The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-11-05
the wOHAN Nv POLlrluS.
Not so E.OsiCal nS Lucy Stone, But
Perhaps ns Effective,

HcrhapS as Effective,
From tue New YotE World
Alter hours OF coaching, she swelled
sCrenely and really felt US il she knew IA
mnch about politics as any of them. 1t
must have been born in me, and now
breaks out suddenly as Sara Bernhardts
talent for scnlpting," she said. To gee
how quickly she flung CROCHET mats and
embroidered tides to the winds and tookto
her new role is r marvel. "Iet the old
house take care Of itself" she said wildly.
"My ticket ia made out, and there's lots Of
back bone in it, too, and I'll stand on this
platform till Idrop, and won't ever drop;
and you Just see me freeze to civil service
reform and clean streets and more water
on the top 0oor-.nO to be forever pumping
itup-and rapid transit and everything"
Then she bought stunning new hat and
several pairs Of lovely six buttoned gloves
and went on the wsr.path. "They may
caucus and caucnp," she said az she tug.
ged at her glove buttons with a hair.pin,
and got red trying to pull them through
-"they may caucus until they are black
in the face, but l won't go back on my
friends, and Uncle John will have the in
side track or l will have somebody's
scalp in this campaign, and that for their
old regular nomination! Nothing Ia reg.
ular that is wrongw and abe viciouSly
stuck the now twisted hair.pin in her
back puils at random.
But she does not talk like that outside.
Her mode OF attacking an ordinary NOR
tai man ia very simple. "Oh, please,
won't you vote for my candidate" He
stammers, hesitates, and is fool enough to
ask, Why? She pulls pathetic little
face, clasps the gloved fingers together in
cntrcaty, and says, illogically, "Oh, be.
cause | want you to-" She has OF course
50glib reasons TO back her request; she
thoroughly kuows the catechism OF the
campaign; can bring out her candidates
strong points with vigor and her enemy's
weak ones with venom, but she knows a
trick worth two Of that. She smiles and
smiles, and isa-woman. She believes
in her sonl that the weak point in Gail
Hamilton is her extreme strength OF ar.
gumeRt, so she does not argue ut all. You
can't slide of the subject, though, and tao.
kle tho weather or the cuckoo song" in
Marjolaine," for she gently skips you
back 10 your mutton, or rather her NUT.
ton, and ia persistent for Yes or NO"
II you are brute enough to refuse point
blank, she looks at you with mute twit-
ching mouth, and two miserable big eyes
in which tears gather, and quickly, soft
ly vanishes, saying with extreme gentle
ness, "Good.by. Thank you (which
sounds like Sigh, reproach, caress,
all in one. You feel as mean as II you
had struck little boy or wrung cana.
ry birds neck. You 60 over and over
the interview in your own mind and are
wretched. You might have soitened the
blow, you think, butishe went in such n
hurry. You neglect your business all
the afternoon, and ut night you write her
note promising everything, and SO you
so back on your party and feel like
sneak all round.
To tradespeople she is gay and friend.
ly, and promises untold custom for ever
and day, and she really means II at the
time. She advises with them about their
little ones, and kisses the baby and pre-.
scribeS for it; but there is no acting about
this, and the trades people know it, for
not u day passes but she kisses and purs
over pretty little beggar.chtldren in the
streets and gives them pennies, with
which, il they are masculine waits, they
Immediately HE round the corner and
invest in cheap cigars. / heard her say
that next week she will beard the news
paper lions in their very dens, and she
has pretty song about "Brahma Hens "
to tickle one into submission.