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Show THE CITIZEN 4 POLITICAL FLEDGLING sible successor to President Coolidge. Hoover enthusiasts are already busy organizing in the state, and they claims that they Out in the somnolent suburb of Glendola, in Sig Eisman s will send a solid Hoover delegation to Kansas City. barnyard there is an outcast goose shunned by all the other HERE IS A CORKER. geese and ganders, says the New York Times. If it tries to mix with them they hiss. When it feeds it feeds alone. The sad goose was hatched last spring under a hen which The other day the police started a downtown roundup and r had mothered it after her own setting of ten chicken eggs had it appears that some who say they were innocent of wrongdoing I been stolen. From that moment the goose has been were dragged to the police station. A. Meyers, trusted stage I in the yard. ostracized by all the other water-fow- l hand at the Capitol theatre, a prominent dentist and others I This bird talks with a high nasal honk and apparently stood talking on the sidewalk in front of Jos Vincents, a gam. I L doesnt even know true goose language, says Eisman. It is bling house, and they were among those arrested. Arriving at the station, Meyers wanted to phone George positively the last goose I will ever hatch under a hen, because Carpenter, his boss, btu was refused the permission, and was If its a losing game. The goose is going to starve. There is a political lesson to be drawn from this humble told to wait until a straw bondsman appeared who would story of the goose that was hatched but never got any place. release him. He was forced to pay $10 for a $100 bond and If This is campaign year. And in every presidential year we have lowed to go. The dentist had $68 in his pocket, but his money was no I the threat of a new party, a party which will be neither one way, without good, and he was checked out through the same routine, thing nor the other, hatched in a E pride of ancestry or hope of posterity, as the old story had it. cording to the reports brought into this office. Sometimes the new party is never hatched but there is always Meyers says he is not guilty of any wrong doing. He said 1 a threat that it will be. The year 1928 will prove no exception. he was passing by and seeing some friends stopped to chat on Already there are gentle tappings on the political eggshell which the sidewalk. He was dressed in his working clothes, for stage indicate that efforts are being made by irregulars to break into hands have very rough work to perform. the great American political arena. The part of the story The Citizen is interested in is, why f But past experiences have shown that motherless and fa- is a man refused permission to call his attorney or his friend l therless political parties, without real guiding principles behind when arrested, and why must one arrested wait for special t them, get about as cold a reception in the political poultry house bondsmen to come and bail him out! as the unfortunate goose, mentioned above, is getting in the If the men arrested prove their innocence, do they get back If hen-mother- ed 1 al- - ac--I non-partis- an New Jersey barnyard. Each time after the strange party has hatched, honked more or less feebly, and passed into oblivion, its purveyors exclaim as Mr. Eisman is quoted above: never again for me. Yet every few years some one does it again with the same disastrous results. Let us hope the independents will be wiser in 1928. America has always been a land of major political parties and the bloc evstem has never yet been able to dominate the situation. If it ever does and the unancestored fledglings come into their own, we must be prepared to say goodbye to American political principes. The entire poultry yard will starve then, the strange geese along with the rest. Let us see that fudamental American principles, which are the real eggs, shall not be stolen. R their money? We are told they do not get back this interest money. I Why are prisoners refused the use of a telephone? How do these special bondsmen know when there will an arrest or that there has been an arrest? George Carpenter was very emphatic in his denunciation of this system as practiced at the police station He further said that Meyers was one of the best men he bad; he is steady, reliable and a good worker and can always be dbond epended upon. Carpenter would gladly have furnished the gratis, but no, a professional bondsman must get the percentage. Does the city cater to and support special privileged bond- lie ; un-Americ- an shake-dow- n smen? POLITICS WARM UP. Is not one mans money as good as another? Local politics are beginning to warm up. Several promiIs it really true that this city is controlled by a crime ring! nent men are coming out for United States senator, for nomination on the Republican .ticket. According to present rumors DOUBLE INTEREST there will be no competition among the Democrats for the leading offices. Senator King so far has no opposition and Govoffice upon the this reached have complaints Many renomination for the for cinch a Dern ernor governor. appears and collecting While many leading Democratic ward heelers would like to automobile companies are alleged to be charging of machines. W notes interest given by purchasers upon of more a is he that Dern see Republican displaced, claiming is added cent 8 the 8 but claim cent, per only per they charge than a Democrat, yet they cannot see how they can defeat him and there is note which to the payments monthly requires Democratic the that therefore convention. the It at appears deduction of the interest. convention will be one of endorsement of present incumbents. For instance, if the purchaser owes or gives his notj It will be far different at the Republican convention. Al8 per cent the note calls for $540. Should he pay P at nomito $500 the men business six seven or aspire prominent ready to pay nation of United States senator, and men from various parts of per month on the note, it would require twelve months only the state are coming up for governor. Of course each will have off the debt, and the true interest at 8 per cent would a certain following, which means a lively balloting on the con- amount of $22.64. In other words, according to allegations, not of the companies are collecting about 16 per cent upon the vention floor. Four years ago Governor Dern slipped through the lines m Iowa. in Hooverites are backers Lowden in criticising the factions because of dissension and political Republican to secure a nomination generally loses out in who man find the will Dern fights election at the Republicans but coming party, app solid for their ticket, which spells defeat for the Democratic end. People are interested in fighters only when they party. Upon two occasions Governor Dern has stated that he with the gloves on in a squared circle. lUfl was elected by the Republicans and a few Democrats, and why 0 If telephonic connection is ever effected with the J Republicans are expected to desert their party is yet to be anhave swered, unless the Republicans are expected to desert their planets just think what fun the operators can to ring up Mars sonic m I liable numbers. Were Democrats. become wrong and party Political interest at the present time is directed to a pos and get Venus. v t y 1 |