The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-11
AWAIT THEIR DOOM,
Three DemocratsW Will
Wake Up to De-
feat Tomorrow.
ALL HUSTLED YESTERDAY.
Election Clubs Looking for
Candidates to
Inlorse.
. ALL HUSTLED YESTERDAY.

The Sabbath was made for man.
says the good book. "Twas made for
campaigning" is the revised version of
the democratic politician.
Sunday was a day of hustle among
the candidates for Office particularly
the six democratic candidates for the
board of aldermen and the candidates
for the various offices in ward where
the vote is close enough to keep the
average democratic candidate on the
anxious seat until the counting of the
ballots reveals his fate
The aldermanic candidates not only
had runs-together with their friends,
mapping out plans of campaign for to-
morrow's election, but they and their
heutenants were out in force on the
highways and byways seeking out that
very popular individual around cleo
ton times-the man with the vote.
Chesterfield certainly could not be
more polite than the average demo-
cratic politician when he sets out to
become popular. He is then every
body's friend and many a man that
he passed haughtily by in other days
temporary speaking and bowling terms
with the best of them. With the or
binary voter, this "con" is always sue
cessful, and the glad hand is RESPONSE
bic for the changing of many vote.
Not only did the candidates meet the
people on the street, but in some cases
they saw the voter in his home sur
rounded by his wife and little ones.
Now, there is no way so successful in
Il
citizen than to call at his house, chuck
the little ones under the chin and give
them each a penny, accompanying the
act with a few words of endearment,
as though their welfare was one of the
office seekers tenderest wishes.
This invariably wins over the mother
and when the politician has gone away,
she remarks what a nice man he is.
The upshot is that Mr.. Voter remem-
bers him election day.
Just before state and municipal cleo
tions, all sorts of clubs spring up all
over the city. These are ostensibly
literary organizations but in reality
it would be more in keeping with the
truth to call them branches of the An
cient and dishonorable order of artis-
tic leg-pullers. The object of the young
men that make up the membership of
most of these clubs is to give the poll
tician who comes along, intent upon
jollying votes out of them, a Roland
for his Oliver. The politician invaria-
bly, gets as good as he sends, and he
seldom gets the Endorsement of the
clubs unless he antes. In some cases,
it is a money consideration, but there
are clubs that would not kick a key
of beer out Of doors in the event of the
politician deciding to win over the
members in that way
They drink his health, they sing his
praises, and the club orator sets forth
his qualifications for the office. It's
a "hip, hip hurrah, boys" from be-
ginning to end, and the politician goes
away filled with the idea that he is a
Gladstone, or a Bismarck in embryo.
In Imagination, he pictures the time
when he shall be sent to congress and
the nation will applaud his eloquent
periods
A politician running for office may
we'll be compared to murderer await
ing execution. 1t isn't a very happy
comparison, perhaps, but nevertheless,
it is true. Any one that ever read
Charles Dickens horribly realistic de-
scription of murderer in his cell the
night before execution, win see the
point at once.
Dickens. with mastery strokes, pic
lures a condemned felon. He is asleep
and his dreams are haunted with the
apparition of freedom. Then he wakes
UP to the horrible truth, and within
an hour he is dead.
1t is 1he same with the politician. He
works himself up with the powerful as
sistancH of his ego, into a state where
he can see nothing but victory He
takes jollies seriously and pictures him
self leading the entire ticket, amid the
pf fhn election
night. Election night, however, three
democrats like the condemned man will
wake up to find that it was but an IL
fusion, a dream.
Figure 1t out any way you like, but
three winning combinations can be
picked from the group of six demo-
cratic candidates for the board of al
dermen. Here is the way The Spy re-
porters found the feeling yesterday:
Combination one-PhiIip ]. O'Connell
James F. Carberry, Edward ]. McMa-
hon.
Combination two-Philip ]. O'Connell
Edward j, Mcmahon, William G. Lich-
tenfels.
Combination three--Philip j. O'Con.
nell, James F. Carberry, William G
Lichtenfels.
1t will be seen that Philip j. O'Con-
nell heads all three combinations. Ev-
y,
though his friends were warning the
voters yesterday not to be too conf
dent and neglect to vote for him in or
der to help out some weaker candi
date.
James f. Carberry is a strong can.
didate and conservative democrats ex
pect to see him win, but he has some
enemies that are doing all they car
TO defeat him. Mr.. Carberry and hi.
workers are aware of this, and they
know pretty well who these men are
and are off-setting their influence
wherever it crops out.
There is much speculation in regard
TO who is going to be the third man
admitting that Messrs. O'Connell anc
Carberry are practically sure of cleo.
ton.
Mr. Mcmahon is a formidable candi.
date. He has back of him support thai