Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1899 — Any Old Persimmons. [ARTICLE]

Any Old Persimmons.

The secretary of the “Persimmon Brigade” organization is sending around to the papers of the state a rfotice for publication to the effect that at their annual reunion in September, a resolution was passed pledging the brigade to work for and receive'the nomination of some member of the brigade for Governor on the Republican ticket. No member of the brigade in particular was decided upon, the idea being probably that any old Persimmon would do. General Wilder, the commander of the brigade in the ! war, is not available, for he lives : in Tennessee, but it is considered, ! by the brigade, that the nomina- , tion for vice president is about his size. Inasmuch as the present Governor was a Persimmon brigader, it is perhaps only natural, even if a little nervy, for the brigade to be willing to keep such a desirable job in the family, so to speak. The cool way in which these Persimmon fellows go about to lay claim to every good thing in sight, even when they don’t j known what they will do with it ! when they get it, is only the natural 1 result of their war experience. | * I Being mounted infantry, they were kept on the scouting and raiding business so constantly, where they had to take what they wanted or go without, thafc they got so in the habit of laying; hands on everything that cam* their wfcv that they just can’t h*4p doing the same thing now Well, that is all right from the standpoint of the brigade members, but in the views of other people there were lots of brave fighters besides the persimmon knockers, and some who would no doubt fit the Governor’s chair just as well.