The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1903, Page 2

THE SUNDAY CALL m e Ao A< that swuhglover the towns closed and wore an alr of having been e i Thr e ot THE RETURMD slosed finally. On the figor wers piles of me )ungkter, unable to resirain blank nominating petitions that never atience, had set off. Occasiopaity i THE* would be used, %undludof ,.1, ?’!papol’: torches would undu acrys . ) that never would be read, and heaps o g soveral Dlocka” Away? on CoriMITTEER Chmpaian lerature thas never would bo d ann ments of the b =ooms . 4 disturbed. In a corner where three or even their waiting clders four sample torches stood was a p ches: but were many of lithographs, and from them the faces of a.arms, ny, that Dade candidates, as if they still posed before that the parade was a failure the people, looked out with the same i not pass that way ; solemn expressions they had worn for carr iney heard the the campaign. Outside, from a wire tI welling loud a8 some was stretched to the building on the « ¢ turncd, then, in the . 4 posite side of the street, the big c 1 November night, far - o . paign banner could be heard booming paper and . they caught the i in the wind. then another and In the innermost of the committee's en,” he said presently g » rt « E T, unti 3 ade a river of yel- apartments only a few men had been ad- - n md, election by a majority of four ew low t poured . itself down the o and the ise - had broken mitted, = who that year, at ieast, thousand votes.” ~ ie8 g o & sireet. from curb to curb, -rising and PASSed . . . 4 her parly resched the agam. Garw nad lan ut a were the managers of the party's poli- _ “‘What was your malority two, yeas: ses, r the marchers feet kept time B A dewdw Was cumpered b.g white hundkerch.ef und was wiping cies in the 'State In this rcom was ag " sald the old man, looking 2 a to the punciuated roiling of the drums. s, e e (wayvs gathered his brow.. e was suuling now, and Garwood. He had votec 14 Aot . were Betragtd . s i Along - the = sidewalss steamed a fiore leen the place of amusement was greeling the vice presiduints of the meet- ing and had then taken a (r o 16 e e g Garw crowd of boys, and men like boys, & e s eaming up Ing. wha siretched their t across Chicago, in order to be m ver n ree tr d ; 4 doned, and people were sireaming up ing : ) - - ot the same had'strugzled (hrougs the OPs"Cd; 2nd Beoble e (he hail. Mr. their = neighbors' knees to . shake his ter of the night's excit:men x. Don't you y aviet beside Garwood's carriage that hot . urincss led the women to seats toward hand s mopping his he sat here in a d leath & in. August, the same that had Hafk- ine front of the house. where they juined foreh » had his watch out AS he could hear the ring of ca s that un- ed the Bromley parade a few weeks be- (he gcattered folk aiready situng there,- soon a thal Garwoua was seat- hoots th ZH\'M"H\R}:'-“"' stdnes 4 . w scived or y fore B R p us ed, he ste d to tne frunt of the stage. he s elow the shouts of election " e L anning themselves in tne air that W i, t t el RETpa S ‘ { 2 ' which Emily in 1 1ne girls had been followed to the T i by the blazing gas Jets, ta his red face round with smiies. Then night, now and then the blare of a tin > Bo bod ?:AIEJ:: fa m sers bersclf. was randa by Mr. Harkness and Mrs. Gar- {520k whiling away the dong suddenly his stile dic horn.” From Washington street, tw e s ot e e g Ptta wood, ai the old man and the old (e (hey hau to wait for their entertan- ed, and he tapped the ks away, a cheer, mellowed ontests of & close . woman pressed forward in an futerest peny o begin. Up in the dim and Jdusty with the gaver (hat | He 100k |y by the distance, came mions of & diade b disiked to own. the two KIrlS gajery boys were improving an opp a swallow of the water pposed was fore the newspaper off e s 1. : other at ‘ast in a deffiite Panity of liberty by cnattering over the in the giass, and at la Jice came: returns were being flashed upon scree —t bt red on the Very edge of the \Wiiin benehes, calling (o one anth: R ; he zald and from below alwavs ascended tr ps. their teeth Chattering With ner- ' wheeiing hg the night with the though not many cou iim, “will endless roar. From the entresol a deep X whistling. dinning the nigh t r e e 20 asper had_driven the car. wa i SIFUTE you come to orcer, an’ 1 now have the voice was reading the bulletins to the f ighrtxmlnf.ladr‘ " Fou 'd stood at the heads of - "G 0¥8 WAL furnished with a table, honor of interauein’ to you Judge Bicker- multitude in the rotunda. Garwood ing. he 4 but oven bas re than 1 about it me that a$ at bis watch on incompiete e counties in the ton of Governor » entire State ticket by 1sand’ majority." ored already of the com- horses, who pricked their ears to- gna'‘on )t were the white pitcher and staff, who wiil preside ut this meetin’ as caught snatches of what the v . ming n of men and fire, {he waiting ¥lass from which orators permanent chairman, reading: th startled eves, Jerk- hmepen their ever-ragiug thirst. The Rankin retired amid a volley of hanc ot . hundred’ and twenty-nine pre- now and then and blow- $ahs 1cgs were hidden by a fiag, in the claps, which the rotund Judge, advanc- inc(s in Brooklyn apd Kings county 108 neir soft sensitive nostrils, go1nC % ‘830N was a picture of the can- ing to the front of the stage. buttoning (how pet gains— < procession had drawn so near that of\o%."¢or President. The stage had been his frock coat about him, thought were “on "y §oarq the inevitable news that le to distinguish the details goi"with the theater's gray-walled draw- meant for him. He bowed ponderously, ypog inni had gone overwhelmingly de the mass, the four policemen. ing.room scene—the ome with: the fres- and then, with ome hard on the tabie PIRESPR. Y vE0mGntoverwhelming- reasted sack coats who had rtaine and tassels—and an effort beside him. began the platitudinous . . v assels—an 3 ] publican, and then the c inuounced as plato.n: the grand At y Republican, and then a e was A | mad arm the co,d cheer- speechi of the permanent chaiwrman. The ¥ Sl bt ~ 3 ~ shal of the parade, d out brave- BenInaA08 e WATI LS o diniatic noople bore’ with him: (n Ahet.divine 1aush wilh Which theso foregone ) 1l Williama, at tes and paririotic by ing, try- ox and kingly tragedies by a fur- patience \'ulv\huh[ mnl Amerfcan public S{USIons &re TN T artl D dutif s Thiiais e e W ey t t DUGEY-nurse with thé mi e of fia hd bunting and a few has schooled itself under this oft-recur- &7 g 1 Ao A - gible the flag bearer. with bent pictimes &l and bunling Siee Gur. . Ting. ordesl, and .even gave him sume BalARt e e T ol , Garwood there; he'll & " e alning under his load; the faces vhich . recog! after perfunctory a But the quaiity B NS g’ id strange . & fami in_the giare that lit them up. fonoy’caoi'in the eye, and the aged droop When he. reached the place where he hOUgh(s fa¥ 100, QPer B FO¢ his life, he [ § from the ro E w like es transfigured in the glamor thatl = They let Mrs. tiar- said: manifestations. o SEAES e Ghe the streets the crowds & to the mouth. They lett old Mrs. T elt, had come. He was with men who he theater added the save tablegu from contempt. A jark as to the identity of L now have the very Erept honor and felt, had com g : the theater added to th e There were clubs from each ward, upi- 10od In the dark as to ? the very great pleasure of introducing -lke himself were candi or else t ] 1 had a new quality of formed In the oficloth capes and caps of 'Nat purtrait e 4 O e D eriaresaman " the mansgers of candidates yet he felt Tiq .es tn iy that comes with the ap that = day. with wide Intervals be. Jhe stage was fllled with wooden 19 YOh, Yyl e B. Garwood. Jerry that the result of the tion meant proach of m nt. Scareiber, who had tween their sets of fours, and eked out chairs, asyen-white I e o arose at the sound of his own name and Toghs e I R i oompeiipu: e DOEn, DU b She TR SRS qou Ape t er Ly small boys in the rear ranks; there NeWRe IS Vige e A, - “mAVANC the front of the stage, stood e ha jed all on tuls campe §n: i 1or bécause of his German