OCR Text |
Show Who Will Be The Goats? GLANCING over the "good government" ticket, it has a look as though District Attorney Leatherwood had consented to act as a dummy this year to bo knocked down by his friends. The bunch want "anything to beat the American party," and hence, do not want jtwo candidates can-didates of their real own in the field for mayor. When the preacher in Kentucky preached frcm the parable of the sheep and the goats, after portraying por-traying the rewards that would certainly come to the sheep, he lifted up his voice and shouted: "Now who will be the goats? and repeated the same question twice more. Then a gentleman in the body of the house arose and in a timid voice, replied: "Mr. preacher, rather than see the play stop, I'll be the goats." , Has Mr. Leatherwood, rather than see the play stop, consented to be "the goats"? It has that look surely. Mr. Leatherwood has a good office, one which he would naturally prefer to that of mayor of this city, even if he had a show to win, for it is right in the line of his pro fession, and in able hands, leads up to the highest high-est in the lawyer's scale of nromotion; he is grate-"fdllohaving grate-"fdllohaving 'been" given that office, and seeing the extreme peril of his party, has he consented to being sacrificed, when by the sacrifice he would lose neither fame nor prestige? It surely has that that look, as though rather than see the play stop he is willing "to be the goats." Possibly, too, he is thinking who the laugh will be on when the election is over. |