El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-25
OPPOSED BY DAD
(By Arthur Sigbee.)

r SUPPOSE it's no use. dear. He
can't see anything In me. 1 have
to bake good fer something else.
and you know I have never tried any
thing except newspaper business"
What did he say?'
He told me that every newspaper
man he had ever known became a
bum, a drinker and generally no good,
and that eventually I would be the
same If / didn't get out of 1t before it
is too late. / suggested taking fling
at politics, but he laughed at me. I've
made up my mind I'm going to stay
away for a while. You will have to do
without me-"
What do you mean?"
Il mean that / will show your faith
er, and neither you nor he will see me
again until / do show him.
Five weeks later WALL Smith sat
in the office of the Twenty-fifth Ward
club. He was a large man, tall and
powerful. On the other side of the big
table was another of similar type mas
sive jawed, his red mustache droop-
ing walrus-l like, seeming to mirror the
fierce expression OF desperate disap-
pointment in the eyes of both men.
II can't understand it." began the
latter. Everything pointed to a vic
tory, and here. the Democrats have
swept every office"
THE thing that rankles me is the
way we-you and I-got 1t soaked to
US in our own ward" answered the
other Everybody voted straight
tickets throughout the city. That is
reason enough why the winner would
rrfh II
balance up twelve for us, as we had
figured. and twelve for the Democrats.
But here we count on getting the mar
gin by cleaning up our ward and we
lose by 800 votes. It's got me-"
There's been a new force working
into this election, somehow" said the
first. TIL tell you, Smith, 600 votes
aren't go1ne to be cast the wrong way
unless somebody has been working on
the quiet. We know that, because Nc
Carren, Budson, wilkins and Sims
looked out for It. There's somebody
been lining up the young vote. That's
where we missed ours. We overlooked
that bet"
Wall" Smith was disconsolate
man when he walked up the steps Of
his home after the discouraging day.
He hardly spoke during the evening
meal, and started to read the papers
as a mere matter OF habit.
Hello, what's thisr' he exclaimed
to his wife Grover Hall election
hero" He read aloud the headlines on
the Opposition" paper. Swings VIC
tory for Democrats; youth organized
first voters in Twenty-fifth ward;
worked on the quiet; once was writer
on New-Star: as reward is appointed
TO secretaryship.'- Good Cod"
"Oh, papa, think that is just too
grand for
Grand, grand? So You think its
grand to have young puppy like that |
put your father out OF job? And did |
you know that he was doing this all |
this timer"
"Oh, father no. This is the first 1 |
have heard of 1t. Read 1t to US, dad"
The father was too busy reading 1t |
to himself. The mother and daughter |
read the story Of his own defeat; how !
the young man had spoken to all his |
in the ward and wound !
Up by forming the Young Mems Demo-
cratic club; how they had all voted the |
straight ticket although members of |
many of their families voted the other |
way; how. each of the 60 members had |
pledged himself to persuade ten others
10 do the same; how the 500 votes had |
changed the entire complexion of the
light at the polls.
1.-The young scoundreli He shall
never darken these doors again." bel