Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 21, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 August 1908 — Page 2

King of Political Pests Is the “Four-Flusher” | By ERNEST McGAFFEY | As a Rule His Good Thing Turns Out to Be a Pair of Deuces.

oo HE term “four-flushing,” although of comparatively recent origin, - merely means, in its last analysis, i a pretense. It is a poker term, meaning in that game the practice of pretending that you have five cards of one suit when you only have four of one suit and one of another, and of trying to win with that kind of a hand, in hopes that the other players will believe that you have a genuine “flush,” five cards in one suit. It is a favorite pastime in the great American game to bet high on a “four flush” to intimidate or “timify”

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In politics I have seen enormous quantities of "four-flushing” indulged In; and in fact about two-fifths of all politics is “four-flushing.” . In the various angles of the political gsme there may be counter “fourflushing,” or practicing the art on hoth sides, or if there are four or five eandidates in the field, there may be only one candidate who really stands any show of election, and a quartette of “four-flushers” gaily bringing up the rear. The “also rans” hdve entered the race for various reasons. Some of them get a little notoriety, some of them to try their political strength, and others for the purpose:-of leading a forlorn hope against the probable winner.

There are “four-flushers” who ply their vocation deliberately, and those who do it by dint of_long practice at dissimulation; and still others who have the practice forced on them by reason of circumstances. Some men are born to it; other men achieve ‘four-flushing,” and others still have it thrust upon them. There are the loudmouthed and noisy members of the tribe, and also the quiet and persuasively earnest devotees of the cult. The blatant ones are the fellows who usually wear a large “headlight” diamond stud, and who bring down to the downtown political headquarters astonishing reports about what they are going to do in their particular wards. I recollect particularly one of this kind. He was always going to do great things. And he would demonstrate by verbai mathematics just how it was a “cinch” that he had the ward tied up as tight as a snare drum. All suggestions that he might possibly be mistaken were either pooh-poohed away, or you were given to understand that you were “dead nutty.” This gentleman would keep on swelling until the morning after election; and then he would disappear for a few days. When he reappeared, with his ward knocked “galley-west” in the €lection, and about 99 per cent. of his predictions gone wrong, he would still have that old “bluffy” walk on him, and would be gabbing triumpharitly about some precinct that had gone his way, and explaining how they would have all went the same way if “Bill Botsford” or “Joe Sammons” or “Pete Highball” had “stuck.” The only offensive thing about this lobster’s attitude was that he assumed that some ome was geing to believe him. He was per se a “stift,” as such cattle are termed in politics, and a laughingstock among seasoned politicians, but he went about imagining that he was a real factor in politics, when he could scarcely rontrol bis own vote. As a rule, these “plugs” were fellows who had accidentally gotten a little m‘v some strange accident have didates on one occasion for that of- ; e e i

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just telling you because you can see for yourself how it is. We need every vote we can rake and scrape. There's lots of ugly talk about this thing in my neighborhood, and it’s the same ‘everywhere. Well, so long.” Now this “song and dance” might be reeled off by some fellow who had a 25-foot lot that was on a street that was about to be paved with a cheap paving, and his “advice” was a “fourflush” to try to get a “reconsideration” by the board of local improvements of the order to pave. If he succeeded, he would save a few dollars in assessments. He goes away thinking he has “started something doing” which may lead to a “reconsideration.” The facts are that his “spiel” has fallen on absolutely barren ground. The question of politics “cuts . no ice” whatever with the matter he is arguing, and a passing street band playing “Hiawa‘tha” would exert as much influence as the does in politics. Everyone except'ing himself know that what he says, 'does, thinks and feels is of no more importance than a rabbit. ~ No onq but a rank “four-flusher” .makes these senseless “breaks,” but ‘the large cities simply swarm with }‘nnk “four-flushers.” > A favorite scheme of the standard “four-flushers” 1n elections was to put up an “independent” “dummy” candi‘date. Somethimes two “dummy” ecan~didates were put forward in the race. Suppose, for instance, that “A” and “B” are the regular candidates of the main parties. “B,” we will say, is the stronger of the two. “A” finances the nomination of an “m&p:ut‘f candidate, or a Prohibition, Labor-Social-ot o¢ 42y aid condidate, whoth 5 by

didate of “A’s” party stripe, and pay his expenses to cut into “A’s” vote. All this is “four-flushing” to make the voters believe there are four or five “Richmonds in the field” when, in fact, “A” and ‘B” are the only real figures in the contest, and the extra candidates are “fakes.” And the beauty about it is that these “independent” or other campaigns are often waged valiantly and a tremendous amount of dust and excitement kicked up about them. But the real independ ent, the independent who sometimes gets elected on a genuine and not a “faked” race, is usually some disgrua-

