The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-06-17

the room and later In the evening
meeting the attorney. he said: "The
boys combed me good and proper. but
luck was against me tonight"
II must have been torture for that
attorney TO lay down the good hands
he held that night. for he was q first
class poker player and. like all thor
ough poker players, had a mighty
respect for good hands. His passion
for the game got the better OF his
regard for the ethics of his profession
one night. He sat in q melon cut
ting" game and after having made
the, "divyy" proceeded to win all the
/ money back again. II CHANGED that
the men Ne was paying the brides to
over the poker table were rather
sporty. so they saw the merit of his
claim that having given them the
money he owed them he was justified
In winning ION the square" so long
as they sat in with him.
There was popular bartender in
the capitol who made good deal Of
money one session from his rake
OF" as stakeholder. He was the
agent employed to distribute Doodle
by the betting method. The vote
buyer and the vote seller having
agreed on the price would go TO the
saloon In which the bartender mixed
his famous cocktails. Thu two
boodlers. getting into a. discussion,
would make bet. the size Of the
bet being the amount of mcney which
the member was to receive for his
vote. The money then would be
velope put in the hands OF the stake
holder" After the roll call the man
who sold his vote would go to the
stakeholder who would give him the
envelope--he had won the bet. Good
fortune, however. turned the bar
tenders head and one day. having in
his POSSESSION large number of
stakes, he packed his grip and left
with all the doodle. Nor did any in
terested party dare go after him to
demand the money he had won on a
"cinoh" bet. The bartender knew too
much.
An adroit lobbyist corraled a dozen
votes for his bill at a~cost OF a hun
dred dollars each by making what is
known as fool bets" A count of
noses had shown him that he lacked
half dozen votes. He knew of
group of legislators who had adjoin
ing rooms in the principal hotel and
who were not to be bought. They
were men who did little in the house
but vote; they were plain ordinary
lawmakers. but honest They played
their little games of penny ane,
hearts, cinch or euchre. Occa sionally
had a social glass and were not adj
verse to making small bets on trotting
horses The lobbyist went on still
hunt for votes in this group with
poor success until he conceived the
idea Of warming up their sporting
blood
He managed to get an invitation
from one of them to join in a game
of euchre. and while in the room led
the small talk to a discussion OF the
bill In which he was interested. BY
degrees he developed the converse
tional discussion into a heated argu-
ment as 10 whether the bill would
pass and, taking the negative side
for none of them knew he had any
particular interest in the measure,
he asserted with great positiveness
that the bill could not get an affirma-
tive majority In the house. Pulling
out roll of bills he stripped of
hundred dollars and offered to bet
that hundred against dollar that
the bill would not pass the house.
One of the members took him up
and the money was placed in the
hands Of another member who was
selected stakeholder. Then the lob
byist, apparently getting excited, Of
fered to take all the bets on the odds
Of 100 to l they would offer. The
odds were so great that the others
could not resist the temptation and
before he left he had made bets with
ten OF them.
The inevitable result followed; the
ten members, to win hundred dollars
each, voted for the bill and 1t passed
The lobbyist, of course. lost his
money. but got his votes and got them
cheap.
The simplest way of paying a briba
Is to take the vote seller to seclud-
ed corner and hand over the money.
AS the only witnesses to the transac-
ton are the bribed and the briber
and as each Is as guilty as the other.
this also Is the safest method.
Every once In awhile one reads of
aldermen or legislators who form
line and march into an office where
each is handed an envelope. This
envelope is supposed to contain the
price of his vote very much doubt
II any Doodle has been distributed in
such way. The envelope with the
mysterious number on Il which has
figured SO often in stories OF Doodle
Is not used 10y practical bribers.
Mutual condolences between the
bought and the buyer is an essential
prerequisite in the purchase of votes.
1t is strictly '''ron honor transac-
ton. The legislative boodler prom
~fooa IN vnfa To-. -.