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"Tricks!" exclaimed Mr. Crewe, the memory of many recent ones being fresh in his mind; "I should say so. Do you know what a caucus is?" "Caucus caucus? It brings something to my head. Ah, I have seen a picture of it, in some English book. A very funny picture it is in fun, yes?" "A picture?" said Mr. Crewe. "Impossible!" "But no," said the Austrian, earnestly, with one finger to his temples.
And he told all his friends that it was a shame, the way Farmer Green ruined the corn by putting it in the silo. "It turns sour," he explained. "And Farmer Green has to feed it to the cows, because nobody else will eat it." All the crows in Pleasant Valley agreed that it was a pity to spoil good corn like that. They even had a meeting a crow caucus in the pine woods, they were so upset.
But be careful! Did he? Let me suggest that in that last sentence he really expresses the opinion that it cannot. It can be read either way. Electors under modern conditions are not going to obey the "orders" of even the "most drastic caucus" whatever a "drastic caucus" may be. Why should they?
On the following day, February 7th, Douglas reported, not merely "the appropriate word," but an entirely new clause, the product of the caucus deliberations. This part of the bill had now assumed its final form. Subject only to the Constitution of the United States. The words were clear; but what was their implication?
Threats and badges might cow voters. But he knew woodsmen. He was not prepared to fight fifty of them. The opposition hurried up also. Men streamed past on both sides of the old man, looming there in his wrinkled suit of crash. "Let 'em go. We've got him licked in the caucus anyway," growled Niles to one of his deputies. "The back districts are here two to one against his village crowd."
Between six and eight on the previous evening he had seen the members of that "secret caucus" whose existence outraged Mr. Chown in other words, the half-dozen capable citizens who practically managed the affairs of Liberal Polterham and had arrived at an understanding with them which made it all but a settled thing that Denzil Quarrier should be their prospective candidate.
Soon after the separation of the assembly, the Prince of Orange issued invitations to most of the knights, to meet at his house for the purpose of private deliberation. The President and Cardinal were not included in these invitations. The meeting was, in fact, what we should call a caucus, rather than a general gathering.
"I've got a message for you, yourself, then, and you stay here and take it. He stole our caucus for you to-day, your grandfather did " "You don't mean to say I was nominated!" "That's too polite a word, Mr. Harlan Thornton. I gave you the right one the first time. He stampeded our caucus by having that fire set on the Jo Quacca hills.
They went with the idea of ascertaining how far he would remember with gratitude those who elected him. Their visit was a miserable failure. They came in hot indignation to my office and said they did not propose to send such a cold and unsympathetic man as their representative to Washington and earnestly requested my consent to their nominating me at the caucus the next morning.
They followed the trails of fox, 'coon and rabbit; they watched the habits of the noisy crows holding a caucus in the woods; they kept company with the red squirrel and the frolicsome chipmunk as they stored away the chestnuts and juicy hickories for their winter's supply of food.
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