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Show i A Mean Political Trick. ''All this political oxeltoniont recalls my brief careens a candidate," mused a Detiolter who now limits his practical prac-tical polities to voting. "I was living t the (lino in u dlstrlej) where tho people peo-ple bad a good Congressman ami must Of them wero in favor of keeping him. But of course there was a dissatisfaction, dissatisfac-tion, as there always la. and by an Immense Im-mense amount of hustling. for three. Pays and nights preceediug tho convention conven-tion I was nomlnuted. "My party had a good aafo normal majority, butllcnow that some of its Pembera wore out for revenge nnd wo P'aile things hum. There was but "We i llino in which to do a great deal, ?r thaujd organization. w;is lukewarm Jul I hd to. pejfccj another pno. I tm the wires hot to ull parts of tho strict, nnd I was novor more pleased ml!" WhD a br,Rlu Penit"r fr'ni B" "'tierclly C!iiUe to mo with his advice, 116 UrKd rnu to sond nil my dispatches i my chief lieutenant in cipher. Then Vhltiay just, what I wuuted to'and 'B8eD'ny would bo none the wlsor. i l0.?1 banH lU matter (or rue if B L!i dJ.U8thavatt wire run Into' my B Z '"'S Uo arranged the cipher m wa uied t with wonderful skill. All B him ' 1,0 wns t0 w,ro wbt 1 wanted B kent .VePd a"d did vos 1 H "I'l I'lm nt that key frpm murnlug till 9' Inrf linlRh' u,,,, 1,0 nt-ver complained. I hail bettor oxplum Uqd orders that 1 had better issue. "Everything went on ns though It wero greae.d, ami I Wns dend sure. jlltic I wart lniply slnnghtcn'd. Mv , opeintor was in the employ of tho op. pillion. All 1 bad in do wna in cluck my moves. J wns In debt up m i..y0ar und was tnugticd at for I ho way I had been tiiken In. I went to wtnk.got even With llm world nnd whs happy. I wouldn't run for president now If tho salary win paid mo In advance." Detroit De-troit Free Press. |