NOTHING LEFT TO HOLLER ON.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3630, 14 August 1880, Page 4

NOTHING LEFT TO HOLLER ON.

An hour or so after the latest and last from Chicago yesterday afternoon r policeman on Randolph street halted at tbe door of a saloon and asked the proprietor how he liked the nomination.

. " I doan' care for bolitics any more," was the reply. " Why, what's the matter ? You were greatly excited yesterday." "If I thas den I vhas a fool. Vhen dot first ballot was daken I set up der peer for de Grant crowd, for I likes to stand vhell mit der poys." "Yes." "Den a pig crowdt rushes in here and yells out dat Jim Plaine vhas de coming man, and I hand out de cigars, for mem poy vhants a blace in der Custom House, if Jim Plaine vhas Bresident." "Yes: I see." " Vhell, pooty soon comes mem brudder in and says I vhas a fool, for dot feller Sherman would git all der votes pooty queek. Ilinks off Sherman gits it mem boy haf a place in der Post Office, sure, und I calls in der boys and dells 'em to trink to my gandidate." "Just so." ' ' " I feels goot vhen I goes 16 bedt, but early in der morning some Aldermans comes aroundt her und says : ' Shake, tont pc a fool. Edmnndts ish der man who vhill kick 'em all to bieces.' Und I opens a fresh keg of lager und dells eferypody I vhas an Edmundts man, and I pet ten dollars he vhas voted in. iJis fornoon mem poy was for Grunt, mem brudder vhas for Sherman, und I vhas for Plaine, und vhere pc dose five kegs of lager dot I hadt dis morning ? Vhen I* goes home mem frdw she saidt I vhas zwei fools, und I locks up der saloon und goes to bedt."

" Well, have you heard who was nominated?" "Nien." " It was Garfield." "Garfeel? BySheorge! Idreatsavay seven kegs of lager, nsd two boxes of cigars, and it vas Garfee!! Veil, dot ends me oop. If I efer haf some more to do with bolitics den lam as grazy as bedt bugs. Garfeel! Veil—veil. Vhatafool I vas dot I save not mem peer and make azure blace for mem poy mit Garfeel.— Detriot Free Press.