Political Moles of Both Parties Are
Busily at Work.
How a Successful Presidential Boom
is Created, Expanded and Trans
formed Into a Potent
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THE political moles are burrow
ing deep down beneath the
presidential pastures, where
they would not be discovered, nor
suspected, but for the work of inim
ical political ferrets. They are unlike
the coyotes and gophers who abrade
the surface sward, but delve far, far
below.
One of the wonder-workers in the
political world is the senior senator
frafoi Ohio, the mam who from ob
scurity stepped into national fame
/early in 1890 as the manager of the
McKinley campaign for nomination.
The old-time politicians thought that
he could soon be disposed of; but
they found that for three years Mark
Hanna had been burrowing for dele
gates to the national convention.
- • Politicians do npt rest'duripg^the
Lenten season, nor for any other
season. They are not primarily re
ligious, although som(t of them are
Inicely veneered with cliurchly in-go
jings and out-comings. Primarily,
they are self-seeking and ambitious,
ready to sacrifice others, even good
friends, for their own advancement,
■phe most successful of them are al
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Senator Davis, of Minnesota, once
taid to the narrator: “I went to
church tliis morning, just for a few
minutes. I sat up last night until
after midnight thinking over the ap
plicants for an office. Having con
cluded that a certain man should
have preferment, I we.”' „ -iifctt aifd"
slept as c<*’ *■ child. After late
# K-vakfa’s? this morning I lighted a
cigar and took a walk. Just as I was
passing a church, memory called up
a picture of my first election to the
senate. One of the candidates for
•office had sacrificed a great, deal for
me at that time, and I remembered
having said: ‘If ever you need a
friend, rely on Cush Davis.’ And yet.
because another had §eemed to me
to be of greater future value, I had
made up my mind to turn that
friend coldly down. I went into
church, stayed until the conclusion
of service, came home and concluded
to have my former helpful friend
appointed. So, you see. once in awhile
conscience will make even a politician
do the right thing.”
Well, while ambitious men are bur
_ lowing for the presidency, all of
'Tliem tare denying their ambition.
Senato” Hanna, the greatest burrow
er of them all, keeps gravely quiet,
and affects indifference to the quest.
But there are surface indications
which point to his ambition in that
direction. An old politician here to
day called the attention of the writer
to one very interesting fact. He
said: “Do you remember that last Oc
tober the physicians informed Sena
tor Hanna that he must quit politics
and go to bed, because of danger
from heart failure? Well, what did
Hanna do? He went home for only
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ARTHUR PUE GORMAN.
(Senator from Maryland and Prince of
Campaign Managers.)
a couple of days, and then appeared
on the hustings in Indiana to help
his friend Senator Fairbanks; and
he was so weak that he was obliged
to quit speaking in the midst of one
addresses. What did lie make
that effort for in Indiana?”
But the chief burrowers are on the
other political side, and all of them
seem to believe that the democratic
presidential nomination will 1 e worth
Iiving for next year. Senator Gor
, of Maryland, who is close to
national capital; Mr. lharst,
ge Parker and Mr. Ilill, all of New
rk; Mr. Gluey, of Massachusetts;
Cleveland, of New Jersey, and
7 \ r. Bryan, of Nebraska, are all of
ein standing light in the line where
ie presidential lightning is expected
to strike.
Now you would like to know how
this burrowing is done. It is a great
game, and is very well understood in
this center of politics as well as of
statecraft. The stimulus for all poli
ticians is the federal patronage. Every
politicial worker wants an office.
There is a blue book published by
hthe national government every two
years, and it contains lists of all of
the federal office-holders, even down
to .the lowliest and lowest-paid. The
big politicians employ little poli
ticians to take up certain parts of
this blue book, and go to work on
the former office-holders. m For ex
ample, suppose that Mr. Gluey, of
Massachusetts, wants to get the dele
gates from the state of Illinois to
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support him jpjf the presidency in
the next na*fcif«l convention.
