Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — Just Like His Father. [ARTICLE]

Just Like His Father.

“My old black auntie,” said Represent tative John Allen to a Washington Post man, “the old black shepherdess who raised me, and who still looks on me as a lamb of her rearing, grows at times very congratulatory and proud of me. “ “Deed! I Is proud of you, Mars John,’ she said, on the occasion of our last meeting. ‘I takes de vastest pride in ye, honey, an’ de way you does hoi’ office. You is jes’ like yo’ of father, Mars John, jes’ like him fo’ de worl’. He was allar hol’ln office same as you, honey; hoi’ office all de time, yo paw did, an’ he ’minds me of you so much. ’Deed, I’se proud of bof of ye.’ “ ‘Why, what office djd my father hold? I asked. I was a bit astonished, for while I had a dim recollection of the old gentleman running several times, I never knew, of any office he held. ‘What office did my father hold?’ “ ‘Sho! Mars John; you go an’ forget de office yo’ father hoi’,’ the old aunty replied, reproachfully. ‘l’se ’shamed fo,’ you. He was a candidate, Mars John. De whole neighborhood remember it well. All his life he hoi* dat office, yo’ paw does; never I knows him when he warn’ta candidate. Looks like you an’ yo’ father jes’ same that away; bof alters hol’ln’ office.’"