Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-10-16

l went down to the store the othe1
night,-went down to get hall
pound of tea dust as Malindy was 6
sayin as she was about out. hadn'1
coined no further than down about
by Hram's conn field, which l heal
as the boys was talkin' politics
When | got along by the feed mill
could distinguish the voice of old
Josh Wise way above the din of the
controversy. Ye know, Josh has goi
a peculinier high-str,lng, violin-lik
vocal organism of his own. It's q
sort of Of an automatic self-windin
affair too, that voice Of Josh's, and
when he gets good and we'll started
1t takes more'n a tooth pick in the
geal1n' to stop the motion; and ev-
cry time he clinches an argument and
starts a new one its jest like them
old horsepower threshing machines
when the band cutter would miss a
bundle.
If it hadn't been fer goin' without
tea fer Sunday reckon I'd have re-
velsed my propeller and gone hum
agin, cause l low / never liked to pit
into an argument with nobody, no
how; and | knowed it wouldn't take
long till I'd be drawn into the game
if l didn't stay away.
When l coined in l noticed as sew
eral of the boys had the floor all at
one and the same time and that the
chairman had lost control of the
convention. And if Squire Hawkins
and Zeke Dusty had a monopoly on
the saw-dust box, it didn't bother
Josh Wise much cause there was the
old knot-hole in the floor light back
of the sugar barrel; and Josh is
about the best shot in the town when
it come to that. As fer Deacon
jeremiah Snodgrass, he don't chew
no terbacker no how, any way.
could see as them all was visibly
excited, and DAN had forgot to look
after Zeke's syrup jug under the fau-
Get so when I coined in the sorgum
was arunnin' over out acrost the
floor.
They all seemed to agree on one
thing how some-ever and that was
that this fair kentry of ours was
goin' to the dogs Eastern a Texas
steer bent for lection. But the point
Of disagreement seemed to be which
route it was gonl' and who in thun
der was to blame.
1 didn't say nothin' much at first,
cause | always like to get the drift
of things, afore l butt in. So I jest
sat down near the prune box back OF
the stove and started to strope my
toad-stabber like on my boot leg.
"Jest as swift and terrible as the
Titanic dashed into the iceberg to de-
structior," says the Deacon, strlkin
an awful dramatic attitude, while'his
eyes bulged out like couple of half
ripe tomaters on a frozen tomate1
stalk, "jest so sure our nation is be-
ing hurled to destruction these days
by adventurous political demagogues
The Republican party has been tn
bullyark of our liberties fer fit.
years, and now an insane Office seek
er, who has had favors adj his lif
from that party, is splittin' it il
twain that he might be Presiden
again. Jest watch our country sink
And I have voted the Republican
ticket all my life too-and my moth
er-in-law's brother lost his leg in tn
army agin the Rebellion" says Jere
miah as the tears began to spring il,
to his eyes.
| almost pitied Jeremiah fer tn
poor TELLER is so devoted to the Re
publican party and, l low, is so sin
cere and honest about it that ma
has got to respect his fidelity.
But Josh Wise didn't respect Jert
miah's tears, mo how. He only sni1
fed like and after cleari1S his dec
with another whack at the knot-hol
he resumed his Lead agim. "Tut, tn
Jeremiah" says he, II have voted tt
Republican, ticket more than yt
have" says he. "Fact of the matt
is, your wife told at the Ladies A
last summer, that you went back {
protective tariff principles onct al
voted fer a prohibtionist fer coun
coroner cause he was a relative
years. No sir, boys, I've been a fait
full worker fer the Republican par
always. Onet was sergeant at-arr
. in the leggerslature and even now ]
be travelling as state chicken COZ
inspector if the bill creatin' the off
hadn't been overlooked in the la
session, by gum. But things is &c
ting so derned peculiar now-a-da.
People WON'T stand for NO standpe
ters nohow. And we's got to
progressive if we expect to vii
says he. +, ~.
Land sakes and hoppin horn toa
JoshW put in Dan. Whitaker,
wasn't morein last campaign as
came out in the county papers "
several columns waaulin the PEG