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''i V The Reform Campaign IN Merriweather County. By MAX ADELER (Author of Out of the Burly-Burly," &c.). 1 have no objection" (writes William. ercival Latimer to me from a remote mining in jyjexico) to giving you the whole story of my unfortunate experience as a par- tlc'panfc of the Reform campaign in Merri- County. My fate may perhaps servo as Warning to others, and at any rate i am Entitled to have my version of this pamtui.and 'lone sense shameful, case presented to the Public. You have known me for many vears. I eed not tell you that L have never participated la Dor had any taste for public affairs. J have "a,J no acquaintance with politics, but in a Eenerai way. 1 have not coveted office. I am a quiet, retiring. 1 fear shy, man, used to de- moting rnv time to my work in the Rubicon ■National Bank, to my Church, ray family and tny somewhat narrow social duties. 1 have liever been able to speak while upon my feet excepting before my Bible class and at the Church meetings, and 1 shrink so ^uch from publicity that have always felt a *i»d of nervous shock if ray name happened to in a newspaper. When the Reform movement wa., begun in plerriweather County, McWhirr, the County J Chairman, came to mc and informed me that he Coionei. who really directed tIw aflairs of Reform party, insisted that I should be placed upon the ticket as candidate lor the Position of Supervisor of Fences and Telegraph Poles. He said that the Colonel, who was to the nominee for Sheriff, would represent brains whilst I would represent respectability. Indicated to lch hlrr that thera was tut "all a. compliment, and that of a cloudy char- ?-ter, imbedded m this proposition, and then said that the Colonel, with his record and deputation, seemed to me to be a queer person- deputation, seemed to me to be a queer person- age to direct a Reform campaign. Mc Whirr said that the Coionei had been thoroughly reformed before he was permitted to engage "in the movement that he was a -hanged man. The fundamental principle play,' continued McWliirr, 'is that re- pentance must be accepted as obliterating the I fast,' and the Colonel's very familiarity with the evil practices of politicians made his services "Yajuatle to reformers who were proposing to defeat the politicians. Would you shut the tates of mercy upon a penitent sinner? be ked; and when I said that I should hesitate 4o engage in such a proceeding, he answered Very well then, give the Colonel a chance. We put him to the front as a practical politi- cian, who knows all the tricks of the business 8.nd who will give to the sacred cauQc of Reform the advantage of his vast and divei sifted ex- Perien ce. vVhen I urged that I did not want any Public office, and indeed could not accept this Particular place if I should be elected, Mc Whirr tesured me that I need not worry about that, It is part of our scheme,' he said. to de- feat you. The Colonel's plans work out that *a.y. He's ",3 level-headed thev make'cm, It-Li you. Far-sighted and keen." That man's JUst a wonder.' Then, of course, [ insisted that I could not Perceive how the sacred cause of Reform was to be promoted bv defeat of the Reform candi- dates, but McWhirr said —' That's because never been in politics. It s the Colonel's J5ame. If von want subtlety there you have ft- That man is deep. You don t want to elected? Verv well. The Colonel puts t1p, knocks vou" down, and with you as the tecrifice sweeps all the rest of the ticket to glorious victory.' j t Well, you can Toolicvc ttint tbis kind ol did not go far to reassure me, but Mc- Whirr stayed for an hour or more and talked nd argued. At last he half-convinced me that ^he verv foundations of the Republic were un- dermined, and if I wouldn't consent to run the Reform ticket for the Supervisorshin of fences and Telegraph Poles, our institutions üllld totter to their ruin, and the whole sacred heritage of the Fathers would be swept to irretrievable destruction. You know the result. I was weak enough to yield and to consent that my name should be placed upon the Jteform ticket. IvJ y ings were t o some extent removed my wife, who. when McWhirr had gone v^ck to report to the Colonel, assured me that j^ad "done my duty. You. had no rieht. tu s4id, to refuse such a nomination. It is 6 dutV of every citizen to try to serve his f°**Htrv Your fellow-citizens summoned you their-ervice and, like Cincinnati of old > relinquish the handles ot your plough and ° <?ypthc cail" jie raeant well by that JZtoWCiS»S°. Sd I 5°Qiforted and encouraged me, ° ([don't Cincinnati, I am neany certain (1 dOL t Member the particulars of his ent.re case), J'ever ran on the same ticket witn a man like Colonel.. —j+i, The Colonel began the campaign with v'gour. On the night of the day of the adjourn- ment of the Convention he had the orass band [rom Angel Bluffs up to serenade me. the "and paraded all about Rubicon, playing m a