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exter. Mr. Jones, won’t you have the extreme ‘iinaneaeen eehand His Honor my card? Iam in an awful hurry. Eber Fme. Got to catch the 9 o’clock lightning express for Shadtor ssI belong to the old New York families. I am afraid I won't be! i atime. [Looks at watch.] Just tell the Mayor I am a son of | ( doDexter. Went to school with him—not myself, but the govern or? 4—my father, I mean. Please hurry, Mr. Jones. [Looks at watch.) ey Jones. Perhaps if you are in such a hurry you better call rs “a Dexter. Can’t, really. Most important ab business ; mus i:see him. +) en pieJones. Important public business ? Well, sit down, ‘then. oa |Dexter [looks at watch]. I can’t, now. Got no time. Imu st cateh that 9 o’clock for Shadtown. —Enter SLEEKER and a crowd. Sleeker. Mr. Jones, please take my card to the Mayor, an nd la nsure he will see me. I ama member of the Committee of Sever at Fo ¥Yes, Mr. Jones, I am a member of that gate boyBut you may tell His Honor than I don’t want an office. es ofOh! Oh! from crowd.| No, sir, I do not seek an office. [RISOh! from crowd.| But I just want to let him know that if an an |office seeks me, I will feel myself bound to accept that office. Pix e Jones. No use, now; you can’t see him. * A ae eae So eae ay Crowd. Yes, we wilt see if we don’t. . ao bie Jones. Well, step oieade a moment, and he may seeby one. | [Bee eu) THE OFFICE SEEKERS. eer ~ Enter Mayor, from opposite side. yor. "Well, aint luck ?aoe No use, Your Honor ; can’t put ‘them off—-worse thanAue are. ; tried everything told them pet were sick - rll resign; [ can’t stand. this work. It will cut me offBeebo of my days, I am certain. Is there no private doorrhich | I can leave this place ?n 8. Every way is well watched. If I might venture to, ok should say admit them by degrees, and then you willd of | them quicker. I'll see and get rid of them myseif.Mayor. or. Oh dear! this politics will be the death of me. Ohar! Well;let them in by degrees. [Beit Jones.[outside], Now, only one at a time. Got to take your| OW. spaly one at atime. Come on, Mr. Truthful. . Snter JONES aad TRUTHFUL. \ ul. How is Your Honor? Very happy to make yer1ished acquaintance. Heard yer was an old fogy ; gladrer good for 20 years yet. How’s Mrs. Mayor and all thelayors? How do you like the office? Excellent posi-ut yer’l get used to it. I—but I suppose you know me ?- Really—that is—in fact—I.believe—that is to say,anno. Indeed you have the advantage of me. Neverto have met you, Mr. Truthful. Your name is not) among politicians. . What! never heard of me, the Hon. Julius Truthful.I was born down in the 4th Ward, I was. Have heldfant positions in public life. None of yer stuck-up,od, kid-gloved politicians, I ain’t. I am an American [reading Truthful’s card]. ‘The Hon. Julius Truthful,, ¥ : Fs . i rot oe 2 au hae as er od sd wer , your neck on the cobble stones. [Zo Stubbs]. Well, what ¢ can nido for you? tin a 3 Stubbs. I am an applicant for a vacant Commissionership, meewill introduce Hon. Sam. Chinner, President of the AmericanWorkingmen’s United Protective Ancillary Political ‘ReformSociety. Ee ser . Chinner. How do you do? On behalf of the Anionic » Work. eeingmen’s United Protective Ancillary Political Reform Society, aI beg leave to introduce Mr. Moses Scribble, Secretary of our r rSociety, who will read a petition signed by 500,000 of the most y ¥influential citizens of this emporium. ae BiMayor. Don’t read the names please, or Pll be cut off in hig Y ae |Chinner. Oh, only the most influential—about 100,000 or 80. a Won't take Mr. Scribble long; you'll be delighted to see him | SF 4!
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