Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
NOVEL ELECTI0NEERlNC
Iowa Woman to Campaign With
 Minstrel Songs.
GLEE CLUB SINGING AT MEETINGS
Mrs. Hannah sharp of Des Moines, Candidate For County Recorder, Will Tour the Country Tn Prairie schooner-To Drive Mule Team Her. self-Marching Song to Popular Air.

schooner-To Drive Mule Team Her. self-Marching Song to Popular Air. Everybody works but Hannah, And he,electioneers all day; While other candidates are loafng She is making hay. Mother would like to vote for her, And so would sister Ann. All voters are in line at our house
 From me to my old man. A marching song composed for Mrs. Hannah Sharp of Des Moines, la, who is candidate for county recorder on the Republican ticket, swings along thus merrily to the tune of Everybody Works but Father says Des Moines special to the St. Louis Post Dispatch. The Courthouse Glee club is going to sing it at the campaign meetings which Mrs. Sharp is going to address through out Polk county. Mrs. Sharp has also enlisted the services of several ne- groes, who will sing to banjo accom- paniment Hannah parodies on popu- lar "coon" songs. The following song is to be sung to the tune of Marching Through Georgian
 Her sunny face will beam on you
 When quitclaim deeds you file;
 Her records will be up to snuff,
 In proper book and style.
 She'll wear the latest princess gowns
 And greet you with a smile
 When our Hannah is recorder
 If a unique campaign will land the county recordership Mrs. Sharp will certainly get it. She is soon to start out on tour of the county in an old fashioned prairie schooner. She has tried to obtain oxen to draw it, but has been unsuccessful, so will use mules instead. On top of this wagon will be a platform, on which the negro singers and the glee club will sit and enliven the countryside. Mrs. Sharp herself will drive the mules. She will make speeches at every large town in the county.
 For fear she will not have time to reach some small places she has had graphophone records made of her speeches, and these will be sent to the country hamlets.
 Mrs. Sharp is the wife of an honora- bly, discharged Union soldier who is to- tally disabled. He cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln and has contin- ued to vote the Republican ticket from that day to this. On account of his dis ability Mrs. Sharp has had sole charge of their business affairs for many years and is well and favorably known by the business men of Des Moines, who are all her friends, and by hun dreds of voters throughout the county precincts with whom she has had deal ings.
 Mrs. Sharp does not believe in staying at home and relying on the sending out of printed cards to win her fight She is out in all kinds of weather election eering. She is afraid of nothing and can talk business or politics as well as any man. In the early days of spring she wore a mans beaver cap, which she pulled down over her ears, and long straight coat. Unlike Dr. Mary Walker, she does not advocate trousers for the gentler sex, but she does be- lleve that near approach to mans apparel Is the best dress for woman engaged in politics. Often she will stop farmer on his load of corn in the street and. leaning on the wheel, talk politics.
 Mrs. Sharp's friends are confident that she stands good show of win ming the race.