most vehement manner. McWhirr, who on me early, said I ousht to have le- *r°shmenb? of some kind on my front-porch for "he visitors and so, when the band had played til every one of my neighbours had become he malevolent, enemy of the Reform move- ment, Mrs Latimer invited the musicians to Partake of ice cream and cake. It was clear enough that there was disappointment at the ^ature of the refreshments, and the snare- drummer was openly ribald. I suspect him of Connection with the disappearance of two of oUr spoons. The fat German who played the saxophone ^ew me into the hallway and told me plainly that the cause of Reform was lost if ice cream as as far as my moral principles would permit to go Then he asked me to go with him Illto the library, where after closing the door 8.nd pulling down the window shades, he whis- pered that he recognised me. 1 said to him that I did not understand him and he then said 1:¡e knew my real name was Obermann, that I "as a native of Eichenberg, Germany, where I still owed four dollars to his father, a shoe- maker in that town. He said I had fled to avoid Military service and to cover my tracks in transactions of a shady nature, but that e Would not give me away because he had left Germany under queer circumstances himself. *t)d two dollars and a quarter would close his •"ps for ever. Then the hand stood out in the front grass Plot and played, Columbia, the gem of the Ocean," the German saxophone player staring Siedly at me and winking at me whenever he canae to a minim rest. The band could be heard 11.11 through the night in various parts of Rubicon extinguishing the enthusiasm for Re- form by original and reckless interpretation of Popular selection?, and I understood that it Cached Angel Bluffs at dawn in a condition exhaustion and semi-inebriation. McWhirr said, when he met me at the bnk, that he feared the thing InJ not been 'large success; that ice cream was hardly 'he right material for imparting fervour to Political enthusiasm, and that my unfortunate banner bad given offen co to the snare-drummer, ibo controlled thirty-four votes in his prccinct. 1 offered to resign, but McWhirr said, Not 5jy»vour life the Cnlonelwillfix that fellow •jV'-u McWhirr asked if I would not go over to ^wicher's Corners on Wednesday evening to *h'eet the O'Flaherty Club and give a chalk- the O'Flaherty Club and give a. chalk- *9:Sk, something like those I gave in my Bible tlass. He thought if I could take for my 8t(bject the well known fact that the Regulars erc trying to steal the Penitentiary Cora Club ftouse for the Y dong Men's Invincible Club I could strike a telling blow for the glorious cau.se. But I insisted upon refusal, because I Pever saw a man trying to steal a. penitentiary I could not imagine how to draw such an ^institution on a blackboard. I pass over many painful things. I looked *°p them, of course, but I hardly thought the Susanville Times would be so indecent as to lJg(,3t that I gave my baby ipecac to check its appetite. It cut me to the heart. The Rubicon had always been a favourite in my family.. and I used it 'whenever we wished 'to advertise for a hired girl. It was, therefore, feelings of indignation and dismay that I Ound in it one morning a cartoon representing me as a reonkey, with, a horrible grin upon^ my *Vce, banging by a long curly tail from the iimb a tree, while I tossed cocoanuts down to the M^lonel. I hid the papec from my wile to save j^ei' from pain, but when the children came ^Qrae to lunch I felt, that they had seen it. My ^Jdest boy looked queerly at mo all through t,qC oieai, laughing in a strange way from time 0 time, and at last his manner became so dis- respectful. and set such a bad example to liis lounger brothers, that I called him out into the Pahtry, cuffed him severely, and sent him off *o his'grandmother's to stay for a week. Much is to be said for a free Pres3, I know, it seems to me that many^of the news- papers are mere instruments for debauching he public conscience. There would be a if I had my way. It is little less ,uan an outrage for a man who is trying to do 5,s duty in very much the same way in which h IQCJonatus did his to be exposed to obloquy being represented in print as a grotesque animal. "'Ot the delegationa that visited me to obtain ? uoiinition of my principles upon various sub- fcts, I shali not attempt to speak at length. may, however, allude to the embarrassment ^hich I was subjected by the committee sent C FC me by the Vegetenarian Society of Honey j'Peek. Wthout committing myself in set terms ° the doctrine of the rejection of all animal ood, I spoke in language of warm eulogy of j"e well-known refining effect of vegetable °odupon the physical system, and I even went far a, intimate t'at the slaughter of ■4Pnng lambs had always been an incident that Ppealed strongly to my tenderost ieelings. I Some of the members of the committee seemed to consider me sound, if I could judge l