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Show "Baby Mine" Elected Him. Isaac W. Van Shaick, who died recently re-cently in Maryland at the age of 84 was one of the most notable characters charac-ters that ever claimed Milwaukee as home, and it was from that city that he was twice elected to congress, and he could have gone oftener had he so desired. "Baby Mine" was the song! that elected him the time he ran for congress, i In the outer wards of the city in the thickly populated districts where the Polish voters live he visited the humble homes and dandled the children on his knee, jollied the mothers moth-ers and sang "Baby Mine" to the babies. ba-bies. He sang it on the floor of the chamber of commerce when trading was dull. Everywhere he went he was called upon for his favorite song and never failed to respond. |