Evening star., 1925-04-26

OF course, he didn't have ghost OF
a show at the nominating convention
| we put George Brooks in a-f1ying and
| and If you'd been there you'd hardly
have noticed that Milt Letting was
running. j met him on the sidewalk
the next morning and he laughed
about it, but, You wait!' he said
I'm going to make the whole bunch
| Of you look like mossbacks before I'm
through. I'm starting slow" he said
but when l get really going it'll take
| two men to see me whizz by
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l"ELL, George Brooks made a fine
record during his three years in
! ConSresS-not a SNOWY one but no.
body of intelligence doubted that he
| was going TO stay-at least until we
sent him up higher-and that's why
We got a tolerable sized shock when
we found we had a real fight on our
hands to keep him there.
You see. a good deal of water had
| flowed under the bridge in George s
| time in Congress. ! should say so
| We used to have a nice sized CITY
here, just about right for a fellow to
feel comfortable in and be able to say
he knew practically everybody that
was anybody, and then, before we
actually realized what was happening
we found we were living in a me
1 tropolis where sometimes you would
mt think you knew anybody at all
the place had got so big There
were parts Of ii where you could
hardly hear your own language
| spoken You can hardly blame an
old-timer for feeling as If the country
was going crazy"
! happened to say SO to Milt Letting
one Day meeting him in the lobby of
the Safety Deposit. where l keep my
undersized box. You bet il isl" he
| said, and he laughed as though he
| thought l was right comic old man.
It's going just as crazy as it knows
how; it's running away like a crazy
! bronco and it's going to need some
4 mighty smart people to ride it. The
trouble with you is, you can't keep
your feet in the stirrups and you're
getting uneasy about your seat in
| the saddle. Look out, Uncle Ben
! rs that so,' / said
You bet it's sor' he told me and
he went on laughing right in my face.
Did you notice how much ] gained
on your little pet, George Brooks. la st
| time l came out against him.
on, you gained two or three i
told him. 1T didn't exactly scare US,
though. Miltie," l told him.
No%' he said. Wait till next
| time. Watch me handle this i'm
| proved primary system; I'm going TO
walk right over you. l told you once
! would and the days about due.
| Uncle Benz
Well, most everybody around here
knows the way Milt went into that
| campaign to get the nomination away
| from George Brooks. His '-barrel-of
seeds" speech was mild-it was lust
| nothing at all-compared to what he
| went around promising the people
now. | went to hear him once. and
part OF what he said went about like
! this:
Amt you dead ones ever going to
get wise? Amt you tired yet of hav.
ing pair of creased pants represent
you in Washington? Honest, folks,
l should think you'd rather have a
| good busy cockroach down there for
you, because a cockroach would any.
how do something; at least he'd move
| around sprier, Don't you ever get
! tired of letting that crooked million
aire push ride you? Now. the latest
| thing l hear they're talking about
| is putting up the gas rate, the tele-
| phone rate, and street car fares
They're going to make the people and
the poor man pay all this on top of
! the freight rates and the passenger
fares the railroad crooks are already
charging; and, just to make your life
| pleasanter, the coal profiteers are
raising the price of coal about 81
| a month. And YOU poor fish sit here
and let 'em do it to you,
What are you paying for a beef
steak L mean ii you been lucky
| enough to see a beefsteak since G.
Thomas Brooks went to Washington
to help the packers and profiteers run
the Government. What's the reason
these corporation millionaires tell you
they got to put up the price of every
| thing poor man needs? They say
it's because wages are so high, The
Rockefellers and Astors and G.
Thomas Brookses won't be able to keep
| their pants creased unless they raise
prices on you and lower your wages!
| Somebody might have to get along
with one less gold-liyeried English
butler to peel an orange every Tues
| day for him on the yacht! Amt that
a pity now!
Listen, boys, Send G.. Thommy
] Brooks back to Congress again, and
you'll get the same old deal you've
always had. My CAD. Haven't you
got that into your beans by this time? ?
l came here tonight to tell you what
l stand for If you send me to Wash
| ington to work for you. The million
| aires say the workingman is getting
too much wages. All right, j stand
| for putting those wages higher! The
millionaires say their high prices are
too low. All right, stand for put
| ting them lower! Yes, and then some.
| They want to raise your street car
| fare from nickel to cents; l stand
| for higher pay for the motormen and
conductors, and 3-cent farei Now
answer me: Do you want it?'
He got a roar out of them on that,
and l suppose I was about the only
| person there that thought of the ridic-
ulousness of candidate for the
| nomination to Congress promising TO
| reduce street car fares in city out
side the District of Columbia.
There wasn't any doubt of il; he'd