by the smiles upon their faces, but the Chair- t man looked sternly at me, and, with the air I of a man who is not to be deceived by soft words, demanded if I ranged myself with the Under-grounds or the Above-grounds. I In casting about for an explanation of his meaning, I learned from the whispers of a friendly member of the delegation that the Vegetarians who favour potatoes and other subterranean products are regarded with scorn and hatred' by the Vegetarians who approve only of tomatoes and peas. The theory I think is that the vegetables of the subsoil appeal only to the lower nature, while those that grow in the sunshine tend to mike men more spiritual, It was a dilemma, but how could I tell which theory found favour in Honey Creek? So I tried to compl omise the matter by dwelling at some length upon the uplifting influence of celery, which, i believe, is first grown in the air, and then buried in the soil. But the Chairman saw through the attempt, and shaking his forefinger at me said plainly that I was evading the question, and that the Committee could report against me. Talk, he said, was useless in face of the fact that he had seen the butcher carrying a sirloin steak into my kitchen as the Committee came through my front gate. Honey Creek, he de- clared, as he put on his bat and headfd the delegation towards the door, would know how to deal at the polls with a candidate who added duplicity to ferocious thirst for the blood of inoffensive boasts. whose lives, I want to tell you,' he said, nodding his head at me in a menacing manner, are just as precious as vours. The next evening I had a visit from, a de- legation representing the Anti-Virus Associa- tion of Polo. The purpose of the coming of these gentlemen was to ascertain if I favoured compulsory vaccination. Really, you know, I had given no thought at all to the subject, and I cared nothing about it, one wav or another, Because if you do, said the chairman, who watched me narrowly while I silently reflected upon his question, Quite uncertain, how to frame a judicious answer, we demand to know if you are or are not prepared to insist upon vaccine material direct from tho cow ?' This even was more perplexing, and so, at length, T said that as a matter of fact I had never examined the authorities upon the matter, and confess my inability to reach thoroughly sound conclusions. For one [ was not aware of the precise relation of the cow to the operation of vaccination, but if the direct-from-the cow plan was upon the whole thought by trained scientific minds to be the safest and best, why, of course, [wag wiliing to commit myself unreservedly to it. The chairman said that he was prepared, in dealing with the politician, to have an at- tempt at shuffling, but as all educated man I certainly knew that the word vaccination was derived from Vaccinus, a cow, showing the closest possible relation of the two things, and he gave me warning now that the Anti-Virus Associaaion of Polo was ready to pour money into Merriweather County to defeat any can- didate whose views were upon this vitally im- portant subject were of a questionable char- acter—and, in his opinion, mine were. When I apked him if he woxild be good enough to explain to me what this matter has to do with the duties of a Supervisor of I Fences and Telegraph Poles, he answered, quite rudely—' It has a heap to do with it. Don't cows "break down fences and rub them- selvegaaiDst tcleprsph po es? show yon over at Polo, when the votes are counted, what it has to do with it; As the delegation began to withdraw, I thought to restore good leeling and to close the incident happily by mentioning that I did not care for the office; but, as Mrs Latimer had very felicitously suggested, I had consented at I the urgent solicitation of my countrymen to act along the lines of the well-known historical precedent established by Cineinnatua. But the chairman, turning upon me fierce- ly, said that what was done in Cincinnati was one thing, and what was done in Merriweather County was another thing. He spoke for nothing but Polo and cow-virus, and he meant just what lie said- Then he slammed the front door, and a moment later closed the front gate with even greater violence. McWhirr walked home from the post office with ilia on the next afternoon, and seemed much depressed. He said, if you go on this way, you'll wreck the whole thing. I count Polo snd Honey Creek as good as lost alter the way I hear you handled those two delega- tions yesterday. Of c our so. they are cranks, but they have votes, and if you only could show some little versatility in adapting your- self to the vagaries of these people. Have you no acquaintance with human nature?' 'But,' I said to bim, why not let it go to wreck? That's what we want. You said your- self you wanted me to bo defeated.' 