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Show HAD NOT WASTED THE MONEY. Candidate Handled Political Contrlbu. tlons to Advantage. A practical politician of tho first wn ter came to light In a s-nall Indiana town not long ago. In this town there , In an officer, designated as Inspector of Streets and Roadways who receives tho munificent salary of $250 per year. As the opposing political parties are very nearly balanced In this town, there is keen opposition, so that when this office became vacant and the authorities au-thorities ordered an election to fill It, there was a lively campaign for this small plum, no other elections bolng near. One candidate was n rather shrewd old fellow by the name of Ezekiel Hicks, and It looked as tho-jgh he would be successful, as a neat little lit-tle sum had been subscribed and turned over to him as a campaign I fund. To the astonlchment of every body, however, he was defeated. "I can't nccount for It." one of the leaders said, gloomily. "With that I money we should have won How did ' you lay It out, Ezeklel?" "Hum," Ezeklel said, Hlovvly, pull-i pull-i Ing his whiskers. "Yor see, that of- flee only pays $2G0 a year salary, an' I didn't see no sense In payln' $900 SJMJ out to get the olllce, so I jest bought h me a little truck farm Instead." Now York Journal. |