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The police are well acquainted with him, and he is proud of his notoriety. 'Snatchem' asked our reporter if he ever saw such 'a-rough and-tumble- stand-up-to-be knocked-down son of a gun as he in his life. Did you ever see such a kicking-in-the-head-knife-in-a dark-room fellow as I am, eh? Our reporter meekly answered 'no. I want a quarter-stretch ticket to go to glory, I do.
This business pitchforked the Governor-elect prematurely into the rough- and-tumble of "politics as she is," not always a dainty game. As I review in retrospect this famous chapter of state history, which, because of the subsequent supreme distinction of one of the parties to the contest, became a chapter in national history, I realize the almost pathetic situation of Mr. Wilson.
He was so big that he thought he could bluff me; but he did not know that I was about the worst man in that part of the country at that time to bluff at any game, more especially at the game of fight for I would rather have fought than not, and I did not think there was a man living in those days that could whip me in a rough- and-tumble.
He was an honorable, great-hearted man, and I can recall the time when no living man could do him up in a rough- and-tumble fight. Cow-boy Tripp was once doing the playing for me on the Missouri Pacific Railroad; and as I saw Sherman, I said to him: "See that conductor? I've got a little game going on here, and a first-class sucker in tow.
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