Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-13

mentioned the civil or the pension list
become frenzied in his contrast of the earn.
inEs of a pitman with the inherited income
of duke, and signify in very audible and
expressive language his conviction that a
time was coming when: all this he could
do as well as the most conscientious dema-
goEue that Wallsend had ever had the good
luck TO listen to.
1t was clear, therefore, that John Ham
mer was their man.
What wilt say, my woman, when thy
John tacRs NJ. to his name?" quoth the
candidate to his wife, week before the
polling day. An it'll COON to pass, nv
lass, tex my word for it!''
II shanna know what to say, John. It'll
be so Strange-lOike; an oime no sure it'll be
good for ayther O the pair of U.S."
'Thee bist fulep' said John; and in his
displeasure he swung the latch of his little
cottage at tour-and-six a week, and strobe
into the high road.
Here he chanced to encounter Mr.. Jug
gins, the master of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Nutcracker-makers and Glass
blowers; and together they adjourned for
the rest of the day to the "Jolly Bacchus, -
4 snug public house with vast deal of pol
lshed brass about its fittings, and sanded
floor.
Mr.. Juggins controlled 1S7 votes in the
coming election. He and John were on the
most friendly terms. 1t was mainly due to
him that the six wirepullers of the district
had chosen their present candidate. Mr.
,Juggins was immensely ambitious. He was
small, and feverish Of speech, with tuft of
gray beard, and habit of winking his eyes
5or no apparent reason. He received H3 a
week from the nutcracker makers and glass
blowers, for whom he kindly acted as cor
pOrate treasurer, as well as secretary. coup-
sellor and friend. But it did not content
him. He had seraphic visions of State
patronage in the hands of John Hammer.
M. P, the best piclzings of which would in
the time to come fall to Barzillai Juggins.
Hence the inspired feIvor of his utterances
TO the glass blowing and nutcracker making
electors, whose votes he held in the palm
OF his hand. John Hammers your man,
nay dear friends. He'll put his foot down
on the infamous abuses which crush the poor
working-man out of the position which is
his right by the laws of heaven, and equity,
and nature, and common sense. Down.
therefore, with the pampered aristocrat and
the pension list, and up with the candidate
of the A.A.N.G.r'.
Messrs. Scarth, Perkins, Robinson.
Abbott, and Banks, the other five wire
pullers Of Wallsend, were much like Bar
zillai Juggins Each had the lingering of
number of votes of the local colliers and me-
chanics. Each in public professed princi-
plies the most Unselfish and phiIanthropic,
which all pointed to John Hammer as their
eventual representative; and each, in the
privacy OF his heart cared only for himself
These five worthy gentlemen were mar
rled. JUggins, on the other hand, was
bachelor. The women of the dis
trict-a hardtongued class-were wont
10 say in jest that Barzillai would
explode his wife out of doors two or three
times day, if he had such tender help
mate; and perhaps he would.
1t was the 2Oth of May-the month of
hOwers-and the election was to take place
on the 9th.
There seemed so little doubt about the
issue between John Hammer, the lsbor can
dldate, and the Hon. Ponsonby Vane Fitz-
roy, the Conservative nominee, that the re-
suit was held to be a foregone conclusion bv
the press. John Hammer, who could write
GOOD text-hand, spent his time in answer
lng letters OF congratulation and INQUIRIES
about his political intentions from
men whom he had never seen
or heard of He had resigned
his situation as foreman in the Ten-Aere
Coal Company month back, and existed
penuriously upon his small savings. II
seemed only reasonable that the committee