tled Republican or Democrat who, after election, slides gracefully back into party traces, perfectly satisfied to have his “independence” elect him, but carrying the joke no further. Reform is a prolific source of political “four-flushing.” Take some business which offends certain of the more puritanically inclined citizens. This business may be regularly Ilicensed and declared legal, and there may be constitutional grounds which, until a change in the constitution, would absolutely prevent -interference in the business on the part of the authorities. Does this daunt the “four-flush-er” who wishes a little advertising? Not a bit of it. He gets together his cohorts and besieges the political authorities demanding that they do those things which are under the law absolutely forbidden. The authorities consult the law department, and the department gives an opinion, based on the soundest authority, that the proposition is untenable. - Then the reforming “fourflusher” holds a few public meetings and adds some more “four-flushers” to the list. Speeches are made and the authorities are denounced, also the lawyers who have given the dissentihg opinion to the views of the reform “four-flushers.” .

Then some scintillating genius among the brethren suggests that an inJunction be obtained from some perfectly “unbiased” judge. A descent is made upon the courts, a perfectly “unbiased” and complaisant jurist is picked out, whe issues an injunction, and the “four-flushers” gather to offer up thanks. An appeal being taken from his ruling, the state court, or the supreme court of the United States, hands down an opinion that the “unbiased” judge 1s an “ass,” or words to

His Ways, His Manners, His Methods, His Dress, and Fly-by-Night Election Schemes—Dead Politically To-day, He Resurrects Himself To-morrow in a New Ward, with a New Plan and Perhaps Affiliates with the Other Party—How He Takes Up Reform as an Asset and Meets Defeat, with Attendant Notoriety, Gracefully.

that effect, and the injunction is dissolved. - . |

Thereupon the “four-flushers” hold additio\nal meecings in which they denounce the supreme courts, and, as soon as a new set of authorities come into power, resume the old “bluff” of ‘asking that the business which they do not like be suppressed. One of the most unique of political “four-flushers” is the man who is “bucking the game” solely on his nerve. I recollect one such individual, and he was certainly a classic specimen, and a nervy proposition. A certain hotelkeeper had been selected as a candidate for aldermaniec honors. At party headquarters, after his name had been offered and determined ‘upon, a committee of “prominent citizens” was picked out to notify the gentleman of the honor which had been accorded him.” Among others, this “hot sport” was chosen, as he was a very neat talker, and the chairmanship 6f the notifying committee was reserved to him, as the man who was best qualified to break the news to the hotelkeeper of his selection. as the aldermanic standardbearer, ; ¢

At that time of the year, early spring, a number of these “prominent citizens” were wearing light overcoats, and our hero was nattily attired in one which buttoned high to his throat, with an immaculate silk muffler folded neatly above it. As the committee entered the rotunda of the hotel it met the then city clerk, who, on invitation, accompanied them on their trip. The 'Boniface was sent for, a private room opened and the gentleman with the dove-colored spring.overcoat and silk = muffler stepped from the group of “prominent citizens” and urged the acceptance by the tentative candidate of the honor vouchsafed him. It 'was a neat speech, and told of the “representative citizens” who were present, anxious to lend their prestige and solid business standing to his campaign, all “prominent business men,” and all desirous of having the ward taken care of in the council by a man of their own stamp. The hotelkeeper was very much gratified, accepted the honor in a few words and invited the committee to take dinner with him, it being just about six in the evening. All but the city clerk and the orator of the evening accepted the invitation with alacrity. - The orater, however pleaded an imperative engagement, and the city clerk had to -catch a train. But as these two came out of the hotel the city clerk, who knew his companion as a sort of “fly-by-night” ward politician, said, “Why didn't yousstay agd take dinner with the committee, Dick? The old man will give the boys a fine feed in there.” o

_ To which the politician, with a perfectly nonchalant air, replied: “T'd have liked to, first rate; but I haven’t got any shirt on,” at the same time opening his spring ovelcoat and 'disclosing underneath his stylish muffler the unmistakable presence of a neat but not gaudy undershirt next to his manly chest. ; / The city clerk reached into llil vest pocket and dislodged a two-dollar bill. This he handed to his friend. “You're a dandy representative citizen all right, Dick,” he remarked, “and a firstclass business man. Go and get youn a shirt with that and then buy somes thing to eat.” o . . ERNEST M’GAFFEY. (Copyright, 1908, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Few men succeed in uvinfc up te their opinions of themselves. .

