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Show JUCCOKDEIt CHOP. THE OFFICIAL PLUM IS SUCC'JLENTLY SOUCHT AFTER. Harry McCallum ;nt J. I. ColiUlm are Not In It, While V. II. Jark an I Colonel l'age are Kutllngfor the Friilt. About a dozen men, in tho face of Louis Hymn's unhappy experience about a dozen aspiring men are whistling, whis-tling, to thy tuuo of "Johnny Get Your Gun:" With twenty-four hundred a year, A man ha- nothing to four: It 1 nt 1 10 oul'-e. 1 11 run it Htralitht", And it t left, I'll learn lo wait. Among the names mentioned as favorable fa-vorable candidates are J. V. Conklin, Mr. 1'carson, Colonel I'uge, Harry Mo-Cailuiu. Mo-Cailuiu. Joe Lippman, J. L. May and anting recorder, II. K. Krigbaum," When The Tiuks reporter called into the ollice of Councilman Spallord a number of his friends were laughing over the following Hquib which appeared ap-peared in the Herald of today: We nomlnam for city remrdiT. our stniid fellow townsman and intoiitH.i'of iho city council. coun-cil. W. II. II. spaSoni. Wvlimik inn abilities both as a pi nniaa und utherwi-e Mutual ro-cetverocivniiicii. ro-cetverocivniiicii. Tub Ti.m;:s report. t, thinking the councilman would take the joke, asked him: "Is It true that you are a candidate oil account of your ornate penmanship?" penman-ship?" "Von firo tho man who wrote this," said W, Henry Heeiiau Spatloid, us he rose J nun his i!e:,k, white withraye, and made lor tho reporter, ordering him out. The reporter saw what was coming anil went. The pouncing on a Timks reporter, for writing the Herald's editorials was not stscii rational ntupidity as it might seem on first siu:ht, as there is not a M l if 1 ... ,1 I I reporter 011 the staff but that could write (in; Herald editorials from congressional con-gressional tariff documents of ten years ticju, without interfering with his other duties. "Are you a candidate for tho recor-dership," recor-dership," a- ke I The Thu s reporter of Col. Henry Page, who was being lathered and scraped in the Walker tonsorial parlor. "Not iu tho sense of going around legging for the ollice," said the Colonel with high disdain at the idea that he w ould stoop to such business. "Hut you would accept it, if elected" "Tntit i:i different," said tho colonel rubbing his bauds as if he had tho prize in his palms and added: "I chould." J. C. Conklin I uever thought of such a thing. Mr. Colin called mo to Ins store and offered mo tho office, but 1 declined to serve. T said I could not afford to accept it; thero was not money enough iu the ollice for me to think of it as my business is worth a great deal more money. J. F. Jack Do not want to be considered con-sidered a candidate, am not begging for the ollice by any means, but if 1 was elected would in all probability accept. ac-cept. H. S. McCallum I am not in tho race; am not a candidate for anything, and would not accept the ollice if it was tendered mo on a silver platter. I am entirely out of politics and wish my friends would permit mo to retire to private life and attend to my own affairs. |