Show the as an actor there are multitudinous small things which a little man one would must press heavily upon an eminent politician lie must be civil to all benciv to the fools than to any the tools ho has always with him always the eminent politician must serve as the especial butt to a vast and wonderful array of bores how he must despise the large majority of his so called followers with what scorn be must regard them in his hearte and yet how he has to go out of his way to solicit the favor of their vote and i how he has sometimes to palter with a lie he must havel how be must be all things to all meni he Is an acter as much as any actor that ever trod the mimic stage and be he sick pr sad he has to give satisfaction to the audience in front if he would keep his situation ho lias to struggle and strive to keep in his hands the ends of fifty different which are being pulled in fifty different directions and preserve his balance and his head amid them all and what is the end of it what is the reward of the eminent politician it is when one considers this question that one is amazed to think that any man should think it worth his while to pay the penalties of political greatness all the year round |