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NO ROOM FOR SENTIMENT IN BASEBALL OF TO-DAY Kindly Spirit Among Players of Winning Teams Is Conspicuously Absent.

Sentiment and good baseball can not jibe.” What you did yesterday on the ball field matters nothing. It's what you do to-day. The star who won a flag for his team one year may find that the next season brings a faster and younger man to take his place if the team is properly run. And this spirit is carried out to the players. There is no sentiment during the game. The player who is hurt is seldom given a cheering word. They feel sorry, of course, but they haven’t time to offer regrets—this getting hurt is all in the game. In the recent 17-inning game in Philadelphia, when Freddie Payne made his famous throw to- second which :caught Topsy Hartsel off the bag and saved the day, the Athletic left fielder was heart-broken. But little cared the Tigers. As O’Leary tagged him out, he didn’t say: “I got you that time, old boy,” or anything like that; my, no. Here’s what he said:

° “Now sneak back to the bench and get alongside of Connie Mack; tell him all about it, how you threw the game away, you big bonehead. Get under the bench with Rube Waddell and cry yourself to sleep. Let men play the game.” Kindly spirit, no; but it impressed upon Hartsel’s mind the fact that he had lost the game, that his sleepiness had brought on the turning point of the struggle, that if anybody was to win it would be the- Tigers. That mental suggestion made him a bad ball player the rest of the day. When George Moriarity tossed away a two-hit game at Cleveland for Jack Chesbro by throwing the ball into the bleachers on a grounder from Crawford, did Sam say anything about tough luck as he passed, third? Nope. Sam said: / “The yellow had to show, hey? I understand you've thrown the game.” Moriarity was so blazing mad that during the rest of the game he could not have thrown to first on a bet without taking plenty of time to steady himself. , i There is no sentiment in baseball, with a winning team. When there is, the fight, the dash, the fire that makes the game what it is, is gone. Sentiment and good baseball are like oil and water. :

FINE RECORD OF LEEVER Pittsburg “Schoolmaster’” One of Greatest Pitchers of Game. Many fans have alluded to the Pittsburg “schoolmaster” as the lucky pitcher. The fans may some day cease talking about “Lucky Leever,” and give the Goshen veteran credit for being what he is—one of the greatest twirlers the game has ever known. Look over the records, and you will discover that it is mighty hard to find a man with a record as good as that of the former schoolmaster. This is Leever’'s eleventh season w%th the Pittsburg baseball team. He joined the Buccaneers in*lB9B, but had a sore arm and pitched but a single game, which he won. He went back to Richmond, from which team he had heen secured, and remained there until the next spring, when he again joined the Pirates, and has been a Pittsburg twirler ever since. He is the only player now with the team who was with Pittsburg prior to the coming of President Dreyfuss and the consolidation of the Colonels and the Buccaneers. : Leever has a record that cannot be duplicated—that of winning almost twothirds of his games every season he has been in the league. His average since he joined the Pirates, up to the beginning of the present season, is 661, he having won 164 games and lost 81, His record by seasons follows: W. L. . Pct. Place Bil .0 1.000 1 1B il eeviid® 21 .488 27 WOR . cuainna b 12 .\ 556 9 WL Chsidiiaiiiatt 5 737 1 WO ol el T 682 7 1008 i 7 =7Bl 1 1 PO R A 1 .621 2 W el 5 .800 1 JOOB Ciiiesiiiiiiiiei e 1 759 3 IR oLt snaadl =9 .609 12 —_——— New Players for Comiskey. Center Fielder Arthur Bader and ‘Third Baseman Neihoff of the Des Moines Western league team have been sold to Comiskey. Bader led the Western league in batting last year with .340 percentage, and is the leading batter in the league at the present time, having batted over a .330 clip since joining the Des Moines team, a ‘month ago.! He is one of the fastest flelders in the tmo and is the nearest approach to Artle Hofman the league has m-g-x;m_ Nethoft is a i New Mezico for the Pushlo.teats and who was ‘“"W to Des Mo - o oW

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ALLITERATIVE ASSEMBLAGE Te;mé of B's and C's Would Make . Strong Showing, While W’s Would ‘Also Run Strong.

