The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-07

the field when the day of the primaries
came around. One ticket named men for
delegates, the other named women for del
egates.
EXCITING TIMES.
The week preceding the primaries was
exciting. The women held meetings every
night. and Mrs. Foraker. who attended
them. told US all about them.
The retired COW puncher met the horse
doctor one evening quite late The horse
doctor was not looking we'll
I'm - If I'm going home tonight"
What's the matterT'
TITS all UP. Next thing there will be a
divorce. She says if 1 speak to you again
and don't vote her way she will get a df-
vorce on the ground of what-do-you-calI-it
OF temper"
Come around to the meeting at Bob
PowelPs and report. Will see what's TO be
done said the -cow-puncher. They went
All the men looked sad They had griev-
ances to report.
II think We will succeed" said Foraker.
I've won over my wife; She wanted a
new dress. It's bribery, l know, but this is
a desperate case"
The men agreed on a plan of action. The
next day at breakfast a score of wives
learned that new dresses and new bonnets
would not be forthcoming unless the dele
gates named by the men were elected.
The women met in the afternoon, and
no suppers were cooked that night. No
suppers would be cooked, they said, unless
the men withdrew their ticket.
The men met that night, and the next
morning the grocers and butchers were told
that no more bills made by the wives
would be honored. The men ate their
meals at the restaurant. So the restaurant
Keeper also proftted by the fight
This man was engaged to a very pretty
young woman. Her mother ordered the girl
TO declare the engagement off unless the
man refused TO feed the men. The girls
father patted the young chap on the back
and told him that il would be all right in
the end. The young man went ahead with
MS work and the engagement was declared
By and by both. sides began to weaken.
Some OF the men sickened of the fight, and
a great many of the women compromised
on new dresses, SO that on the day. before
election neither side knew just where il
stood. If anything, it looked as if the men
had a majority Of some. two or three.
in the district hitched up and in the street
carrying voters to the polls. The inspectors
were men, but all the mothers-in-law in
town and all political women in town were
at the polls ready to challenge every vote.
All the pretty girls, too, were out, and
their electioneering reminded one very
at church fairs.
HOW THEY VOTED.
Early in the day the horse doctor went
to vote. His wife was at the polls, chal-
longing every voter. When she saw him
approaching she went up to him. She
handed him a ticket. She looked at him.
"John." she said. ''that ticket, remember,
or South Dakota"
"Divorce?' my DEAR said the little man.
o that ticket, John"
All right, my DEAR" said the horse doc
tor. He entered the booth, voted a ticket
he had folded in his hand, and came out
chewing something. When he saw that his
wife was not watching him he elected from
his mouth a Wad of fina uhifo naDar rNbau
he went over and had a drink and told
Foraker what he had done. Warning was
therefore issued to all the rest of the men
who might meet with such treatment at
the hands of their wives. There was a
great deal of paper eaten that day, and the
reason the women didn't win was because
half of their tickets were chewed up. Two
of the men were watched so cloSeiy that
they had to swallow the paper or face the
AT n:30 o'clock Mrs. Foraker lost eight
cen personal friends on the spot, and no.
body knows just how many she has lost
since then. AT that hour she approached
the booth to cast her vote. One of the
women handed her a ticket.
i've got one already" she said.
Yes"
Let me see it."
Mrs. Foraker showed her ticket. 1t was
Why, you've got the wrong one" said
the lady.
ITS the one I'm going to vote" declared
1Ao
"Oh, you traitor, y~ou-you-you-' Then.
IN the midst OF a lot of language, Mrs.
Foraker voted for her new dress.
When the vote was counted IL was dis
covered that the men had been victorious
by eighteen votes.
"Well,a least, said one woman voter. tri-
umphantly, when the result was announced.
everything has gone Republican, if we We're
defeated. It's a clean sweep"
IT had been a Republican primary.
That night at supper, after a long pause,
Mrs. Foraker said:
well, you were elected, my dear, and so
when may L have the new dress?'
You may have it now, on one condition"
replied her husband.
And that is%
That you leave politics strictly alone
forever and a day."
Il think l shall" she said. 'Tv got the
baby TO attend TO. and there's two weeks
work on my hands, and / haven't a woman
friend in the country now, since 1 voted
against them"