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THE RIVAL CANDIDATES.
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the supreme point of the party's platform, and was about to present its smartly polished political planks to the now eager listeners, when there arose outside the open windows such a noise of female cat calls, hisses, yells, tin pans beaten with iron bars, and distracting confusion of sounds that the room was instantly filled with alarmed and then angry people, who had expected to hear the winning speech of the times. The nearest men in the audience hastened to close the windows, and after a moment of silence Winthrop Ainslee tried to take up the thread of his discourse. Immediately the noise was repeated, this time with furious hammering upon the doors and shaking of window sashes. After an hour of the fearful din, the meeting was effectually broken up, and the hall was closed. Furious were the epithets hurled by the disappointed people within the room at the raging women without, but as Ellen, who led them, said, "Words break no bones," and the women laughed at their opponents, realizing
more fully the need of women in the
election "business" of the Nation. * * * *
At the polls the two candidates met, but no smile of greeting stirred the lips of either husband or wife. If Winthrop Ainslee could allow politics to weigh down the home interests, so could Ellen; and tho her heart ached, she cast her vote ; and her husband cast his, and they both awaited results.
Excitement was at its height when the bulletins began their inflaming mission.
The first bulletin flashed the news that the Fusion Party was ahead. This did not surprise Winthrop Ainslee, who was reasonably sure of his election; but just as he was beginning to frame his speech of thanks for the office of Mayor, the second bulletin blazed forth the fact that the Suffage Party was in the lead. With bated breath he gazed at the board, and then waited in anxiety for the third bulletin. What, the Woman's Party still ahead? Ellen said nothing, but her own ambition began to bound and
THE SUFFRAGETS WITHOUT BREAK UP THE MEN'S MEETING WITHIN.