The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-07-29


How is our very weakly these
days.
Inat was q never-falling banter or
the county boss. The farmer mem
bers were apt 70 smile deprecatingly
anu the editor kept his temper -
wondered how the big bodied country
men could tolerate the boss grin
he always was so sure OF himself
and them. old Thad felt good this
morning-he had got his contracts
for the creek diversion and road cul.
vert about which the News had been
peppering the board. Only Burt Hem
mlnger, Il pale-eyed. yellow-bearded
farmer, had protested the mumbled
something about the News charges
that tie Tanner quarries were the
chief beneaciaries OF the work. BOYD.
ston and Curry, the road committee,
and Tanner men, had put through
the contracts without comment-it
was the usual program. So now the
quarry boss thought he could badger
the defeated News complacently.
The honorable board has just
voted for the creek work. Mr.. Editor!
You might make a note OF IT, But ]
suppose the News will be 100 filed
this week with politics We hear
you're coming out against Jim Hall|
The county men were looking at
/ Curran. Judge Van Hart and the dis
trict attorney. Jewett. u potbellied
nonentity, were coming from the
court room Tanner spoke purposely
loud; he wanted 10 smoke out this
joke OF the editors aspirations.
Il am going in the primary, said
Curran quietly The group stopped
curiously Cal Rice, ever taking his
cue from the boss, laughed Jewett
rubbed his bald head. The News was
his aversion. Wiley had bounded
him as a prosecutor who never began
action against any one except bootleg
gers, drunk section-hands and any
sort OF homeless men. Jewett was
noted as q famous barbecue COOK, and
at Old liome Week festivals, Old Set
tiers picnlcs and the like, white
aproned, genial good -humored, he
presided During campaigns he gave
bullhead breakfasts in the woods,
where county politicians. prominent
lodge members, Influential farmers
any one who was any one--congregat
ed and through night or rough con-
ing, songs and speeches-Jewett woL
his election. Church folk and wives
complained OF these orgies, but Jewett
offered his cookery and his jokes with
equal facility TO the church festivals
and quieted the talk. Curran never
attended these bulhead feasts-they
dlsgusted the esthetes taste In him,
and besides, with the unsureness OF
l. 10, 4.
face the Lanter OF the county crowd
at its widest
Old Thad waddled nearer to tap
Curran on the arm. Young man, con-
gress is d stable pill for you. amt IL?
And don't you know there amt any
man gone to Washington in this dis
trict In twenty years unless he come
see me about it,
The country politicians laughed
briefly Wiley watched them keenly.
II didn't know as the nomination was
yours TO give out, Mr. Tanner. Ana
you know you can't fool all the peo-
pie all the time
The boss closed one pursy eye,
grinning Young man. that's never
necessary"
The farmer folk guffawed. Jewett
rubbed his stomach. Judge Van Hart.
his fine face oblivious to all this. went
on his way And Wiley, feeling some
how, that he had lost an opening
round in his inability-to retort to the
boss, crossed the Square TO his Office.
He was furious with himself He had
planned to keep the announcement or
his campaign until he could see some
Of the men who would be with him
Purcell and Mcbride, Of Earville,
Jake Vance and Orme and some
Of the scattered malcontents I'm other
counties OF the district But here the
boss had made a fool OF him before
his own people al the very start
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