The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, January 16, 1935, Image 7
The Conscientious Candidate
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE
Sitting by himself in a hotel room
I found an old friend of earlier da. 9,
chewing a toothpick, and gloomily
regarding a cheering crowd outside
the open window where a man was
standing in an liutoinoblle and ad
dressing an obviously approving
crowd.
"Id that your candidate?" I in
quired.
"Not any more, ' was the surly
reply.
"I thought you \/ere one of his
pianagevs."
"Listen. That lad hasn't got any
managers. I wus one, but I ain't
any more, and moreover, I won't be.
I'm waiting for the next train that
will take me buck home."
"What was the trouble?"
"It would take more than between
now and train time to tell you. That
fellow hasn't got any political brains.
I was up all night last week, writing
him a speech? the regular speech
that used to po big In all the cam
paigns I've been in. When I showed
It to him, he read it, believe it or
not, read every line of it, and then
he said:
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body could carry them out Don't
you realize that I'd be expected to
carry them out If I was elected?'
" 'Listen,' I said, 'you're new In
this game, but you're smart, or any
way I think you are, and you can
learn. Nobody pays any attention to
campaign promises except a few
cranks, and they won't bother you
after election day. You'll have a
secretary to keep them from bother
Ing you.
"'What you've got to do is to let
us old hands tell you what kind of
promises will get votes, and then go
and make them, and take the bows.
You just attend to the talking?
you're good ut that ? and we'll get
somebody up from headquarters to
hand you the speeches. The ones
you've been writing ain't sound. You
keep talking about not being able to
perform Impossibilities. That won't
make you any votes. Now, don't
worry, it will be all right ; you Just
leave that speech with me and I'll
| leave in it anything that ought to be
i there, and let one of the bright lads
I've brought along fix the rest of It
for you.'
" 'lint,' he says, 'I wouldn't make
a speech tlint somebody else wrote
for 1110/
" 'You wouldn't, hey,' I says.
'Well, smarter guys than you has
made 'em and grabbed off big Jobs
by makin' 'em, and after they was
elected they managed to squirm out
of 'em, like they all do.'
"'Hut that wouldn't be honesr,' he
! says.
" 'It wouldn't be stoalin', or bur
! glarin', would it?'
I "'Pretty much the same thing,
' yes.'
"Now, what could you do with a
bird like that?"
"Well, what did you do with hiui?"
"There wasn't nothing to do, of
coarse, but just let him take the bit
in h 1 8 mouth. And a terrible mess
he's made of it.
"Why, do you know the very next
day lie told a crowd out in front of
the hotel tlint when he was elected
he wanted 'em to come down to the
Capitol and tell him if there was
anything wrong with the way things
was going, and if they had any com
plaints, and so forth. What do you
think of that? After he was elected
mind you. Ile'd listen to 'em after
he had the Job and didn't need to
listen to 'em.
"I sat down then and tried to have
a serious talk with him, and explain
that nobody ever took campaigns se
riously, and that he was to leave
, what happened after he was elected
to older and wiser heads that had
grown gray In politics.
"lie was a little huffy at that, but
I thought he could take his medicine,
even if it didn't tasto good, and set
to work tellin' him, as I would tell
a little child, what It was all about.
And what does ho do but turn on his
heel nnd walk off!
"The next morning 'I went up to
his room, where he was makin' a lot
of party leaders ? poor old boys past
fifty ? chuck one of them medicine
balls ut each other just because he
liked to get exercise that way.
"He was all smiles when he see
me, and.. chucked the ball at me,
mennin' to be playful, and it hit me
on the oar and hurt. Hut I was so
pleased to think he'd enmo around
to my way of thinking that I didn't
say anything till the other boys had
gone.
I hen I said : 'Well, I see you
nln t mad any more, so I suppose
It's all right.'
"'You suppose what's all right?'
says he.
"'Why, the quarrel between you
and me. I knew you wouldn't take
that serious.'
" 'No,' he says, 'I didn't take it se
rious. Here's another speech I wrote
this morning.' lie handed it to me,
and I put on my spectacles to read
It, and found he'd said again that
when he was e tooted ho was going
to ho the people's man, and that the
first professional politician who
came to him to Rive advice or offer
Instructions would be chucked out
of the window.
"Well, I Just turned on my heel
and walked away. Here am I, nn\
out there Is he, glvln' n talk to the
people about the danger of trick jk>I
Itlclnns cornln' Into the oflices an'
try In' to Influence elected officials,
nnd how, If he was elected, the first
thing he'd do would be to try to pet
to ask for a law makin' attempts to
Influence an offjclal a felony. A
felony I Think of that!"
"Whnt nre you going to do about
It?" I Inquired, as ho paused to
catch his breath.
"Well, the trouble Is, we can't do
nothing at^ut It. We ain't got noth
ing on him like we have with a good
many of the men we nominate. He
ain't made us no promises, wnlch
mebbe was our fault, for we thought
he'd, be so glad to havo us tell him
what to do that he'd come In askln*
for advice every day.
"It's too late to head him off now,
and the worst thing about It Is, he's
makln' headway, and maybe will get
elected In spite of all we can do to
stop him, an' that'll be a lot, believe
me.
"Look at him, out there, tellln' 'em
he won't make no promises unless
he knows he can carry them out, he
won't have no boss dlrectln' hlni in
the discharge of his duty to the peo
ple, an' ho thinks the mandate of
the_4)eople is more important than
thp/orders of all the political bosses
fnat ever put their heads together In
a back r^m,
"I suppose we got It comin' to us.
We nominated him, because we took
It for granted that he'd be a good
boy and do what was right. But w?
have learned our lesson. He'll j>rob
ably be elected, for he goes good
with the crowd, an' he may get re
nominated ? such fellers do, some
times. Hut when he quits, an' we
put In another man, that man Is
goln' to be our man, an' he's goin'
to admit It In wrltln' before he gets'
his name so much as mentioned In
the convention hall."
A Bound of loud cheers came
through the open window. The old
politician grinned. "He's bad busi
ness for us,* he said. "But I can't
help admlrlu' his nerve, at that."
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United States and all of Europe
will be connected l>v a maximum air
service of 72 hours. That la less
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