The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24

''But somehow or other We niver think frind
is fit to be prisidint. TIL more we see iv a man
tn more ye think he amt conpetint FIR amy
office. Besides, haven't we done enough T'r
him? He's been mayor Ia or Is times. What
more does he want !? Does he want ivrything :?
Don't he want to give amy other Dimmycrat
a chanst? Does he"
s'Well," said Mr.. Dooley, "Larkin, me frind,
We make tn heart in me glad. I was gettin'
world about tn Dimmycrat party. I was
afraid it was changin its charackter. But
see be tn ca m, dispass nate way We speak "
our most thrusted leaders that it's tn same
old lend-me-a-brick-Mix e-here comes our
hero party that I've been goin' down to a
glOryOus defeat with nearly ivry time I've
poked me nose into barber shop to vote f'r
these forty odd years. It's Boys, 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 strongest
possible candydate? Let's all jump on him at
wanst.' Five months befure tn con-vintion
meets we've made all tn mateeryal about
ourselves that tn Republicans need f'r their
campaign. IT'S not till about a week befure
tn Election that tn nearest frind iv tn can
dydate we nommynated can speak a kind
wurrud FIR him befure tn polls without bein'
arristed as an ACCESSORY.
"Bein' man iv large property, I've often
thought iv CROWN side whiskers an jinin
tn Republicans. But about Fiction time go
back where belong, an | wud no more think
~ IOI O01u d OlHlIUyCTdL IQ1n WuQ Nv not
goin' to a fire Thrue it is that tn Repub-
hcan party has cheered up a good deal
through tn efforts iv me frind Tiddy Rosen-
felt It's no longer tn sleepin' powdher wanst
it was. He's tore off most iv tn side whiskers
firm tn party an smashed NANNY iv III
stovepipe hats. But aven a noble sperrit
like that can't make Dimmycrat party out
iv tn Republican party. It's a different pro-
position. We're two diff rent kinds iv people.
Republicans have always been Republicans
an Dimmycrats Dimmycrats, an they always
will be. Thanks be FIR that. If | wasn't SO
far along in life I'd adopt an raise Dimrny-
crat candydate iv me own. I wudden't lave
annywan see him. I'd lock him in a back
room an shove his food in through hole in
tn wall. wudden't projoOce him till tn con-
vintion met, an thin I'd bring him out with
a mask on. Whin all tn other candydates
had been killed off I'd unveil him an tn
la-ads wud say: There's a face that has niver
been seen in tn councils iv tn party hefure.
Let's nommynate him. An they wud
ct looks to me, Hinnissy, as though this
was goin' to be a campaign iv idjacation, an
me frind Professor Wilson is tn first scholar
to step up an get tn ruddymints. A polly
tickal idjacation is like tn kind | got whin I
boy in Ireland. It begins with lckin'
an ends with lickin, an there ARE few
coorses " tn same in between. Professor
Wilson was prisidint iv Princeton college
dye mind, which is boordin' school in tn
state iv Moo Jarsey where young Prisbyter-
yens are taught infant damnation, fut-bal,
an other gintlemanly accomplishments, as
Hogan says. TIL last I heerd about it An
dhrew Carnaygie had give it lake which IS
almost as deep as Andrew Carnaygie him
self, an had his name painted on it.
well, wan iv tn jooties iv Professor Viii
son was FIR to tache tn la-ads at Princeton
about polyticks. He was tn pollytickal shark
~ this university He knew more about polly
ticks thin tn professor iv botany or zoolo-
phony or amy other mimber iv tn faculty
schoolhouse an ring tn bell, an whin tn hap
ny youngsters gathered he wud fletcher Thin
'Childher, he wud say, TIL subjick iv this
mornin's fletcher is 9TH IlictiOn iv Prisi-
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