PLEASANT TIMES FOR POLLTICIANS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1028, 10 December 1872, Page 3

PLEASANT TIMES FOR POLLTICIANS.

Popular political chiefs in the United States appear to meet with gushing receptions, Mr Horace Grreeley recently visited the capital of Indiana, and although treated with official discourtesy by Senator Morten, " who rules Indiana," though whose influence, it is said, a police detail was refused, ho was ample compensated by the onthusiam of 40,000 men, and the kisses of as many pretty women as could approach " the stage." Here is the scene at the hotel after Mr Greeley's speech, as described bv the correspondent of the ' New York Herald":—

The girls commenced kissing the yenerable 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. " I'm going up and I'm going to kiss him to!" and she elbowed her way through the crowd and bestowed a hearty salute on the philosopher's cheek, which ho received with the meekness of a lamb. Then an irruption of kisses commenced. The 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 to her big beau, said triumphantly—- " I've kissed the future president right in the mouth." Mr Greely was adecidedopponentof the " woman's rights' movements ; but it is quite clear that he was not averse to their assertion of the right of public kissing, so long as he was the object of their chaste embraces. [The venerable Horace has passed peacefully away, but his name should be enduring in the memories of the Hoosier lasses.]