Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1886 — No Chance for the Presidency. [ARTICLE]

No Chance for the Presidency.

“Mamma,” said a little Fifth Ward boy lugubriously the other day, as he laid clown a volume of biographical sketches of the Presidents, “1 'don’t bei lieve I’ll ever be a President. 1 ain’t I got the chance, I wasn’t brung up i right.” “Why, child, you have the same chance that other little boys have.” “No, I ain’t; I wasn’t born in a log cabin, nor I ain’t drove a team on the canal, nor had to read the spellin’ book by the light of a pine knot, nor had to split rails nor nothin’ like the rest of the boys who got there. I tell you, mother, I’m handicapped on this Presidential business.” From the stress laid on the hardships endured by some of the Presidents when boys, it is not strange that the juvenile mind should draw such a deduction.— Elmira Oa?elte.