The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-06
THE VAN CRAvAELSOECK CANDIDATE.
1t Was An Exciting Campaign and the Boys
Did Their Part in Winning
the Great Victory.
BY p. Y. BLACK.
copyrighted, 1s0s, by p. Y. Black.

ter in these latter days, when our be
loved country is, amidst the awed silence
of the trembling nations, about TO step
forth in all the majesty of its full-grown
strength, 10 take an imperial part in the
affairs of the earth, it has occurred to
several of my friends. who have hitherto
taken no share in the petty details OF a
parochial government, that IL Is time VT
step down from our somewhat too aristo-
cratic pedestal of reserve, and afford our
worthy, if somewhat less advantaged fell
low citizens of the commonwealth, the
benefit of our advice and leadership !
have been asked, sister, to allow my name
to be put forward as a candidate for the
legislature"
"Oh. brother" said Aunt Robina, turn
ing pale "Are-are you really going toto
vote? Really-isn't il just little vulgar
More than vote, sister," said her broth
er, with determined brow. Il am, as /
said. about to plunge into the vortex OF
politics"
''Hoorayr' cried Robert Henry. Let me
plunge, too, papa?'
Aunt Robina looked rather startled and
bewildered Then a smile of cheer IRA
dated her comedy face and she said com
fortably;
Patricia de Malone. who has just grad
uated from Vassar says women must now
assert their rights or never. She is very
clever and dresses in excellent taste, and
says she is going to the-the-pOlls, isn't
it. brother?-to defy mankind. It sounds
dreadful, but the De Malones are in very
good set, and If you and she say voting
is good FORM why, am sure. shall make
no objections. DO you wish Robert Henry
to vote, too, james,"
Sure" cried Robert Henry. "Tn vote
three times, if they'n let me- like Mickey
Place But they put him in JAIN"
My dear Robna," said Mr.. Van GRAY
aeisoeck you and Robert Henry are
not expected to understand these things.
But women can be of use. 1t would do no
harm If you were to do a little visiting
even outside of your regular ist-and men
ton, in, l suggest, a dignited and casual
way, that your brother Is about to sacri-
fee himself on the altar of his country
81 will my dear brother" said Aunt
Robina, with rising enthusiasm. And oh!
of course as a Repubhcan-your are
Republican, aren't you? Everybody Of
taste is a Republican, of course, was go
ing to say as a good Republican, you are
going 10 support Grover Cleveland. Shall
j tell people SOP
"Oh, you sillyr her nephew giggled.
"Of course not-he's dead. Papa and Col.
Roosevelt is the ticket, and as many
Tough Riders as there's room for. III
hustle for you, pap like a good I'M"
Mr. Van Gravaelsoeck went off with
rnonocle and a lump of camphor to pene-
trate the abodes of the voting classes
and kiss the babies-with monocle, be
cause 1t fascinated the mothers, and with
the camphor as an obvious precaution
against the babies. Aunt Robna took the
carriage and drove about in tremulous ex-
element to discuss affairs of state in a
luminous way with her friends, and decide
If Porto Rico was the capital of the Philip
pines. and otherwise to render herself an
active participant in the campaign. Rob
ert Henry rallied his friends.
what we've got to do" sad Robert
Henry, as he began to hustle, lis 10 have
Donfires an lots of EN-. I'm elected col
onel. or boss or big bug of this thing,
cause my fathers a candidate, see? SO
all YOU fellows clear out and bring in all
the barrels and boxes you can nab
Say" said young man, who had vol
unteered his assistance, and who now
with his hands in his pockets listened 10
Gravaelsoeck-dot amt right, ii amt"
''What amt right? Bonfires amt right?
G'way. Warty."
'Ain't right yet" Warty explained and
as, although the young man was only y
years old he had had vast experience
his father, the butcher, having once been
nearly elected on the school committee
Of the town Robert Henry deigned to
listen "Fust ives got to have corkis,
and den--
whats a corks? And then what?"
s'Then if the corkis CHATS you and me
and some we can trust says your pops
all right, your pops got TO give us heap
of money fur expenses"
"Bunyw said Robert Henry. TN ask
him for quarter tonight"
"A qua-a-auterw said Marty, with dis
dain. "Wot's a qua-a-a-arter? Soy. If
he's only goin to give that he'd better
stay at home"
would z Robert Henry suggested meek
ly would so cents?"
Mop said Warty decisively. "A dol
lar or I'll find another candidate, I will"
At that Robert Henry wilted and prom
ised TO work on the feelings of Aunt Ro-
bina. Then Warty, began 10 tell the heir
of all the Van Gravaelsoecks what he had
to do if his father was not to be knocked
silly, as Warty put it, by the opposition,
who was a lawyer in a neighboring town.
that Worry was conducting the campaign
and undoubtedly the Gravealsoeck blood
would have boiled over had not the boy
discovered from a breakfast table TRADE
that his father also found himself a toy
In the hands of his political friends
Seems to me- Auntie," said Robert
Henry, with a frowning eye, that the
candidates just got TO do what he's told
and spend money. Let me have another
quarter, please, auntie, for the good Of
the cause
My dear boy" said Aunt Robna. How
can you help your father with a quarter?'
well, auntie," Robert Henry explain
ed, don't give it away, but Jimmie Nc
Taggart says he has a gang of boys VINO
are desperate, and there going to kidnap
papa the night before he's nominated and
maroon him in a desert island with saw
ages, that nobody but them knows about.
end he says he'll do it, by geewhickity