The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-02
HELP PAS CAMPAIGN
MISS LoTTA GREENUP USES THE
 FIDDLE.
A Girl and Violin Have Changed the Face of . Contest for . Nomination in
 Week.

| Nomination in I Week.
 | Paducah, Ky. Cor. of New York Sun. | Miss Lotta Greenup. who Is only just l out of school and in long dresses. is try ing to hedp her father get into Congress He hadn't ghost of show till she turned in to help. but it is quite another
 story now. and the other fellows in the
 field, Colonel Sam Crossland of Mayfield | and Judge Oliver James of Marion, are beginning to look very serious over their | prospects.
 Miss Lotta and her violin are doing it.
 Even West Kentucky farmers tire of sil- tver-tongued orators sometimes: but as l an audience of her sons will never weary | of hearing pretty girl play the old mel .odies dear to the South. So all in a week | or Papa. Greenup's fortunes have | central figure in one of the most re-
 markable political campaigns that the l South has seen since the days of Bob TayIor's fiddng tour of Tennessee.
 George A. Greenup is a teacher of mu- sic in Paducah. Just why he should cher ish Congressional aspirations nobody Knows. Very few people would care eith- CT. for the matter of that, if Miss I,otta didn't. But then she wants father to he l a Congressplan. so it is different Her | wishes count since she has become pub l lie character.
 A month SO ago Mir. Grcenup came out as candidate for the Democratic nomination to- succeed Congressman Charles K. Wheeler in the First District | of Kentucky. The District gave Bryan majority of l5,o0o in a total voting pop ulation of 5000 is 1896. The Democratic | nomination is practically equivalent to an | election.
 Now candidates for the Democratic | nomination for Congress in this end of | the State hitherto. have been either law yers who could talk or wealthy farmers with records as Confederate soldiers. The announcement of the candidature of Greenup. music teacher. interested the voters not one little bit unless. perhaps, | 8 few wondered where politics was com ing to. Colonel Sam Crossland and Judge Ollie James. the candidates already in the field laughed.
 Greenup was not well known, so he be- gan to take little speechmaking tours in the smaller towns of tho district. But nobody went to hear him.
 The candidate was in earnest but the voters were coy. He couldn't get ac- auainted. His canvass was hopeiessly dull. Then Miss Totta came in Though he is new in politics MT. Green up knows something about human na- ture. He saw that he needed an attrac- ton at his meetings. and he proceeded 10 get one. Probably only music teseh- CT would have thought of adopting The violin as a campaign argument on stumping tour. but 1t is proving a pow crful argument.
 At Hickman, small town on the Mis- sissippi River, one morning last week the local paper announced that on the follow ing night George ". Greenup would ad- dress the voters at the court house on the issues of the day. An additional line conveyed the informat ton that the can didate.s daughter would play some pop nlar selections on the violin before the speaking began
 The announcement created ripple of interest among the voters of Hickman A girl violinist was distinct novelty at political meeting. Before night the ripple had grown to a wave. When Miss Lotta appeared at the court house with her father the hall could hold no more
 Miss Lotta is a type of the wsll-bred f'entncky girl. She is modest, sweet-man- nered. slender lad pretty. It is not many months since she wore her hair hanging down her back. She plays the piano and she sings well. but her admirers say she knows how to make violin talk Her eyes are big and brown.
 Flushing. Miss Lotta walked to the edge of the platform. tucked her violin under her chin and drew the bow across, the strings in the opening bar of Dixie"
 Now there are tunes and tunes, but the tune of all tunes. the tune that Is good for a cheer on the hottest day or the cold est night in the western part of Ken lucky Is Dixie" Instantly skirmish fire Of whoops ran across the hall and then the whole crowd joined in a mighty cho- rus. which drowned the violin and al- most lifted the wcather-beaten shingles from the rafters overhead.
 Old veterans jumped up and gave the rebel yell until they were blue in the face A pretty girl playing "Dixle' to help her father win votes-who wouldn't cheer?
 Miss Greenup is as modest a little maid en as lives in Kentucky. At first she didn't know what to make of it. Then she caught the spirit of the thing and played her very hest.
 Having gone through Dixie" twice she gave My Old Kentucky Home" "The Arkansas Traveller and The Suwanee River Every time she paused the cheer ing broke out afresh.
 Next Mir. Greenup spoke, not very long speech. After that, by request Miss Lotta played Dixie" once more. Then everybody marched up and shook hands
 A few of the older fellows wanted to kiss her. An ancient warrior who rode with John Morgan said he had heard Dixie played thousand times, but never heard it played like that. He de- clared himself for Greenup then and there.
 There has been a similar scene at ev- cry meeting since. The other candidates are wondering what argumnts to oppose a girl playing Dixie on the violin.
 Judge James is fair performer on the violin himself. It has been suggested that a fiddling contest be arranged between
 
 land has been induiring the price of phonographs.
 Meantime Miss Greenup's fame has spread beyond Paducah, and the First District She has had more proposals of marriage in week than a great many young women have in lifetime. One man in Duluth wrote few days ago asking her to send him railroad ticket as he wanted to lose no time in marry ing her
 Miss Iptta tells her admirers that she is not in a marrying mood just now. She wants to see her father elected first Then she may see about it. At present she is very much surprisd over the sensation she has created.
 My only idea was to help papa she says T had no idea that my playing under such circumstances would create 90 much interest. Why. I've received all sorts of letters and queer requests from all over the country. But I'm enjoying it immensely
 So are the voters. and there are many who believe that while fl may he queer politics Miss Lotta may actually succeed in lifting her father into Congress at the fin oF her violin bow.