Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . ed his hatover his left eyebrow with his left hand. Oh, Im outer ye, he exclaimed, with a leerand a wave of his left hand, holding on to thecandidate with his right as he did a fore-and-aftmovement with his unsteady body. Im outer ye, he repeated with a wag of hishead, the leer growing into a grin, as he wavedhis hand aimlessly around. Youse fellers is arouu now^ givin us de gladhand ; after leckshuns over 3ousel be givinus de marble heart. See? Then gathering him-self together for a supreme effort, and hitchingat his waistband
Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . ed his hatover his left eyebrow with his left hand. Oh, Im outer ye, he exclaimed, with a leerand a wave of his left hand, holding on to thecandidate with his right as he did a fore-and-aftmovement with his unsteady body. Im outer ye, he repeated with a wag of hishead, the leer growing into a grin, as he wavedhis hand aimlessly around. Youse fellers is arouu now^ givin us de gladhand ; after leckshuns over 3ousel be givinus de marble heart. See? Then gathering him-self together for a supreme effort, and hitchingat his waistband with both hands he exclaimed,with a self-satisfied grin : • But whats th odds? Who cares? Look atth fun were havin. Who-o-o-p-e-e, and hemoved on to make room for the next man, whowas sober. THOUGH identified with the campaign inmany unostentatious ways. General FrankReeder, Secretary of the Commonwealth, isdeserving of a place in this w^ork for other rea-sons than that. His varied services as a public man,his genial temperament and his elevated character 162. have long rendered him a conspic-uous figure in State RepubHcanpohtics. General Reeder is alawyer by profession, born at Eas-ton, is in his forty-ninth year, andis a son of the first Governor ofKansas Territory. Andrew left Princeton Col-lege when seventeenyears old and enlistedas a private in the FifthPennsylvania Regi-ment. He vServ^edthroughout the war,coming out as a bre-vet-brigadier general,having commanded a brigade before he was of was associated in law practice with Chester in New York. President Grant appointedGeneral Reeder the Eleventh District Internal Rev-enue Collector in 1873. The General commandedthe Fifth Brigade of the old National Guard, and isan ex-commander of the Pennsylvania Departmentof the Grand Arm3\ He was a delegate to theRepublican National Conventions of 1888 and1892, ran for Congress against Howard Mutchlerin 1893, was the predecCvSsor of Colonel Gil-keson a
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