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VOLUME THIRTEEN
MO'CKSVILLE, N. C., March, 1924.
NUMBER TWO
Hello, Donkeyites
We are Coolidgeites, Johnson Ikes
_ and °il A boom, according to the dictionary, The Republican
y Makes.
party --the name
_ - We are very greasy at present; the is a number of things, amon �,�, • �' + int states and may Iast as long as �°f greed, -borne b mei
• g high twenty years, coming and 02n Y z�►ha make
oil has splattered all of us in the is a sudden outburst of po ular f going g with avarice their creed; w orshi i
p avor the various campaigns requi mon from morn til ng Mani
face, and we fear some of us are 'in or a loud noise. q all ni t
along a vast amount of fertilizing ghat `known for
consequence out of the 1924 race. Some booms of the noise variet are • 'zing and Its hatred of justice and right.
Y pruning. A g •
Were a nice bunch of oil splatter- produced by cannon and are exceed- Presidential boom may The` Republican ,
ingly hard on the ears. Boom be killed down to the roots in half Plutocrats party..—a hand of
ed pups, lying uneasily in the Cool- s of the F .9 Proud •
idge casket; after November we ma former kind are prod•�ced b dozen campaigns, onI to a a money -stuffed
Y admir- Y appear again organization, spurning the crowd •
Y ing friends and are terribly • • and shoot forth each four years and flaunting '
corn°pose a nice looking corpse in a y debilitat- g their riches in
Republican casket. ing on the bloom as �f nothing had ha face neo Poverty's
Pocket book. Vice resid Peened' never heeding the reckon
The Democrats say we are a bunch When a prominent citizen becomes p ential booms are of two that's coming ing
afflicted with a boons citizen
must be iv- sorts --those started with the intention The Republicang apace.
of old hard -hits to have 'hold the gov-
ernment g party
—past tits. W en attention at once. A ver small of shelving some prominent man into ter o f parll w past the
e deny being gaii., boldly following in the
g hard- boom, the size °f a Y I1 the vice presidency .and thus g
hits, but we can hit hard, alIri ht, man's hand on getting footsteps = .
g the inside columns of a Hews ' rid of him, and those in which an Ps of Ca`j2, rudely crurshing
Coolidge, he's the ad of out raft., paper, otherwi all —`ho stan '
• se �,.�4r-- heir th
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_ . wh4e the.,•oily iIC4a v e4yrr _ _.r ;may grow in a single week to ars An_ unprominent rr�an is hoisted °' creatures wt,,, � oppress.
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t aft. - � our na-�1� ° �x:Tai•ters with a card ..�.., ��, - �,,, to :,.�u�.� st:�� v� �---- - tiA��
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-- campaign I otherwls�. -� � .
►!.- ~rtl�anager D�,�� ," arles . W. Fair -
I a short time now our ai�t a brass band, a barrel and banks Jam , The ublican Party—
Ill h
p y m - � es S Sherman � � s g Priest .
any other distressing complications. an omas of aII wro
komplex will be complete, we'll Abe Marshall, late vice ;', leading their fool vot- l
hack in the Booms are usually started b de- presidents were ers in a h rrible son making
Pit of defeat where the voted friends for the Y successfully entombed by the first �'� n� of
imps Will ask Mr. Coolidge e purpose of mak- them playthings and tools, ah, isn't
g to take ing a roan president, or senator, r method, but this scheme backfired in
s seat. , o the casetheir millions . a band of poor ?
congressman, or legislator, or count of Theodore Roosevelt, p fools
Y Teddy Roosevelt ; The Repub can party --whose t_
In November the nation will blow clerk, or ,alderman, or eV was nominated , v'°
en post- vice president by his enemies in 1900 er-straights are slaves, political serfs
like a freight train jack, the whole master. Aman who is .
no horticuI- in order to shelve him for` all time, from their births to their graves;
business will jump back into the turist at all can o out in
� g February However, the McKinley misfortune racking a whip of falsehoods and
Donkey's sack and some Democrat's l 'and sow a bumper crop0
hat will be hanging f booms. was T. R.'s 11eS, slugging hard workers right be-
�'• g on the White j Along in March or April however, good fortune. Calvin � g
House hat rack, and our aId elephant mighty efficient e ' it nominated in order to shelve him. � tween the eyes.
p takes a mi y t politicial The Republican
will never come back. � Coolidge, on the other hand, was not � . p n party --a i:d Cool-
idge to nurse the booms along and He Cvas on :edge is no relief
Protect them from frosts. Booms are n e of the class who would � over all Repubii-
The Democrats say there is fun of have cans he tower
'ahead in 1924, more in fact than ever very susceptible to frost and freezes, attained prominence in any, s as chief, hard
The
his
other way, ; followers in bourbon;c hives who in
before; what our Republican politic -1 A boom can lie down and freeze to turn
ions will tell will be fun o you—all 'death or otherwise foolishlyexpire There are lesser booms than presi- ; demands their labor, who
t y all while its owner is going p e dential and vice presidential booms. � and lives.
about the standpatters and ex_ g g around with Booms for The '
out a collar or tie U. S. Senator are common, Republican party --a disgrace
Mooses---,ali about we voter -straight gasping for breath and boom t�o our
s for ,the lower house of soil, smearing our officialq
gooses, in the clear spring weather. Even
Congress are very frequent. There with justice,
lucre and oiI;, disregard-
s single Iocal item in a home paper
NoW, gentlemen, don't run off and will sometimes are booms for state officers ing justice 'ud es
etimes cause a boom which , and J g and courts, oh
pout, as our little rhyme is about to ! after spreading 1 booms for county offices. Through they are a sight; • a
p g over several states 1 g g menace to Lib_
Play out; it's Like we Republicans in' will come o booms of various kinds and sizes erty, truth and right.
home curl u ght.
this big nation, our present and fu- single p 'and die in a 1 political debts can be aid The
g e night, paid, et has Republican party—Very soon
ture prospects have filtered through i T now become the c�astom for a news- You will stand at
into the oil , he biggest and longest boom is � the bar of a court
Y•�pot of damnation. the presidential boom paper to mention a man for office Your gold can not damn; at the
These prey whenever he a bar
` pays a two years sub- of a
'aeon the favorite sons of the differ- people, aroused from their.
scription in advance. shame, who forever will banish u
devils and your name.
----- "No, my dear, George Washington � � � °
Little Jane was saying ?Was the father of his countryg � �'�' al grafters, in prison even more Friends: Whatever You
Y g her prayers; , but ruthlessly than we were going to at don't Y do now,
and asking God to take care of about ' G9d is the Father of us all. " miss THE HORNET in 192
any time in the last three years. See that our subscription
erything she could think of. i Jane was thoughtfully silent fora Y bscrep�tion don't ��
out. The people '�
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I guess God will take care of us," moment, and then exclaimed: There is much talk a p p e are going to kick
said the mother. "You know, Jane �, "But, mother, if that is so I these da f Prosperity the lid off the G. O, P. ash bagel.
where days. We shouldn't become again, axi�d THE HORNET
God Is the Father of us all." `does daddy come in ?" mistaken in the matt and its
"'� matter because the friends are going to be the !�
Why, mother,-" exclaimed Jane., ° . 1 big profiteers and tariff baron
ono He iisn't; George This is presidential election s aren t to take a peek into the barrel,
This
a sin Year i in reduced circumstances—that's n
g ,and we suppose all hands and ° Come on with a bunch of your neig�i..
� ever bad are g reason the common jays aren't in a � boys who may want
} Y y going to put the great bad row of stumps. Y tato a P"k
I P I with us.' s.
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