The biur ^o will gi\ the names
of 2,000 l,ostnpsters in Illinois who
held oiflce during the last Cleveland
admh>^rat'°n. It will give the
najf^s of all other office-holders, and
each one of them most have been a
democrat of some consequence, to
have secured an office. Each one of
those office-holders must he com
municated with, either directly or in
directly. He must he assured that
if he will get out and hustle and
work for Olney he can again be post
master, or held son\e other office
equally good. Now, unless Mr.
Hearst, or Mr. Cleveland, or some
other candidate will get in ahead of
him, Mr. Olney can form quite a
strong army of politicians who can
control the next state convention
GROVER
(Stands Right \Vhep;Presidential Light
ning Hay Strike Him.)
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:;;.u name Olney delegates to the 21a
tional convention. The delegates .'ire
almost all bought with offices or with
the libpe of office. Sometimes tbey
change, but usually they remain true
to the individuals to whom tt ey
pledge themselves. Lewis Cass, of
Michigan, bought supporters with of
fices, and he said: “An honest poli
tician is one who will stay bought.”
Gathering in delegates more than
a year in advance is one of the new
tricks in politics which Mr. Hanna
developed previous to 1896. Those
who are far-sighted enough to do
this systematically have what is
called “a good organization.” That
is to say, that if one has an organ:
ized army of ex-postmasters, all og
them hungering for political flesh
pots, he is a political general with
whom one must reckon.
In the state of Pennsylvania there
are 5,000 postmasters and about 1,500
deputy postmasters. These, with the
other federal and state office-holders,
make an organized army of political
workers numbering upwards of 10,
000 men, all of them working to re
tain their positions, and all of th^m
u.ider the skillful direction of Sena
tor Quay; and yet people wondei
that Quay always succeeds.
Early in March, soon after his re
entry into the senate, Senator Gor
man, of Maryland, said to Champ
Clark, of Missouri: “William Jen
nings Bryan must be reckoned with.
While his friends may not constitute
the necessary two-thirds to nominate
in a national convention he will un
doubtedly have more than a major
!tir in t Vin nnnvPitti/in liovt VPtir flllH
will be able to dictate the platform.
Whoever overlooks this all-important
fact will find himself hopelessly in a
minority when the convention gets
down to actual work.”
From this it is apparent that Mr.
Gorman realizes, and fully under
stands, that Mr. Bryan is burrowing
also for delegates, although not for
the purpose of forcing his renoinina
tion. It means that the eloquent Ne
braskan intends to remain a dom
inant factor in his party. This also
means that as long as he lives Mr.
Bryan will have hopes of getting the
prize for which he has twice so bril
liantly contended. Here is a story
about Mr. Bryan which has never
been published:
During June. 1890, while the nar
rator was at the crowded counter of
a telegraph office at the St. Louis con
vention, sending special dispatches, to
some large daily newspapers, a
bustling big fellow crowded in, and
received a stiff punch from an ener
getic elbow. No resentment followed
the blow, but, instead, the writer
heard his name called cheerily by
one who said: “Won’t ycu let a poor
working man have a chance to earn
his bread and butter?” Looking up.
the narrator saw the smiling face of
his old friend Bryan. Room was
made at once; Bryan’s brief telegram
was written and sent to a small pa
per, which he said was paying him
$30 per week, and then he disap
peared in the crowd. Three weeks
later he was nominated for the presi
dency. There never was a better il
lustration of the possibilities in this
great republic, for there never before
was such a meteoric rise from penury
to position and political power.
And so, while all of the others are
burrowing for delegates to gain the
presidential nomination, the astute
politician from Maryland says that
“Bryan must be reckoned with.”
When it is recalled that Mr. Gorman
is the only man who has been able to
had his party to success in presiden
tial campaigns, for well-nigh 50
years, it may be well for all of the
other borrowers to hearken to his
words of wisdom. And it is worthy
of note also that while Mr. Gorman
thus respectfully takes off hi? hat to
Bryan that worthy in his weekly pa
per says that “Gorman was regular,
but not too regular.”
