Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1920 — Short Furrows [ARTICLE]

Short Furrows

"Abe Martie" in Indianapolis News.

“The deplorable thing about th' R’publican avalanche is th’ great number o’ mediocre candidates that slipped int’ office in th’ melee,” declared Hon. Ex-Editur Cale Fluhart, this mornin’. “It wuzn’ a calm, sensible election at all, but a riot. If ever’buddy had voted intelligently Hardin’ might have won by a fair margin, but ther wOuldn’ have been such a ridiculous lop-sided turn over as ther wuz. Jest think, Ike Soles, a known automobile thief, wuz elected by a staggerin’ plurality. Even his father before him thought nothin’ o’ stealin' a sleigh. While Hardin’s election wuz a great victory, It wuzn’ what you’d call a fancy victory. I’ve asked several women how they voted an’ what they voted fer. Mrs. Em Moots says that all she kin remember Is that she stood in line till she nearly froze. What happened afterwards she don’t know. Lib Pash says she got some stranger t’ hold her baby an’ that she got so worried over th’ little thing that she don’t know how she voted. Mrs. Tilford Moots says that Jest as she entered th’ votin’ booth she remembered that she’d fergotten t’ set a pot o’ beans off the stove an’ that she pulled th’ first thing she come to an’ rushed out. Miss Tawney Apple said she’d fully intended t’ vote th’ Republican ticket, but th’ votin’ place wuz so crowded an’ she wuz in such a big hurry that she jest voted th’ Aus-

tralian ticket instead an’ hurried back .to work. 'Jest so I voted wuz all I cared fer,’ she said. ’Well, thhr’ wijz good men on each ticket, so I Jest marked th’ rooster an’ eagle both,’ remarked Ellie Hanger. I asked Mrs. Lase Bud if she voted ter Cox an’ she said, ‘No. They told me I could only vote once, so I gave McCollch th’ preference.’ Th’ funniest blamed thing wuZ th’ defeat o’ Lem Moots fer mayor. Ever* church, ever’ lodge, ever’ woman’s club, an’ ever’ respectable voter in town got out an’ worked fer him an’ he only got twenty-nine votes an’ his oppenent, Milt Bud, got ’leven hundred an’ ninety votes —an’ Milt had been in th’ penal farm all fall an’ had had no, chance t’ line his friends up or make any speeches. When fellers like brakeman Bosco Moon, who’s gittin’ flfty-two dollars a week an’ has a phonergraph an’ ever’thing, says he’s got enough o’ th’ Democratic party, times are not what they seem. I confess I don’t know what caused th’ landslide — whether it wuz restlessness, th’ league o’ nations issue, Wilson’s attitude toward labor, th’ fickleness o’ th’ American people, high wages, good prices, plenty o’ money, or what, but I want t’ say one thing—if th' people o’ this country think that by ther verdict last Tuesday ther goin’ t’ get out o’ payin’ fer th* war 'they’ve got another guess cornin’. Marsh Swallow, who wuz unanimously defeated for coroner on th’ Democratic ticket, will not issue a statement, but will go huntin’ Instead.”