Any artful alliteration overdone is an example of audacious effrontery, or so say the great literary sharks -of all time. The Greeks started it by framing up a maxim: “Nothing to excess.” The Romans made only one exception to the rule, fighting, and handed it on down. When the Germans found it they immediately excluded beer from the law, and passed it on over to the Irish, who in turn took baseball out of the list affected by the nothing-to-excess maxim. Therefore, anything goes in baseball, even artful or artless alliterations. What started all this, however, was a glance over the batting averages of the American association and the noting of the fact that strong alliterative teams could be selected. There are not enough A’s to form a team, but the B’s would do with a little judicious padding here and there. Beckley, Brashear, Bush and Burke on the infield would push Brown, Bateman and Barbeau to the outfield; Beville could e¢atch and Brandqm pitch. 'Mixing the metaphors slightly, these B’s certainly would make hay. The C’s are also to the marshmallows. Put Cook, Coulter and Congalton, outfielders; Carr, Carlisle, Cross and Clark, infielders; Crisp, catcher, and Curtis pitcher, together in the same bottle; shake well before using, and a strong mixture will be the result. If McCormick, ' McChesney and McCarthy could get rid of the Mc'’s, they would strengthen the C’s wonderfully. No D’s, E's or F's appear numerous enough to form teams, and there are only four G’s. The H’s are strong, with Hughes and Howley, catchers; Hall and Hitt, pitchers; Hopkins, Hayden and Hallman could fill the outfield, with Harley as shortstop and Hugh Hill on first base; Hopke and Hitchman would complete the infield. Going on down the list again, there are six K’s, five L’'s and eight M’s, counting Mc’s, of course. The only other letter in the A. A. alphabet that sports a team is W, and it puts up a great crowd. Nobody would kick on Wood, Wilson and West for pitchers, and Wakefield for the backstop. Woodruff, Welday and Wisser would work well in the gardens, while Otto Williams, Clyde Williams, Zeke. Wrigley and Eddie Wheeler could be shuffied around most any way in the infield. If anybody objects to Wrigley under the reformed spelling rules, one of the pitchers would have to play second base. Adopt Shin Guards. It is a rather remarkable fact that two of the toughest catchers in the major leagues, Roger Bresnahan and “Nig” Clarke, should be the first to adopt the shin guards: Both are’ the hardiest sort of players and look, as if they would be able to stand a whole lot of banging. The reason for their adoption of the protectors might be found, however, in the fact that both are the hardest sort of workers. They are after everything and are always playing fighting baseball. For this reason they aré more likely to be injured than many of their less active contemporaries. The only possible objection to the guards is that the time used in taking them off and putting them on sometimes delays the game a trifle.. Otherwise they look like sensible innovations. - :

Baseball a La Boston. The Boston editor reports a baseball game, says the Harvard Lampoon, in this manner: The semicircular erections were spiritually magnificent with their bevies. of Back Bay beauties seated thereon when the organization from Harvard traversed the field in a gentlemanly fashion. One student seized the willow where it gave the greatest leverage and struck a graceful attitude. However, he struck nothing else, for he who evolves the sphere now entered into a series of remarkable contortions, from which the globe finally emerged, describing a perfect parabola, whose orbit seemed unapproachable to the disconcerted scientist. The process being repeated three consecutive times, the unfortunate student retired, bursting into tears. His successor was more successful, succeeding in approaching into closer proximity to the spheroid, which he ejected violently " into the left-hand prairie, where it passed peacefully away into the hands of an unsympathetic barbarian. - (At this point the reporter was ejected.) . R —— e — . : “The Thrq Twins.” “The Three Twins"—Cy Young of the Boston Americans, Cy Young II of the Pittsburgs and Cy Young 111 of the Boston Nationals. First names, lest fans forget, are: Denton, Irving

R JOHN W. KERN IS LIKED FOR HIS i STORIES. Democratic Vice-Presidential Candldate Once a School-Teacher— Many Insist on Spelling Name “Curran.” = Indianapolis, Ind.—There is no better story-teller to be found than John W. Kern, the Democratic nominee for vice-president, although when he indulges in the humorous for the benefit of his friends it is always of the cleanest sort. = 2 i e Mr. Kern has a keen taste for the satire in life. His friends recall one of his sarcastic utterances induiged in on an occasion when he was dining with W. J. Bryan not long ago. At the time Mr. Kern was being discussed as a vice-presidential possibility. / S Some one jocularly remarked that a few years in Washington as the vicepresident of the country ought to please Kern greatly. The question arose as'to the expense of living in Washington. o : “Yes,” said Kern, “I understand that it is costing Vice-President Fairbanks about $50;000 a year. Now, at that rate, considering the state of my physical fortune, I could live.in Washington about one day.” Mr. Bryan was greatly amused at the utterance, it is said, and often alludes to Mr. Kern’s remark. ! . As long as somebody doesn’t organize a Curran club, J. W. Kern can go happily through the campaign. Curran is a good enough nameé and all that, but it does not happen to be his name. And many people, since he has been one of the big guns in Indiana politics and his name has been often spoken, have used it Curran. ~ Not long ago Judge Pritchard of the criminal court received: a letter from a man concerning the trial of Harry P. Brunaugh, then in progress, -and the man spoke of “Mr. Curran,” mean: ing Mr. Kern. ; - “Such is fame,” suggested the judge, “through two campaigns for governol and still Mr. Curran!” - “Yes, such is fame!” . sighed Mr. Kern. - John W. Kern has always been proud that he was once a school-teach

