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...Cigar-Chewer Sirs...
...been my thought that executions usually carried an air of solemnity and the cigar-chewer does not seem to add dignity and sobriety to the occasion. However, maybe I'm wrong...
Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche, a novice tobacco-chewer, squirted a stream at a Statehouse cuspidor at Baton Rouge, was so pleased when he hit it that he remarked: "I'm going to challenge the Texans to a tobacco-spitting contest...
Texas' Governor James V. Allred promptly accepted the challenge in Dallas but delegated the spitting to expert Expectorator Leonard Pack, chief of the Centennial Police. No chewer himself, the Texas Governor refused to compete because: "They say it takes time to achieve accuracy and poise...
...beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to elect him Kansas' first Senator in 1861. He is elected, goes thoroughly jingo when the first shell bursts over Fort Sumter, becomes chairman...