The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-08-20

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he finally hit upon high church and
high colors in his cliasuhles and out
highed the highest service up to date.
Thenceforward his little church was
crowded, and his wifes 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 later railroad
acquisitions called him to his Western
city in which they now resided, it had
not been a matter of 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.
uuetries with the influential vest-y-
men, led on to rapid conquest-too sud
den to last, for it soon appeared that
it was the n en- WHO We're her friends
and not the women Of their families.
The latter found her dress too outre
and extreme for q rectOr'S wife, and
her manner too free The men retOrt-
ed that she simply distanced 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 bard and the trampling
| crowd. He had been "a member of
| congress now for two tel ms, and Mrs.
Jaquith had learned at Washington
| the immense distance in>social prestige
between tie representatives and the
senators, and decided that what be-
longed to him was seat in the upper
| house, ''the millionaires' club" All
her energies had therefore been turned
| in that direstion for year or two past
Many a 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.
| hSf I'll 1,1,%
was a 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, a terror less to evil
doors than to their victims, he was an
astute and INSCRIPTIONS combatant
He was master of a scalding virll.
| lence, and was pet with the newspa-
| perS for the sensations he provided
| He had gained the gOverLorShip in de.
| fance Of the better sentiment of the
| party by playing to the galleries, aud
was now employing all his patronag &c
and all the le'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-
larity, the operations Of the well-lubri-
Gated machine Zone of the chief engin-
GERS of which, unknown to all but the
general was Mrs. Jaquith) 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
neighbors, was to be the ornamental
browning of the real work. the public
| prelude, merely of victory as certain
as the sunrise and as welcome to the
great body of his fellow citizens. Sc
confident was Aid. Merrifeld that the
:, work was done that he had agreed
that Gen. Hamilton should declare
| boldly the course he was resolved on.
! the stand he would take on the curren.
\ scy and the tariff, albeit the general
| was in advance of the orthodox Of his
i party in his personal convictions. In
| his speech tonight there We're. there
i fore, some ticklish passages which two
or three of the anxious leaders of his
supporters were pleading with him to
cut out OF modify. They had locked
the door of his study against all intru.
sion, and although several insistent
tappings were heard, they would not
| open it. The crowd was now CROWNS
| Impatient, as was evident from occa.
sional cat-calls, mingled with shouts of
Hamilton" ''Hamilton-' At last the
wording was settled to eyeryody's real
dlsza tisfaction. and he parted from his
henchmen, who. under the lead of the
busy alderman, were to start the ap-
p1ause III the crowd at certain critical
| points.
| Geh Hamilton aseended to the floor
| above, and was passing through his
dimiy lighted bed room out upon the
little balcony. when he was confronted
with the breathless apparsticn of Mrs.
Jaquith. She had corne by the narrow
J winding staircase from underneath the