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Show STRAUP WORRIED. Our friend, D. N. Straup, is In a deuce of a fix, for years he labored to give character and stand-- stand-- ing to the firm of Powers, Straup & Lippman and now that he is a candidate, the senior member of that old firm is planning an automobile raid on the country districts to whoop up the cause of the unterrified among the beet raisers and sheep herders, while the junior member, Mr. Lippman, has come out and pledged his life, liberty, fortune and sacred honor to do his level best to down - ;i mm the whole ticket, Straup included. Straup is try j W&i ing to remember the exact wording of that pas- , I bage of Holy Scripture which tells about being jB ground between, the upper and nether miil-stone '' HH and is in grave doubt whether it is worth while mH for one partner of the firm to give so much char- ' SHI acter to the other sections that they will come tH back to plague him He says that if Judge Pow- HH ers would only ride a mule and if Mr. Lippman , iH would withdraw nis sacred honor from the pledge ' Hi Ihe situation would not look so bilious, but now ! i H "a plague on both their houses." HH |