Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-04-19
For President,
ANTHONY HAMILTON HAW-
THORNE.

Even Prince Vladimir welcomed the
announcement that the king had de
cided to make the kingdom d republic.
The prince. who refused to abandon
his custom of wearing a uniform on all
occasions. was sitting in his palace
when lie received the news from Ra-
dulski
Excellent said the prince.
And not only is BOr"OvinR % he
come a republic, but Hawthorne is TO
be its first president"
rs he nOw?" said the prince And
who elected him."
We'll. he hasn't been elected yet.
but he is the kings choice for the Of
fee" explained Radulski
so, Now, I'll tell you something.
RaduIski. Do you remember that day
up in the palace when l told them that
they would not hear from me until
Borrovina was q republiC:"
Il remember" replied Radulski.
We'll. now is the time Here, I'll
write a statement and You hurry down
/ TO the newspaper offices and see that
/ it is published"
In the statement the prince announc-
ed himself as candidate for the pres
idency Of Borrovina He denounced
/ Hawthorne as an intruder and impugn-
ed his motives He declared that Haw-
/ thorne in helping BOrrOvina had made
/ q fortune for himself. II was the duty
OF all loyal Borrovinians, urged the
prince in his statement to stand by n
native prince and see that he was elect
ed president
For the first time it dawned upon the
prince just what great change had
come over BorrOvina. There was a
time-and only a year ago. too-that Il
statement from n member of the roy
atty would have been greeted with
great headlines and long editorial com
ment. But not so nowadays. BorrO-
VIVA had imbibed too freely of the
spirit of Independence. Only one pa
per paid any particular attention to
the princes announcement. The 9th
ers 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 prince 5
announcement did so because its own
ers had royal blood flowing through
their veins, and they hated to think of
the government being turned over TO
mere untitled American, even if that
same untitled American had been re-
sponSible for the trebling Of the paper S
, circulation since his business methods
had taken hold in BOrroyina.
Early in the campaign it became evi-
dent that Blakes job as campaign
manager was going to be a particular
ly easy one. Sentiment came pretty
close to being unanimous for Haw-
thorne for president. Associations
representing the various business
mems organizations of the city form.
ed into one body III order to conduct
a businesslike campaign. They issued
tons of printing matter telling how
there would be no Borrovina if il
hadn't been for Hawthorne and how
the country owed It TO him 10 make
him their president
Meetings were held every night and
the voters who weren't thoroughly
familiar with Hawthorne's part in
making Borrovina a real country were
quickly enlightened
Now, ali 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 a 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 be
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 rs it ought to
be. Now that RaduIski remembered
it. he hadn't met with one man who
was willing 10 admit outright that be
would vote for the prince.
Finally Radulski went 10 the prince
and confessed to him that il looked as
though he would run a very poor sec
ond in his race for president
Hes running q campaign the way
Americans run one said RaduIski
The prince was puzzled He would