'Now, look here, Latimer, he said angrily, you're a candidate in the hands of the Colonel, and if you meddle with his plans and try to play politics on your o<vn account, the "first thing you know you'll be in the worst kind of trouble. Mmd what I tell you. I wish we had never put you up.' I said I wished so too. "'The Colonel says if be had it to do over again he'd give ou the go-by and nominate an old settler. The old ssttlers are getting restless because they're not recognised. I wish to gracious you were one, or else a wiser man.' I was about to offer a dismal sort of pleasantry to the effect that. it was useless for a man at my time of life even to begin to try to become an old settler, but McWhirr brushed it aside in a disagreeable manner, and said he would send Moriartv up to see me to-morrow evening to pive me some kind of drill in practical politics. Moriartv, he assured me. was past master in the business, and perhaps even I could learn from him some of the elementary principles of the Jloriarfcy came. He was a big ruffian who towered above me in my parlour and looked down upon me, making me feel smaller than I really am. I have tried not to hate that man. He addressed me as and almost the first quest ion he asked me was if I was'fly.' I hardlv knew how to talk to a man of that kind; "I had never met one before, but, as he sat there looking at me with a kind of pitying smile, I was so much embarrassed that just for the sake of saying something I mentioned that Mrs Latimer had recalled an incident in the life of Cincinnatus as having some resem- blance to mv embarkation in the campaign for reform. What do you think he answered? Reform nit." Extraordinary, wasn t it ? Moriartv, however, went on to say that McWhirr told him I was a slush-and-mush- man, with a mud-head, and no sanij in my I holder,' but I can see at a glance, he said, • that vou're one of us. I'd know you any- where's for a sundowner. What we re going to do is to give the Regulars hot stuff by the ladle-full, and when I get at them you take notice that you'll hear 'em gurgle mark me I interrupted him to say that if he had any suggestions to make for my personal line of action I was willing to hear him. But he replied to the effect that my best hold was to give him plentv of dough, and .hen go off by myself and saw wood T never could under- stand slang, so, even when he asked me if I had any long green in my clothes, his design was not clear to m*. Brit at last he made it plam that he wanted money, and T tatber.-d that he Wished to use it for corrupt purposes. 1 told him fiatlv that I would not give hun a. dollar. « Thon th- ruffian became enraged, and shook his fist at me, and said 1 was a sawduster, and ought to go a rid play dolls with real baby clothes, instead of trying to play poll ICS. "I ordered IIlm to quit the house. but he jumped at me sothat I was clomf]c; ? rotrcab behind the sofa. He roared out that he knew I was a defaulter at the bank, and ha bad the written confession of my pal, and then he said You'll do time, young fellow, before I quit you hear yourself sizzle on the iron bars. I'll jot you down in my diary, he said. You kn ow how helpless a small man is with a gigantic brigand like t.hi<», and so J slipped from the shelter of the sofa, and ran upstairs, leaving the parlour at the mercv of the scoun- drel. As I passed through the doorway I heard him sav that I was a snoozer. I was really afraid the now would ptot some harm to me or my family and I to.d McWliirr so when I saw him in the morning but McWhirr looked gloomy, and said that if my nomination papers had not been filed with I the Secretary of the Commonwealth he would insist upon my getting off the ticket before I offended, with my strange conduct, any other of the devoted adherents of the cause. How- ever, said McWhirr. we just have to make the best of a bad and then he said that if I couldn't do anything for the cause myself, perhaps some of my friends could, and would I ask some of the young men in my Bible class to attend a mass meeting of the Regulars in Maginnis Hall, and git on the front benches, and howl down the speakers. < Every little helps,' he said. Mrs Latimer, in reflect ing upon this really indecent 'suggestion, said she never before fully realised the wickedness of politics. On the following Tuesday afternoon the express man dumped upon my front porch a box of strange appearance. It was made of wood, with strips of muslin glued along the edges, and with a bit of trjng banging from a hole in th3 lid. 1 was not expecting anything to come to me by express, and while I stood there looking at the box thus strangely pre- pared, I wondered what it could be. When Mrs Latimer came out she reminded me of the threats made by Moriartv, and said she was sure it was an infernal machine. An instant later she darted into the hall, bolted the door, with queer thoughtlessness of the peril in which the left her husband, and flew upstairs, where she buried herself.in the bedclothes. I forgave her freely, for I felt that she was un- nerved. Nor could I blame her for having fear. for Moriartv was capable of anything, and 1 had heard McWhirr himself say that if ijou can assassinate a candidate it sometimes helps the cause. fo" you get rid of a man you don't want and you make votes by fastening the crime on the enemy. