Evening journal., 1916-05-20
continued from Page enc.

With all the sines a-Dintin mi way,
KANT losel"
I SEE. sez /: Charley them hain't
church bells-them's fire bells. I ser
tenly hope yore boom fer gunner
haint got so hot that hits a-sqfferin'
frum spontanyus komhustyun." He
sez. sez he: "No. them bells hain't
a-ringin fer that. bekaws mi boom
is bilt Of iire-proof mateeiyel an hits
pertekted with an asbestus kerteu and
awtomatick cXtingwishers.'
sez: "But. Charley. wot about Ben
HAIL. of Smernee: Frank Bankroft Of
the Kent April Belt Frank Soper,
hoo plants appils. thinks appils. talks
appils an sells appils; Zeke Hooper,
Of Wilmington. hoo's got his lite
enin rod up in the skies. former
Stait Seniter Blackstone. Of Gorge
town. an Doc O'Day. Of DoveEe al of
then, wants the job of bein the Dim
mykratick kandydate fer guvorner.'
Charley sez. sez he There haint
a logikel kandydate in the hole bunch.
Ben Hazel is long on talk an short on
performins. He KANT be a very
strong man wen Frank Brocksn and
Lee Kummins kin beet him to fraz-
zle in Duk Kirk hunderd on post
Office appintmint w Frank Bankroft
wuz to be nommynated he'd be so
bizzy on his farm that he kudn't take
the time off to make emmy kampane
speeches Put Frank Soper on the
ticket an he'd balk agin' runnin un-
less the platform denounced kerkulio
lambasted brown rot. mathematical
6re bite an damned San Hosay skale
an feeld mice He's an april man.
Wen yu've sed that. yu've sed every
thing Wi. / herd him make a speech
wuns down at Ridgely Harringtuns
april farm near Brdgeville in wich
he sed. speakin' Of packin froot: Put
sum of yore reliiun into yore froot
packidges Sed il rite there in the
presns of a hole lot of reliius fan
aticks. An wot wuz the result2 Part
OF that there Dutch lunchen that
Ridgely Harrington wuz servin' WIZ
In solids an part of hit wuz in So
looshin' Jlst as soon as Frank Soper
sed that, hit shocked them relijus
fellers so bad that they went over to
that tub an begin sprayin' their in
sides with Dutch luncheon solooshen
until they didn't no wether the land
wuz set in appils or pares or wether
hit wuz kows OF kow pees as wuz a.
CROWN between the rows Ef we
kud put a gag in Franks mouth frum
the time he wuz nomynated until the
peles klosed, the party wud still have
10 tie bis hands fer leer he'd yoOs
the def-an-dum alfabet an make sum
bad brake that wud kost us the elek-
shun. Them things bein' troo, / don't
regard Frank Soper as a dangerous
elyment in the situashun."
But" seq I to him, Mary Ann, chat
leeves Zeek Hooper. Senatir Black
stone an Doc O'Day still in the field
lore prosess of oliminashun haint
gone fer enun' He seq Gimme time,
Bill; gimme timel Let's take up Zeek
Kooper's kase. He's sufierin frum a
geograiikol as we'll as a business dis
ability. ~ he wants to be gunner. he
made a mistake in lissenin' to the loor
OF the metropolis an movn' frum
Dover to Wilmington. HITS Kent
kounty's tern to name the man. Jist
pack that down in yore pipe an smoke
hit. An there's anuther thing. Bill,
va shud bare in mind. Charley Miller
the presint guvner. Is pressydnt OF
the Farmers Bank an Zeke KOopers
the kasheer OF that instetooshun WOt
] want TO know is this. Shell Kent
kounty step aside frUm gitten her
rites until they pass this yeer thing
down the line an transfer the Stait
kapitol frum Dover Green to Therd
an Market streets I'm Wilmington? Are
we to have Guvner Miller. Guvner
Hooper an Guvner Rawlstun an then
switch of to the gal klerks? want
10 tell yu rite now Bill that I hain't
willin' that Kent kounty shell be side
tracked so we kin have a bipartisan
sentralizashun OF executive power at
Iherd an Market streets. They're
nict fcllcrs down there. every wun OF
ilco ttt there's "a pint az wich koun-
ty pfCt f ~ inltlinashun TO cit the
JOB fcr r.'er fCmands that n halt be
kgllod Ei lc EN- git away with
this. the feri thing we know they'll
be rngin' In The gal typowriters on us
an then Wen be havin' pettykote gov
ernment I wuz sort of suspishus wen
they put up that nu bank bildin' an
made hit so much like a Stait Hows
IN frunt: but wen that bildin' an my
politikal interests klash the bildin's
got 10 give way to the exigensies OF
the hour wudn't mind maxim n
deel with Geek wereby he kud be
6tait Tresherer bekaws he's one OF
the best bankers I'm the Stait. but
their haint no use OF everything
shoutin' Three cheers fer Wartonl"
ef Geek Hooper is a-goin' to TO git
the job"
sez: "Bui wot about Doc ODay?
He's Kent kounty man" He sez.
Don't know hit? Shore ! do He's
wun OF these yere pay-as-yu- u-enter
kandydates; but ef he puts a publlsity
agent in the feeld a-wurkin' fer him
an a-cuttin up agin' me. therell be
sum INK split in the naberhood OF Do
yer. ITS thisaway. Ef he gifts pub
nslty agent ] CESS he'll have 10 pay
oim ms WAGES in advance. wich may