Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07

i at election times, Il perfect shower OF
| good things in the district. Tickets
On these various societies, arc frce!y
| distributed and coal, food, beer, blank
cts, milk. clothing shoes. frewood and
groceries are given away to 'deserr-
ing persons. Strangely enough most
Of these benefces find their way into
the homes of those wiz ilold the fran
chise. Quite accidentally of course
persons without votes do moi happen
to get tickets. Even the children Of
prospective voters are not neglected.
This Is illustrated by an amusing IN
cident related to the writer by Lib
eral election agent. The wife of a
certain NJ. p drove into a poor Lon
don neighborhood in her motor car In.
order to have heart-to-heart thal
With some poor women in the district
in whom she had taken a sudden In
tterest. coincidentally With the fact that
her husband had to run for reelection.
Her motor. car WAS surrounded immedi-
ately by the handshsiing fraternity
{ One little boy on. the outside of the,
CROWD began to cry because he could
not get near to the mice LADY,
Never mind. my boy" said by
stander. IN lift YOU up 50 that you
can see her
II don't want to look at her." said
the boy. weeping louder than ever, Z
want my penny,
WOMEN OUT WORKING
Wives of prospective candidates make
it a point to call OH most of the moth
sers whose husbands happen to have
votes, and they order the distribution,
Of free milk to infants who seem 10
require it. Not infrcuuently. also, all.
ing children even are sent to the seaside
or TO the country fer a much needed
change Of air, sentirely at the expense
nF, fI q
ously enough. the good Samaritan goes
out of the philanthropic business as
soon as election day is over.
Another favorite dodge in ground
batting is the giving of suh,ptuoJs a'n-
ners. The Corrupt Practises act dis
tinetly forbids 'entertainments.," ard
So in order to avoid the law, tickets
5 for these dinners are marked5"2 shil--
lings''-4S cents in American money.
For this sum q really splendid dinner,
including wine, is provided, Expert
caterers figure that you could not tll-
plicate some of these repasts for less
than S1.50 While q good many tickets
are sold. hundreds are given away by
persons who have a right to buy the
tickets and give them to Whenever
they please Friends of the candidate
thus acquire most of the tickets, and
hand them out Where they Will do
the most good "
FREE SAMPLES OF STOUT.
At the recent gPechain Rye bye-eiec-
tion-where the government was de-
feated by the Eeetrtrnst--a Brewers
Defense league" was formed. ana yot-
e,.s were given free samples Of stout.
Most of these tsamples'' We're extreme
,ly liberal III amount There MAS moth
ing legally wrong in u Drawers De-
Tense League giving away free samples
in order TO advertise Its advantages.
AS the whole election was run on beer
being an attack on the Liberal gov
ernment's Licensing bill--the efficacy
of the dodge was justified by results
the government. losing thesconicst by a
sweeping defeat.
To afford a concrete instance OF the
amount of money spent during an
English election on fostering good
Will among the voters II may be mem
toned that the amount of beer bought
in the election week ending Iuls- Is.
1895 exceeded the same week of the.
previous year--when there was no cleo
tion--bysthe enormous sum of 81 6.8 900.
representing the abnormal excess of
just one million barrels OF vote max
ing conviyiality.
With the formation of all these
ground batting. clubs in a constitu-
ency the political issue narrows down |
to the candidate with the biggest bar
rell. If you saunter through the streets
nf a district where ground batting has
been going on for some time you can
hear recipients OF bounties discussing
the merits of their respective candi-
dates. My man spends pounds to your
cnaDtS shillingsp is an omen and Oft