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the McWhirr said to me with his own lips, in speaking of just such a cascout in Arizona. As a. matter of philosophy this no doubt is perfectly sound, but I am an unaspiring man. with no "longings for the honours of martyrdom, and, besides, Cb ave a. wife and children, with not"' a doilai of insurance on my life, and my house was burdened with a small mortgage. I had an impulse to fly down the street, leaving the box lying there, but that seemed cowardly. Suppose it uhould be exploded by clockwork, blowing Mrs Latimer 4J atoms, and red acing the house to splinters, and the mort- gage to waste-paper? The thought was intoler- able. Upon consideration, I walked around to the back ofthehouse, and got the garden-hose. Fastening it to the spigot, I turned a stream of water upon the wicked-looking box, determined I to saturate it until the explosives should be made harmless. While I was engaged in this work our Policeman, Barker, came by, and 1 called him in. When I had explained to him the nature of When I had explained to him the nature of my fears respecting the box, he looked grave, and sn-d Very likely, Mr Latimer. It looks like an infernal machine, don't it ? The Regulars are bi1in' mad at you, and there's no knowin' what they'll do.' think the best thing to do, I said, would be for the police authorities to investi- gate it. Suppose you take it down to the station house?' Barker walked around the box four or five times, looking closely at it, and then he said he thought he heard wheels going round inside. I was sure he was mistaken. Then he proposed that we should touch a match to the end of the string and run. This seemed to me to be mere madness. Barker said he wasn't afraid of the thing, but if he carried it, it would wet his uni- form, and that was against the regulations. I proposed a wheelbarrow, but he asked me if I didn't know that to jolt dynamite would be to blow us both into eternity. Finally he said that if the job was worth sereuty-five cents to me, and I would take care of the orphans if there should be an explosion, he thought he knew a man who would take the risks of carry ing it off. I gave him the money, and promised to look after any children who should be de- prived oftheir parent by an accidcnt to the box, and then I urged him to go and find the man at once. Barker put the silver in his pocket, walked round the box twice more, then picked it up, and, holding it away from him, walked rapidly to the station house. I called Mrs Latimer, and we stood upon the porch, waiting to bear the explosion. In twenty minutes Barker returned with sunshmc upon his face, and handed me wet letter, the ink upon which had run in such a manner that I could read the contents with difficulty. It was from the Corresponding Secretary of the Woman's Rights Association of Happy Hollow, saving that the society, recognising the fact that mv candidacy was a tribute to, as my election would be a victory for, the cause of Woman Suffrage,, begged me to accept, with its warmest congratulations, the eight pounds of caramels sent in the box with the letter. As I folded the letter, Mrs Litimer, who-e fears of course had been completely removed, asked Policeman Barker where the caramels were. mam. Spoiled by Mr Latimer squirtin'the 110<:0 on 'em.' But, in truth, I noticed chocolate-stains about the corners or Barker's mouth, and he had a guilty look. wholly foreign to his usually honest and open countenance. "Unfortunately the news of this incident got a bout, and created much amusement,and McWhirr, with the air of a man from whose soul Hope has forever fled, said that if he didn't, know positively I was a square man, he would actually believe the Regulars had bribed me to work against the Reform ticket. Despair was in every tone of his voice, and he said the Colonel was publicly using language about me that was not fit, to print. But there is no use prolonging the narra- tive of the events of the campaign Election day came and passed, aud all the candidates on the Reform ticket were defeated but the Colonel and me. The Colonel had 1,457 majority, and I was elected by four votes. The result seemed to me strange. McWhirr explained that the Colonel had done the big- gest job in trading' that he ever heard of. But my election was a serious matter. He said I was the last man heever should ha ve suspected of doing crooked work. I asked him what he meant. He answered that he thought I hadn't wanted the office, and why I should take such chances of criminal prosecution for a place that was worth only three hundred dollars a year, and I to find my own horse and buggy, was beyond him. The fraudulent voting bad been ¡ awful- The Colonel had declared he never saw anything hke it even in his experience. 