The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1913-11-28

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Misther Chairman" said Nolan COM
placently. The vote was unchanged.
The chairman ordere1 another ballot.
And then, all at once, as II q breath
from a sanded desert had blown into
the room, Underwood waa sensible of
a change In the atmosphere. The air
was perhaps no hotter than 1t had
been for hours at the close of that
sitting day, no bluer with tobacco
smoke. no heavier with the smell
borne in from Clark street ON hot
winds that had started cool and fresh
smell compounded of many smells, the
smell ascending from foul and dark
cellars beneath the sidewalk, tho
smell of stale beer, the ammoniac
smell of filthy pavements. mingled
with the feculence Of unclean bodies
that had sweated for hours in tho VI
tiated air of that low-ceilinged, crowd
ed room.
A hush fell. Muldoon, his black.
curly locks shining with Precipitation.
was leaning on his improvised Eavel.
his keen eye, the Irish eye that ~
readily seizes such situations, dart
ing into every face before him.
And suddenly came that for which
they were waiting. A man entered the
| hall and strobe straight across the
| floor into the Fifth ward delegation,
| into the group where the Underwood
men were clustered about their lead
err He wore evening clothes, his
black dinner coat and white shirt bos-
ON striking vivid note In the scene.
He walked briskly, but his mind was.
SO intent upon his pose that it WIS not
until he had removed his cigarette
from his lips and had observed I'm
derwood, that his white teeth showed
beneath his reddish mustache In the
well-known smile of George r. Bald
win. He elbowed his way into the
very midst Of the Underwood men
from the Fifth ward, and leading one
of them aside, talked with him an in
slant, and then returned him, as it
were, to his place in the delegation.
Then he brought forth another, whis-
pered to him for an earnest moment,
and sent him back, with a smile and
slap on the shoulder The third
delegate detained him longer, and
once, as be argued with him, the
slightest shade of displeasure crossed
Baldwin's face, but in an instant the
smile replaced 1t, and he talked-con-
vfncingly, it seemed. Before Baldwin
returned this man to his delegation,
he shook hands with him
The secretary was calling the
wards. and Nolan had announced the
result in his delegation. The Fifth
ward was long while in preparing
Its ballots. There was trouble of
some sort there, among the Under
wood men. Nolan was urging, expos
tulating, cursing, commanding. The
air was tense. 1t seemed to Underwood
that 1T must inevitably be shattered
by some moral cataclysm in the soul
OF man. Grogan's brow was knit, as
he waited, hat in hand. The delegates
voted. Feverishly, with trembling fin
gers, Grogan opened and counted the
bits OF paper. Then he sprang to his
feet, with a wild, glad light in his.
face.
Mister Chairman" he cried, "the
Fifth ward casts twenty-five votes for
Conway and four for Underwood"
The three boilers in the Fifth ward
delegation sat with defiance in their
races, but they could not sustain the
expression. even by budding close to-
gether. They broke for the door.
wriggiing their way through masses
OF men, who made their passage un,
certain, almost perilous. A billow of
applause broke from the Conway men,
and submerged the convention. Dele.
gates all over the hall were on their
feet clamoring for recognition, but
Malachi Nolan's voice doomed heavily
above all other voices. His fist was in,
the air above all other fists.
Misther Chairman" he yelled, II
challenge that vote!"
"Mlsther Chairman" yelled Grogan
point OF order! The gentleman
isn't member Of the Fifth ward dele
cation and can not challenge its
vote!"
The point of order is well taken"
promptly ruled the chair. THE gen.
tieman from the First ward is out of
order-he will take his seat"
Men were screaming, brandishins.
lists, waving hats, coats, anything.
scraping chairs. pounding the floor
with them. There were heavy, brutal
paths, and. here and there, the smack
d a INST on face. In the tumult. the
ave Simmons votes went to Conway.
Muidoon was beating the table with
ais club and crying:
Order! order! order!"-
TO hell with order!" bawled soma.
'ne from the First ward delegation.
On this ballot" Muldoon was call.
ng, there were sixty-nine votes cast.
necessary to a choice, thirty-fiye.
James P. Conway has received forty
'otes; John w. Underwood. twenty.
line, and George w. Simmons"-he
paused, as IL to decipher the vote
none. James r. Conway, having re-
'eiVed the necessary number of votes.
8 therefore dar1orn1