Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-17

helter-skelter out of bag. We went
into the post Office and there, hanging on
the wall, l saw a poster referring to my
self. was described. to my establishment,
as being an orator of unusual power.
The poster made me angry and faint at
the same time
"Well we kept going down and down
and at last came to the banks of Snake
gerous streams in North America. 1t was
booming that day and was filed with
cakes Of snow mixed with ice. Our
driver was boy. My friend and ] sat
in the back seat. Our overcoats were
heavy with rain and our shoes and
trousers were covered with mud. Ply
sically. we were miserable. Mentally, as
j repeated the language Of that circular
TO myself, l was almost scared to death.
1.-The ponies went into the river re-
luctantly. Higher and higher the water
rose until it almost covered their bodies
Then they concluded to turn. to cramp
the wagon. upset it in midstream and
Immediately get back to the land they
had left. Soaked as we were, the driver,
my friend and 1 would have gone to the
bottom like iron. l saw our danger. saw
it in all of it's particulars, but also saw
that circular hanging on the wall of the
post office half way up the mountainside.
Here is an opportunity. I thought,
to esca pc. and to escape, perhaps, hero
ically. Met death while performing his
duty and SO forth, the newspapers
would state. Instinctively. however, l
hurriedly reached forward and took
the lines. There was little one-sided
conversation between the ponies and
myself and they changed their minds
new driver, they understood. was in
command and they were willing to take
his word.
"tJohn,' observed my friend. after we
reached the other side, that was a mar
row escape.
"'Yes, for you and the boy said,
but don't include me in voicing your
thanksgiving
wet to the skin, we drove into Jack
son. Nobody saw US approaching. No
one noticed us after we arrived. We
stood up at a stove in the hotel and
dried our clothing. That night we-my
friend and myself-addressed the cleo
torate My subsequent stamping tours
have always begun in Jackson"
Two years after. in 1915. John Ben
jamin Kendrick was nominated for
Governor of Wyoming and was elected
He at once forgot, after taking the
oath of office, that he was a democrat
Practically all of his associates in the
management of the business of the
state were republicans. They would
meet with him around the council table
and. naturally, disagreements would de-
velop.
very we'll" the governor would say,
I'VE shall put those matters aside until
all of us are of the same opinion"
Thus in the end disagreements disap-
reared. Last year no democrat in Wyo-
ming was a candidate for United States
senator Clarence Don Clark. who had
been in the Senate for more than twen-
ty years and had served two terms in
the House of Representatives, was the
republican candidate.
And so the democrats, going to the
polls on election day. saw "a blank
space on their ticket where a name
should have been printed. They wrote
the name first in their thoughts, an
act repeated by many republicans, and
Kendrick was elected. His plurality
exceeded 5000 votes. Never before had
Wvoming chosen a democrat to sit in
the senate of the United States
Last March. having resigned the gov
ernorship, John b. kendrick. who, thir-
weight years before to the month
and almost to the day. had climbed on
his pony in the high grass and wild
flowers embroidering the Gulf of Mex
ica took a section in a Pullman car
hound for Washington.
copyright. 1917. by james b. Morrow.)