| Show something that might interest mayor paxton down in marion south carolina a public official who had served his community for six years and with a glory be in his heart he tells of his gladness at defeat as follows A emans lot sang the pirate chasers in the old operatic satire la is but compared to the not a lappy appy one job ot of being mayor of this town the bobbies ot of the song were without a care in the opinion of palmer W johnson just back to private life after six pears as public foot wiper to use his hie own expression his retirement mr johnson announces joyfully was by bi request the folks indicated that they want him as mayor again by voting him down and as editor ot of the marion star the ex mayor promptly shouted editorially editor lally glory be one said mr johnson commenting on ways of his fellow townsmen during the six years in office and employing the plural tense sacred to editors and kings called us a gentleman and was promptly slugged by one who said we were a bum they heaped till nil the troubles i s of 0 the universe upon our weary bald pate and then they lifted all our burdens from us by beatin us at the election glory be here are some ot of the things the ex mayor noted during his six years as the public complaint box ano and toot foot wiper we have settled land disputes family disputes dog disputes and come unfair accounts we have been insulted disgusted spat upon and imposed upon we have locked up culprits for wrong doing and then envied them their placed place ot of limbo we have been blamed tor for stopped sewers bewers blocked streets heavy showers poor telephone service and the present price of cotton we have been cursed for cutting down trees and threatened with death tor for allowing other trees to stand we have been blacklisted for the bum work ot of one policeman and ostracized traci zed tor for the sterling work of another we have been called a liar until we almost believe it we have become widely known as n grand pascal an arch criminal a desperado a policy player and a big doted tool fool we have been accused of 0 attempting to give the presbyterian church title to the town hall mothers accused us ot of overrun over run nin ning g the town with dogs and dog owners blamed us with the deluge ot of babies one bunch wanted hogs in town while another said there were too many any hogs already I 1 they cursed our name when mosquito time came they yelled at us when the ditches ran over after having been tilled filled to capacity by the good lord they blamed us tor for the many peculiarities of 0 their neighbors chickens dog man servant maid servant and mule when the baby had whopping cough it was because we allowed the north wind to blow and when it had colic it was because we allowed dope fiends to exhaust the supply of paregoric at the drug stores |
