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"Then you don't believe in Sir Walter Raleigh, Miss Democrat, simply because he was a lord?" "Yes but I always thought he wore his old cloak that day on purpose, so he could be made an earl." And a ripple of laughter escaped her lips. Oliver laughed too, sprang to his feet, and held out his hands so as to lift her up.
But times have changed. We don't stand in awe of the Democrat any more. Most of us laugh at it, even those of us who are not financiers enough to keep our subscriptions called up.
We can readily give what seem to us "good" reasons for being a Catholic or a Mason, a Republican or a Democrat, an adherent or opponent of the League of Nations. But the "real" reasons are usually on quite a different plane. Of course the importance of this distinction is popularly, if somewhat obscurely, recognized.
"She don't take sides sharp in this war," her father said to Gaunt, "my little girl; 'n fact, she isn't keen till put her soul intill anythin' but lovin'. She's a pore Democrat, David, an' not a strong Methody, allays got somethin' till say fur t' other side, Papishers an' all. An' she gets religion quiet. But it's the real thing," watching his hearer's face with an angry suspicion.
I wonder, O I wonder who that "prominent lawyer and sound money Democrat" was who got drunk at Charlie Cortizio's in Austin the other day and toasted Chollie Boy Culberson as "Texas' most distinguished son, the man who has done most to distinguish his state abroad" just a bummy little boost for Chollie Boy's anaemic senatorial boom?
He had always been a good Democrat, although he was married to the daughter of the late John W. Foster, who wound up a long and brilliant diplomatic life as Secretary of State in President Harrison's Cabinet after Mr. Blaine's resignation. Mr.
"Buck" Halloran was a "Democrat," and so Jurgis became a Democrat also; but he was not a bitter one the Republicans were good fellows, too, and were to have a pile of money in this next campaign.
I see so much of other kinds. He was what I should call an utterly unconscious democrat. He never framed in his own mind any theory of "the brotherhood of man" he just lived it, without ever thinking of it as something that needed expression in words. I never heard him use the term. To him the Individual was everything by that I mean that every relation he had was on a personal basis.
I determined to change my tactics and give battle. "Halicarnassus," said I, severely, "you are a hypocrite. You set up for a Democrat" "Not I," interrupted he; "I voted for Harrison in '40, and for Fremont in '56, and" "Nonsense!" interrupted I, in turn; "I mean a Democrat etymological, not a Democrat political.
When only twenty-six years old he became "Tammany's candidate for Congress." He was defeated and in June, 1849, he too arrived in San Francisco, determined never to return East unless as United States Senator. Plunging into the political life of the state as a loyal Democrat he was sent almost at once to the legislature in Sacramento, where he speedily became an influential member.
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