Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-03-21
CLANCY OF CHICAGO.
HCW THAT STATESMAN RAN THE
ELECTION m THE FIFTH.

and Coming Hh Way In Hacks, but
When tho Votes Were Counted "IIss
Been" Was Very Much In Evidence.
Thomas Clancy rose early. Stepping
10 tho window, he drew back the cur
tains and noted with apparent satisfao-
kion that the weather was misty. cold
and altogether cheorless. "That," said
Mr.. Clancy, "is good. 1t makes 1t easier
to keep the boys in line"
II hope you'll be careful. T" said his
mother.
To this warning Mr.. Clancy paid lit
Tile heed, and when his sister added, II
know you'll be hurt-ed," he shifted
ldisdainfully. and intimated that what
women did not know about politics
would fill several large books.
"Well. / hope your sido wins any
way" said Miss Clancy, smiling and
gazing fopdly at her brother with such
lustrous eyes IA are the inheritance OF
every north Of Ireland girl. Somewhat
Modified by his sisters good wishes,
mr.. Clancy grinned and remarked that
"the boy as could throw Martie Honan
up in the air didn't live in the Fifth
ward.
Half way down the block he met the
vice president Of the ward club.
'How's every old thing?" remarked
the vice president by way Of greeting.
"Comin our way an comm in hacks,
Terry" said Mr.. Clancy
Mr.. Clancy knew precisely where his
"ba;liwick, as he called the Fifth
ward, ended and where it began. With
in these boundaries Mr.. Clancy counted
as his personal and intimate friends not
less than 1000 ablobodied mon, all en-
powered by age. length Of residence
or by their naturalization papers to ex-
ercise the inestimablee privileges OF the
ballot.
Having espoused the cause of his
friend, Martin W. Honan. who had
expressed aldermanic ambitions, Mr.
Clancy intended, as he himself put it,
''to sec Martie winner If it took
leg."
Of the other candidates Mr.. Clancy
spoke no i'll, but announced kindly,
though firmly, that he "passed 'em up
for a better boy" Wall, one Of the
candidates, Thomas disposed CT by say.
ing, "Ho amt got no show at oil nor
no call to run" Such, in truth, ap-
peared to be tho fact.
The polls did not open until o'clock
in the afternoon. Pending that time
Clancy and the vice president busted
themselves in ways known to practical
poll -icians. They visited the lumber
yards down by the river and talked to
the lumber showers there employed.
sat on tho cinder heaps, singing the
praises Of Honan. In brief, before noon
they had made pretty thorough can
vass of the ard, and not one man to
whom they talked but pledged his vote
to Martie Honan. Suchwas Tommy's
power in the ward.
Thomas Clancy went to tho polling
place and loaded his pockets with Ho-
nan tickets Pinning Oh his breast q
white silk badge with the name of his
precinct across it, Mr.. Clancy started to
work. The fervor Of battle was in him,
and he paused not for food or drink un-
til long after o'clock at night. How
he rode from polling place to polling
place, how he blarneyed and joked and
argued and pleaded, how he routed out
all the laggards and how he brought
them UP in hacks and buses-all these
things may not be herein told, but they
are held in grateful memory by Mr.. Ho-
nan, whose battles Tommy SO manfully
fought.
IAN the best part Of ut was," said
f. ,l,o,, 1, hot 10
thut there wasn't the least Whence.
That such was the case is largely due
to the efforts of Mr.. clancy and his
friends. When the turbulAnt ones
showed signs of Eruption, Mr. CLANCY
beckoned them from beyond the vision
Of the police, and therb bade them, as
they loved order and t,spected law, to
''Quit playin horse or he'd break in
their faces" At ono time, when the
strain became particularly tense, Mr..
Clancy felt compelled to choke one NAL
content into submission in the interests
of peace and good order. There were
signs of fierce alteration when some
body whispered, ''Hist, Tommy, here
comes the father"
Tommy, with great speed and adroit-
ness, kicked the offender into q conven-
lent stairway and forthwith presented
an innocent and smiling front to the
good father who was passing by. Then
It was "How do you do, Thomas?"
from tho holy man, and dignifed
''Well, sir, an many thanks to you, IA
ther," from Thomas, who, even as he
spoke, administered vigorous backward
kick to his enemy in the stairway.
The peaceful conduct and the uniform
forbearance Mr.. Clancy maintained
throughout the day were perhaps some
what due to the fact that he had seen
at to leave what he called his "gun"
at homo in tho morning. AS he placed
1t in the bureau drawer he had said. II
won't uiyo 'em no call To make n kick ~