Show r F ELECTIONS TAME 1 IN THIS COUNTRY a n nuo M Thom Careful hil to Have Haye Lives U Ui i Civil War the th Almost 1 of Political Campaign In South 5 L c 5 f fhe i describes a d I at as a t tornado rn o of oft j t mixed with showers of 1 nt and a victim bf Ar that storm admits that It hat baa short horl ned his nr life tan Y years and mIght have bu donI sms 11 It Ie hI his skin akin hAd been si II as poor arly nut But nil those grievances are by bythe bythe the fact that the merit of political In can call be generally measured bY the degree of their popular interest 16 rays F L I Oswald In the Cincinnati tin In or of monarch bat loal that Interest II I at zero lero or below In p NihilistIc ab b of all government whatever In It II ia proportioned td I the Of OC the to record an n nuna una protest or 01 ote of COh donat denee donatIn In republican lIean France rance however bower lec keep the cities lii In In n uproar for tor together and the natives or of th the rural dIstricts are fast fall outgrowing th tL n apathy inherIted from tue millennium of oC Bourbon tn years ear ago Jules Jule jaw them tar star at the antIcs ot of a agitator or Eti It If they would have greatly all I to witness the somersaults of an acrobat J If the they applauded II at all It 11 was In recognition ot of some tour tI dv force e or drollery for tor the itself they seemed to 10 oare little or nothing Now they fervId orators of their own orn and go tu to the len length th of ren the chief supporters of a specIally popular candIdate The grin of near lau au at t the foot ot of the lust lut year e r collected a slim of ar several Iral thousand trance to In I a retired who bad other engagements to reenter the arena nt at thur request INTEREST IS 18 I G AM there It is no doubt that In I the he too the interest In Plit loal becomes becom inure jeneral from generatIon to generatIon It ta III not ot only tb the of oth other r DI that drIves men Into put a a correspondent ot of th the herald tries Ulel to explain It Put Pirty Is nag become more mono and aDd more intimately with the probie ot of bribery tend to voters I begin to the polls polla uDder ill the impulse of as well u as pa l The Th tin time Li Ia lone gone by when ben a ballot broker coul buy bill N II Pol for tor the Ihl price of ate are getting I d If a mast malt did nt 0 ow II I alU he be un I I In politic At present he keeps bet nl alj oily Clair beca hi his differ fro trull of ib pailles Ant And I It Ii aught bt even lie be a ml lake to UP I that he bP bid no at stake Th The I I II of in an disposition lay r t quite just tuu III I certain 1111 dwellers In Ou One might 9 well 11 N say that Ihl a man It is averse I to h hi hItI lu lua i rIO a mIdnight In the eat of r Heady The party tu tussle of I the future m may tj IJ lm e en n more ran I c cot and but they I lIot nu lie b I e must bt be that the la ur of a village lIle IU cou UI Would 1 preP t to lit Serre ftP Jilt of a In J Pt t t plater Almost he between PIn th the RIo Re aM th Ih I Plat Plata th the t of ire Its lla ble to o p t with h t gs mobs a H fla gathers t I Ile blocks or of h If ar with Platoon Ire ft donned a bullet PlOtt the moment ht his him to II give tb Ike the ot of his IV fit i aether t sad appel an aC teat real reserved br W fur for a In cu case Ii reu qt the liton hould become too striking I AIA SHORT In South ani only a horde or of I henchmen and long lang political experience van Ian justify fI the of an n Aspirant to 10 the honors or emoluments of 01 a high are te gener IU ally shore bort lived The admirer of a PeruvIan Del would present hint him not with a JUt dwelling house houle but a gift In tb the land of Pizarro I a word ot of ominous ne In that latitude have Involved some IOme twenty revolutIons In n about tie dosen dOlen to In ten len or twelve nd so 10 on down to little when Dictator I al lad the for a quarter of 1 Our next neIghbors too hae bought peace upon the terme of all an autocrat but all through the cen Iral and latitudes the fires trec of ar are stilt and every now and then up Sn In devouring con The first yr year ot of the Lincoln con y can give UI tia tan an Idea what hat dec elec mean In th the land of Ir If Don n wins by bya a small plurality said Id the tie de Iter there wilt be no hope to 10 n avoid u N civil Wf way