PARTY - ALLEGIANCE.
In tie days gone by a Detroit Sheriff who had made a close shave of being elected, had the ill-lack to lose a prisoner from gaol. The fellow made good his escape to the country, but the Sheriff overhauled him about eight miles out, and drove him under a barn. The prisoner was captured and yet he was not. If he could not got out the Sheriff could not get in, and threats had no effect upon him. In this emergency the officer called out:
“ Say, Jim.” “ Yes.” “You know I had a mighty close shave getting this office ?” “ You did that."
“ Well, I’m laying my pipes for a second terra. If 1 lose you I might as well hang up. The opposition will hold it up in letters four feet high, and hundreds of men in my own party will slip my name. Do you hear me ?’ “ I do.”
“ Well, I ask you to come out ; not exactly as a prisoner going back to gaol, but more as a patriot bound to stand by his party. Come, Jim.” “ I’ll be hanged if 1 don’t,” replied the prisoner. “ The judge was agin me, my sentence was unjust, and I hate your gaol ; but if it’s going to help the party, and crush the hydra-headed opposition, ont I come!"
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2844, 6 May 1882, Page 3
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220PARTY- ALLEGIANCE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2844, 6 May 1882, Page 3
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