Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-10-19

the other side Of the tracks; Fat Tom Will
liams, who always had three story lodg-
Ing house stored with "bums" for election
day, and many other influential men of
the district. AS nearly as he could gather,
there was an overwhelming sentiment in
his favor, but in order to steady it and
hold it intact against the oorrupting in1u-
ence of McClintock certain sums Of mon
ey would have to be judiciously expended
for beer. He had been assured that he
would not have to attend to the details.
Bull Mckenzie had explained that.
"Gi'me pinch o. dough-" said Mr.. Nc.
Kenzie, IAN can pipe off tn push; gf'me
sjolly, an you'll have q lead pipe. Savey'"
Chris began to see that his campaign
would need lubricating. But he was more
than ever determined to win, not only to
make triumph for the taxpayers, but to
humiliate McClintock, who had been re-
ported by Butch Magnus as saying that
he would give the goat kibosh an
t'row the boots into i'm" The applica-
tion of "goat" naturally in1amed Chris as
there was an implied reference to the chin
whiskers.
Before the campaign was many weeks
old Chris ascertained that it would be nee
cssary to Eight the devil with fire." as he
put it. He felt sure that along any resi-
dence street he could get ten votes to Nc
Clintock' S one, but in the dark end of tho
district McClintock had an all powerful
drag" The legislator owned a saloon
with back room attachment for ladies, he
was an honorary member of the "social"
and pleasure" clubs and had rescued so
many prisoners from the Bridewell and
police stations that large proportion Of
voters were under heavy obligations to
him.
McClintock had his enemies, however.
and Bull Mckenzie was one of them. 1t
was the latter who escorted Chris through
the dark end of the district while the sa-
loon canvass was being made Chris woro
all his badges and came home at night
reeking with ginger ale and loaded down
with cigars.
The front Of the grocery was plastered
with announcements of German concerts,
Swedish dances, Irish demonstrations, COL
ored peoples cake walks. Chris bought
tickets for everything that came along.
He ordered union label cigars and gave
stick candy to the Irish children, in order
to soften any possible prejudice against
his name. He sat up at night to calculate
the strength Of the secret society vote and
paid SIS to get his picture into paper
that he had never heard of before.
On the morning of primary day he was
seen to jump into his buggy, lash the poor
sorrel and dash wildly away. Mrs. Elber-
son came running to the front gate and
watched the rattling buggy swing around
the corner.
That evening she went to the Maxwells,
crying over an evening paper which said
that Chris Elberson, leader of the anti
McClintock crowd, had challenged tho
vote of Buck Flanders, colored stevedorc,
and had been attacked and chased through
laundry.
Mr.. Maxwell went to look for Chris and
found him in Metzger's saloon, pounding
the bar with his hat and declaring that
the cause of good government would ''get
there, and don't you forget it," For the
first time in his life Chris was under the
influence Of liquor.
At the convention next day McClintock,
the peoples choice, was renOminated by