Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-02-26
"POLITICS is 4 ROUGH NIGHTo
PIPES UP COY CORNER STAR
Burning Question Before the Body Concerns the Fate
OF the "lns' and What's to Become of Them
With Richmonds Women Voting
by Hurry Tucker.

by Hurry Tucker.
u was Just a-thinking," ruminatcd
President Charlie Taylor. as he called
INC CoZy Corncrites to order II was
just a-thinkinB. as sat at the win
dow In my drawing room last nigh,
thinking OF the smell OF new mown
hay. and tho tinkling Of tho COW
beiia ms tho miikmaid slowly me
hndercd down the path toward ,bo
springhousc. while the sun crep,
atove the silo and cast It's shadow
over the mushmeion patch wa,
just a-thinking how we were tn
sIcnu thc summer vacation. with this
i"rc street car strike on. and all"
nat the use OF thinking about
INC summer vacation when the snow
am got out OF tho atmosphere yct?"
Buster Brown put In. wait til III.
CLOUDS roll by. Is my mo,ter a roll
ing stone CONT catch no worms. and
carly to bed and early 10 rise, saves
stitch In time"
what's the matter with you all
anyhow" quericd Writ Grarrnm
lien zen reading somebody's potry.
bounds like. And potry always gets
my goat. | am fend on potry, hut
II keeps me up late at night. and
'h'h oForSlccp myself and miss my
regular place in the Senate gallery.
Ruskcli Gets Curious.
"pchkinS about poultry" snid
Cuionei Joe Welsh. 81 am reminded
OF them beautiful lines:
70. for drink OF pure water. o for
ponc OF corn bread
Give posIes To me while live.
can't smell them after I'm
dead"
Well said" agreed Tommy
4th
presses the ideas which would not
othcrwis" cor TO the surface in
prose Sow these lines from tic
pen OF the famous Near East poet.
Slar!nski. whose verses kept the
SiaYs from surrendcrinG 70 the
Guelphs years ago:
lie was up with tho lark. cen com
muncd with The bat;
Ana after the primry. where e'crll he
be at?'
Now" said George Ruskcll. what
] want 10 know is this here: You
refer 70 whom when you rccitc that
verse about after the pri mary? Is
IL any OF my friends In Jefferson
Ward. or does IL mean them from
south Side Of Clay"
He don't refer to none in partlcu-
lar" asserted Roy Speights. They all
como under the general suspicion
fou can, go nowhercs now without
hearing somebody jumping on some
candidate"
Bc-Gnshcd II You Don't.
RiEht-o." the president said. You
are darned II you do. and e-goshed
II you DONE. wouldn't be IN the
boots of them sixty-seven patriots for
nothing Here are business men and
near-huslncss men giving their al
liable time - the city free gratis.
They spend s!ccpicss nights trying to
ngScr out how they Go!ng to find JOBS
for ali the precinct politicians. half Of
whom don't contribute anything to-
ward the support of the government.
md they spend days lodging the les,
OF the people who want smoo,!l paw
OF their houses
And" declared Writ GRAHAM. the
1try fellows what want improve
rcn,s are the first what sue the city
Tor making the improvements and
wan, big damages"
II tel. you" commented Lonnie
Graves. politics is a rough night. and
know. because been awaited"
Johns Worries About Sins"
WHATS going 10 happen TO all the
ms this tl!nc?" Captain Johns
wimmin r!y-are going 70
vote against them because they won't
do anything for the street car stock
holders. most Of them being poor and
!ndi Enant folks with all their funds
invested. and all the workinGincn are
going TO vote against them because
they have been too liberal with the
street cars. and the common herd of
regular citizens haven't decided yet
what TO do"
And" oplned Buster Brown. "I'li
bet two TO one that the ms stay III.
Tor b. the ,i,ne the regular ;.cople
wake up. there's goner be some poll
Heating"
Gents" warned President Taylor.
one OF the rules OF this here club
is being fragrantly violated. We do
not permit political discussions here
hope this rule will be strictly OBJ
served in future"
Spoke Jitnry.
You started 1t, Yourself" de-
clarcd Joe West. Don't none OF IL.
keep up on politics anyway. But
when you said you wouldn't be one
or them siXty-sevcn PATRIOTS you said
jitncy-ioad. l wouldn't be one
neither. for l couldn't stand the gan
when man comes TO me and wants
his pay raised and then goes around
and gets another fellow to vote
against any increase in the revenue.
How YOU going to make both ends
meet?"
Why" said Writ GRAHAM. "ain't
II easy enough to issue bonds? If
they amt enough money in the treas
urer to pay. just issue bonds for
thirty years. and let our ancestors
pay for It."
Election Order Of Prexy.
You don't mean ancestors" cor
rected Fred Putnam. Ancestors is
what was. not what is. Progenitors
is the antithesis of the condition
which you endeavor to place before
u.s."
Well replied Mr.. GRAHAM, "if
20" want TO put il that way, /
don't care, IL our predccessora do