The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-02-10
VERY INTERESTING STORY
Of DR.. THERON AKIN

that's lie. ThlS - a trame-upt pure
rid of my man forY
end simple. and I'll not stand for II
You fellows have got to behave your
selves in this political game
Declares Himself for Congress.
Now, Doc he says L don't want
to have any trouble with you about
this thing And he begins to pat me
on the back and he says. See here,
DOC, don't YOU know that we boys
have Deen thinking of sending you
down to the assembly,
Gee. heckv / says. Go to Al
bany as a member of the legisla ature2
Why. John, when ] get ready to hold
an office 1 Will just go and hold an
office and / won't ask odds OF any
body. ] ten you what John, I'll go
to congress. This congress business
has been nothing but Joke for 30
years Now, sir. I'll go to congress
and / give you fair warning"
"'Wny, Doc, says he YOU couldn't
get peep into the convention
"'I don't want to get into your con-
Vention,' / says. I will get con-
Nention Of my own that will nomi
nate me, and ! won't ask any odds OF
any of your snowshoe methods up in
| this county
well. sir, / went out and in sixty
hours ] got .O5s names signed to my
petition. Thon I went out TO the
farmers and / went over every single
COW path in that district, and by
George, the people stayed by me, My
house was right on the highway and
was usually to be found in the gar
den with an old pair of overalls on,
and 1 didn't care whether there were
patches on the knees and on the
seat. | generally had on an old straw
hat with a burdock leaf stuck in the
ton of it, and when a man came along
it was Hello. Doc and Hello, Bill,
and IL they felt 50 disposed they could
go in and get glass Of milk and
piece of pie and they knew IL was not
for political reasons. and when the
time came they voted for me.
"rhese people had confidence in
my integrity They knew I'd always
paid a hundred cents on the dollar.
aud not only that, but they knew
never lied to people. Now, IL you're
that kind of man, in the long run tho
, people know where to find you. You
/ may be a little sour or grouchy' but
. in The long run folks win say: Wen
by Gee. if the Doc. told YOU 50 1t Is
4 So for the Doc. don't lie to you. He
s may be a little brutal in his conduct
sometimes, but we know where he Is.
"Littauer Is the man who runs thc
Z bunch up In Fulton county lie y
hold caucuses up in the Adirondack
I / country in the dead of winter with
b The snow four or five feet deep; ana
first thing you know there'd be thirty
{ or forty .rOstmasters and such IKE
would nominate some fellow that had
been put up by three or four fello"S
!. mn in the snow. Where did l ever
. get a. chance to vote for a man
would like 10 vote for? No one had
ANYTHING To say but a damned BOSS
That's what / objected to.
Kan IN Against This doc" Cannon.
"Now. when / came down here
ran up against this Joe Cannon ana
the whole bunch. They felt sore be
cause / broke into the organization
The way / did; YOU see didn't come
down regular That's the reason
why the Republicans won't recognize
me down here They wouldn't nave
nut me on single committee II
ronninent Democratic member hadh
satd Treat that man decent aht
? 4hen what did Jim Mann say! 'Pu'
. bim on the educational commlttee
. and seat him next to Caleb Powers
A that's good enough for him.
J., "What do you think of that'
70 consider that was a dirty Insult II
n me as well as to him. Although j
;, NAV not have been in good taste io'
% those people in Kentucky TO have
- sent Caleb Powers down here. ina
II Vas none OF my business. And VIII
e sav thar he has been sen1leina'
o since he has been In the hous'
d ana he knows how to act IKE sen
Ieman and treat other people as gen
l. "Weu. say, when | came dow
/, ,era the beaohcombers UP I'm my ais
IS .rict informed the administration ina
+ was not regular that | had broker
G into the organization and that
+. should not have any patronage-4pna'
n Do Tittauer and Drury and tna'
, lunch But the boys up there knew
maj was out TO trim the whoi'
b lunch down here and gooday mum
e Iber of Independents Repuollcah'
> voted for me.
d .gphe bunch branded me as Dem
{ ocrat and caught Reed Smoot rlsh
,t n. and told him l Wouluhl S'a"V
"a for him nor his pinIheaded complies
n NJ the congressional directory TO WI
4 nlIv and deliberately take the wore
e Renublican out after my name anu
e insert the word Democrat, and l tol'
IS hin, I'd have the words lndependen
IS Republican put in after my name o.
e IA appeal to the house and stop nan
d having his directory printed. There
d ,,yo kinds of a Republican, says
d there's stand-pat and a ProsressNe
l. ana I'm going to have II that way,
e "rhe other day ~ went to MI
IS hitchcock and told him l wanted
l. 10 know at once If 1 was ITO diSpehs'
e the patronage of my district lie sai'
r Il viii take it up with the president q
e once. WIN let you know tomorrow
7 or Saturday a
",No sir told him. wnt Z
n know about it at o'clock tomorrow
d II doesn't make any difference TO m
k whether you get me this patronage o
n mot / shall not stultlfy myseH 10