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Go To Raising Ducks

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
October
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Smith's Advice to Farmers Who Inquire About Wheat.

As illustrative of Candidate Henry C. Smith's flippant manner, the following Flat Rock incident is given from that good republican authority the Detroit Journal of Tuesday evening. Perhaps when Smith asks the farmers for their votes in November, they may answer the candidate with "go to raising ducks," as he did the Flat Rock farmer who inquired about wheat. But here is the story:

Out at Flat Rock the other night an old farmer interrupted the speech of Henry C. Smith, the republican nominee for congress in the second district.

"How about wheat?" asked the farmer insistently. "How about wheat? We can't make any money raising it any more."

Mr. Smith wasn't in the least disconcerted by the interruption.

"Remember," asked Smith as quick as a flash "remember what Tim Tarsney told the lady at Saginaw? It was when Tim was mayor of Saginaw and one day a lady came down to complain to him of his administration because the water pipes in her cellar had burst and drowned a number of chickens she had there.

"Chickens!" said Tim "chickens! Madame why don't you raise ducks?"

Flat Rock thinks the answer to the farmer about the best thing of the campaign to date and hasn't yet got through laughing it out.