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THE RIVAL CANDIDATES.
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gently kist the thinning round disk at the crown of his head.
"If you are happy, then, I am glad and proud, dear/' she softly whispered.
He fondly caressed the hand that held the paper, and suddenly burst into laughter.
"Well why do you laugh, dear?" she asked. "This is a serious affair."
"Look there \" he replied, pointing to a heading, "There will also be a suffrage ticket in the field. Now, really, Ellen, you ought to have prevented that, for your party cannot live against me."
"I did not know you were to be nominated," she meekly replied; "but of course, you are certain of success. You have only the suffrage party and that poor dark horse, the Labor Party, to fight, and only the suffrage party counts against you, and I am obliged to admit its weakness."
"0, you women-righters ! You had
better give up the game in the but
what does this mean?" A loud
and rough conversation with repeated stamping upon the hall floor caused the sudden exclamation. In a moment the door was thrown violently open, and three coarse looking men entered, bringing with them into that pure home atmosphere a strong odor of gin and tobacco, most offensive to the refined sense of Ellen Ainslee. Shrinking away from them she recognized in their bleared faces the type of character which controls evil politics in our cities. One was a saloon keeper who was directly responsible for most of the youthful degradation of the town. Another had been trapped in a great water pipe swindle and the third had served a term in jail for running a gambling den where many families had been ruined. All three, however, had amassed fortunes in their handling of politics, and Ellen thought with horror of the menace to her home and happiness in the constant association of her husband with depraved natures of this class. A loud series of congratulations
MR. AIXSLEE'S POLITICAL ASSOCIATES SHOCK HIS WIFE.