"Quad's odds"; . f victory, and that acted as a spur. There was hardly a night that from fourteen to twohundred did not call on Mr. Cain to inform him as to the prospects. They drank up the currant wine Mrs. Cainhad laid by for sickness, emptied her preserve jars, andthere wasnt a morning that she couldnt sweep out fortyor fifty cigar stubs and a peck of mud. They all told Cainthat he would beat the other man so far out of sight thatit would take a carrier pigeon to find him, and he couldntvery well refuse to go over to thecorner grocery and set em up for the boys. On the eve of election Mr. C
"Quad's odds"; . f victory, and that acted as a spur. There was hardly a night that from fourteen to twohundred did not call on Mr. Cain to inform him as to the prospects. They drank up the currant wine Mrs. Cainhad laid by for sickness, emptied her preserve jars, andthere wasnt a morning that she couldnt sweep out fortyor fifty cigar stubs and a peck of mud. They all told Cainthat he would beat the other man so far out of sight thatit would take a carrier pigeon to find him, and he couldntvery well refuse to go over to thecorner grocery and set em up for the boys. On the eve of election Mr. Cainsfriends called for sugar again,and he had to sugar em. A bigcrowd called to warn him that hewould certainly be elected, and thesaloon bill was $28 more. Thirteenor fourteen men shook hands withhis wife, a hundred or more shook hands with him, and hehad to get up and declare that he didnt favor womansrights, and that he did; that he was down on whisky, andyet loved it as a beverage; that he wanted the currency. IN THE MORNING. 215 inflated, and yet favored specie payments; that he favoredthe Civil Rights bill, and yet didnt, and in his brief speechMrs. Cain counted twenty-seven straight lies, besides theevasions. Mr. Cain wanted to hold popular views, and hehad to be on all sides at once. On the day of election they dragged him from poll toto poll, stopping at all the saloons on the way. He hadto make two hundred and fifty-six thousand promises, pullhis wallet until it was as flat as a wafer, drink lager withsome and cold water with others, and when night came hewent home and tried to hang the hired girl, called his dear old rhinoceros, and fell over the cradle andwent to sleep with his head under the stove. ^^JV^ When Mr. Cain arose in the morning fr~~f j!J< fl and became sober enough to read the elec- (w *% fix ^on returns ne found he had scooped em vi <WL » y°u ^ as follows: s$nN Wfk l^P$l /Cdi \iw w^
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