Middletown transcript., 1896-08-29

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/ &SNyWg9y9l xESAHh3N has come to look
Ass a upon them as a
sort of twin sisters, equally amusing
and equally harmless, say s writer in
the New York ''Press." But no one
knows better than the veteran campaig-
ner how mistaken is the public in its
opinion of the women in politics; he
recognizes in her powerful ally and a
successful vote getter, and he treats
her as such.
For weeks Miss Helen Varick Bos-
we'll, chairman of the Woman's Repub.
lican Association, has been almost a
daily visitor at the Republican Nation
al Headquarters, and no astnte politi-
clan with deep laid and cunning
schemes for conducting the camgaign
is received with mole attention and
courtesy.
A BORN POLITICIAN
She is born politician, confirmed in
the Republican faith, and, as the fol-.
lowing little incident shows, she act.
ually stays awake nights thinking up
schemes for defeating the enemy. Not
long ago her maid, who has caught
some of her mistress's political enthus-
iasm, and who takes great if not al
together enlightened interest in the is
sues of the day, came to Miss Boswell
and confessed that her father, the jani-
tor of neighboring fiat, was going to
vote for Bryan and free silver. "You
see," she explained rather APOLOGIZE
cally, "they tells US we will have more
money if they gets free silver, and of
course, that's what US poor people
needs most. He says money weren't
never to scarce with him as it are now,
and he guesses he'll have to vote for
Mr.. Bryan"
HER FIRST CONVERT.
Never did a missionary ponder longer
over method of reaching benighted
heather than did Miss Boswell in her
efforts to show that misguided jan itor
the error of his reasoning. A good
part of that night she thought about
it, and before she went to sleep she had
hit upon plan which she hoped would
be successful. The next morning,
when the janitor dropped in to see his
daughter, she met him and asked him
if he really had made up his mind to
vote for Bryan and free silver. The
janitor admitted that he had.
"You see," he began, "we'll have
more money then, and that's what I
need most.'
"You have sister in the old coun-
try still, haven't you. John," Miss
Boswell interrupted.
"Two of them"
"And do you ever send them any
moneyp'
Indeed l do. Whenever can lay
by pound, they gets it regular.'
"You take down about five dollars
now, don't you and buy an exchange. -
About that
"Now do you realize that just as soon
as we have free silver you will have to
pay ten dollars instead of five for every
pound you send to your sistersp"
John had not realized it, and the
knowledge rather stunned him. Miss
Boswell then explained to him in a
manner which he could understand,
how England and all the countries of
Europe would refuse to accept our
dollar, debas4d by free coinage, and
when John left the house it was with
the firm conviction that the election of
Bryan was the worst thing that could
happen to him and his sisters.
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The Woman's Republican Associa-
tion is throughly organized, and from
its headquarters it intends to begin at
once definite and well-laid plan of
action against the enemy.
In the tenement house district,
where the free-silver heresy already |
has crept in, the women propose to |
wage an active battle. Not only will
little political tracts, carefully edited |
and setting forth in the. simplest lang
uage the vital questions of the CAM
paign, be scattered broadcast, but mis-
sion aries from headq larters will go
among the women, reasoning PERSONAL
ly with them against the false doctrine
which they have listened to for months. |
These women of the tenements are
in many cases the purseholders of the
family, and to great extent they con-
troll the votes of their husbands and |
brothers.
1t is through them that the associa-
tion aims to reach the actual voter.
~ contrul thray votes moiself in
this vary tinnement, !" declared stout |
woman with q fat, round smile and an |
Erin-go-bragh accent. s'and niyver q
wan of 'em will vote fur that crazy
free silver fake, not from this minnit. J,
One of the missionaries had employed
fhe argument that converted the jani-
tor upon the stout woman, who was
also doubtar, and with the same sat.
isfactory result. Thousands Of people
in the tenements have relatives whom
they are either supporting in the old
country or are sending money I'd bring
them over here, and to explain to theml
that-with debasad currency their lit
tie pound which they send religiously
and regularly across the seas will only
be worth half pound When It gets
there is the most convincing and elm
ching argument that can Be nsed.