niise, b he boar & Umpany of Fallread moneat leas: these chalrs were fnten Jegegnd ok o e il Ay ook At ha ;x';:{ had abandonéd his practice, staked his 1ong ago clalmed his own election by a their transparencies said they were rajl- lived, bul presently they begav t9 P - ppy ce"died away: stood *here calm and Keputation, spent all Ris. moned ¥oke safe majority had made many trips alitie ing lighted lanterns and (hese wero S€at| selves, ed Sbuut, s is: ol o ISRk Vs thet w ik Zaity re rest. He feit that i plainly a connoisseur of Rh n g s om ine lawns and veranda p customed foothghts. Y CC ed g SI8d unereite wol e Bl e looked & olonel Wartield, the cha nid, so moist v osy tn. H g e ¢ s~ the vation of their nation. The lines Obviousy glad when some black-gathed v S0, Vo g ip at him through her UDS at the table in the center of the foom, phave befitted his pers y, but he con- P ut shaving, with- were well formed., and marched with companion came Lo share thelr misery G Al Focles, at Dade who smiled, at & pad of paper before him. idly turning @ inually boomed forth g az the time without effect of military precision, though the and let them pretend the ease tAey 0% B ynexs who was stern, at lasi at Pencil over and over in Lis Bngers as he g lating t ther f 1 mere sm rocession had to stop now and then to Sousht by talking to him. ABE SCEEE pri ™ Their ¢ met, and as Kmily's red the import of the latest re- But t general teli 2 1 jark time and dress its intervals. flied, gvd soma Began Jeolchg St (0 fell she heard his voice in low, musical b - Catwend.” wNu YA e Garwood was excluded. ~For an p i o When the marching hosts saw the Nalches. At eight oclock the Ball Was 04 1000 g . lly as calm as he apg 1. He lo Pi® his hopes had been sinking. Rar Harkness house all ablaze from top to full: the ‘mceting was centain to be a MOUNLRCPli oy jadies and gentlemen” ed at the others in the room. laughing ki, had promised to telegraph as soon pt bottom they recognized their candidate's Success anyway. Ten midutes more A Chatrman, ladies §ndpEentlemen. nd joking as they were—no. It could not gi'he had anything definite, but o wo g . relation to the first quality of the town €d by. The ‘committee A began. $ matier to them as it did {o him: they had'come from him. Though the retur: the time by venting a sentimental cheer, waving ©d itself on the stage ats W henever i >rairi scugs had position, money, influence; POIRICS grom down the State were coming et bhad finished all his thelr torches above their heads. ani came and cleared its four throats. Out- .mr’»'v""«;‘afw"'»'nd rand Prairle they discuss 280 {{hem'a kind of recrestion. They ropiniy those from his own district had : completed a second poll, throwing the flames Int> the air. Then Side the nolse of the disban m?l parade their heads and say that he made the lolled In chairs, smoking at their ease. peen meager, and from what he already . had taken bv 0ol ‘dis- the grand marshal, holding on to pom- could be heard and then the rn_rrhx u‘ u; speech of his life that last night before NOt caring to anticipate the strain.of the .. he was convinced that he was ru f 3t thousand dollars Garwood mel and cantle, 4 twisted his huge marchers to get indoors. e‘ gm’ Jection: long, uncertain hours of the night, but i,z pehind the head of the ticket, both & on the Monday morning haunches in -the ®saddle, and shouted Clambered up to the gallery, ousted a St P content to sit in silence with their heads po:{onal and State. 