Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-07-26
CHAPTER xvn

kChsACAAACA VI VIC PIGSS tQat a1IeT.
noon, in ample time for them to get
their stories In for the morning pa
pers. She smilingly but firmly re-
sisted their pleas for five minutes,
three minutes, just a look then, at
the girls.
NO." she said in her most moth
erly voice, 81 am sorry to refuse
you anything. But you do not un-
derstand q mothers feelings. The
campaign is important; yesl But
the health and the nerves Of these
children come first with their Uncle
Lancy and me. Remember the ter
rible ordeal they were dragged
through. They need rest. They need
quiet. They have stood all they
shall be permitted to stand. But, I
must say that three more gallant,
public-spirited young citizens never
lived than those children, mine and
the Senator's Tired, nervous.
suffering with chills and fever as
she was, Helen-she's the Oldest
she's twenty-one-got up this morn
ing and took the six o'clock plane
out to Iowa to vote. She's a resi-
dent Of Iowa. Exhausted, worried.
sick, she just rallied her forces and
out she went to exercise the sacred
franchise"
Olympia went to her desk and
shuff1ed among the photographs.
This is Helen" she said. She's
very studious. She graduated from
college with all kinds of honors when
she was only twenty. This shows
her at work at the Senator's table
making out her grocery list, I
fancy Adele and little Limpy
are more playful. Here's a nice one
Of them together in the big swing at
Commonwealth Park. Sweet, isn't
it? Here they are raking leaves for
a bonfire on Halloween. This is
Limpy; named for me, of course,
and some people think she looks
like me, too, in a small way"
The girls spent the day quietly
upstairs and amused themselves
very well with the papers, Sinking
over the photographs, which were
surprisingly good. Limpy was not SO
well pleased with the verbatim re-
port Of her speech.
Il see what Aunt Olympia
meant" she unused. 1T doesn't pay
to be too extemporaneous."
Flowers came for the girls, tele-
grams. letters, small gifts; and for
Limpy a big ivory donkey, hand
somely autographed in green ink:
"Limpy for President in SO,
"And for Campaign Manager,
Your Old Pal,
Jim"
Aunt Olympia, her WEAKNESS for
gotten, her i'll humor dissolved in
contentment, was deliriously happy.
She, too, received flowers, kilograms
and gifts. She read the basketful
OF congratulations. She cooed into
the telephone. She crooned over
the girls. She almost felt satisfied
with the Senator.
The Senator made his final appeal
over the radio on Monday night and
an effective job he made of it;
speaking with quiet dignity, re-
straint and reasonableness, pointed
ly ignoring personal phases except
for one paragraph, which the entire
staff had hand in preparing.
my friends, l address you to-
night on the issues of this cam
paign. speak only of the issues.
The sad infringement of the sane
tity of my home is not one of these
issues. My personal feelings in that
tragic matter are RELOCATED to the
Background at this time But to
those thousands of you, my friends,
who have written, telephoned and
wired solicitous inquiry as to the
health of my young wards, and
whether they have suffered serious
i'll effects from the physical and
mental anguish of their tragic and
deplorable experience, l am happy
to relieve your fears. The chill
dren are young, but they are brave
and high-spirited. In the safe Sc
renity of my home at Maysville, in
quiet seclusion, they are recovering
from the brutal shock to their inno-
cent trust and confidence which was
SNSA CotCA ply uio-
comfort. And the eldest of them,
Helen, has arrived safely in Iowa
by plane where on the morrow she
Is to cast her first vote as an Amer
lean citizen"
Tuesday, the eighth of November,
was election day. The Senator and
Mrs. Slopshire had planned-and
made public pronouncement to that
effect = that after casting early
votes. they would spend the day
quietly at home with the children,
having a large family dinner-a
pre-Thanksgiving, it was, really-in
the middle of the day, and in the
evening, from six o'clock on would
be at home to their friends with a
buffet supper and listen to the re-
tvrpre