The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-03-26
CLAIMS AND COUNTER CLAIMS
OF THE JOB CLUBS
Being Chronicle of the DOings at
the Last Forensic Session, TOgeth-
or With Declarations of Hopes.

or with Declarations oil Hopes
In response to the call of the
muchly disputed chairman of the
2. o. D. game of pie about a dozen
of the chief fire-eaters OF that clan
political fOregathered at the Citizen
wigwam last Saturday afternoon
not to smoke the pipe Of peace,
Bones Of contention were thicker
: than chiggers in. a Texas berry
patch.
The Hon. Floyd C. Field opened
the junta with many approprite
remarks concerning his fitness for
the position of county chairman,
and also delivered a few untelling
blows anent his master qualifica-
tiOns for a land office job with
5000 salary attached. Naturally,
this acted as a red rag in the face
of the maddening crowd; for be it
known that there is no such animal
i'll this part of the wild and woody,
as a republican or republieauess who
IS not duly and supremely qualified
TO lovingly cherish a $1,000 plum. At
length did the Hon Floyd eXtoll his
manifold virtues and recount his
Herculean efforts in the vain en-
deavor to throw The unanimously
hungry off his trail. Vain hope. It
could not be donel
Don Eufracio led off for his in
law in whose favor there is admit
tedly not much To be said, and wax
cd eloquent over the boy and denun-
ciatery of the preceding Moses who
claimed tO have led the host from
the wilderness When the Don is
there ne is altogether there and in
his peroraliDn, with blue-hcat
Flames flashing from his darksome
eyes and fiery words pouring from
his eloquent tongue, he demanded
the get-0ut, the come -frOm-Otf, the
quit and the abscOnd of the forget
ful, wholly upforgetable and ridicu-
lously incompetent Hon. Floyd G..
Mr. Field fidgeted, and hummed
and hawed, and then looked at his
feet And then the Hon. Henry II
Errctt shook his mane and catapult-
ed his eloquence into the fray
wholly in The interest OF himself
Mr. Errett proceeded toteil things
Ia put everybody wise Warming
to himself he enumerated the many
I trials and tribulaLions he had glad
ly borne in the cause, and on the
tcail of a $1,000 job He admitted
tthat the job was his his by right
NEAliscovery and cOnquest-fOr had
Ire not dilapidated perfectly good
buzz wagon, scattered tire-rubber
q, g la.
the length and breadth of the baili-
wick, burned gasoline in untold
measures, and expended energy and
.eloquence in staggering gObs that
proved the acoustic 1nadequacy of
every schoolhOuse in the cOunty??|
And then to think That wizenedI
old incOmpentent, raised TO the pO-
litical pinnacle of the county chair
manship through his favor and be-
neVOlenGe, had the hardihOod 70
stand between him and earned re-
ward. II was disgusting; it made
him sick. also tired and he forth
with and instanteE demanded the
derrick and the fade-frOm-View of
the Hon Floyd c.
Mr. Field refused to fade A new
champion appeared Mr., Jim Mays
began TO WELD the hammer and lei
il be known that because of past
events and possible future c0mph-
cations he was out Of the running.
and he did then and there transfer
as allegiance and formidable in
fluence to the preceding Moses. MIR
Mays didn't cut any considerable
figure, but ne voiciferously de-
manded the curtain and the out-of-
the-way for the Hon. Floyd c.
The Hon Floyd stuck; and chal-
lenged the pack to do its worst His
defense was one magnificent effort
and, by all rules of forensic should
have sienced, crushed and oblilera-
ted his traducers. But those jobs
DemOslhenes, Cicero. Pitt Patrick
Henry and Webster all rolled into
one could not have talked that
crowd out of its thirst for $4,000
sinecures. They wanted his number
and proceeded to get il.
Rumpily they voted and the count
showed eight TO four in favor of
the jobs for the eight, and the gate
for the Hon. Floyd C.. and the three.
The Hon Floyd defied, and he and
the faithful three declared them
selves THE PARTY, and failed to
bulge. We should say not when 3
badge is likely to cost job. The
Hon Henry and the protesting seven
resolved themselves into a commit.
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