| Show POTATOES IS IN POLITICS the professional ticket fixers of the country and the newspapers news papera for whose dancing they furnish the piping have ought to 0 o have a great deal of amusement with mayor pingree of detroit who was w practical enough to devote some ome attention to the raising of vote toes for the poor of big bi city he has na been called Peach blows Pin pingree grees benall alame 11 potato and not many in a hill 12 and various other names of flippant and insulting there has been no attempt to deny that be showed allowed himself a genuine benefactor to the needy by big potato scheme that in obtaining the use of 01 vacant loto jots and having thern well cultivated by unemployed sod deserving people toe be succeeded la in securing a large crop of this staple article of food and good potatoes too that when the hostile newspapers of his city refused to pub fish bit bin communications and orders order he be reached the masses manes of the people quite effectively by using the billboards billboard and the dead walls and forces fencee and that through all this unusual and eccentric program be has baa won a place in the bearta of his bl people from which neither ridicule nor more tangible at tack MCI can shake him for the fourth consecutive time big bellaw citizens have honored him with triumphant election to the mayoralty a rare tribute tu to him bli popularity in these days of swift political changes and dizzy ups and downs the incident gives force and em cm phacia to the he view that eccentricity to in a public official is ie not always a bad thing and that as between what Is 1 called peanut politics and potato politics politic there to is a wide and ominous gulf guif among public servants throughout the tend land there are not enough Pin grees I 1 jut as an among the poor people of our larger cities there are aie no not enough potatoes |
