Show EALING INTO CoN GuEss AS the fall all campa campaign iipp is is near at hand and pro fess ess ional politicians are again about to resume esome their corrupt and corrupting I 1 work the linsa ii to keep themselves in in ani and the oats to supplant them we want to do our part in discouraging the repetition i on of this scourge of former years we know not how better to effect this than by reviving re vivin g a sto story ry which wit was a current many years ap ago by way of an a apt pt though somewhat ludicrous illustration tra tion which runs thus said a visitor at the national capitol to an acquaintance whom he found very much to his surprise occupying a seat in in congress from a distant state to which he had hadi migrated long before from the questioners own district how in the world did you manage to get here oh it was easy enough to manage trat iad unfit as I 1 wu was for the station 1 I sable a pig stole a pig how on earth could that hat help yow you to an election Is stealing in a qualification for congress out your way by no means was the reply but I 1 in made ade an available lever of it whereupon oni I 1 was swung into my seat as one of the here howl how why you must know tha tha 1 stole aiole the pig from frona a political opponent accused me of the act which he was by no m means eans slow to do illais praised ed the cry of I 1 political persecution tl and aad got elected by dint of sympathy for me as a martyr to my principles ha ha at the next congressional election the pig stealer was defeated ite Hs tried to float in upon the current of a false sympathy a second time but he failed his competitor had stolen a sheep during his h is diett absence at washington and thus us beat him at his bis own game |