HOW HE WORKED THE ELECTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1269, 4 January 1883, Page 3

HOW HE WORKED THE ELECTION.

: I4lßt.sjiring a church deacon residing in an interior town secured' a nan of all work from- Detroit, ntid, tlio. place being iii] easy ono and -tlio puy good/ the maiVKfts .w'cil pleased.and took- ft' great interest in his employer's wulfaro, Some six weeks • ago thd' cliurfch'to which the deacon belongs lmtl 'to.sciid tbred delogiitfc! to ;,roeefc three .'from another cfiurcli to arnrngofor a picnic. Daniel heard the deacon remark that he wotil4 like to be one of tho delegates, ...and., that ivaa enough for 'him' There Was to be a meeting of thi con-1 grflgatiohln th'o to select the | tlire'j,' aiid . a scoro':of : \ people had scftrcely got together.' wlieti"-Ihuiiel I walked in> slumnietl Ins hat down, and reiiiarWd': " Gentleiilen/this -caucus' j will now tP .order, aud. |iy your, leave .I'. will 'ace ,a« cliairmari until- a bigger man is appointed!" Tho people? wero, of. cpurse, dumfounded, but. Daniel i felt as ifjihe-.- was*''once! more on the .heath of the' ''old Eighth . ward," ; iind he ' continued": "Gentleman,- we' have met .to':--nomi-nate *. three;. delegates, and it will be ill o;doi' for somebody to mention the nanfe of Deacon Blank as the first." Nobody did, and Daniel's dander began to rise., V :-Ah ! This is a ciit-and-drijd affair, then, is it J" lie roared, asr he gave his hat another slum. " However, I pronojince the deacon elected,'and. if anybody—;—" Here .one.of tlio mem-

bew arose to make an ex|)Ja/iatioti, or to ask for one, but Daniel out of order, tliel-odm 'and adjourned the meeting. ' At the door as he was going out he met the deacon, and giving his hand a wring, he cntlmsiaatically . cried: " I've carried, the caucus for ye, Deacoii, and the Opposition fiat that a dozen elections won't wake .'em up !■ 'Rah! ."Whoop.! It'i) mes»lf that can pull a candidate through or die a-trV-ing I"—Detroit Free' Press.