Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-30
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loren n. Sessions Describes Tight FIX
he was IN Once While Electioneerine.
y Senator Warner Miller, with his
wife and daughter, and Secretary J.:
w. Vrooman OF the Republican State
Committee and his wife have been pass
ing q few days at the Chautauqua as
sembly, and the Senat or was in James,
town on his way to Titusville and
trip through the oil regions, under the
pilotage of DR.. W.. B. Roberts of oil
well torpedo fame. On the trip down
Chautauqua Lake there was a party
OF twelve or fourteen on board the
steam yacht, one Of whom was Loren
B. Sessions. " 9s'' = @~'&eszs z 4.
t The members of the party told
stories, and Mr.. Sessions story was
this:
"You never know how handy it is
to have a brother until you are in a.
tx and want some one to stand for
you. / remember when WAS nomi-
mated for the senate l had never gone
into Cattaraugus county, and as the
democrats there that year, were as
lively as a cheese in July, concluded
would run over. So put on aclean
choker, and made my way to the
home OF an old deacon, who volun-
teered to show me the school districts
IN his vicinity. Hitching up his old
mare into = three-spring, the deacon
drove me to his nearest republican
neighbor, and calling him out to the
wagon, introduced us. -
"Well, you needn't give us q knock
down to each other, said our friend
who was beaming ON me. I met Mr..
Sessions at Chautauqua this summer.
am glad to see you, and how is the
good work going on up there? How is
my Sunday school class?'
Il managed to make reply that
satisfied my questioner and our mutu-
al friend and, after little talk about
! politics, III which my Sunday school
acquaintance promised me his sup
port, we said good day and drove on
| to Horse Corners, so called because
OF the unusual degree of interest taken
in that locality in all things pertaining
| to horses.
'Now it CHANGED that while was in
Buffalo q few days before, Hound time
hanging heavily, and did an unusual
thing with me-went to the races. In
| the grand stand saw a countryman
who had pool checks IN his hand.
Let me See what horse you are bet
ting on I said, and then told him that
he was wrong, and had better hedge,
as the horse he held for q favorite
| would get beat. He followed my adj
vice, and by the merest good luck
| (here Mr.. Sessions gave sidelong look
that meant Maybe didn t know what
horse was slated to win, and maybe
| dld') the horse / named came in first.
| The man had put up his last dollar
and made purseful. He wanted to
! hug me In the presence of the crowd,
| but l told him We would defer that
| luxury.
"Well, to return to my drive through
! Cattaraugus county with the deacon,
who had become firmer friend than
ever since he had heard of my zeal in
the Chautauqua Sunday school. At
Horse Corners who should be the first
person l saw but my quondam friend
of the race course However much I
| would have liked to avoid him at that
time, I had nothing else to do but to
sail in and trust to good fortune to
save my character from being wrecked.
! The deacon stopped and said, MIR.
Blank, this is Mr.. Sessions of Chautau-
qua county, our candidate for the
Senate
81 reckon you can't tell me who he
is, said my horsey friend How are
you, MIR. Sessions? Didn't we SCOOP
those fellows out Of a slick sum at the
Buffalo races? There amt anything
too rich for you about here. II you
don't see what you want, ask for it,
! "The deacon's face blanched, and a.
letter of withdrawal danced before me,
but an inspiration came, and I replied
as readily us I could: Pm glad you
had good luck at Buffalo, but you are
mistaken in the party. 1t was my
| brother Walter whom you met there
1t was a mighty narrow escape, want
you to understand, and I told Walt
when T got home that he would ruin
my character if he didn't look ont. I
was elected, though if it hadn't been
for my Chautauqua experience and for
Walt, [ guess a democrat with my pre-
tentiono to being pious would havegot
there go