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Show PAIR WOMAN'S SMILES. ! UNDER THEIR INFLUENCE THE VOTER VOT-ER ABANDONS HIS PARTY Ilnw Mm. Hellumy Ntiirer t'undurteil Iter Hiubiinrt' t'anvitm fer Cunere and llronulit lllm In a Winner Lady Oliuielilll and Mr. Glatlntone. The presence of woman in the field of politics is a part of the evolutionary process that has been going ou over since Susan D. Anthony beguu to agitato tho right of her sex to suffrago. During the recent campaign three or fonr hundred ladies of New York farmed an organization organiza-tion mid worked assiduously to prevent tho re-election of Mayor Grant. Who can estimate (he power they wielded through husbands, brothers and sweet- i hearts at the polls? How many women throughout the country took sides on the McKinloy tariff., studied its features and helped to bring about the results of the late lively campaign? j Fhe directed hor special efforts to the thon-simH thon-simH Iid elth-r )Houally or (hroustii their f:it tiers oed a ilflit of prmit-ude to the old man lA-mjrworlli. Among thorn whom hn tried to in-lui) in-lui) to vote 'or Mr. fnirer was an old fanner of Ktandi Democratic fait li. Without Introducing herself ahu presented every posaihlo plea for her husband, but the old farmer merely shoo It hi bead. Kbe dlacowirod ho wo French, and argued villi him In hi n.Uivo tongue. Thin lunched a oft place in his lie. lit. Bin- found out that he w as one of the wine makers her father had lirounlit from France and enabled to get the farm he then occupied. When she announced that the was Maria, the daughter of old Nick, tlm man nlnumt dropped to his knees In the exuhrriiiu1 of his Joy. Not only (lid he cml iwlile party fealty, hut he iwed all lila Influence to (tain voU for Air. Htorer. Thus Micro was hardly a family who owed their home to tho generosity ot old Nick Lontfworth that the daughter did not hco in pcrion and plead for RUe port for her huslvind. It ia aaid that tho eanva.ia cost her $i?,tXH); but the result wan seen on eleo-tion eleo-tion day, when a Democratic diatrlct considered safe for 5.00 (rare a Republican candidate a majority of 2,00u. Scores of other women may bo mentioned men-tioned who have left a strong impress in the world of politics. To Lady Randolph Churchill, an American girl, and tho daughter of Leonard Jerome, of New York, is due tho re-election of her husband to tho house of commons. Mrs. Gladstone has more than once boon heard ou the same platform with her "Grand Old Man," and she always makes a personal canvass in his behalf. Mrs. Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, Caro-lina, formerly the beautiful Lucy Hoi-comlie, Hoi-comlie, of Texas, vas a famous helpmeet in election time. On one 'Kcasion a rough but gallant member of the legislature legis-lature was present at her reception, She beckoned to him to take a seat by her side, bnt ho excused himself on tho ground that he had been eating onions! Disappearing from the room for a moment, mo-ment, on her return she again called to him, adding, "Major, you needn't have any hesitation; I've been eating onions, fj5.X A J - too. lne old tellow sat uowu, and siie poured a flood of eloquence into his ear as only a woman knows how, winning him completely over. "By Jnpiter!" he remarked to a companion, as ho left the mansion, "tho man who wont suppoto tho husband of sech a purty woman ought to be kicked out of his deestrict." If space permitted it would be pleasant to recall episodes iu the political careers HON. DFM.AMY STORKR. One there certainly is who in her own quiet way turned back a Democratic Demo-cratic tide, defeated u popular candidate, candi-date, elected hei husband to congress in the face of what; seemed hopeless odds, and who has illustrated the superb generalship gen-eralship of whijh woman is capable in whatever sho undertakes, especially when the man she loves best is interested. inter-ested. Her homo is iu the suburbs of Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, a part of tho First Ohio district, iu which tlio normal Democratic majority .has frequently run up to 4,000 and 5,000 Uhd'never fallen below 1,600. The Demo- crats nominated for Congress Mr. Otway j Cosgrove, a brilliant young lawyer. The j Republicans selected Bellamy Ktorer, j also a lawyer and the son of a distinguished distin-guished jurist now deceased. " Although j h rJ ihi MirA not rich himself, he had married the daughter flf Nicholas Longworth, the ' heiress of immense wealth. Now the name of Longworth is as familiar to the people of Ohio and the west as a house-, house-, hold word. The original "Nick," as he was familiarly famil-iarly called, emigrated from Scotland to Cincinnati early iu the century, when the-village was known as Losantiville. Trading with both Indians and whites ' he acquired a large amount of real es-j es-j tate, then wild and unproductive, but j which as the village expanded into a 'city became of enormous value. This land desconded to his son, also named Nicholas, by whom immense vineyards were established. The men he brought lady chtrchill electioneerin. ; of women like Mrs. John A. Logan, ! Mrs. Eliza Hendricks, Jessie Fremont, I Dolly Madison, and others whose names are familiar in the United States, for they all illustrate the new influences at work in shaping the policy of t he nation. Felix G. de Fontaine. ! from Europe to assist in their care ho ' treated most generously, and hundreds : of poor people by his kindness became " owners of their homes, prospered and I raised large families. Growing up ! among those was his daughter Maria, j and it will be seen later on how she I turned their friendship to account. When her father died he left $10,000,000 i to be equally divided between her i brother and herself, and by natural de-I de-I velopment and judicious investment her ! own share is now worth more than that sum. Without going into the details of her ; life, Maria Longworth, having married : Mr. Storer, decided during the present : year to run her husband for congress. He reminded her of the large Democratic 1 majority to be overcome. That didn't ; matter to her; sho merely told him to get tho nomination and she would at-' at-' tend to the rest. Storer was nominated, I and she did "attend to the rest." Independent Inde-pendent of the Republican campaign 1 committee, his wife established a bureau of her own. Naturally they didn't lika this, for they had expected to see soma of Storer's money outside of legitimate expenses, and a few of them therefore felt little interest in the election. Mrs. Storer didn't euro. In a businesslike way she gathered trusty lieutenants around her, asked what was required and royally honored the requisition. Then she began a littlo personal canvass can-vass "all by herself.'' The ward politicians poli-ticians wero invited to dainty suppers in j MR. LONOtlORTH'8 DAUGHTER. ! "the grand mansion on the hill," where they talked over the situation with Mr. Storer, while the wife, taking a plain.-un-pretentious conveyance, started out on a sixial campaign among the old friends of her father and brother soliciting votes for her husband, "because he had married a Longworth." For every one 1 she had bright smiles and winning ways, and what else was to be expected than that they should go to the family altar and renew their allegiance to old Nick : Longworth, because they had been re-rn-vnlOTod bi-i daueb"r M;iri-.' i ne, too, had been held in loving remembrance re-membrance as much through loyalty to her generous father as for the gracious manner in which sho had continued the : good work. In describing this part of her remarkable remark-able campaign a correspondent savs: |