1t seemed fo be we k f & N campaigning some mighty order, which, though Whole section to make a fitting Dplace 3 XIX thrown back, trying to blow rings of nataplichedq » that his party t he was I for election day. wholly unfmemglme ta everybody, and for itself down by the ralling, then at 1t was election night in Chicago and al- smoke to the celling. Once Parrish sald: .5 swept both th > and the nat SR Sl ¥ ce was such that, when to the marchers more than anybody, at half-past eight began to play a medley ready a gredt crowd thronged the Web- “It's like walting for 4 jury, ain't it? ang he seemed to b cnly ean - a Mr ne in the interest he coi onee created & vast commotion down the ©f national airs, and thcugh the strains ster House, a crowd, as was perhaps fit Y sald some one else, “but, thank g.r jeft out. He pitied himself, he b = a day ssked abcut the cut- fiery line. - His hoarse words, or some Of America, Columbia, The Red. White {ing in a land where the avocation of God, this is a jury that can't han Zan to feel that the open triumph of the k was able to say hourse words, were repcated, tossel as and Blue, Dixie, = Marching Through every man Is governing, composed “Maybe not sald old General Wil- g ocessful ones about him wag indelicate - J1l right if they don't buy us." it were from one throat to-another, the Georgia and Yankee Doodle filled the wholly of men, although in one corner liams, who had been in Congress for .4 in bad taste; he felt that they shoulc A ad deter ed that Garwood's marshal's aldes galloped wildly up and theater, the atmosphere was charged of the balcony that ran around the ro- twenty representing a safe dis- g how him more consideration. But the close with a splendid down until at Jast the torches began to With the suspense of long waiting. tunda of the old hotel there were several trict considered his by divine geemed to have forgotten him in the r . in his home town. He dance in varying directions as the column _ Suddenly, while the band was play- women. The svlendor thar had been right, “but It can stay out a long time. ,jjzation of their own joy, and Garwood p e pa e county committee to & executed some complex manoeuver that ing, a wave of cxcitement swept over produced in their dress by the competi- I remember once.” A 2 could only smile grimly at the iromy of & G f had compelled the wrought & change fn its formation. And the audience; there was a commotion tion of a public dining-room, proclaimed The danger of Willlams' reminiscence i’ aj a ticket to make then the marshal in & way that no doubt at the door, a shuffie of feet, a scraping them as reguiar boarders, and as an ad- was averted by the click of the tele- ' A} midnight whistles blew all over the B e B e 1 the campaign reminded himself of Napoieon or a Grant. of chairs. The vice-presidents craned ditlonal evidence of their lot in lige, they graph instrument. The operator selzed oty as if it were New Year's. and fust . e f and arwood’s share of the turned about In his !fl(?dle. squeezed his their necks to peer over the blagk-cvated had that air of detachment from their his stylus and hegan to write rapidly. {hon Larry O'Neil came in ing meeting Rankin ergaged a band, plodding horse’s ribs with his spurless shoulders in front of them, people ccased husbands which most notel ladies soon Warfleld took thé new hulletin from the ~ye've got ‘em. Cook County's ours by hle action so constantly be: heels, And. under his slouch hat, elanced thelr fanning and twisted about in their or late come to wear. As they leaned telegrapher's outstretched hand and ggry thousand. Beats hell, dom't it™ erior re his fellow-committeemen that their from left o right like Stonewall Jackson. seats to laok, a rattle of clapping hands over the balcony, their jewels and teeth studled it with knitted brows. He read How are they fe wn at the r He 1 is effort emed paltry and puny in At the same moment a drum major began to tremble and vibrate beneath and whife hands 'flashed nervously, as if it aloud finally, and then commented: p e asked Antho The headqua ' rison with his. When the last shrilled his whistle, and twirled his ba- shook with heavy applanse. they shared the excitement of the crowd If that gain keeps up in New York iers of the other comm were at the h came, and but one more ton, a cornet trilled and the band began And all at once Emily saw Jim Ran- below. For them, as it might for any he'll come down to Harlem bridge with ... d, he sald to his sleepy wife to play: kin, tublcund, his curls sticking to his one, the great crowd possessed a never Jess than seventy thousand, .It'l give .oy