The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-11
Thin there's Carter Hatch ?"

hin there's Carter Haitch?"
lies frind iy mine," said Mr. Larkin
But somehow other We niver think frnd
Is ht to be prisidint. TIL more ye sec iv man
tn more we think he amt competint FIR amy
office. Besides, haven't we done enough f'r him
He's been mayor fourteen or fifteen times VIVA,
more does he WANT Does he want ivrything
Don't he want to give anay other Dimmycrat a
chanstS Dves he"
Well, said Mr.. Dooiey Larkin, me frind
ye make tn heart in me glad was gettin'
world about tn Dimmycrat psrty was afraid
it was changin' its charackter But see be til
cam, disPass nate way we speak v our mos,
thrusted leaders that it's tn same old lend-me-a.
brick Mike-here-comes hero party that I've
been gon down to gloryous defeat with nearly
IVY time I've poked me nose into barber shop
to vote tr these forty odd years. It's Bows.
reminder we're all Dimmycrats an gintlemen,
Don't lave US fight in tn house Lave us have
it out in tn sthreet It's Who's our sthronees,
possible candydate? Let's all jump on him at
wanst. Five months befure tn con-vintion meets
we've made all tn rnateeryal about Ourselves that
tn Republicans need f'r their campaign. IT'S
not till about week befure tn Fiction that tn
speak kind wurrud fr him befure tn polls
without bein' arristed as an ACCESSORY.
Ben man Nv large property, I've often
thought v CROWN side whiskers an jinin' tn
Republicans. But about Fiction time go back
where belong, an / wud no more think iv not
ben Dmmycrat thin wud iv not goin' to a
fire. Thrue it is that tn Republican party has
cheered UP good deal through tn efforts iv me
frind Tiddy Rosenfelt. It. no longer tn sleepin'
powdher wanst it was. He's tore off most v tn
side whiskers firm TIL party an smashed NANNY
iv tn stovepipe hats But aven a noble sperrit
like that can't make Dimmycrat party out iv
tn Republican party It's diff rent proposition.
We're two dff'rent kinds iv people. Republicans
have always been Republicans an Dimmycrats
Dimnycrats, an they always will be- Thanks Be
f'r that If wasn't so far along in life I'd adopt
an raise pinlmycrat candydate iv me own. l
wuddent lave annywan see him. I'd lock him in
back room an shove his food in through hole
in tn wall. ! wudden't projooce him till TIL con-
vintion met, an thin Id bring him out with a
mask on. Win all TIL other candidates had
been killed off I'd unveil him an tn a-ads wud
say: There's face that has niver been seen in
tn councils w tn party befure. Let's nornrny-
nate him An they wud
1t looks to me- Hinnissy, as though this was
goin' to be campaign iv idjacaton, an me frind
Professor Wilson is tn first scholar to step I'D an
get tn ruddynlints. A pollytickal idacation is
like tn kind got whin was boy in Ireland
1t begins with lickin an ends with lickin, an
there ar-re few coorses iv tn same in between.
Professor Wilson was prisdint Nv Princeton col
lege, dye mind, which is boordin' school in tn
state iv Moo Jarsey where young Prisbyteryens
are taught infant damnation, fut-bal an other
gintlemanly accomplishments, as Hogan says.
Til last | heerd about it Andrew Carnaygie
had give it a lake which is almost as deep as
Andrew Carnaygie himself, an had his name
painted on it.
Well, wan iv TIL jooties " Professor Wilson
was FIR to tache TIL la-ads at Princeton about
pollyticks. He was tn pollytickal shark " this
university, He knew more about pollyticks thin
TIL professor " botany or zoolophony or anuy
other mimber iv TIL faculty. Ivry mornin' he'd
stand at tn dure " tn schoolhouse an ring tn
bell an whin tn happy youngsters gathered ha
wud letcher thin. Childher,' ha s,Id say, 3 til
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