Arizona state miner., 1922-10-14
HANDS 'EM ALL A BUNCH
Ike's Originality of Expression
Is Only Exceeded by
Good Looks

Wickenburg, Oct. 5.-(Dated day
ahead to be right.) Governor Camp
bell and the other denizens of the
State House spoke here Sunday, and,
as everybody was down to see the
trains go through, they caught the
crowd before it could get away.
Ernest Hall, who has brother that
got his name in the Saturday Evening
Post; r. A Kirk, named after Scotch
church: Mrs. H. A Guild, who was
given some kind of Job by the gov
ernor; Jean Gregg, also holding a job
the governor let her have; Elsie Toles.
braith, who is some kind of general
and looks like something else, and
some other fellow who wouldn't tell
his name were with the governor. All
these people are holding Office and are
trying to hold on to them.
Nothing any of them said amounted
to much except Campbell and Galbraith.
The governor generally is first to get
in front of people, but he held back
here until the last, and it looked like
he didn't aim to speak at all, but he
did.
By the time the governor got up to
talk nearly everybody was asleep, or
wanted to be, they having forgot all
about the debut of Galbraith. But the
governor slapped himself three times
on his chest and everybody jumped up
right quick. Rink Gaberdong was SO
scared by the slaps that he started to
run, and fell over baby carriage. He
laid there until things got quiet.
When the governor began to speak.
everybody was wide awake and listen
ing to beat the band He told US how
lie had helped things by borrowing
money back East when the State got
So far in debt it couldn't buy any more
gas for Tom Maddock's automobiles.
They were some kind of tax participa-
ton bonds. When he said there was
lots of money in the State, Editor
Bushwa Watson gor Mitt Hobbs by the
arm and run down where that busted
bank used to be, and where it amt
now.
By the time he got down to where he
was fixing to get Congress to do what
he told them about moving the Grand
Canyon down to Congress Junction, so
we could have it close by without fall
ing in it, people got drowsy again. and
Dink Grabby was snoring like he thot
he was in the Hog Club.
But the governor woke 'em up same
as if boiler had let off steam sudden.
The wobblies are comingY he
shouted
You'd ought to have seen the way
they jumped and looked. Heck Beas-
ley, who was holding the baby, dropped
it and yelled, and his wife hit him on
the konk with her umberell. Sap Lar
kins twisted his head the way the gov
ernor was pointing, let out one loud
whoop, and beat it for his barn. Bill
Putt had just got awake. and he tipped |
his nose the way the governors hand
was pointing, apd fell over backwards |
square into the lap of Lem Spence's /
wife. Lem got mad and pasted him
one on the ear. and kicked him BY
this time the whole audience was in an
uproar, everybody trying to get away
before everybody else. In four min
utes every man, woman, child, burro,
and dog, except the candidates. was
somewhere else. l know it, because l
was somewhere else. too
But, before this happened, General
Galbraith got into an argument with a
man in the crowd, and don't know
vet which got the best of it; both, l
reckon.
1t all happened about Galbraith talk
ing about the State Land Office. He
ought to have let it alone, anyhow.
We've fixed the land department,
he said, land fixed it good. Anybody
with any brains can get lease on
State land without hiring high
priced lawyer, or ow-priced one. It's
as clear as mud.
This is where the fellow hoped up
and asked:
How long should feller wait for
decisions on his leases, when he asks
for 'em?'
Please repeat that question:" said
Galbraith, 'and speak slow; don't talk
like you're mad. for | amt"