It if General should win wiot war r would break brek out on the mor morrow mo row In cue cat he should b be through Illegal practices of hi his Ini nl wr war would blaze up At t once Our on hope or of peace peate rests upon the chance ot of the generals overwhelming defeat or tile the saving grace or of All an enot brIbe moue t Th The futility or of the trust In diplomatic wu was illustrated In the vase 1111 of at President of full and md still more mora strikingly In the fate ate of oC Manuel the I leffer Jeffer linn eon and all n III all perhaps the IhA most mOlt unIversally active or of the Wet frn em hemisphere At an age of 20 0 year er erht ht he th the tI tin of hi his and continued his hili by means mean or of Imported Two years 1111 later Iller h his eloquence crowded the hails of the Mill Without other u than thAt or of hi enthusiaSm he founded a literary association Anti and u It polItical reform dub club lie He became the I leader of If the all als and during a six Ix years ascend aney of hit his party was U lifted front from to till a pre presIdential a compromise coterie resigned Into hll hands hAnd as those thole of R and patriot WS was A nus MAN MANFor For three antI a half hair the founder or of the reform club had haa thIngs all hi his way and neither czar Peter POter nor I First Consul tWit half RI as use or of their time Dr s edo half his hll private fortune to In eke oke out the o 01 available funds he contrived to th the arm arny tb the courts cOUrtl of appeal and III the customs house houll dredie three harbors harbor Imp th Ihl military and s some SO 30 free schools Its III the ha i eptIon of those connected with toM charitable III Ills tariff y adopted In the third year nar of hi was wall a close approach to freA trade At hi lits request several veri I hll so 10 nt prInces endowed the pUblic of the city JI Its abolIshed r lg ious Iou dIsabIlIties And peonage a credit creditors edIt ors orl right to enla enslave I an debtor Litigation was abated b by In combining the purpose or of a 11 munIcipAl Court of 01 arbitration with I those of a pence tribunal The taxes Or of Orthe the laboring ems cere erf reduced one hi half If All 11 In all 11 Manuel Balmaceda 18 r rIf it If left In might ha have VI greatest public benefactor tf of the Ihl laM year fear but ill 11 bill hi transcendent mer iner Its tailed to outweigh h the of r he InsurrectIon lip lii wag hampered slandered and o openly end Inti t tn enter Ih the lists lIell gaint a bull bully of patriotIsm was th the of oC bu t Ih the olt ll eus u torn of oC our Chile hill at that time limp hlll had abut about and nd It tn I questioned It If a million men ever tr awaited the result lulL Of an election ith greeter anxiety Vor tor th thA ll or of reaSon hd had not been Idle ell either her and nd stood realy all to roe ti tipsi pel Ih the bIgots all as the lie crew of Ih the Il tt hl Ir re tp t alt nL Ml HAD FIRm hATERS A AMONO IONG ThEM 1 I Irl rl hit halt thai hotheads tOOt Wio i Wore to t e belief beller In th the lor or of blind and ter mined to r Ih lives at al a would ma Ina k las thel adversaries Ie leN 1011 to frequent Jat market TIm Cl opponents opponent qu h other ha nd td to I eradicate liberalism to the of nr Its Is roots That they would fight un under der nil 1111 circumstances seemed more than Ihan unless their detest at the thi p plis ls h he be decIsive enough to seare their leaders across the border horder I Freedom frH tee trade and tilt the right of tree speech were wre at stake together Ih the it an fl J but Also allO the theor Wh or of peace fot to or to OThI friends or of the were warned to 10 or i or t It and nd I their hp Ir lea leaders COD Itil 0 Oh IIII that ofton lasted through t nl t PInto the late morning hoy hours of b s 8 0 nd dy day Their poor followers w aim the of the Nue only b by R a sort of IntuItion seen to 10 In oh the 01 t churches as the natives or of tb the vo used to do Ct at the rumbling or of oran tin an approaching earthquake When NO N NI started for thE Belgian Lor bor I tier dr to 10 measure mU with that VII H os as he called the Iron Duke Duk It a DanIsh traveler urgently advised ed him to have a d ship In hiding on tle northwest coast CORet so 0 III as not to 10 Iw be caught In II a trap I It the dice or of fate should tall fall him The