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Show H The Bluffer H HTEDDY is dissatisfied and talks in a way to B make suckers believe that were he president, B something would bo done right away. B He was president once. When the crash of 1907 flj came; it will bo remembered that he was on a H hunting trip on the lower Mississippi. He first B heard of the crash when he reached Memphis on B his way home. Of course, he made a speech, the B burden of which was: "Wait until I reach Wash- Bj ington and you will see" Hj Ho did reach Washington safely, but we saw Hi nothing for a good while. Tho facts were that the great United Steel company had for a long time desired to ' obtain control of tho Tennessee Coal & Iron Company. A great house in New York was behind that company. com-pany. There was nothing to do but to smash that house, which was done, and that caused the panic in which the big company obtained the desired control. Then what the colonel did when he reached Washington was to officially ratify that absorption. absorp-tion. Tho colonel seems to be growing very active of late. Is he serving notice on the Democracy that if he undertakes to elect Mr. Wilson for them again next year he will convince them first that "the laborer is worthy of his hire?" |