they've shut up down there™ said home far in the chill hours © “When Johnny comes marching home red ferehead, smiling always,. leading failing interest. Looking down they saw us the State and the Presidency.” e and gone home. They seen 2 ng again, hurrah, hurrah!” the way up a side aisle, and behind him it continually in uneasy motion ilke a He laid his pencil down and iighted a f mama, we've got 'em licked—but The two giris emotionally trod a danc- Garwood, his hat in hie hand, his over- herd of milling cattle. Here and there cigar, but he did not relax his interest. fleld, laying down know it.” f.g measure, and then, because of the coat on his arm. She saw him run his nucleated groups of men engaged in be- “Here's something,” he said a moment no further ne . . ebrated the evening of the smell of salipeter, the snorts of horkes, free hand through his hair to loosen lated political argument or in hedging later, spreading a plece of yellow flimsy ) n asking Mrs. Garwood with the shouts of men, the red and white it, then shake it back with that royal political bets; here and there some tired over a white sheet, “Lere's one from . g .\ b . g brid her mother lo supper, after ripple of the flags that went careering’ toss of the head she knew so well, and outcast, glad of the temporary warmth Springfield; says returns from thirty 1 o'eloc he 71‘ '::m;v Instrume - were to be driven to the by in the smoke and flame, some strange stride on, his face white, his eves dark, and light, shivered in ragged summer counties show net gains over two years ceased Its chatte and the telegraph ope 8 e early enough to obtain good suggestion of the war our political con- his mouth firmly closed on the level line garments that the long day's rain had ago of eleven per cent. Let's see—'In rator began to unroll his little package & & f ily ] king. Emily had hoped tests typify, in spirit and symbol at least, of his lips. drenched: here and there some messenger these counties. he read, ‘Chatham polls lunch. As fhe odor of the buttered brea & f himse!f there, hut at was borne to them, until they felt whai _ The house rocked with the storm of boy dodged along: here and there some forty-three thousand one hundred and and the cold meat he spread onm a clean = - 8 telegram came from they conceived to be patriotic thrills cheers, with cries of his name, but he ' reporter elbowed his way through the seventy-nine. . Norton, for State Treas- sheet of paper before him became perce % i saying that his train coursing up and down their spines. marched straight on, bebind his smiling crowd, and here and there a wide track urer, carried the same counties two years tible in the room, the men there feit f and ke w uld have to go direct- “Don’t you love the dear old flag, after Rankin, who responded to the greetings was marked by the more important pro- ago by seventeen thousand two hundred the first time that night the pangs of hun- - o - 1 the station to the opera-house all, Dade?’ cried Emily, above the noise. of men who roge from chairs or pressed progress of some politician. Over the head and thirty-six.” " and Colonel Warfleld sald n_time for his speech. Dade The girl pressed her companion's waist themselves flat against the walls to give of the crowd hung a stratum of tobacco The men in the room stirred with a “What do you say to oumgoing down & . nd brought her mother's excuses, In response. room in the aisle. The little party dis- smoke, and all the while arose a muitl- pleasing excitement. Several of them (he cafe and havi a bite to eat?