SMITH H FRY,
Johnny's cryln'; cJo you hear him?
, I don’t see why he should cry!
' Jus’ because we two went coastin’;
On the hill there, he an’ I.
Got a lovely sled las’ Chrls'mas,
Papa gave it, painted red.
‘‘Pet your little brother use it
Half the time”—our mamma said.
An’ I did. I only used it
Coastin' down the hill’ an’ then
Every single time I let him
Drag it up the hill again.
An’ it took him so long climbin'
That he had it most—he did.
An’ yet there you hear him cryin’!
Isn’t that jus’ like a kid?
—St. Nicholas.
HOME-MADE THEATER.
With Tills Hoys and Girls Can Have
More Fan Til an With Any Other
Contrivance.
Lots and lots of our readers delight
in playing theater. Here is an op
portunity to build one at no cost, as
everything needed can be found
around the house.
Take a large wooden soap box and.
after removing the cover, take a
crosscut saw and saw through the
bottom of the box about 0y2 inches
carefully and fit it inside of the box,
at right angles to the sawed front,
to form the floor of the stage. Cut
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your toy theater, leaving but a strip
along the front.
Take a strip of this removed piece
and tack it to the front of the box,
a little bit below the level of the
stage.
The next thing is the curtain. Hunt
around until you find an old shade
roller, some twine and a piece of red
or green cloth. Cut the roller the ex
act width of the box. Then cut the
cloth so that half an inch of roller
will show on each side, tack one end
to the top of the box. Wind the
twine around the ends of the roller,
leading the twine from each end up
and over smooth tacks driven into
the top of the theater. These lines
should be operated from one side and
serve to pull the curtain up and
down.
Now comes the making of the foot
lights and proscenium. Paste draw
ing paper on stiff cardboard and get
father or mother to follow the de
sign in the drawing or carry out
their own ideas, using a soft pencil
for the outlines and filling in the
pattern with water colors or crayon.
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READY FOR THE PLAY.
After this is done tack the cardboard
upright to the strip in front of the
stage, bending them back and tacking
them to the top. Tack the painted
footlights to the front strip, high
enough to hide any roughness of the
stage. After designing and painting '
the arch, cut out along the outline
and fasten it to strips of wood
nailed to the top of the stage and
jutting out as far as the strip along
the footlights.
The scenery for the little theater
has now to be made. Get old card
board boxes, and take the large flat
pieces, cutting them to the desired
size and cover them with white paper.
If you want a wood scene outline the
trunks and branches with a heavy
pencil, or india ink, filling in the fo
liage with water colors, permitting ,
each color to dry before applying an
other.
Interiors, farm houses or sea
scenes can be cut out of old maga
zines and pasted on.
After this is all done, ycur curtain
in good working order and scenery
in place, get out your toy soldiers,
form them into groups—or, put your
tin boats behind the paper waves
with their paper and paint scene be
hind it. One little boy who had this
theater built for him had two sets
of scenery, one of the woods and one
of the sea.
His first tableau was “A Storm at
Sea,” using a tin ship and his sea
scenery. Tableau two was called
“At the Station,” showing a company ;
of toy soldiers ready to enter an iron ,
train, toy blocks were used to build
the station. Tableau three he called
“The Holdup in the Woods,” the same
little train being stopped by a toy
man with his gun at his shoulder
ready to fire.
This will give you an idea of the
fun you can have with this home
made theater, and from these few
ideas can be created an unlimited
number of plays or tableaux that fill
in many a stormy holiday or long
winter evening.—Brooklyn Eagle.
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given any color by coloring the leaves
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BOY’S LAND YACHT,
Frenrh Youngster Furnishes nn Idea
Wlilcli Our Own Hoys Jlny
Find Worth Imitating.
While crude in construction, a cu
rious and useful little-carriage was re
cently built by a French boy. He was
staying with his mother at a seaside
resort and one day, after watching a
yacht skim over the water, it occurred
to him that a person could travel very
comfortably on land by attaching a
sail to a carriage.
