The Washington herald., 1907-03-02

turned from oratory and persuasion 70
strategy. He bought wagonload OF wa
termelons, backed it ID To the courthouse
door, and yelled, Free watermelons for
everybody" The opposition delegates left
the courthouse to feast, but those of the
other side who were posted stayed in their
seats and nominated ticket before the
ruse was discovered. And thus two great
parties We're born.
Politicians have often found themselves
I'm the soup. but if remained tor an Ohio
man, late candidate, 20 get into the
chop suey In the campaign between Pat
tison and Herrick for governor this man
was one Of several candidates who deliv-
cred noapartisan speeches at a basket
picnic and farmers gathering at Four
Corners, Ohio. He was speaking to farm
ers. and the plum pumpkin and the
''yaIer-laiged' chicken We're his themes
He contrasted the beautiful, Independent
life Of the farmer with that Of the more
unfortunate dweller in the great city. He
told Of his recent trip TO New York, and
how he had embarked on d rubber-neck
wagon 90 see the town. we went down.
down. into the heart of the horrible city.
We went down, down, into Chinatown,
where the Orientals We're living in their
sin and squalor. We went down, down,
into the dives. where the opium smokers
were reveIing in their terrible debauChes.
MY feIlow-citizens. we went down. down,
into the very chop suey itself
The first ballot cast in the State OF
Illinois under the operation of the
Australian ballot system was cast by a
Democrat, a Virginian who had voted FOR
Andrew Jackson for President, and who
was ninety-three years old when the new
law went into effect. It was in July, 1891
az old Berlin, in Sangamou County. thai
special election was held and the new
system Of secret baIloting put 10 a test
The polls opened al o'clock I'm the morn
ing, and although a large crowd was
waiting. no vote was cast until shortly
after II, when Col. Speers, who was a late
sleeper, walked in and cast the first secret
ballot in Illinois. The whole town had
waited to give the precedence to its
esteemed oldest inhabitant.
shamed and humiliated county con
vention Of good and loyal Republicans
by an old scrapbook trick. He had Iong
whiskers and a radical mind, and in 1885,
he left the Republicans and allied himself
with the Populists. Certain forms oil
radicalism now in vogue, and considered
entirely polite in these piping times OF
peace We're then thought TO be quite rude
This South Dakota statesman stayed witt
the Populists until they were no more
and then he tried to get back into the
Republican party. He tried again and
again. but found the doors were closed e
him.
Finally "the boys agreed that he had
been punished enough and they permitted
MIN to be made a delegate TO the con
vention. He managed TO get himself on
the committee on resolutions and he
wrote the platform. The convention
adopted it with howl and the chairman
said Il was the true doctrine Of Republi-
canism as preached by Lincoln and Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt Then the gentle
man with the long whislers and the popu-
lfstic career got up and soIemnly proved
to that convention, with the aid of a
scrapbook. that it had adopted the Omaha
platform Of the late Peoples party How
THE sun DO novel"
The intricate rules of parliamentary Law
have proved "a stumbling block to many
ambitious but ignorant politicians a