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Flannigan was nomynated enthusyastically at a prim'ry held in his bar-rn; an' before Willie Boye had picked out pants that wud match th' color iv th' Austhreelyan ballot this here Flannigan had put a man on th' day watch, tol' him to speak gently to anny ray-gistered voter that wint to sleep behind th' sthove, an' was out that night visitin' his frinds. Who was it judged th' cake walk? Flannigan.
'Snowball, says I. 'Step inside this dureway, says I, 'less Clancy, th' polisman on th' corner, takes me f'r an octoroon, I says. 'What ar-re ye do-in'? says I. 'How did ye enjye th' prisidincy? says I. He laughed an' told me th' story iv his life. He wint to practisin' law an' found his on'y clients was coons, an' they had no assets but their vote at th' prim'ry.
If he ain't marrid where'll he go f'r another kind iv throuble? An' where'll he find people to support? An unmarrid man don't get along in pollytics because he don't need th' money. Whin he's in th' middle iv a prim'ry, with maybe twinty or thirty iv th' opposite party on top iv him, thinks he to himsilf: 'What's th' good iv fightin' f'r a job?
'Why, he says, 'I see that man put up an' eight iv beer with wan hand, he says, 'holdin' it be th' rim, he says. 'None sthronger, he says. 'But will he carry Illinye? says th' lad fr'm Iaway. 'Will he carry Illinye? says Hinnissy. 'Why, man alive, he says, 'I've see him carry a prim'ry in th' sixth precint, he says. 'Is that enough f'r ye? he says.
The latter set the bill carefully into a big wallet of his own, "sunk" the calfskin, and buttoned up his buffalo coat. "It does beat blazes," stated "Sniffer" Orne, "what a messed up state all politics is in since this prim'ry business has put the blinko onto caucuses and conventions. Caucuses was sensible, Mr. Britt. Needn't tell me! Voters liked to have the wear and tear off 'em.
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