The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-05
Wheeler Hotel
Eutaw, Ala.
Good Service and Up-to-
Date in Every Respect.
JENNINGS FIRST VISIT
71N4Vh4NOo TINIoI VISII
Had Exciting Time on First Visit to
City of Washington

al Jennings, once famous bandit of the
"ts', put who Is now being mentioned
as candidate for governor by his friends
IN Oklahoma, was at tine Eobitt yester-
oay' says the Washington Post
snail never forget my first expert
ehee IN Washington" said Jennings. Il
came here with friend of mine. and we
brought our COW ponies with us. We tried
10 transplant the wild west to the tame
cast but somehow or other It didn't
seem to work out just as we expected.
Aly friend wanted to be appointed as a
United States marshal we couldn't fig
ure out any reason why he should have
IL one day we were talking when we
saw Secretary of the Interior Tioke smith
ride by on fine looking horse
Here's our chance / said. Wen
sneak down to the livery Stable and
hokey-pokey" Hoke's horse When he
gets wild III ride up and rope the horse
ana save his life Naturally be will ask
me what he can do for me, and I'll tell
him to appoint you marshall
THE scheme worked out well for the
first few minutes. HolSe's horse was act
ing wild, all right, ana / was about to
dash up and rope him when a policeman
rar. out and grabbed him by the bride
and auieted him down. Hokc never knew
we We're in town. My friend was not ap-
pointed marshal"
Jennings still wears many scars from
his gun fights In the west, though the one
that is most prominent, that on his up
per and lower lip, was not caused by
any man, but wild horse.
II was riding the range one night" he
said, when l happened to lean over in
the saddle and in some way my spur
gigged' my pony He reared hack and l
was thrown. He kicked me twice I'm the
face before I lost CONSEQUENCES. When
tho boys of the outfit found me all of my
front teeth were gone and my lip was
split clear through. They took me to the
camp, and one of the men, who had quail
fled many times In ewing on buttons,
took a needle that had been used for
mending saddles. a lot of dirty cotton
twine, and sewed my lip up. 1t healed up
in six weeks. A few months ago / was
operated on for appendicitis. When |
saw all the preparations for the preyen-
tion of infection that were being taken
by the doctors ] lay there and wondered
what they would have thought of tho
surgery CD of the old days.
You can talk about your wild and
woolly west, but 1t was never half as bad
as New York city is right at the present
time. The gunmen of the west would no
more think of harming a woman OF
man when he was with a woman than
they would have thought OF flying The
gunmen of New York are men who attack
women, pure and simple. I'd rather trust
my sister in any place In Oklo homa at
any time of the day or night, than l
would on Broadway after 10 O'clock at
night.
MY friends have mentioned me as a
candidate for governor of Oklahoma. If
run for governor, 1t will be on the plat
form that | will fight the vice ring that
now exists. and while my real fighting
days are over l will fight the rotten poll.
tics of my state until they bite the dust
II was taught to fight man to man on
the plains; now it will be fight between
fight on my part and rottcnness on the
part of my enemies"