The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-18
For President, ANTHONY HAMILTON HAw- THORNE

Even Prince Vladimir welcomed the
 announcement that the king had de ctded to make the kingdom a republic The prince, who refused to abandon
 his custom of wearing a uniform on all
 occasions, was sitting in his palace when he received the news from Ra- duIski.
 'fExcellent!'' said the prince. And not only is Borrovina to be come a republic, but Hawthorne is to be it's first president
 'Is he now?'' said the prince. "And
 who elected him?"
 "Well, he hasn't been elected yet.
 but he is the kings choice for the of 6ce,' explained Radulskt.
 "Soi Now, I'll tell you something, Radulski. Do you remember that day up in the palace when told them that they would not hear from me until Borrovina was republtc?"
 'I reInember,' replied RaduIski.
 Well, now is the time. Here! I'll write statement and you hurry down to the newspaper offices and see that it is published.''
 In the statement the prince announc- ed himself as a candidate for the pres ideney of Borrovina. He denounced Hawthorne as an intruder and impugn- ed his motives. He declared that Flaw thorne in helping Borrovina had made a fortune for himself. It was the duty of all loyal Borrovinians, urged the prince in his statement, to stand by a native prince and see that he was elect Rd president.
 For the first time it dawned upon the prince just what a great change had come over Borrovina There was a time-and only a year ago, too-that statement from a member of the roy atty would have been greeted with great headlines and long editorial com ment. But not so nowadays. Borro- vina had imbibed too freely of the spirit of independence. Only one pa per paid any particular attention to the princes announcement. The oth- CTS made a line or so in a statement to the effect that the prince had an nounced himself as a candidate for president and let it go at that. The one paper that did welcome the princes announcement did so because its own CTS had royal blood flowing through their veins, and they hated to think of the government being turned over to a mere untitled American, even if that same untitled American had been re- DpoDsible for the trebling of the papers circulation since his business methods had taken hold in Borrovina.
 Early in the campaign it became evi- dent that Blakes job as campaign manager was going to be particular ly easy one. Sentiment Game pretty close to being unanimous for Flaw thorne for president. Associations representing the various business mems organizations of the city form ed into one body in order to conduct businesslike campaign. Theydssued tons of printing matter telling how there would be no Borrovina if it hadn't been for Hawthorne and how the country owed it to him to make him their president.
 Meetings were held every night and the voters who weren't thoroughly familiar with Hawthorne's part in making Borrovina real country were quickly enlightened.
 Now, all this method of campaign ing was new to the prince. He thought that all it would be necessary for him to do would be to sit in his palace and wait until the votes had been counted and committee came to him and told him that the people of Borrovina de cided that none but persons of royal blood should be chosen as rulers of Borrovina and that accordingly he had been elected over Hawthorne.
 He had Radulski out sounding pub lie sentiment" The campaign had been running for two full weeks when | it finally struck Radulski that the sentiment in favor of his master wasn't quite as strong as it ought to be. Now that Radulski remembered | it, he hadn't met with one man who | was willing to admit outright that he l would vote for the prince.
 Finally Radulski went to the prince | and confessed to him that it looked as | though he would run a very poor sec | ond in his race for president.
 Hes running a campaign the way | Americans run one," said Radulski.
 The prince was puzzled. He would | rather start another revolution than | be defeated for the presidency. He | quickly abandoned that plan, however, l when Radulski reminded him that he | hadn't been very successful with revo- Iutions even when the country was poverty stricken, and RaduISl6i couldn't see how he was going to convince any body that this was a real good time to start trouble when the people were l