Show Politics and Heredity I I IBy By Bugs Baer Copyright l b by y cr l Universal nl Service Ser San Francisco June Juno 22 With With tho the nimble politicians leaping h. from rom convention con conven I tion lion to convention con lik like one red ant try try- In lug ing to anno annoy two picnics with trY trY-I the American eagle screaming with otic otle colic coHe and with the candidates tryIng try- try In lag Ing to look dignified and honest at the same amo time time the the average a citizen la Is something something some some- thing thins like a Swedish herring shepherd trying to read a Chinese laundry ticket Ho lie doesn't know what its it's all alt about v e ejr jr He Ire cnut cant rend it ft nd And It If he could II wouldn't do him hint nn any ziny good 4 w- w The Tho Latin inscription on a drug druS' store storo bottle bottlo orchard are cas easy In comparison wIth politics When IThon wo we refer to tho the average citizen we moan mean the usual boro who ho shaves six times a week and lets his whiskers grow on SLinda Sunday so soho soho ho wont won't have to take tako his wife out walking s C CHe He is tho the gent who elects our Presidents dents to 10 four tour stout years ears of or House cooking He Is the thc cuckoo who keeps this glorious tax spangled land flat wheeling wheeling- along lives from hand to mouth and gets most of or It in his cst pays pas his rent when he has It It and antI whose idea of oC heaven Is Js being the wheel heel horse on Pikes Pike's p peak ak C I The only thing thins ho he about au automobiles au- au is that some somo are easier casler to dodge than others Ills His idea of rou rough rough- h- h fined moving pictures Is whoa when Charles Chaplin discards tho the brutal brutal custard pie plo I for the more delicate charlotte russe I S d dot does a a Ilk like that grab hi Iii politic Prom Front the slush Iuli funds 11 lie does doe not It 4 He Inherits em ern like lIko the warts on his I neck His old mans man's politics are cut cutI down to 10 fit him like his g I trousers If H ho Is born In Georgia heIs heis he Is n a Democrat unless he happens to bo lie boa bea a I Lowden delegate delegato If It he Is hatched In Philadelphia ho he is a n Republican If he first sees tho the light of or dalI daylight hl savin say sav log in p In Nebraska he Is born horn with a free silver spoon In Iii his mouth to 4 S A man ma may be lie a n. Democrat without extenuating circumstances or he mo may maybe maybo bo be an hl addicted Republican But ho he does not know why Ask Asle a 3 aman aman man why he voted for tor and ho he cant can't tell you ou Ask him why he ho voted for Bryan and he will be he ashamed to C A ss of or opinion among our leading students of ot human nature In Indicates In In- that no man knows wh why ho has huts political faith 41 v This excludes the lie progressive e who IsI is isa isa a political atheist I ti 1 Osborne U U. S. S A. A A.- A. J A. I was born In Gallatin and anti either Ihor had to be a Democrat Democrat Democrat Dem Dem- of ot leave home homeS Iw I f I am for Cor Republicanism Republic and law and order order- Two Teo of ot cm em emare are superfluous but hut we need the law to trl frighten the children Nick Nicky t I J I I arn am a Democrat They print nice J. J Liberty erty bonds Tom Torn McNamara l I cant can't vote It aJa always al- al a ways makes makeI mo inc laugh h Wild I I am a against egg shaped d wheels on Fords l Charley Chancy P l 1 1 favor peaks for tor lIeu hell boys boy's caps Hill Bill Lyons Ions LozIs Ton n years ago ISO If It a Co man mC offered in mu mo a t drink 1 I would have thrown It In his face Now ow I J throw It ItIn ItIn itin In m my own face I |