Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1911 — A Sample Quip. [ARTICLE]

A Sample Quip.

"Thomas W. Lawson’s Thanksgiving proclamation was a very good piece of oratorical writing,” said a Boston banker. “Lawson is always full of quips. “Not long ago I attended the funeral of a millionaire financier —one of those real ’high financiers’ whose low methods Lawson love 9 to turn the light on. “I arrived at the funeral a little late. I took a seat beside Lawson and whispered: ; “‘How far has the service gone?* “Lawson, nodding towards the clergyman in the pulpit, whispered back: “ ‘Just opened for the defense.’ ”