlal frinds he spoke iy his opponents private life as without stain, an whin he felt in his jooty