Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-03

his bones. man might as well try to
riot in his winding sheet.
But what / am trying to call to your
mind, to impress upon your emotional and
responsive nature, is the dearth of hand
shaking that SO surely follows the politi-
cal harvest. Friend after friend de-
parts--who has not lost friend? Then,
the pity of it all. you begin to doubt the
kindness of your fellow-men, SO genially
and generously exploited before the first
Tuesday after the first Monday In No
vember. You frigidly analyze, you cruel
ly dissect the cold corpse of this ante
election friendship. and then if you are
wise you win take it out to the ash heap
whence the garbage man will carry it
away-and forget it.
How often have you and I heard that
the kindly word costs nothing. that it
brings larger returns than any other
investment that it Is possible for one to
make, that no one need be at all mig
gardly in this outlay. and that even the
most miserly will receive a buiging
recompense. The politician knoweth this
full well. 1t is spread over an ample
page rich with the spoils of time, and
that the rest of us have failed to read
II Is not at all TO our Creult
And with the kindly word have been
many glowing promises some of which
have been put into print. to come, let us
hope. to full fruition. On the other hand,
something should be said of the unlucky
candidates overwhelmed by an avalanche
of unfulflled promises. If King David
could say In his haste that all men are
liars, how much more sadly may these
candidates bestow upon their fellow
citizens similar rebuke. The deceived
voter may have some opportunity to get
even, but the betrayed candidate must
suffer the slings and arrows of outra-
geous fortune without any such hope.
wow and then there is a candidate
who comes up smiling through defeat
and finding opportunity again knocking
at his gate. opens and lets her enter.
Such a man was Leopold Levi, who,
some years ago. asked from state Re-
publican convention the nomination for
treasurer of state. He was defeated.
but came up smiling and thanked his
friends for what they had done for him,
He made friends by the game way in
whcih he accepted defeat. Lucky Levi,
That year the Republican ticket was
badly beaten. Two years later Mr.. Levi
got the nomination almost for the asking
and was elected
zone must have his heart under great
control TO prevent it from going out in
undue sympathy to the unselffsh party
worker. Such a worker i have now in
mind. He was quite new to the work,
but was implicitly obedient to orders.
He soon developed the greatest enthusi-
asm for the cause. He even penetrated
the headquarters of the enemy Ior the
purpose of making converts. Day after
day he returned with glowing reports of
the success that was attending his ef-
forts.
lone day, the day before the election.
1t was observed that a strange and un-
usual melancholy had settled upon him.
He was a good young man. and his
friends were desrous of knowing the
cause of his gloom. He opened lHs heart
to one of these. Now, please he said.
don't say anything about it, don't re-
prove me, l had to do it. Ill had to
buy fellow glass of beer, but / have
prayed over the matter since and I feel
better. l could not have done otherwise
under the circumstances 1t was q politi-
cal necessity
ALAS how many do such things with
no prickings of conscience afterward!
And few, indeed, are they whose mean
derings from the path of Righteousness
may be measured by a single glass; in
some cases these derelictions are meas
ured by many kegs.
when the confession of this young
man was mentioned in small party of
disbanded workers, one of them slowly
muttered the Yiddish words, 'Ish gebib.
ble which being traslated into the slam
gage of the street. is simply, I should
worry or to be accurate, I should not
distress myself .''-Indianapolis News.