The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14

made up his mind that his private interests
would not permit him to accept renomina-
tion. He so informed his friends in Montana,
but they demonstrated and be made his decli-
nation more positive just before the
nominating convention met he received notice
from his friends that twenty counties had in
structed their delegates to vote for him, and
that be would have to run whether he wanted
to or not. Mr.. Carter once more declined, and
begged to have it considered final The day on
which the convention met still another
telegram came announcing that he
was going to be nominated. Mr..
Carter Immediately sent back word forbidding
the use of his name. This did not do any good,
however, and he received practically unani-
nous nomination. In few days he was in
formed of the action of the convention, and
that as the convention had dispersed there was
nothing for him to do but accept Mr.. Carter,
however, was still firm in his determination not
to run, and sent back a straightforward mes
sage to that effect. Since then he has received
petition signed by most of the delegates to
the convention insisting that he must yield to
the wishes of his constituents for the good of
the party and the new State. During the past
week Mr.. Carter has resigned himself to the in
evitable, and consented to accept the nomina-
tion and make the race.
Il X X
"The Compound Lard bill ought to pass the
Senate," said Washington commission mer-
chant, who does business of several hundred
thousand dollars year, the other day. at is
a move in the right direction, and l think every
merchant who handles adulterated lard will be
glad to have that article treated in the same
way as oleomargarine. Before the Oleomar-
garne bill was passed thousands Of packages of
that article were sold every week on Louisiana
avenue, where now hardly as many dozen pack
ages are sold. / think every merchant prefers
to sell straight goods, and if he must sell adul-
G lync fO how r1a1 hot
his customers can't make any mistake about
what they are getting. 1t is often said that lots
of people would just as lieve have the oleo
margarine as pure butter, but 1 tell
TO man. This is " oleomargarine, s
and that is butter and he will
take the butter every time. have sold thou
sands of packages of oleomargarine, but never
| sold one to man without letting him know
| what he was getting, and | must say that
| never made sale of foleomargarinswithout blush
| ing. l don't believe it is healthy, in spite of
what the chemists say, and l wish every bit of
it, and all that sort of stuff, was driven out of
the market If they want to make and sell
| compound lard they oughtto be forced to stamp
| it. so that every one will know just what they
are buying. If it is as good as pure lard there
can't be any harm in doing this, and if the men
| who make it are honest they ought to be will
| ing to give their competitors. who make pure
lard, fair show before the public"
| In talking about the Federal Election bill and
other measures intended to make elections fair
| and honest, Pennsylvania Congressman said
| the other day that he believed nothing was so
effective in this direction to have both parties
| thoroughly organized and watching every move
ment of each other. "Why,n he said, "In my
| district in Philadelphia there wasn't the ghost
of a show for any sort of Juggling with the cleo
tions or the returns, because the workers in each
| party made it their business to know every voter
| in the district, and just how he was going to
vote before his ballot was cast. BY the way,n
| he continued, zone of the best practical polit-
| clans of this kind we ever had was n woman
There were none of our workers on whose
| judgment and information we so com
pletely relied as on hers. Her husband and
| brothers. were all politicians, but when there
was something they wanted to find out and
couldn't they always turned it over to her and
she made success of it. If new family
moved into the district from some place outside
| the city shortly before election she would be
put on their trail, and in few days she would
come back chuck full of information about
them. She would find out who they We're, where
they came from, and how the men in the family
voted. Information of this kind was of the
greatest value to us, as we could by its aid
make our canvass practically perfect before cleo
tion day, and know just how many votes we
might expect 10 cast All sorts of schemes
have to be resorted to in political work of this
| kind to find out what voters real sentiments
are, and just how he is going to vote. A
favorite method to give the Tip to the keepers
| OF cigar stores and places of that kind,
where men drop in casually in the evening or
on their way to work. We would get the pro-
prietors or clerks in the stores interested, and
when we wanted to spot man who freQuented
the places we would have him casually drawn
into conversation about the election, and in
almost every case he would give himself away
without ever suspecting that he was being
pumped Where parties are organized as thor
oughly as this, and the workers watching each
| if the election laws are anyway good at all
there is mighty little chance of cheating"