Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-05-22
POLITICAL joke ON
H. ST. GEO. TUCKER
Danced Himself Into Congress
Is the Story
OLD FLUvANNA WAS WITNESS
A Vision in White Gyrated Through
Many Intiicacies

times appeared In a recent ISSUE Oh
the Richmond Times Dispatch, from
the pen of Charles L. Mosby OF Bed
ford City:
OF course he will question this at
first glance, and you cannot well
blame him, but he is honest and |
will, upon further reading, acknowl- |
edge the fact; be not only did that
and remained several terms, but be
aspired TO be the Governor OF the
State OF Virginia last time, and sue
ceeded in convincing the most skep-
tical that he was in the running all
the way up the back stretch, and
some of his friends still believe
however, that is another story.
In the nineties, W hen no one could
re found to deliver the old Tenth
District and make her stay deliv-
cred, as she is today, too safe to the
Democracy to be questioned, this
candidate was, as was the habit and
now is, canvassing all the by-ways,
cross roads and scraping every
nook and corner to bring just
enough OF the stay-aways TO vote to
put him across, he had rested
on the right bank OF the noble Jeems
TO get dinner and a refreshing nap,
and towards the shank Of a sultry
summer afternoon, after having
wrung the promise from every voter
at Bremo Bluffs, through the me-
uium of a handshake, he crossed
over the river for nuch-needed
rest, under the shade of the locusts
at the McKenna Hotel, TO be lulled
into a sweet repose to the music Of
the Southern breezes and the rip.
D ping cadence OF the river, when the
unterrified heard of his presence
=, and got together. The Right Hon
| orable John T. was the kingpin Il
a the Buckingham wagon, and RICH
: badly was this wagon needed, be
c cause of the closeness OF the dis
r trict and the uncertainty OF the few
that usually told you so, and a
usually stayed away from the voting
t precincts unlsss just such a man a.
the Aforesaid climbed into the sad
IF die and cracked his whip, and the
J. something always happened. bu
"a with no discredit 70 the late job
n T., for The was al! a man any wa
~ you took him; the boys just natul
J. ally liked to please him. and Their
ct was one way to do that in a Coz
g. gressional campaign. Well, on
candidate had gotten into the bea'
s. tiful land of forgetfulness Of the tn
Il MOL and strife of this and all can
ne paigns before the boys knew OF h
ce being in forty miles of the good o.
We county, and twas after 10 o'clo'
We before the Right Honorable Jof
nv T.. 8 right bower got the word. an
, a worse luck yet, the Right Honorat
mo- was absent in Richmond on We
an particular business, but for t
lat glory OF the cause and the coun
representative something had to
MT done. In the emergency, ia
nv Guerrant, the r. H. J. T.. conhde
no tial bookkeeper, salesman, tin
,ed keeper and store clerk all roll
re into one, veritable Pooh Bah OF
as: hamlet of New Canton, lined up
,ok town band, consisting of ban
wo mouthharp, jewsharp and triang
ich besides which the assortment
of John Phillippe's aggregation pa
yer into utter insigni6cance in the
re-. and mind of the native. and storm
md the hotel with "Snowbird on
sb Ashbank." and there's more to
BILE to the unterrifed of the north en-
lille Buckingham than any select
and Madame Sherry has for the m
and night providers OF the BroadV
yer cafes or la GOlondrina" for La
FIVE America. and that's putting strt
,kle valuation on it. you may be 81
ker The band had started the sec
and verse, when a vision, all in W.T.
AL and with naked feet, appeared
,ird the verauda gyrated through the
pful tricacies OF buck and wing, n
mix 'possum la, with few side ST
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