The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-08-06
RELIEF OBTAINED,
LEG|SLAT I'VE
BELIEVERS" QUIT

W 40 NJ ON, ~. T., Aug o.
With the appointments OF Pewee w.
Howard and Henry Lincoln Johnson
to Federal Jobs, it doth appear that
the committee on Legislative Relief
is about to be relieved OF its stomach
troubles and the junto OF the Lime
Kiln Club at Pennsylvania Avenue,
may look to the Lord, sing the dox-
ology and be dismissed Since these
two picturesque political worthless, the
Wandering Minstrel OF Mississippi,
and the Overripe Peach OF Georgia,
have secured blllets according them
visible means OF support and are
equipped with regulation nose-bags
we'll filled from the public crib, the
dense smoke-screen OF Legislative
relief may we'll become dsillusion-
ment
Counsellor Howard whose knowl-
edge OF Homer is confined to the
classic number that Babe Ruth
knocked, and whose versatility in
the law includes all OF the revised
reports OF Mississippi police courts,
was secretary protein and treasurer dc
facto OF the self constituted committee
that sought funds OF beguiled and
patriotic colored individuals and or,
CARNATIONS throughout the country.
There is rude awakening due to
these poor, misguided people who
handed over their pound Of flesh,
ostensibly for Legislative relief from
the determinations and reprisals that
surround them, but really to under
write a quadrennial meal tickle, for
pair OF political swashbucklcrs, the
equal of whom would be hard to find
beneath the Jolly Rogers that foated
the Spanish Main in the halcyon and
romantic days OF Captain Kidd. That
the Wandering Minstrel and the
Peach should be legislatively relieved
should be matter OF dual congratula-
tion to them, but to those conhding
men and women who parked their dol
lars in their hands for another cause
what OF thems
Speaking of relief and relieving we
are reminded that it is being currently
rumored that Col johnson IS seeking
harbor in the Garvey movement. We
get this dope right from the stable
boss. who got il from the trainer, who
vas seen III close coniab with the
/ ocke}. II j. being said that the Col
)nel and the Little Corporal are both
a receptive mood for the considera-
| ion oil the President OF the big African
enterprises. Matty Matthews, athlete
and lawyer, already in out OF the wet
under the Garyey tentsseem 10 be the
rneertal "coaie-on and prime, inter
cessionist Tor The Colonel and the Cor
poral. However, Matts was not full.
back for Harvard FOR nothing He
knows a thing or two about side.
stepping Maybe we shall see what
we shall see GarYey may yet escape
There are positive pathos in the
plaintive perigrinations OF Charles
Alpha Cottrill. OF Ohio, who, by al
OF the rules OF the game. should be
entitled to the consideration OF the
administration Cottrill presents q
pathetic figure as he wends his weary
way along the devious highways, by
ways and hedges from Daugherty &c
! Doughnuts. and back again. 'twixi
elation and depression, sometimes III
in the air OF hope and sometimes dowr
| III the slough oil despond. His step i.
not as elastic as was its wont in tht
ides OF March, when he appeared ir
/ Washington as the official receiver Of
the Harding telephone and the dia
phran OF the Daugherty dietaphone il
all matters as those two instruments
pertained to the brethren. His air Of
assurance is gone with the weary days
OF waiting and his cane does Tot click
the hopeful cadences OF old.
Mr. Cottrill aspires TO be Registrar
Of the Treasury but it doth appear
/ that somebody has gummed up the
cards Nevertheless. our hero is
walking and waiting and watching, to
and fro, hither and yon, from hope to
despair, from Daugherty to Dough
nuts, subdued in spirit. but undaunted
in courage, truly Cottrill. OF Ohio. is
the star in the administration sad
political tragedy,
To daub the drab picture with
further gloom, Robert Robusto
Church. the young Lochinvar from out
Of the West after brief fling and
hounce about in the seats OF the
mighty. has folded bis tent and, like
the Arab OF old hied himself back to
the oasis of Memphis. leaving the Re
levers who have and those who
haven't connected with the crib, to
their fate. 1t IS said that the young
Robert is weaker. wiser. and is per-
vaded by a more subdued ambition.
This young Moses smote the rock
but the water was reticefit. Behold
the second act OF the tragedy, because
Bob is of all things sincere He felt
that he had purpose in life and it
seems real shame to DISCOURAGE him.
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