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Show Basic Things By Q. W. States WHISPERING The whisperer and his twin brother bro-ther the secret beckoner will soon be around to help you out and offer soothing consolation to you in the making up of your mind "Don't be a sucker." In politics these birds don't want you to use your mind, they make it up for you so you will have a correct line on the set-up. They will gaze cornfully at you if you don't swallow hook, line and sinker. Many an otherwise good citizen puts on his gum-shoes and mask, enters your house, puns down the blinds and proceeds to whisper a juicy piece of scandal about an opposing op-posing candidate. When I was a boy a man came with his family to live in our neighborhood. He was from Kansas. Kan-sas. In a few years be became a popular man. One day a 'committee 'commit-tee of citizens waited upon the likeable chap and asked him to allow his name to be placed upon the ticket for sheriff in the coming com-ing election. "No!" said the irate Jayhawker with a blast that about split the committee's eardrums. "No! Why not, why won't you run?" said one of the committee after he had recovered his breath, "You are just the man everybody) will vote for and think of the honor?" hon-or?" "Honor!" replied the bull voiced Kansan, "I ran for sheriff once away back east, back east in Kansas, Kan-sas, and sometime before the election elec-tion they made me out a horse thief that was worse than murder in Kansas." "Well, you never stole any hors. es did you " said one of the brave members of the committee. "No! I never stole any horses, but I'll be damned if they didn't prove it on me the day of election." elec-tion." That is how the whisperers, the gum-shoers, the hornswagglers and Ihimble-riggers work the day before be-fore and the day of the election. They only reach that class who are not very deep behind the ears. No don't let the whispering skinflints shake you down. |