The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-09-06
CHAPTER 1.
The Sign on the House.


Tt was an everyday occurrence to see
Simon Grey standing on the street cor
ners of Boonsville, making wild ges
lures with his hands If the one he
was conversing with was the oppo-
site side in politics, Simon was always
in state of excited earnestness. "Po-
HticaP' Simon, he was often called. If
any one wished to be posted on any
political question of the day. he was
ever ready to explain the subject. and
you could see, by the a1-wise and Self-
confident expression of his face. that he
enjoyed himself in so doing
In his household politics was stf1I his
topic He was ever talking to the fam
lily of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to ], till his
children began to think that anything
SO grand and good must come fro
God.
PAS gettin' happy again. shouted
his little son Jimmie, lie passed out
of the door one day with a paint brush
We shall learn later what ne did will
the brush. Simon Grey did not notice
him, so absorbed were mis- thoughts n
the man who was to be the t'pext Presi-
dent of the United States" Cyathia,
Simon's wife, so busy pee!in'
apples and listening to her better half
that she also failed TO notice Jimmie
and the brush
Cynthia was proud OF her husband.
temper; yet his wisdom o'eTbaianced
| that defect. Her daughter Winnie was
| highly educated, and most everyone
| said she was naturally smart" snd
| then it was invariably added, ''she
| takes after her father
It was the talk in Boonsvi1le that
| Winnie Grey would be nominated for
County Superintendent of Public
Schools in Marble County. Simon said
| if she was nominated he would lection
eer for her from morning till night
| every day till election; that no Repub-
| Hcan humbug would ever defeat her
| Simon had already been trying to prove
| to the people of Boonsville that his
daughter Winnie was the one Marble
County needed for superintendent. She
| had been away to college; had taught
| school in Marble County for three sue
| cessive years, and the citizens of
| Boonsville knew her by experimental
| knowledge to be a good teacher She
| was now instructor of the grammar de-
| partment of the Boonsville city schools,
| and many claimed she should have the
| high school, though the young profess
| sor Glen Harrington, was well liked. -
| 1t seemed evident that Winnie would
| receive the nomination; but as Cynthia
| said, You can never tell; don't count
| your chickens before they're hatched.''
| You always look the dark side,
Cynthia said Simon. 'Wish L had a
| wife with more cheerful disposition,
| and a better knowledge of the questions
| that so concern our welfare
| Well, I guess long as bake your
bread, mend your socks, and make your
| apple pies, and long you have
enough wisdom for two, we can get
along a51 right
Their conversation was here inter
rupted by Winnie entering the room.
She had just returned from school.
| Winnie Grey indeed pretty.
I Whenever 10
seemed to make the old home brighter
This evening disgust was depicted on
her usually bright countenance.
Father she said, Il was ashamed
of my home tonight For the first time
in my life 1 felt Inundated when i
came in sight of the house,
Winnie" said her father, sis it posi-
bic that because the young professor
Glen Harrington. has been paying at
| tentions to you for some time and be.
| cause he is sort of well-off that YOU
cherish hopes of a so much better resi-
| dence that you are ashamed of your
homer"
II astonished-' said Winnie
Whoever thought of such ridiculous
| ideal What made me ashamed of my
home was the word Bryan" in big
black letters, over the front door. How
| lid 1t happen to be there?''
Il knew nothing about it, Winnie
| You must be mistaken
| Indeed. not If you know
| nothing about it, then Jimmie must be
| the perpetrator of the crime
..Cumet-' repeated Simon. ssWoul6
| you consider that a crime? If he had
! have painted Mckinley there you
might so consider it, but such a noble
name as Bryan looks well any place
1t Will show to the world that we arr
{ on the side of right
TT is a disgrace said Winnie. .'Wha
: will the Republicans think of us. and
p 1 7=-<ez
| know that is not the place for his name
AS far as showing that we are on thu
side of right, time may prove that We