Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-07-13
"Chirps'' ~
from the
Democrats Pen

Most everything you near OIL ho"-a-
DAYS is Gin the bag; potatoes, corn
wheat, all kinds of groceries, and, last
but not least" political candidates.
Now, l don't know whether L get
to the bottom of that phrase or not
but. as far as l can translate 1t, 1t
means, Everything is lovely and the
goose hangs high" There used to be
some discussion among Shakesperean
critics as to whether the word hangs
in the above quotation should DE
"honks": but that is immaterlal. Inc
discussions at the Parker House seem
to side with me in the Interpretation
that when a thing is Gin the bag ,
the owner of that bag is "settin' pur-
ty."
So, one day last week, 1 heard 1T
proven beyond a mathematical doubt
that Mr.. Ritchie's defeat was lin the
bag: I didn't catch exactly by what
special Theorem in Calculus 1t was
demonstrated, but it was clearly shown
that Mr.. Richie was "hoist by his
own petard", when he engineered a
law through the legislature which
gave a Second choice" a chance to be
"first choice. Sure as guns iron, the
multiplicity of candidates was going
to put the second choice man Gin the
bag", he was going to be Governor
of Maryland because-well, not be-
ing good at figurin', couldn't follow
the intricate course of reasoning.
After that wonderfully scientific ex-
PLANTATION of how there's nothin' to
it" but somebody else except Richie,
I read the same sort of deadly news
about the present Chief in one OF our
exchanges. 1 don't know whether the
Parker House man and the editor man
had worked out the solution together
or not; but there it was in cold type,
verbatim ct literatim ct seriarin., as
the hotel sage had given it to us in
advance. You could just hear Ritchie's
death knell, and the pealing of the bell
seemed to be coming "out of the bag"
But some how or other, these bags
are faulty in construction. l started
to say they don't hold water, but no.
body expects them to do that. The
bottoms are not strong enough to
stand some of those heavy arguments
thrown into them, and first thing you
know these all-ready-elected candi-
dates swell up so big they bust the
bottom, top, and sides out of their pa
per houses, and then they've got to get
in another bag, maybe.
How, some of these candidates have
shown they were little eager to get
out of the bag and into the band wa
gon! There's a lot of them running
their legs off to get into the Richie
musical contraption, but he has driv-
en- the machine right out to sea, and
some of them don't know whether
they have seat reserved or not.
They'll know when he gets back from
his trip.
But it does lok like he won't have
much trouble getting occupants for all
the room he has in his bus. Mr.. o.
Conor says he'll blow the base drum
for Richie; Mr.. Radcliffe is not "a
verse to beating the big tuba, along
with the other Richie musicioners;
Dudley Roe says he almost blew his
cheeks out for Mr.. Radcliffe, but now
one "R" is as good as another for him,
and he's ready to slam the cymbols in
the Richie go-cart; Mr.. Evans, who
wants to step into Mr.. O'Conor's shoes
says he can bust a trombone to pieces
to the tune of "Ritchie for Governor"
And so it goes. It does look like
Ritchie's nomination is Gin the bag.'
What's more, the paper out of which
this nomination bag is made seems to
be of good fibre, and I don't believe
it's going to be like Jack's-the bot
tom won't fall out, and it will stay
nailed up against the wall.
used up, the manufacturers will be-
gin on the election article-well be-
gin to see who's Gin the bag" then,
and, right here, Pm tellin' you its al
ready "in the bag"-he'll come back
from abroad the next Governor. I'm
sayin' this to save the opposition the
expense Of manufacturing any more
bags. In these times of depression,
people should be as economical as pos
sible. Seem as how the public is 60
in to use only the Richie election bag,
it amt bit O. use to spend money
for any other kind. Come in, fellows,
get in the bag, get in the band wa
gon, get in anywhere, just SOS it's
with Richie.