Cooling the Political Fever.

Otago Witness, Issue 1751, 13 June 1885, Page 27

Cooling the Political Fever.

(LimeKiln Club.) •w I should like to epokra a fnw words out loud to Pickles Smith, Whale.bono Howkor, Judge Standoff, and R>Ee Up Perkins," said Brothor Gardner, as ho opened the meoticg, '* an 1 de Bubral piwsons named will ploaso step to de front." The members mectionsd advanced ir?

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wouped before the president's deck he con-tinut-d: "E.ich ona o1o 1 you am well awore o1o 1 de fack flat dia club has firmly declined to commit itself loany polytroal party. Ober and ober again .Qas waraad you to be satisfied wid pollin 1 your wotes and let oder folks do do whoonio', . nn* lyia*, an' slanddrin', an' mud-frowiul. You. «o cumbers has seen fit fco'disregard my advice, Understan' dat you am on de whoop. You can't sot still daytimes, an' you can'c sleep , worf a cont q' nights. Your screams am beard at pole raisin's an' you bellow avoun' on de oornerß as if de f ucher of de kentry depended on it.. " Gem'len, let me spoke to you. Da constilushutn am a weriy sacred document, but you kin buy mo' groceries wid a $2 bill. "Do Magna Oharta, which ebory candidate fnr constable talks about, should inspire each one of yon wid reverence, bat less reverence fur de Magna an' mo shoos fur de chill'on will increase your standin' among your nayburs "De bulwarks of liberty, about which wo h'ar bo much wheneber two old ward bummare git togeder in a basement saloon, mua be defended eben wid our lives, but when a man's goods am dumped out on de sidewalk kaso he can't pay his rent de bulwarks o' liberty am purty thia, "Fifteen-oont orators git up an' wave deir arms around an' talk to you of de principles of Monroe and Jefferson an' Adams and Lincoln, Principles, gem'len, am all right under sartin circumstances, but when swallered wid weak codfish an' cold 'tatera day doan't put no fat on yer ribs. " De grand old principles of grand old parties am hurled at your heads from ebery co'ner, but dey won't pay rent nor buy soup bones. " You kin now resume your seats. I doan 1 as ye to drap pollytics, bat I do request ye to enter into 'em in a different speerit. Have yar fixed cash price for every whoop—ebery cheer —ebery argyment,"