The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-06-24
somewhere-in-Cecil County.

tur me and my friend Bill hev bin
towerrin the county. Pears like /
am jest SO interested in this here
primary eleckshun that 1 kant do
nothin but talk pollyticks l hev
bin down in the fust and secund
deestricks' and all up round in the
ninth deestrick, and even away over
in the eighth deestrick. l bin talkin
a lot to everybody that he'd time to
talk, but I find Their is an offul lot
of contrary peepul this year.
The day we was down to Elkton
them Their offus holders was al so
bizzy maxim out bills fer the tax
payers to pay that they didn't hev
time to do no talkin. When it
comes to maxim out bills every one of
them Their offus holders is rite on
the job. That is one part of the
job they hev learned, ana bekum
most persistent in.
The fust man / stopped in to see
was Rufe Rowland, jest to talk
little pollyticks with him and see
how he was a gettin along with the
widders and orphuns, and a regis
term of wills, but by grab, him and
tibet Their gal clerk was so durn
bizzy maxim out bill fur books tibet
run way up to about four hundred
and thirty dollars tibet he didn't
even hev time to say how-dy-do.
Thets the fust time 1 ever new
books fer registerin wills cost so
durn mulch. But Their it was in
black and white, and in course l
new it was rite If Rufe sed so. When
we kim out Bill, the old fule, he'd
the nurve to say he rekoned the tax
payers would hev lot of campaign
litteratur and postage to pay. He
sed as how he alters thot the regis
ter of wills offus was self supportin,
but he sposed in this here time of
the high cost of pollytishuns, the
taxpayers would hev to foot the
bills. l reckon as how, Rufe is
buying of them Their books fer his
successor, KNOWN as how a lot of
them greenhorns wouldn't no what
kind of books to by, if they did get
elekted. oh, tel you, Rufe is
far sighted man.
From Rufe's Offus we went on in
to the County Comishuner's offus,
but nobody in Their he'd time to talk.
Their was that Their gal clerk and
that young Teller, bizzy each one
DRAWN salary fur doin of the same
work. Each one afeard they would
git fired and the other one git the
job. Their was George Benson, jest
lookin as happy as fly in a gallon
of merlasses, hopin and a prayin
tibet the taxpayers would keep him
in his job fur anuther two years.
Bill says as how George hes caught
tibet ther county-offus bugitis, too.
He seq as how if man ever gifts
yer wants to git out.
Their set the three comishuners,
Bill and Urv and RUDE, each one so
bizzy a writin and a figgerin that
he didn't Gwen hev time to look at
us. l tried to see what they was
dom, but l couldn't find out. When
we KUN out Bill sed he rekoned as
how they must hev bin a maxim out
Their gasoline bills, and tibet jest set
me to ruminatin and l reckleckted
as how the old time comishuners
used to drive boss and buggy
around, and / recomember as how
one Teller wore out good boss jest
drivin tendin to the roads, and I'll
bet he didn't hev wit enuff to charge
that boss up to the county fer the
taxpayers to pay. Bill SEE as how
he would like to no when it bekum
law fur the comishuners to charge
up gasoline to the county, but as l
didn't no nothin about it l didn't try
to answer him, but l jest made up
my mind tibet when l got home 1
would plant couple acres more of
pertaters, and git reddy fer extra
taxes.
Up on high stool in one corner
set little old unkle Phil Groves.
When looked at unlike Phil jest
wondered to myself what the peepul
meant by talkin about turnin him
out of offus in his old age. In cours
unkle Phil is Republican and am
Dimycrat, but Their amt nuthin
rite about turnin tibet little old man
out. Insted they OF to give him
CURL clerk TO help him with his
work. axed Bill how long unkle
Phil he'd bin on the job Their, but
Bill sed the oldest inhabitant of
Elkton couldn't recomember when
unkle Phil fust went in offus.
I'll tell you somethin more about
my towerin of the county next week
if I get time.
.lxy