He got an old box and a set of wheels
and in a few hours was riding up and
down the beach in a carriage the like
FRENCH BOY'S BAND YACHT.
of which had never before been seen
in France.
To the box he simply fastened a mast
and a double triangular sail. There
happened to be a good wind when his
work was done, and it carried him and
his carriage for a great distance.
Any boy can make a little land yacht
of this kind, all that he needs being
four wheels, which he can obtain with
out much trouble, an old soap box, a
strip of canvas or calico and a stout
stick, which is to serve as a mast. When
there is any wind he will find a land sail
decidedly pleasant.—N., Y. Herald.
THE SPIDER’S WAY OUT.
Little Insect Showed So Much Intel
ligence mint Its Captor Re
stored It to Liberty.
A close observer never has to travel
away from home for entertainment
and instruction. One bright-eyed young
person, who had grown tired of read
ing, tells in an English paper how he
found a spider an interesting play
mate.
I took a washbowl and fastened up a
stick in it like a vessel's mast, and then
poured in water enough to turn the
mast into an island for my spider,
whom I named Crusoe, and put on the
mast. As soon as he was fairly cast
iway, lie anxiously commenced run
ning around to find the mainland. He’d
scamper down the mast to the water,
stick out a foot, get it wet, shake it,
run round the stick and try the other
side; and then run back to the top
igain.
Pretty soon it became a serious mat
ter to Mr. Ilobinson, and he sat down to
think over it. As in a moment, he acted
is if he were going to shout for a boat,
ind as if he were afraid he was going
to be hungry, I put molasses on the
itiek. A fly came, but Crusoe wasn’t
tiungry for flies just then. He was
lomesiek for his web in the corner of
the woodshed. He wfcnt slowly down
lie pole to the water and touched it all
round, shaking his feet like pussy when
the wets her stockings in the grass.
Suddenly a thought seemed to strike
lim. Up he went- like a rocket to'the
top, and commenced playing cireus. He
leld one foot in the air, then another,
ind turned round two or three times.
He became excited and nearly stood
in his head before I found out what he
(new, and that was this: that the
Iraught of air made by the fire would
tarry a line ashore on which he could
tscape from his desert island. He
pushed out a web that went floating in
he air until it caught on the table,
rhen he hauled on the rope until it was
iglit, struck it several times to see if
t were strong enough to hold him, and
,valked ashore.
I thought he had earned his liberty,
>o I put him back in the wood shed
igain.
A California ling Hero.
From California conies a tale of a
leroic rescue by a dog. During a for
“st fire which raged along the border
jetvveen Yuba and Butte counties,
druno, a Great Dane dog, fought his
vay through the flames bearing in his
jaws the living body of 3-year-old Flor
>i'.ce Bogers. The parents of the child,
,vhen the alarm of fire was given, lias
ened to assist neighbors, leaving lit -
le Florence on the kitchen floor.
iVheu the wind shifted Bogers and his
,vife rushed for their home, but when
hey reached the clearing it was to
;ee the barn in a blaze. Bogers (tied
o get to the house, but was restrained.
Just then Bruno burst through the
iitehen window with the child, her
garments’ knotted in liis teeth. The
jaby’s clothes gave way as the dog
anded, but; in an instant he had her
igain in grip and reached safety, 't he
•hild’s face and hands were cut and
jurned, but she recovered.
Four 'I'll o it mu n *1 Goilfulliern.
Princess Irene of Prussia is better
provided for in the matter of god
athers than is any other woman in
he world. She can boast of 4,000 god
fathers. and how she came to obtain
• o many is a pretty story. When she
vas born the war of I860 was drawing
o an end, and peace being concluded
just at the time of her christening, her
ather, Prince Henry of Hesse, re
juested all the officers and men of the
•egiments under his command to
itand godfather to his little daughter,
,vhom he named Irene (Peace) in com*
nemoratiou of the end of the war.
W. Lindley Pres. L. T. Slayden Vice Pres.
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