Show College Spirit and College Life VII The Blind “Xow if McEwan doesn’t get aii attack of cold feet we will be able to put the water works deal tomorrow without a through hitch We will get our two-thirmajority in the Board if Mac comes over That promise of ours got him he wants to he district attorney and wants the job had He knows who dishes out the sugar plums around here and he is doing some tall thinking right now since the district attorneyship has been mentioned to him” So spoke Hodson fifth wheel of ds Chamberlain’s “machine” The Side “machine” had controlled the municipal affairs of Lakeport for years but last election a “cog slipped” and the Reform party secured a majority of the Board of Aldermen There was a “machine” mayor hut the Board was usually “agin” him and so the “machine” had hard sledding for some months On all matters the vote usually stood five to four with the “Reforms” in the majority This “majority” was McEwan from the fifth district McEwan was a lawyer but few years out of college who was |