The Elections

Overview

The candidate at home to callers. Double bribery. An interrupted meeting. the rival bill-stickers. A small coin makes a big row. Nursing baby, and the consequences. A very fine pig, and nice-tasting food he is fed on. A visit to a laundry. A quarrel ends in a ducking. Black-balled. Meetings. Persons who greeted a prospective member enthusiastically now change sides, and the candidate has a very unpleasant time. Eventually he arrives home with a black eye and his clothes torn, and altogether in a very deplorable state. (The Era, London, June 9, 1906, p. 30.)