'Queer, said McWhirr. how a man always goes so far in bis first step from the paths of rectitude. There's trouble ahead for you, Latimer. You know I told you politics was a dangerous thing to fool When the Colonel sent for me, I went down to his headquarters at the Eagle Hotel. He had with him the defeated Regular candidate for Sheriff. The Colonel bad just made this man his first deputy. plans,' said the Colonel, slipped a cog. somehow or other. I had laid it out to Iseat you. You voted for yourself, ot course, but some of your friends must have done lively work. I hear queer stories about your Bible class.' I asked him to explain himself, and then he said he had been conducting a reform cam paiga and had to be careful. Ho was willing to pass this thing of mine by unless the oppo- sition took it into the courts. But Dixon. the Regular Chairman, was furious, and it might be necessary to throw him a victim. He said he would see Dixoh." This was on Wednesday. On Thursday Moriarty and seven othcr, most of them from Susanville, were arrested for repeating. In the magistrate's office they all swore they were members of the Latimer's Bible Class and that I had hired them to do the work. Moriar- tv said that I first made the proposition after the lesion on the preceding Sunday, and that he was so much shocked that lIe completely lost his presence of mind. You know how news of that kind flies about in a small town. My pastor called the same evening, and after speaking with deep feeling aboufct the demoralising influences of greed for office, and about the awful example to my children, ho said to me, Go away some- where, dear friend, and try to live down your past." The fat German who bad played the saxo- phone also came to the kitchen door and urged me to return to Germany. He said he knew his father would forgive the four dollars — he would write to him about it: and he would ask his father to give me lessons on the saxo- phone sa that I could join a German band and begin my life over again. Mrs Latimer, whose distress was of the most deadful character, insisted that I should take legal advice, and so I called in Major Wilson. The Major, after examining the case. said he considered the situation grave. Whichever way you look at it.' urged he, you must lose. If you make an unsuccessful defence against the charge that you instigated your Bible Class to stuff the ballot-boxes with fraudulent votes (and I don't see how you can overthrow the testimony of Mori arty) you go to prison. If you prove that you are not guilty, you will have to accept the office to which you were elected or go to prison The L'lw gives you no option. If you accept the office you give up a 2,500 dollars place for a 300 dollars place, and you are a ruined Your mortgage will be foreclosed in three days. So there you are* It is a bad job, I don't think I ever handled a tougher problem than how to keep you from incarceration or from financial ruin.' He said he hated to suggest separation from my family, but as my friend as well as my counsel, he inclined to believe the easiest solu tion of the difficulty was for me to get away quietly in the night and in some distant clime, whore I was not known, to try to struggle to my fed; Rgain. "I allied him if he didn't think this was pretty hdrd fur a man whose; sole motive for appearing in public life, was that which had animated Cincinnatus: namely, a desire to serve his fellow countrymen? But the Major said the cases were different times had chanced Cincinnatus, in his view, was rather a shady character anyhow, and even supposing him to have been all right. things nowadays didn't work like they used to The Major said he had no money to lend, but if I was short of travelling expenses he would take my house off my hands for spot cash, which he could borrow. I had better act quickly, because as he came up the street he heard that the director of the bank had experts at work on my books. looking up evidence of a possible shortage; and te President told him yesterday that, no matter what the examination showed, they were determined to sever my connection with the bank. because it was unsafe for a financial institution to have an employee con- cerning whom such uKly rumours were in circulation.. And so here I am, down in this remote Mexican mining town, keeping books for the Turalura Silver Mining Company, my reputa- tion blasted, my home broken up, and I an exile from my native land Not that I care so much for exile, for the Republic is lost beyond hope. The Colonel and McWhirr will kill it, if nobody else does. I shall try to be happy here, and to keep out of politics. But, I do you would look up a matter for me. What are tho exact facts, anyway, about Cincin. natus?"

FIGHTS ON FOOTBALL FIELD.

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