Show v HEARD AND SEER IN TOTONYS COURT Tom King delivered a stirring political politi-cal oration before the bar of justice yesterday being in good voice and excellent ex-cellent gesticulative trim He said in part Your honor I will plead guilty to drinking because it doesnt pay not to plead guilty I want to say however how it is I had just been out five minutes and I remembered remem-bered your honors advice and I went down the street determined to make a man of myself I had everything all fixed up but I met a man and he said Tom says he youre an old Republican Repub-lican How do you know I am says I Because I know it says he and I smashed him Now your honor I never voted that ticket but once and that was because of Grover Cleveland the old reprobate He sold us out sir The American eagle looked down in shame from its soarings and cried out Cleveland what are you Ill only vote for one man on the ticket this year declared Tom throwing throw-ing his arms recklessly at the atmoSphere atmos-phere Now sir what right had he to call me an old Republican I hit him now what ought I to get for this Twentyfive days answered the court Fifteen for the speech ten for the drunk Twentyfive days echoed the prisoner pris-oner My Gd and this is America Maud Lewis who in a drunken fit jabbed her hand through four window lights in the front of Kittle Hicks house on Commercial street early yesterday yes-terday morning was fined 10 |