The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-11-11

of the candidate TO hold them together
until election day. we surely get pretty
close to the heart sense of it. Suppos-
ing the boom across the river (and OF
the candidate) was to break (or burs)
what a scattering of logs land votesJ
there would be.
In river parlance, also the candidate
who is enjoying boom must be care
ful not to indulge too much in log-roll-
ing, else he may strike suag from
which he may have difficulty in ex-
tracing himself. When we leave the
river We virtually take to the stump,
and we are in this term, transported at
once to primitive, pioneering times
when the stump was the platform upon
which the candidate stood. 1t was the
rostrum from which the local orator
hurled his shafts; and the word savors
of the days of the hardy and hearty
frontierman. 1t was co take sometime
ere the logs in the river would be man
ufactured into the planks used in a
modern political platform.
At length, the candidate, having got
all his supporters on the right side of
the fence, and his barr'l having been
sufficiently furnished for the fight, and
having been duly elected, he prepares
himself for making himself acquainted
with the manner of legislation in the
halls of congress. On his arrival at the
Capitol he finds the avenues of ap-
proach to political achievement gener-
ally to be found in what is sometimes
called the Third House''-the lobby.
This is indeed the place where appar-
emily members meet, or walk up and
down, with their constituents and
others interested in affairs of state.
In telling its story the word lobby
projects us backward into the most
primitive periods of our history-into
the days, indeed, of our true arboreal
existance. In those days there We're
groves deeply secluded in the forests,
wherein were hid the altars of the gods
then worshiped. To gain access to
these groves avenues OF approach were
hewn through the forest and out of the
thick umbrage surrounding. These
avenues were of course open above, but
were shaded overhead by the close foli-
age OF LEAKAGE of the lining trees. 1t is
from this leafy shade that the word
lobby is derived: it meant the leafy or
lobe-y lane. This lane then was the
first lobby. AS the arts developed, the
word was used for other lanes or loan
ings, especially those that led to the
courts through and into which the
cows were driven by the primitive cow
boys or herds, to be MIXED by the
daughters of the house or homestead.
Reaching the courts, the lad met his
lass, and it was within these circles,
thus charmed with the feminine infiu-
ence, that it first made itself felt in
''courting.n
Next the word lobby was applied to
the approach to the house, and at last
was included in the house-plan itself as
an incorporate part of the home. 1t
was the place general to the public;
where strangers were received, and
where they waited until conducted to
the inner sanctuaries and hospitalities
of the family. Another name for lobby
was hall, and this word came to apply
TO the home or house itself. and to
any place to which the word lobby was
applica BILE, as place of walking and
meeting.
Thus we have hinted how the names
lobby of the house, halls of congress,
came to have their significance, and to
have such significance in our political
institutions The lobby. still a place
for walking up and down, was origin
ally covered only by foliage, but is now
by the manufactured beams OF the trees
themselves. Once leading under
such umbrage to the open courting-
place of romance, it now leads under
careful cover to the courting place OF
votes.