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 chasu]'les 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 a matter of great difficulty
for Mrs. Jaquith to persuade him to
build end 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.
quetries With the influential ve;t-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 a rectors wife, and
her manner too free. The men retort-
ed that she simply distanced them in
spirits, brains and attrac tion-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 terms, and Mrs.
.Iaquith 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 a seat in the upper
house, ''the millionaires' club' All
her energies had therefore been turned
in 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-
zllng 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 United
States senator, could be counted on.
Only one obstacle remained, but it
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 Nirll-
lence, and was pet with the newspa-
pers for the sensations he provided
He had gained the governorship in de-
fiance Of the better sentiment of the
party by playing to the galleries, aud
was now employing all his patronage
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 popll-
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 demon stration tonight
of his own city, the tribute of his
neighbours, was to be the ornamental
crowning 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. So
confident was Aid. Merrifield 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-
Icy and the tariff, albeit the general
was in advance of the orthodox of his
| party IN his personal convictions In
| his speech tonight there We're, there
tore, some tlcklish passages which two
or three of the anxious leaders of his
supporters We're pleading with him to
cut out OF modify. They had locked
the door Of his study against all intru-
sion, and although several insistent
1 tappings were heard, they would not
open it. The crowd was now growing
| Impatient, as was evident from occa-
s;ional cat-calls, mingled with shouts of
"fiamilton"' ''Hamilton-'' At last the
wording was settled to everyody's real
/ qlsaa tsfactiOn, and he parted from his
\ henchmen, who, under the lead of the
| busy alderman, were to start the an
plause i'll the crowd at certain critical
| points.
Gen. Hamilton assembled 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 apparition of Mrs,
JaqUith. She had coue by the narrow
winding staircase from underneath the