The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-12-13
SHERIFF FAILS TO SATISFY UNCLE BOBS HUNGER FOR
SEAT AT POLITICAL PIE COUNTER.
McKrcher Expresses Regret Over roye Death and Then
Suggests Himself for the Vacancy Is Dazed With
Surprise and Stans-Bg Feller Follows Up His Idea and
Becomes Imperatve-Magie Holds Off and McKercher
Consigns Him to Hot Place-Bob Donaldson Is Slated
for the Deputyship Held By Troyer.

Robert D. McKercher recently made
| serious and determined attempt to
succeed the late Chauncey E. Troyer
as deputy sheriff.
McKercher, it will be remembered,
| not only boasts Of being a Glengarry
Scot, but he sneaked out of the office
of chief of police and, few weeks
later, was forced to resign as secre-
| tary Of the state society for the Pre-
vention Of Cruelty, just one short year
ago.
| McKercher's gross immoralities and
disregard Of human rights caused his
| sudden and permanent elimination
from public office.
McKercher had been in st. Paul at
| about the time the lamented T-oyer
died. The Monday after that sad
event, "Uncle Bob,' as the redlight
| ladies once fondly called him, rang up
sheriff Magic and the two exchanged
| regrets over the demise of the greatest
chief of police that Duluth ever had.
"It's too bad he's gone" said Nc.
Kercher.
eyes, it is so," assented sheriff Ma.
gle.
"How'll I fit into his place9"
queried the big Teller. ....---.. -
"What do you mean?" countered
The sheriff.
~ mean that want the deputyship
and the. position left vacant by Troy
er's death,' said McKercher in his
tirmest Scotch Canadian accents.
"I-I-I- do-o-o-n't hardly know"
stammered sheriff Magic in embarrass-
ment and surprise. "The appointment
does not rest entirely with me, any
way. The county attorney has some
thing to say about it"
ooh, yes, understand that" said
the big feller who made Duluth unsafe
for weak-willed females, "but your
appointment will be sanctioned by the
county attorney without Doubt
"W-e-e-ll, I'll take the matter up
with Greene,' stalled the sheriff of
st. Louis county.
In day or two, Big Bob again called
up sheriff Magic and wanted to know
what he had decided in the matter OF
| giving him Troyer's old place as dep
, uty sheriff.
, Sheriff Magic again stammered con
siderably, being much embarrassed
over McKercher unexpected aspira
!. tions and his persistence in trying tc
attain them. The man who won out
, over Meining in the last election
: wound up his halting remarks with
these words: .
3 "You have not had great deal Of
g experience, you know"
, "No, I've had only eight or nine
years of experience" McKercher shot
q back over the wire.
"1ll see what can do and ther
d take it up with you again." dodgingly
, replied the cornered sheriff.
{ "You know what did for you wher
, you ran for sheriff don't youa" quer
led McKercher.
EYES," replied Mr.. Magic, "bu,
!. hundreds Of others did the same"
Il "You remember how I stepped aside
So as to give you a clear track, don y
!. yous' persisted DR.. Ryan 8 old pro
! tege and night school friend.
~ understood you favored my can
didacy," countered the closely-cor
,, nered county official. He had heard
how McKercher boasted that he
brought about Magie's nomination and
election by generously putting aside
his own ambitions for the benefit OF
his dear friend. Others, Of course
pretty well understood that the expos
ures in the Rip-saw scared the big
buffer out of running for sheriff and
down in his heart, Mr.. Magic may have
held some such notion himself. But he
evidently never expected to have Nc
kercher put in q bill for political serv.
ices and so pressingly ask payment by
appointment to Chauncey E. Troyer &
big and honest shoes.
McKercher evidently felt chill over
that telephone wire. His little eyes
, became mere Sits in that fat head OF
} his and those Caledonian bristles be-
gan to rise on his neck. His blood
, pressure mounted to 100 in the shade
y "Well, ye know what ye can do
! don't ye'' truculently exclaimed Old
/ Daddy in accents that were becoming
} more and more broadly Scotch.
"What can do!" countered Magic
/ "Ye cawn 60 ploomb to hell!" bel
lowed the former municipal bull OF
Duluth.
Both men hung up their telephones
The entent cordiale between the clan
Magic and clan McKercher had
:. snapped, and it is not believed tina,
} even Alexander G.. Mcknight has