™ w h not their querulousness, and by es, but it's a rebel tune they're play- appeared behind the scenes, and the ova~ tudinous voice, laughing, swearing, began to talk again, but the colonel said Down in the ca the men group: troubled Mrs. Garwood, ing,” said old Mrs. Garwood, dublously tion lulled. cheering. Constantly arms were flung in- rather peremptorily: themselves about two tables witich Wa v ined by the embarrass. wagging her head in its bonnet. Tmily felt her throat close and feared to the air, and sometimes a hat went ‘Wait! Here's some West Side new fleld told the head waiter to place e . € I then ment “of a meal too elaborate for her _ “Oh, we're all one now!” said Mr, the tears that already moistened her spinning up to the dark skylight on which —Newman who was standing for the ., .4 the meal he ordered sov >t . o v how my comfort. e g 2 Harkness, and then blew his nose in eyes. She tried to compose her features, a November rain endlessly drummed. Fourth Congressional District, arose as 770 o0 0% 470 (0 0 there ta . g 1€ per was hardly over when the chagrin at this show of feeling. gi'ue crushed Dade's arm in her fingers, ~Up the wide stalrcase and down the the chairman read: exc J'm-p. laugh at 0id a8 s of k Reok preliminary pounding of brass drums They stood and shivered In the cold then she stolea glance at those about hall, carpeted with canvas ever since the ‘“Three of the five wards comprising the G 7. " . TaRins St = s came to their ears, and nily and Dade night air and watched the parade go by, her. Everybody, was looking at Gar- campaign opened, men trailed their drip- Fourth Congressional Distriet, the & st n;";‘f o ~m\.} ™o - f ed out on the veranda as exciied- read the transparencles with their gu“ wood, everybody ‘save one, her father; he ping umbrelias, passing in and out of the Eighth, the Ninth and the Nineteenth, g ': fto d‘ g o i A B tu a he little boys who ran up and ing inscriptions, praised the various re- was looking at her, while Mrs. Garwood, suite of parlors where the State Central give Newman eleven thousand nine bun- fouid 2 "F fo oW, Mo wv“yr d o with Lo e down _ the enue _shcuting that the galia of the marchers, kept time to the having found her handkerchlef, held it Committee had its headquarters. The dred and thirt j-eight, Kenyon five thou. 1IF 'r’\.z.\ stop to co t A" ! ther, o8 It oot ey Bl e e 0} ;";;'u—'fllmms it with singing of the bugles and the going of in her work-worn hands just as it had outer rooms were crowded with men, sand six hundred and forty-seven LK, AD.N"‘"‘" the sh B am call e - ' (e St proens ga”im:n"m w'w“::g lg‘;;r tin the drums, and cheered when fifty men ‘come from the iron that afternoon, fresh their garments steaming from the rain, Newman drew a long, full breath, and "Good boy'" asif he had don a i ars of t not from Cotton Wood township, wearing and.clean, keepin r eyes fixed on the their faces i) with perspi complacently. as he thought of the fc g, He is twinkle with Japanese lanterns this coonskin caps and followed by dogs, trot stage, wntcm;M or»her) boy to lppéar ‘their dirty nn::r':pr'-xc\afdlng ‘énl’we ;:‘g':fl-n e SOl the other wards go, John?* Influence at Springfield h ome. He D might 2« it had on the night of the Brome ted by on thelr heavy plow horses. again, while the tears ran unchecked ‘Some of them were drunk.and quarrel- asked Parrish. chairman who had 4i d the campaign e'd die Jey meeting. for Garwood's social posi- Finally a rabble of bovs and negroes down her. cheeks.. - some, and now and then the policeman h, they're all right. I carried the would give him. his inscrutable smile ex R I fvr\“ o 22 o l]mJ\ ‘( ymi and the brought up the rear. snatching exting- And then Emily heard Dade whisper: whao leaned against the doors spoke con- FEleventh by a hundred and fifty-six two panded into one of great content. The oy he'd m .. z v’—‘ Ehh Sharate “v"4hx h:l”r -.renhdil,v identify uished torches, half-burned roman can- “Wondah why thsy didn’t come in by fidentially to _these, deprecating the years ago,” said Newman, speaking with were happy at that table all of them gl TR B Bt ause, uvl the boys dles or sticks of red fire to make a lit- ‘the stage entrance?’ trouble, he could so easily bring upon the accuracy with which a man remem- looking forward to days of power, all save d 12 partisan and now and then t tle celebration, and the: parade had Rankin and Garwood had stepped on the them. The desk of the secretary was bers his own majorities, “and lost the Garwood, who sat gloomy and silent, position as the