Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1916-10-27
ABE VISITS
GOVERNOR NOSE

Blackwell or none of them other
males beauties running against you,
for you know you amt exactly the
: type they'd pick for the hero in
Her College Lober' to play with
this here Mary Pickford."
Understand, Abe" Nose an
swered, you don't known nothing
about thi shere gobernment bust
ness and it makes my head ache
that | should try to explain it to
you"
"When this here legislature met
last year, Abe, tell you | never
seen in my life so much wrangling,
even at buyers week in the cloak and
suit trade, as | saw in this here
capitol And, when it was over,
they brought me a stack OF bills
twelve feet wide, sixteen feet long
and eight feet high
"Bills?' querried Abe. For why
should you pay so many bills
81 amt got no bills to pay the
governor exploded, these here
bills was, understan', laws the leg
islature had passed and that | had
to sign or turn down and | says
to my secretary, Charley says |,
what am | going to do NIT all this
Junk ? and he said he didn't know
and believe me. Abe. if | should
live to be nine hundred years old,
understan', couldn't hope to even
read 'em all, muc HESS under
stand them.
"What did you do said Abe,
make for yourself a fire."
"Not much,' his excellency re-
piled, 81 piled all the ia. ones on
one side of the table and all the
lean ones on the other side ]
signed al 1.-The lean ones and vetoed
all the fat ones"
Just like you, Nose" said Abe,
"but remmeber on your trip to
New York that you never did take
to the fat ones. No WINE, I like
"Shut up, Abe" Nose whispered,
my stenographer might hear you.
But hats what l did with those
bills for there amt no wires and
here amt no strings ON me and
besides | didn't had no time to be
,oing through al THAT stuff with a
dictionary and hiring a lawyer from
Philadelphia to help and explain it
o me-"
Abe reclined in an easy chair in
he governors private car while that
was speaking to small
not of the curious ones who had
altered at a water tank station
, hear his expound his ideas of
overnn1ent.
After a wee kof the campaign
be was disguised. He had heard
es friend Nose tell the people in
ne quarter of the state a certain
ling and he had heard him tell
lie people in another section of
lie commonwealth just the oppo-
tie. He couldn't quite understand
DIV Nose could contradict him
If and get away with it. He
I'd never been able to do it in the
oak and suit business.
Then thers's that livestock asso-
alton Veto" thought Abe, when
help me Rebekah. if he didn't
i the people of Lewiston that he
ould cancel their order for S1O.-
Q because he was short of funds
d ne told the people down in
south part of the state what
lot of dirty CRATER those live
'ck fellows in the northern part
IS. Then he told me yet again
It he was getting even with that
re senator from Lewiston what
not show the proper respect for
n as Governor at all. Nh, | can't
the life of me understan' and
the sucker. expects me to be-
,e all what he should tell me-"
The governor had finished his
fress with the closing words:
emember. ladies and gentlemen.
'ou shouldn't vote for me enough
YOU TO elect me that you can
buy shoes and socks and over
4. You know Nose was good
md OF mine and here he got so
'welled up over being governor
he'd lost his own head. I'M
stan, | got for few strings
. for his own good. understan',
ot for him defeat"
You should not talk about it."
Morris. because uncerstan
1t ever gets to him, and he
I'D might put in a ladies' re,dv