ELECTIONEERING PLEASANTRIES.

Evening Star, Issue 3053, 30 November 1872, Page 4

ELECTIONEERING PLEASANTRIES.

Pleasant times tbe political chiefs have in the United States, Mr Horace Greeley recently visited the capital of Indiana, and although treated with official discourtesy by Senator Morton, “ who rules Indiana,” through whose influence, it is said, a police detail was. refused, he was amply compensated by the enthusiasm of 40,000 men, and the kisses of as many pretty women as could approach “ the sage.” Here is the scene at the hotel after Mr Greeley’s speech, reprinted by us on Wednesday, as described by the correspondent of the New York Herald :— “The girls commenced kissing the venerable sage. One buxom Hoosier lass had been noticed expressing her impatience on the preference given to the horrid men in all the arrangements, by stamping her feet and scolding her tall escort, and finally she said, in her vexation, ‘l’m going up, ami I’m going to kiss him, too!’ and she elbowed her way through the crowd and bestowed a hearty salute on the philosopher’s chaste check, which he received with the meekness of a lamb. Then an irruption of kisses commenced. Tbe Hoosier girls broke from their escorts and showered their genial favors on the fair face of the liberal chief in such profusion that he found it a more difficult duty to respond than usual. One girl returning te her big beau, said triumphantly: ‘l’ve kissed our future President right in the mouth 1’ ” Mr Greeley is a determined opponent of the “ women’s rights ” movement; but it is quite clear that he is not averse to their assertion of the right of public kissing, so Jong as he is the object of their chaste embraces. What would the candidates for the Superintendency of Otago not give, if their canvass was to be of so agreeable a character as that of Horace Greeley’s in Indiana ? We suspect the entrances for the Sup'erintendental cup would be numerous.