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SATIRE - PART 1
#16 - AN INDEPENDENT DARKEY

Size: 5" x 3"
Date: Undated
Lithographer: Unidentified

Arbuckle - An Independent Darkey

AN INDEPENDENT DARKEY.
CANDIDATE--"What are your politics, Pete?"
PETE--"I dunno, Boss."
"Are you radical?"
"No, sah."
"Are you Democratic?"
"I reckin so. I's rheumatic. Democratic and rheu-
matic am pretty much de same, I reckin. Dey sounds
mighty like."     From Texas Siftings, by permission.

Originally published in Texas Siftings: Vol. 9, No. 3 - May 19, 1888


-- image source courtesy of Jerry Anderson
Artist: VerBeck