Show O lD V T T Laments Lam n s the Mistakes of Ezras tl J A Administration By Joel Joe L L Priest 1 I I T LOOKS to me like 66 Ez is goin to get I split away awn from rom this here mayoralty said the Old Sport setting the glass down on the counter t and wiping ping his mus mue mustache tache tach e hI I dont don t like the looks of o t things I none too well no not nol by a dern derv sight Johnny WAS wS w s down atthe at the o other ther end of the bar but he came up to the cheese and antI cracker box where whore the Old Sport was standing Gettin cold feet Sport he Inquired solicitously SOll No Io not cold feet was the theo o yi v o I THE BONO QUESTION QuE TON 1000 I 5 tiKE t KE E To EZ e z reply only a case of oC foresightedness T r reckon I can see as far tar through the bottom bot bottom bottom tom of or a glass as the next man an It dawns on me here lately that Ez E z Is up against it Its the amongst I other things gain to don doan our Ezra Now you can say what you ou please Johnny my son but a googoo knows a four tour flush just like other pore I benighted humans Ez has been four with n ith em ens an next Its this way wa I dont like to call up no unpleasant recollections but you doubtless remember the fatal day da last sprint spring when Ez Es coppers the Commercial street play The looks on an an throws up their mitts Gee whiz they says or Deary Decry me they says what a hand that feller reller has got They dont dare to raise him none Just chips along al an his IS play plays Well e s ell el everybody d draws d S but Ez Es E dont better He squeezes the cards close up to his weskit and looks a un unabridged abridged dictionary The game goes on with the their hands modest like an to push up a aEi check y u n hard though thour h whilst Ez Ei Is makin kl his 1 bluff IU rn an tf finally g fi some months after this play pIa opens a timid lad concludes to call Will WIIl you please close up the saloons on n Sunday sir he says sas like that Wont you be kind enough he says to play pia out the string he says or words to that effect Ez is caught with the goods fair an square He aint bettered an every everybody body bod at the table seen it He hums an anho he ho haws he an he clears his but the lad that calls Is some about seem his hand The T pots yours yourn says Ez final tos t s f sin gl his hand in the discard r Take the coin he says An the way I gers out the play pia If It Ez hall hail gone ahead an closed the saloons th would have been for tor life But he never done It an so 50 hes lost em Like Likewise Likewise wise hes lost the business men en of or Sep Separation Separation avenue with the possible exception exception exception tion of or yours truly trul Sport Four John dont win no votes otes no moren It wins blue stacks Theres another thing John GOm goin ta to t cut a pos figger when the cards is dealt an anthe the chairs pulled up to the table this fall Its It this here water question The Tha name dont set Sit none Booe too well on my palate but ut theres people that thinks a lot of it Its another case of oC four on the part of my dear old olti ol I friend Ezry t Some months agone acone as aa Algernon says 87 to Evangeline when he begins gins the story of oC his life Ute with the fides fiddles low there was as 4 g terrible row kicked up on the tha I water question que KE ifs gave it out cold that the Democrats had ruined the water Vat r sup supply supPlY supply ply which bleb If they did its to their credit for tor water drinkin is a acquired taste tame an he says II Be Ez does that if tf the vete vote bonds to the amount of two hun hundred hundred I dred an a half If him an the council II fix everything e up proper I thinks hole card is a abig abig abig big aee as shore They falls faUB over each other otner to vote them bonds in EC Ez collects the coin as an then proceeds to throw it from him Say John he flings it around like Uke a drunken cowpuncher at a fan fandango fandango fandango dango Its a avalanche of coin that de descends der descends on all the country u round Ex Experiments Experiments r is conducted ct at Utah ta lake pipe pipelines pipelines lines Unes is built to carry cart the great increase in water an first thing you knows the thelast thelast thelast last blue stacks played In an where are we at We got Jot about as much mach to show as the feller that splits his bis case ten on the six seven hl straight t ghio up p an tco coppered er an gets I whipsawed a You dont d see me no tears over it it Johnny Johnm These old lamps aint leakin over trivial inconsequential Inconsequential inconsequential I things but theres them that does care my son an ln to let Ez Es know about It some sudden They The tell me were ere a marker at Uncle John bank make a roll roU too big for a goat to jump over Its the same way wa down at Frank place and the These holy hOI markers high card only knows where where else These Th markers is all interest a artist can draw pigs nn en n some people is dern sore over it itts Itt ts a yellow el boy against t a plugged penny that t ta Ez Es hears from o em before eg the hands I is thrown into the discard Look at the street an the ln water a They y tell me George g A ASmith ASmith k Smith trl the boy that t nominates n It Ez Es two years ago lost three shade trees tree tr over in inthe Inthe inthe the Third ward because he had no water to irrigate em with George Geor e aint kickin none about the drinkin water He knows knoS water IB is only fitten n to Irrigate with an why wh I loves him Hes sore about them trees though Lots of or trees tr has died an lots of gar gardens gardens gardens dens grooved up Ih in weeds welds on account of irrigation bein distant Its pretty tough pl tp I IL It Io Ia IvEN L t o c a vEN o e I S q fol after Ez promised so faithful to lo give everybody all the water they wanted The just as bad only worse Nigh every man In the council ex George Canning the lad that runs the has kicked about it Jt showed sh wed that Pete Pet Condie dont I know no ne more about than I Knows sachet chet bags but Ez Es sticks to him to the last ditch allow In the th I to go so on en from worse wone to 10 all the time Will h he be b of C this John you ion C watch U tile e when ben they san sanu tors up to the he v Ia e Does you understand u now why Sports s Dose Does you understated understand why Ea Es is libl to be split spilt away from this here mayoralty sa I fears theres to It Johnny Johnn I ITHe Is s Tie THe L u L GT i do dof f y tears fears theres to It Im gob to see Ez next e week a an Int out to him the errors of his ways i m goin tt to show hint that four never Dever won n In this world an It never will willIm willIm Im shore But at this juncture a couple of at Kangaroo court policemen came in and aAd bore the Old Sport away |