Show AFLOAT ANI A AND HELPLESS Just before the county election and with an intensified vigor Just before tho the school election the lie public was in informed In- In formed that every ever person declining to support the he American party part candidates candidates candidates candi candi- dates for election electon would be mar marked ed The They would bet beb d. d The leaders of ot th that t militant pa party y w were re goIng goIng going go- go Ing to ostracise e them and make them feel teel the lie frown of displeasure which the leaders of ot the new now party bent upon them he mu But from the looks of oC the returns there are arc not enough h frowners left lef to todo todo too do o the tho remembering The fact Is Is the new nei party part Is a 0 good oo deal like a floating dock People assembled assembled assembled as as- upon It with wih the lie purpose put to embark on the boat which was going to take them some place The boat of oC success did not arrive and and now the floating dock has become detached detach d from rein the shore and is adrI adrift on troubled waters without a motive power without ut means of guiding itself or progressing and prevented by the rush of events e from Crom get getting back to the securer footing of or the shore shor And there therO are a whole lot Jot more good people on land than on that that ma crick craft craf to the leek deck of or which I Ithe the managers of ot tho lie new now party have beguiled their best besl friends fm friends They are not in a good position to ostracise any anyone one or mark any anyone one and they arc are so busy wondering how they are arelo areto areto to lo save vo themselves that they have lit little lit lit- lt- lt tle te Ic tUne even oven to rem remember what six short weeks ago the they hey were so violently pinning upon their memory Some things happened Just before beCore the count county election which Induced a large arge number of the good people who had assembled on the he dock before the election of 1905 1906 to step ashore They didn't say sy much about it I but the they noted the tho presence among them of certain characters with wih whom they thoy did not care to to go so sailing So they returned to o their several homes hOes anil ant over the marking mar and the remembering re till a more convenient season And Just the tho school election electon of or Dee 5 G un an au even greater number do- do tho the uncertain craft craf and amid those thos who were left lef made mudo mule rather a som-m- som sorry exhibition ex ex- In fact th there re was nothing on board the floating dock but bitt the tue organization tion ton ion The masses of the lie voters the hue I passengers who whose e good character re redeems redeems ye- ye I deems even the bad bud repute of leaders had concluded to stay at home homo The organization is now afloat and helpless The passengers are blaming the crew and the crow crew are cursing those good people who made up their minds Just before the crafts craft's departure not to become pas passengers at nt nil all And Amid taken alto altogether ether the hue voyagers voras-er voras arc uro not having a good time line It I Is hopeless for them to try to gain gainan an any port port They Tey have no power of oC pro pro- They can cn not steer They can simply drift di And In Iii view of the lie danger of o being run down by any anyone one of the busy boats that have some place to U go and that know how to go o there we ire would suggest the one thing the navigators of or the lie floating dock may maydo maydo maydo do They can scuttle It I and let et It I sink with the people they have havo beguiled beguiled be be- aboard And that is about all al they hey can do Only we must Insist that the t tIers rs go down to the bottom of the tho the sea sea with their victims victims and and stay there |