Author Archives: Pop Haydn

FREE Pop Haydn Campaign Button!

This is Pop Haydn’s campaign button for the coming election.

You can wear it proudly to show that you are no sucker! You know who you are voting for, and what you’re going to get out of it, and you don’t care! You know that you will never be disappointed voting for Pop!

We are putting together a FREE membership package for the Greater American Confidence Party, including this button, a lovely poster postcard, the official Greater American Confidence Party membership card and more.

It will be free to anyone who signs on to our member mailing list HERE, and don’t forget to include a mailing address in the Comment Box.

We will only email you on rare occasions when we have something important to announce.

The package should be ready in a couple of weeks.

If you are fed up with politics as usual, join the GACP!

We are a completely virtual party, with a completely virtual candidate and we put the emphasis on PARTY.

We won’t share your information with anyone, except maybe the C. I. A., and only if they threaten to waterboard us…

(You know they already have it, anyway…)

Thanks!

Posted on September 11, 2011 | Image

Pop Haydn — The Ambitious Card

Posted on September 11, 2011 | Image

Getting taken twice by Soapy Smith

From Jeff Smith:

“Some of my favorite stories involving Soapy and his Tivoli Club in Denver are the times he was able to swindle the same dupes twice. A good confidence man can take any victim once, but only a great one can take the same victim twice on the same day. Think of the smooth intellect needed to fool a man twice.

“You need to know that I don’t condone or admire crime. However, anyone who studies Soapy for the shortest amount of time ends up admiring his methods, much the same way a police detective might admire an intelligent crook. My website has a saying I changed around to meet my needs. “He left his mark on history, so we won’t become one.”

“My book has two such examples in which victims were lured back into the Tivoli Club after having gone to the police and complained about the first case. In the example below the victim did enter the den a second time but was able to escape before he was taken again…so he says.”

GRANGER HELD UP

“Twice inveigled into a Gambling Den on Seventeenth Street. The latest hold-up on Seventeenth street is reported from the gambling rooms over the Tivoli saloon, Seventeenth and Market streets. As the result of a brief experience in the notorious resort Rudolph Hann mourns the loss of $95 in hard cash which he earned by the sweat of his brow on a Kansas ranch.

“The lamb from the Sunflower state floated into Denver Friday night and put up for the night at one of the cheap down-town lodging houses. There he was evidently spotted and yesterday forenoon as he meandered out to view the scenes of the rising metropolis he was approached by a smooth stranger who inveigled him into the Tivoli gambling rooms. Three men were playing cards at one of the tables.

“The new comer was presented with a handful of checks and in five minutes he arose, loser by $130. Upon applying at the police station he was sent back to the place accompanied by an officer, and succeeded in recovering $35. Before night Hann was inveigled a second time into the building but made his escape and took the first train for his old home in Kansas. He related his story to a News reporter as the train left the union depot.”

Rocky Mountain News, 1893

From www.SoapySmith.net

Posted on September 10, 2011 | Image

Important Pop Haydn Maxim:

“In Sanity is Truth!” — Pop Haydn

Posted on September 9, 2011 | Quote

Free Postcard!

This is Steve Mitchell’s wonderful poster “Vote Pop!” printed on a postcard you can send to some hapless friend who is unsure of the best way to participate in the democratic process..

We are putting together a FREE membership package for the Greater American Confidence Party, including a button, poster postcard, the official membership card and more.

It will be free to anyone who signs on to our member mailing list HERE, and don’t forget to include a mailing address in the Comment Box.

We will only email you on rare occasions when we have something important to announce.

The package should be ready in a couple of weeks.

If you are fed up with politics as usual, join the GACP!

We are a completely virtual party, with a completely virtual candidate and we put the emphasis on PARTY.

We won’t share your information with anyone, except maybe the C. I. A. They already have it, anyway…

Thanks!

Posted on September 9, 2011 | Image

About “principles”

Principles are of the utmost importance, like ballast–you always want to have something left at the last minute that you can still throw overboard.”

–Pop Haydn

Posted on September 9, 2011 | Quote

Tired of politics as usual? Join a virtual party…

This is our beautiful new membership card for the Greater American Confidence Party.

We are putting together a FREE membership package for the GACP, including a button, poster postcard, the official membership card and more.

It will be free to anyone who signs on to our mailing list here, and includes a mailing address in the comment box.

We will only email you on rare occasions when we have something important to announce.

The package should be ready in a couple of weeks.

If you are fed up with politics as usual, join the GACP!

We are a completely virtual party, with a completely virtual candidate and we put the emphasis on PARTY.

Thanks!

Posted on September 9, 2011 | Image

The Floods

I think that the river is a strong brown god

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river
Is a strong brown god—sullen, untamed and intractable,
Patient to some degree, at first recognised as a frontier;
Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce;
Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges.
The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten
By the dwellers in cities—ever, however, implacable.
Keeping his seasons and rages, destroyer, reminder
Of what men choose to forget. Unhonoured, unpropitiated
By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.
–T. S. Elliot “Dry Salvages” Four Quartets