Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-08-11 | Page 3 | When Governor Spry Was Marked as the Goat

I! HEN BOVEMOB SPBY i I IIED IS j THE GORT : I As an echo of the late Republican I: convention, the following from a lo- I cal humorist -wjll provoke a laugh I even among those whose political I iblas will not allow them to endorse I 'the rich satire. 1. And It canio to pass that, I' during the reign of a great pontiff ponti-ff cal king, it became necessary to I. put another one over. I. 2. And the called together he K Scribes and. Pharisees and the I pussy-footers and the conjurers I v and the sorcerers, and a great 1 v company of those that seek for I- office, and the whisperers and the I i vote changers. I ' 3. And ho said unto them: I "Verily have ye seen the wlcked-I wlcked-I i ness of William the Spry towards I the Prohibites, who d0 murmur against him, for that which he I Uaui aone is not seemly." 4. For albeit the great polltl- cal king was wroth, because of j the praises which the Mammon-i Mammon-i ites, who were at -war with the .Prohibites, did sound of William I "the Spry, even with sounding brass and tinkling cymbals and the lyre and the psaltery. 5. And the political king in his heart conjured against William the Spry, how he might destroy him lest ho finally usurp the kingdom. 6. For ho knew that the Pro-Mbltes Pro-Mbltes hated William the Spry for that which he had refused to do, to dry up all the land of Utah and consume the wicked with thirst 7. And straightaway he called from among the Prohibites the chief centurions thereof and said unto them: "Ye know the wicked thing which: William the Spry hath done. Therefore, whom shall I deliver unto you?" S. And they cried with, a loud voice saying: "William the Spry, deliver him unto us." 9. And the great king said unto them: "Be it even so." 10. And straightaway the clackers began to clack, and the m quacker3 began to quack and the' whisperers began to whisper and the whackers began to whack. Then the swatters swatted him with the King's swatter, both upon the ankle and on the wrist, and , marked upon him the figure of a .' goat; and they compassed him round about and smo'te him with ; the jaw-bone of a hinny until he was a dead one. This was in the days of a great political King. oo