The Fable of the Peoples Choice Who Answered the Call of Duty and Took Seltzer (1914)

The political bosses knew it was an off year and they needed a Goat to run for City Clerk They didnt want a regular guy to get stepped on so they started out to find a Fish They found a nice man who ran a feed store and had lots of coin so they pounced on him Mr Bolivar was his name and he drank malted milk and said whom and did everything that was nice They jollied him until he really thought that he was the man for the position and when his wife tried to save the poor simp he only said he must answer the call of duty that the Peepul wanted him He sometimes wondered if the other fellow would get any votes at all Little by little the bosses were drawing on his bank account and on the night of election he was broke He lost the fight by 20000 votes and when he looked for his pushers they had skipped