Show SENATOR ABEL J His Opponents Had Him in Their Pile But Didnt KnoV It Senator Abel John Evans of Lchi hs been in town for the past few days The Hon Abel J congratulates himself that he docs not have to rustle for apolitical a-political Job this fall He has one He is one of the holdover Senators The Hon Abel J came near losing his Senatorial toga last fall He was a candidate for Mayor of his village but the majority of his friends and neighbors did not approve of his course In the last Legislature so they threw him down In other words he was defeated His friends and neighbors had not read the constitutional provision which makes it impossible for a man to hold the two olllces in question or if they had read it they had forgotten about it else the Hon Abel J would have been elected by a handsome majority Then they would have awaited developments devel-opments and on the 1st of January after the Senator had taken the oath of office and delivered his inaugural address as Mayor they would have congratulated him on his retirement from tho Senate because the acceptance accept-ance of the Mayoralty would have vacated va-cated the Suialnrlal oflicr Those who cuiim tu know declare that the Hon Abt1 J would have bitten at the municipal bait that though he prides himself on being a great constitutional consti-tutional lawyer he never realized the predicament he would have been In until un-til afler the induction into olllce of his rival Now he thinks the Fates were good to him and the fellows who wero bent on his undoing wonder why they did not catch Onto a good thing when ft was In sight |