Show BOG EO um in BEVERLY HILLS well all I 1 know la Is just what I 1 read in the papers and we will all be so dog gone glad to be able to read something AJA la in the papers from now on ill bet there was more useless ink wasted on this dog fight that just ended than there was waa on the same length of time la in the war now honest did v you ever read hear bear or see as much bunk and applesauce piled into one camp alghn there them dasent any more truth in over one half ot of what any camp alghn so called orator said eald it if it dasent a deliberate lie 1 I why it was an exaggerated Exa fal falsehood se I 1 remember one time out in higgins texas there was quite an amiable gentleman corkol out on the box T ranch tor for the doyles this was lu in the winter ot of 93 98 1 I 1 forget who run that year but I 1 guess it was bryan he be was the only name dame the democrats could pronounce along during that generation I 1 had been temporarily incarcerated in a military institution at Bo onville missouri the warden was a mighty fine old gentleman named thomas johnston in tact fact he la Is still living and occupies the same position and has hag since enlarged his place till its one ot of the outstanding hutst anding penal servit udes tor for academic learning it in the taa whole middle west and receives inmates from almost every quarter of 0 the literary diges digesi I 1 pole it was a splendidly organised organized sed and conducted place but it aident exactly agree with any high ideals at that time so we seared relations it was mutual in my part and practically super mutual on OB theirs having never worked cattle in the tha great lone star state ot of texas why billy johnson ot of Ca nadina texas a eel cell mate of mine at the time advised me ins to go to higgins texas just got word the other day that billy had passed away too bad fine fellow well billy told me to go to frank ewings ranch at higgins and he would give MO me some game employment as maid of all work to a group ot of texas Il hellers elfers all this Is just to tell you how I 1 got to higgins tor for higgins I 1 Is s a town that you have to explain why and how you got there well the cox box T lad this sturdy old citizen that worked lor for era em out there an and had lor for generations well the box T lad come in tor for ranch provisions driving lour four awful good mules and had brought a plow in to get it fixed to plow up a garden patch at the ranch on oa his return you know in 98 was still plowing corn up in his home state JUL in fact he is right back where he started and blosl plowing the same corn so there was a good cheer in a tonn ton in those lays days the box T lad got tull full as a goat during the latter end ot of the evening alter after all others were under tile tho table for the night he be went to the teed feed yard and by tits the assistance of the mules themselves got the harness on em hitched em to the plow and in the dead of 0 late night proceeded to plow up the tha street ot of higgins higggs the tha alain street the side ets tile the cross streets in those das were all merged into one it you plowed up the alain street you practically had the town turned over it dasent a long street but it had width lt it was built tor for traffic so tour four mule team pulling a trailer wagon could turn naith ease next morning when the folks got up and found their main alala stem thoroughly turned over sus dicion gradually drifted to tho the lad and between eye openers he ha remarked 1 11 I thought I 1 would plow her up and sow her in grass she dasent much good to anybody like she was somo some ot of the other remarks and a slogans log an 3 ot of the various speakers god knows where they originated but wh whatever etever they originated igina ted they will X D die at the same place for none of em will live the last camp alghn brought in religion I 1 this one re replaced plated a it with at h tear fear T this his time they tried to sears scare you into voting a certain way it takes a great country to start stand a thing like that nitting it every tour four years when yuu you figure that you have a system where e you make business stand still cud and people go nutty tor for three months every tour four years why somebody who concocted tile the idea of 0 elections certainly figured out a devastating scheme the locusts that I 1 saw swarming the argentine are house flys compared to I 1 the destruction to a business by a presidential election the candidates are ill hibb gh typed gentlemen till the contest gets close therl then ahe ih brute comes out in em what starts out to be a nice fight winds up in a street brawl but it all comes under the lending heading ot of democracy arid and as aa had bad as it Is its the best scheme we can think of 0 1933 Syi Syd ts ic I 1 |