On other fat portrait he have wrote:
HON. WM. H. TAFT
He Will Deliver the Goods out of Kindness
I were a-standing by sidewalk making eye-glances at them 2 sweet portraits & choosing which to vote for (if Yellow Peril could do so, thank you) when uply come Arthur Kickahajama with sad-dogged expression of dizzy heart.
“Hashimura Togo,” he unpack, “why you gaz at them 2 Presidents with rapture of ears?”
“Soon one will be elected,” I apply, “& then troubles of this Kingdom will be all over.”
“Over!!” dib Arthur Kickahajama for shreech. “Over!!!” He make thrills of knuckles which are sure symbol of allepeptick fits.
Then he drag from interior pocket of coat some rippings from newspaper-press which he read me with hearse voice. From Daily Hoot, violently conservative Republican paper, he read as following:
“‘If Bryan are elected ruin will be enjoyed everywheres. Heaven are expected to fall any minute. Corn will refuse to grow in Kansas & National Guard will be called out to make it do so. In South niggers will be darker & more lynched. Hens will neglect to surrender their eggs. America will be considerably cursed. Election of Hon. Bryan should be cause of great national funeral.’”
“So glad to hear this in time,” I riggle. “Therefore I shall vote for Hon. Taft if I could.”
Arthur for glum read following editorial from Daily Riot, seriously Democratick hand-organ: