M'GINNIS AND HIS ELECTION.
This is how ]H'Ginr,is won his ('lection, ay related by himself: "Well, sir, jes' before election I hired a « iUl ; r of 'bout bundled im-,i, ;m' 1 bought a Wo' chains and spyglasses, an' them instruments that survejora use, and putty soon I hud a lot of fellows laying out a line 0 * railroad through every gaubn and back-yard iind peitater ijalcli in Hunker. "When 'i gang wouij bust through a fence and git to work, the farmer 'd come ran mng out, find lmllenn', < What in thunder aro you Mlors doin'T ; md the men they'd say, ' What are we doin' ] Why, we're laying out the line of old
M'Ginnis's railroad. Haven't you heard about it?" TJhen the farmer \\ go in an' say to his wife, ' Maria, I'm a dimmicrat, but I'm goin' to vote for old M'Ginuis. Why, goah, he's buildiu' a railroad right through our garden ! We'll be worth a million when it's done." That's how the old thing worked. When the election came I scooped the senatorship by 'bout fifteen hundred majority, an' here I am. Smart, wasn't it ?"—American paper.
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Evening Star, Issue 3960, 3 November 1875, Page 3
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188M'GINNIS AND HIS ELECTION. Evening Star, Issue 3960, 3 November 1875, Page 3
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