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Show H Is Politics. It Is very Beldom that you find a negro begging. Of course, ho is always ready, like many a white man, to take whatever is tendered him, but Btreet beggars among the colored race are very scarce. One, however, came into the secretary's room on 'Change the other duy. lie wanted boiuo change, and 1 agreed wrl!i the assistant as-sistant secretary to give tho beggar a quarter if ho would acknowledge he was a Democrat, while my friend was to do likewise eiiould the colored itinerant claim allegiance to tlie party of purity. We then asked tho negro what his political polit-ical persuasion was, and he replied, after being told what arrangement wo had made to provide for him: "Well, boss. I'se neither, l'se on de fence." It k needless to Kay that ho received both quarters. St. Louis Globe-Democrat |