Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1903 — SPOILED HIS DINNER. [ARTICLE]

SPOILED HIS DINNER.

An Unpleasant Thanksgiving Day for a Politician. “Bluest Thanksgiving I ever spent!” mused the fine, ©ld gentleman who has an unconquerable antipathy To practical politics. “It st an era out in my memory like an obelisk oil a plain, and it was not so very long ago, either. “I had been induced that full to run for an important public office. - It was done against my better judgment and under great pressure, but when a man enters such a fight he wants to win. I was in a close district mid determined to put up the very best fight that the circumstances would permit. I advertised at once for an extra stenographer, and from the many who responded selected a beautiful, bright and dashing young woman who justified my immediate faith in her ability. She did all my private correspondence, knew as much about the inside of the campaign as I did, worked day and night with a willingness that was surprising, and even took frpm one of my shrewdest advisers t’he list of voters in the strongest section with which I hnd to contend, with full instructions as to how the most influential persons among them could be won to my cause. It was great work, and yet I fell several hundred short of the normal party vote. “My successful opponent lived in a neighboring town and graciously invited me to be his guest on the following Thanksgiving. It would have looked surly to refuse, and I went. It was really an admirable social function, but the few hours I put in there were torture. The host met me with a hearty handclasp. Turning, he said, ‘My wife.’ Resplendent in satin and jewels, I saw my stenographer. ‘Love and war,’ sho murmured. ‘He thinks I was visiting my old home in New England.’ -I held my pence, but that fatted turkey tasted like cork.”—Detroit Free Press...