spoiled of fortune neglected that advice but bUI Senor Salines 1 a wealthy statesman was A more prudent and on the IV eve 0 of the fateful election his bill yacht ht with all hi his Portable valuables and quietly moored her In an cove some ome rory forty miles south of Hundreds of liberals prepared fur for the storm b by making their wi wIll wIlland and putting their children under the protection or of provisional guardIans WAn AR TIE OUO OUTCOME I When the dy day at last Arr business 1 was anti and Ih families II lies ot of mn many as their and awaited reo re suIts al as the o of a defendant in III ina R a would await the verdict of the jury Some lome GG intelligent foreign j re e a 11 unit In favor or of the Reform Pr President hut prejudice The lot doubt vanIshed on the afternoon dl r the third II day antI and when I It beeme become known that hall had ben been messengers hidden In al all the princIpal galloped at break breakneck lek neck speed pe to 10 warn their friends In country towns Int and scattered haciendas Millions In coin instantly vanished into Inlo underground hiding Women and children were hurried oc oft to 10 campa on the eastern frontier villages Were by their human inhabit ante and senor yacht out but under of darkness And not nUl a tay day too tO soon on A civi war rivalling th the savagery of Ih the SicIlian Vesper blazed lp up from Iala ollia to 10 I the Ihl border The number of I noncombatants In th the course or of the next 1 16 months has ben been At nearlY and all P not nOI al wee were a as lucky a as President I wJ anticiPated te Ih the fury of the mob ly by a voluntary death 1 and nil Ik like the old OI orse sea kIng gloried In the chance to 0 shire share th hi fate fall or of his hla brAve Coll followers Call him not alnO ainne who Side by side elde with gallant men In n the times of lie Germanic empire rn r than olce once caused an n In There killer and others so 10 warlike that their neighbors cUt not enjoy enjo a weeks respite from Lons Ial Italy was theIr favorite cockpit rend and for invasion could be coull b found readymade by espousing of the tf of the or who were wre harassing the sl soil ot of the afflicted NO APATHY ThO The nomination of Br Bar baros a threw the Guelph cities 11 of Into a fever ut or trepidation and trending renting was all pushed Ih ith tn as 11 If King In Alaric had al n II flu 1111 lilA riter grave raP but several tied itte ri t 11 at Ik wih iii iiiI I j IK halt half 1 thun hn our rR rae Ih the Alps 1 ut th or of nl t fi s lIb it h Ri itt once po JI jl pj t I tackle lt the ber berlent 1111 lent Alot Apathy about I wac wa not well fl possible h n 1 a man to hat ha I e to jump out it or r I II In lit f or r his on n a raco race hurl hors lh Ih the or of expansion danlon at al his hla heia The h cllon or of FranciA ot f turl t 1 th tong certes rl of r warn Ill that near tra trampling the th o II is Into I it before I un tind with Jot got dOe wih each A hunI years til tw mere flint nit n it r a fur for the thea a tnt nt throne of tb Ih diga 1 if war tvr on Ih the and LI e t th the dom or of the LatIn nip h election Iton or of thi hl or 1 ft t r 10 too often Pu fate o of I tithes on th the ther sIde it f th the Aipe I I II t 11 gb Hor was al th the I t r th the Tho Th an ant t lt the tt rl r N Used t I I 1 prO I te a holla h md nI hear fur th the f hi bil bile th the con on Iap C o Of it Ial 55 In deliberation tOil 01 the the became kio kit I it U tIm cliff i or it Ih the evet lulls t I hui 1 a hur If 1 hop ol I It The MU in an ha his it II Ir tin tt the Ihl result In 11 I 1 Then a rush fo for the Ibe I 1 t t of the Ihl candidate tre cre forced an 1 entrance effected mh or other and ever r mat mova a hl dragged out as a of the mob and a sacrifice to fortune th that t would Insure the good tuck luck i or of the n new pontiff nut go But still mare Wr w t 1 excitements were ere In the tb same city at a time tn n the t nl n a of an ambitious a s ai waS A laLle liable to the 01 0 lilt hla r rival 10 1 on th the war path Horace WA Was right that the Dixie Revolt hal had become Unavoidable a year ln and R it hal limIt nomina lon lion of oC Lincoln but there thre Is 11 no doubt that the of J elx wag the direCt lr CUt of if a murder grint and l great m for Cor years In the ot of Cland thre continents |