The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-09-19
1t Was Another Speech Altogether

1t was Another Speech Altogether.
flags of fattery over their doings, to
lead them on to further achievements
The only unmarried man in all the
train of this Tioga Egeria was the
heavy young divinity student, Of
wealthy connections, whom she finally
married, i'll spite of the violent and in
sulting opposition of all his family,
and whom she succeeded in placing,
with the aid of full reporting Of his
thin sermons through the favor Of
Journalists Of her acquaintance, in sew
eral suburban pulpits one after anoth-
er, notwithstanding lis plentiful lack
Of bril]iancy.
1t was one Of her inspirations that
he finally hit upon high church and
high colors in his chasutles and out
highed the highest service up to date
Thenceforward his little church was
crowded, and his wife's taste in art
and bric-a-brac. sacred and profane,
kept his supplied with new features to
maintain the level he lad taken.
When Gen. Hamilton's later railroad
acquisitions called him to his Western
city in which they now resided. it had
not been q matterEof great difficulty
for Mrs Jaquith to persuade him to
build and equip the memorial church,
in which tie Rev. Mr.. Jaquith was,
with the aid of great expectations from
the Hamilton millions held out to the
bishop of the diocese, duly installed.
Mrs. Jaquith swept into society after
this was accomplished like a south
west gale. Her music, her brilliant
conversation, her receptions, her CO.
uuetrles with the influential veyt-y-
men, led on to rapid conquest-too sud
den to last. for it soon appeared that
it was the n en- who were her friends.
and not the women of their families.
The latter found her dress too outre
and extreme for 4 rector's wife, and
her manner too free. The men retort-
ed that she simply distanoed them in
spirits. brains and attraction-that
was all that was the matter.
1t was Mrs. Jaquith, indeed, who had
implanted in Gen. Hamilton the polit-
ical ambition which had eliminated in
to-night's invasion of the grounds by
the humping band and the trampling
crowd. He had been a member of
congress now for two terms, and Mrs.
Jaquith had learned at Washington
the immense distance in social prestige
between the representatives and the
senators, and decided that what be-
longed to him was Il seat in the upper
house, 'the millionaires' club.' All
her energies had therefore been turned
III that direstion for year or two past.
Many dinner had been given at her
own house, and many more arranged
by her ut the generals, for the daz-
zling and bringing to his support of
leading politicians of the state, until
the majority of his party in the legis-
lature that was to elect a United
States senator, could be counted on.
Only one obstacle remained, but it
was formidable ore, the governor OF
the state. He was Of the same party,
and possessed of the same ambition.
Gov. Laughlan had been a famous
criminal lawyer, and as his forte was
defending them, terror less to evil
doers than to their victims, he was an
astute and unscrupulous combatant.
He was master of a scalding viru-
lence, and was pet with the newspa-
pers for the sensations he provided.
He had gained the goverIorship in de-
tiance of the better sentiment of the
party by playing to the galleries. aud
was now employing all his patronage
and all the de'lagogy to secure the
coveted promotion to the United States
senate. But Hamilton's record in the
house at Washington had been re-
markable for two or three votes of
rare courage and chivalrousness
against the dictation of just such par
tisan bosses as Laughlan. The profess
sional politicians feared and detested
this independence, but the people loved
him for these very enemies he had
made. Added to this legitimate popu-
1arlty, the operations of the well-lubri-
Gated machine Zone of the chief engin-
GERS of which, unknown to all but the
general, was Mrs Jaquitn had swept
IN large majority of the approaching
legislature. and his triumph was now
assured. The demonstration tonight
of his own city, the tribute of. his
nelghbors, was to be the ornamental
croUning of the real work. the public
prelude. merely. of victory as certa in
as the sunrise and as welcome to the