Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — Overdid the Business. [ARTICLE]

Overdid the Business.

"With a little more horse sense I might have been Governor of a great State once,” laughed a man who is so thoroughly out of politics that he usually forgets to vote. “I was popular at home, was widely knowu, had held several minor offices and had my eye on the presidency. I was a bachelor, well off and thought mighty highly of myself. “When nominated for the governorship I started right out to help do my own campaigning. We decided to clean op the country districts first and mass our forces on the big cities at the finish. My first date was at Millsdale. I called upon several of the local leaders, not forgetting to dandle the babies aud vow that each was the handsomest little thing I had seen in mauy a day. When I came to speak there was a goodly sprinkling of rural maidens In the audience. I threw all the admiration possible into my features, admitted the solitude of a bachelor’s existence and vowed that the reason I bad never married was because I liud never been to Millside before. There was great hilarity, and it was evident that I had made a bit. I had captured the girls, and each one of them could control at least a single vote. “But It was such a good thing that I decided to push It along. In every village and hamlet where I went I made tlie same assertion and secured the same evidence of approval. But there came the day of judgment. My opponents got hold of wbat I had done. They told the story fro pi the stumpand through the press, charging me with insincerity toward the tender sex, and toward every one else, for that matter. It became notorious that I had said the same thing to all babies and all lasses. Tlie mothers and the girls were against me ‘to a man,’ and I was lost under a landslide, though the remainder of the ticket won. I quit politics and the State.”—Detroit Free Press.