The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-23

and sisctsd four Democrats to county of- Aces. n isss she got herself appointed postmaster of Lseanon on the recommenda- .Just before the appointment was made the friende of . rival candidate accused Brice They got the filed dsspatches from the telegraph office and certainly the sig natures aid not look genuine. They called on Mrs. Wilson late one evening to inform her that they had this evidence and were gotng to send q committee to Washington
 Mrs. wiison yawned. said 1t wac too late to talk that she was too sleepy anyway and had no statement to make Just then. ing started for washington. Mrs Wilson chuekled and sent for one of the men who had .:,S called the night before
 her office The delegation Is on It's way to tell you that what you got from the telegraph office were merely duplicates. kept the original papers Here they are, and I guess nobody will question these sis-
 50 the delegation came msekIy back to Lebanon and Mrs Wilson got the post
 several years sxo.a member of the eoun- ty board of election supervisors rebelled- Hs that ss ,S,s .sk .sn: name was sent in tor T rssyp6 g 6insmeni. but list when the appointnents were announc- ed. His friends snquired of Mrs. wilson If she knew how t happened.
 reappointed That,s why he wasn't. aent word up to Columbus. Thats all there is to
 well. after this" said the men hotiy, you'll please mind your own businessP
 "Ali right" said Mrs. wilson.
 Just about that time the Democratic nominee for sheriff was up for second term and made overtures to Mrs. Wilson to divide up. with him on the county print out to him that as editor of the only Demo- cratic paper in the county she was entitled to the bulk of the psintinE and the the. diyyy holdup. Therefore they became enemies
 It wasn't long before Mrs Wilson found tions some of whose members had request ed her to mind her own business. had fall ed to certify to the name of this nominee. midnight on the last might within the time that the name mirht pc certified to so on the s:r .S5ss sS m ss che sssa SnS SD s.s s the name had been put on.
 ''0raciousi, he exclaimed. "thls was the sas. ssa dsy l Why RS didnt you ~ sDssE about t
 why" Mrs, wilson reminded him. attend to my own business and let the
 By strenuous effort and special dispsn. on the ticket Then one day the prospective Sheriff came Into the Patriot offica' and :uosliM H1K o1 peounouuB
 "If I'm elected. you'll get all the print. ing that can give you. We might as well be friends"
 Mrs wilson is politician in another sense too. She has something on everybody whom 1t is possible to have anything on. She Is always prepared to produce the cross lseetional and prospective views of any body's career. showing what he has done In or out of office, politically or otherwise. and of course she has her paper to show 1t with.
 q seldom have to publish anybody's record" says Mrs. Wilson. Out it's Q mighty good thing to know all about every body; especially about those who have tendency. te get smart and try to run
 Mrs. wilson knows how to play politics. but sfe never makes political speeches and ordinarily plays the game only as 1t comes up in her newspaper work.
 Strangely enough Mrs. wilson is not a rabid woman suffragist. She would like to vote. She points out that she owns more property in her own right than does. the average voter in the county. and yet she has no say as to what she shall be taxed. But her desire to vote will never carry her to the point. she says where she VIII join c suffrage organization
 She always votes for members of the Board of Education. and has done So ever number of years ago Sometimes she goes to the polls with her husband; sometimes she goes alone.
 Mrs. Wilson writes every line of local matter that goes into the Patriot, prepares the advertisements. keeps the books and collects the btlls- If necessary she can set the type and run the press or the gas