e w’”""\'w B R 3 AU B R SN R ?fi’ \;‘ 5o ' R ; N i e { .. BA £ : John W. Kern, er. Before he was 16 years of age he taught district school in Howard county. He was a slender.youngster at the time, weighing little more than 100 pounds. ' Many of Kern’'s pupils were more than 20 years of age and in size were grown men. He taught one- school for two terms with much success and gave up the occupation of “school master” to become a lawyer. While getting his earlier education Mr. Kern attended whas was called the Indiana Normal Scheol of Kokomo. He rode to school each morning on horseback - and carried his luncheon, He has often admitted that he recited his lessons to his horse during the noon hour ‘and that frequently on the way to and from school he indulged in flights of oratory that made the old horse prick up his ears. T Affability has always' been one of Mr. Kern’s prominent characteristics. He is keenly satirical, but his satire never wounds. ‘

- In appearance Mr. Kern is not a rugged man. He is of slender build, but possesses strong vitality. Two or three years ago his health failed, and he and his friends believed that he was rapidly going intc a decline. His physician sounded the warning, “consumption,” in his ears, and he started in to make a fight for his life. .He sought a moderate climate in the south, and after six months’ stay came home a new man. Since then his health has been good. , - John W. Kern has for years worn chin whiskers. It is his habit softly to caress his beard when he is at work. Often his political friends have made jokes about “John Kern's whig kers.” : ; e “Don’t you mind them,” Mr. Kern has frequently replied. “They are a comfort to me.” One day two or three politicians called to see Mr. Kern at his office. One: of them, who was jocularly inclined, remarked: “T’d like to see Mr. Kern without those whiskers.” Turning to Kern, he asked: “Why do you wear them, anyway?’ Kern stroked his beard thoughtfully for a moment, and turning to his caller remarked: i - “Well, I think I wear them chiefly because they belong to me.” :

Waiter Still to Be Heard From. sThe French do not understand their own language,” is the wail of a New York girl traveling in the land where a fall in the river makes you in-Seine. “I asked our waiter to bring me a salad, and he brought me a bottle of-beer.”—New York Times, Telephones in Denmark. In Denmark only the inter-provincial, the inter-communal and the international telephones are worked by the state, while the local telephones are worked by private limited companies, under concessions. » S e

ALL RUN DOWN. Miss Della Stroebe, who had ComDletely Lost Her Health, Found Relief from Pe-ru-na at Once. Read What She Says: MISS DELLA STROEBE, 710 Richmond St., Appleton, Wis., writes: “For several years I was in a rundown condition, and T could find no relief from doctors and medicines. I ‘could not enjoy my meals, and could not sleep at night. I had heavy, dark circles-about the eyes. » “My friends were much alarmed. I -was advised to give Peruna a trial, and to my joy I began to improve with the first bottle. After taking six bottles I felt completely cured. I cannotsay too much for Peruna as a medicine for women in a run-down condition.” .~ - Pe-ru-na Did Wonders. ‘ Mrs. Judge J. F. Boyer, 1421 Sherman Ave., Evanston, 111., says that she became run down, could neither eat nor sleep well, and lost flesh and spirit. Perunadid wonders for her,and shethanks Peruna for new life and strength. 3

OLE MIS’ MOON WITH THEM. No Chance of the Visitors Being _° Homesick in the City. . Mme. Fairfax was wont to stand on the porch of her old Virginia home and-rejoice on moonlight nights in the beauty, says the Youth’s Companion. “There’s my, moon,” she would say, as it rose from behind the eastern hills. | “Look, Dahlia, see how beautiful it is,” and her tiny colored maid, who was ever at hand with shawl or fan for her beloved mistress, would answer, enthusiastically: / “Your moon certainly ‘do look pow'ful handsome tonlght” - : When Mme. Fairfax journeved to the city to visit her son, Dahlia, looking out of the window with wondering eyes on the first evening of her life away from home, exclaimed, in a voice of mingled astonishment and ‘relief: “Well, I declar’ to goodness, if ole Mis’ Moon ain’t done come 'along to Washington wif me an ole mis’! We can’t be homesick nohow, wif ole Mis’ Moon shining on us.” - .

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