Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1912 — How He Explained. [ARTICLE]

How He Explained.

The dissatisfied \oter dropped out of his regular party and tried something else at the previous election. When he appeared to register for the next primary there was some hitch in the proceedings. "Didn’t you vote the prohibition Jcket last time?” Inquired the clerk. "Yes,” responded the voter, unabashed. "How do you explain that 7” "Well, you see,” he explained, with charming frankness, "I was drunk at the time and didn’t know what I was doing.” The clerk accented the explanation as quite satisfactory an,d took him back into the fold again.