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Updated: June 18, 2025
The committeemen receive no salary for their services; the sole compensation is the pleasure derived from the sense of duty done. Rain, snow, or shine, the committee is on hand at the station the natives, of course, call it the "deepo" to consume borrowed tobacco and to favor Providence with its advice concerning the running of the universe.
The shrewd attorney hired by the four committeemen knew very well that he was not prejudicing his clients' case when he advised them to quash the warrant. But as for the discovery of the rare coin in circulation one known to belong to the collection stolen from the schoolhouse that injured the committeemen's cause rather than helped it, it must be confessed.
But it was some time before the gaudy-coated enemy would pay any attention to these advances, and finally one of our committeemen, to show that he was a man of peace and really wished to speak with them, went slowly forward with his hands held high above his head.
But he had given them to understand that he could prove fraud, and they, scenting in this the chance of saving 200,000 pounds, and seeing that time was so terribly short, had hastened to the Committeemen with this vague declaration that, on the morrow, they could prove they did not precisely know what. Yes plainly enough that was what had happened.
If I must be enslaved, let it be by a KING at least, and not by a parcel of upstart, lawless committeemen." The Massachusetts men were meanwhile showing no disposition to submit to the King.
The only officials of Rockland under annual salary are the treasurer and town physician. Selectmen receive a sum per diem; constables, fees; school committeemen make out their own bills. The others serve for nothing. Rockland, politically, is a typical New England town. What is to be said of its manner of town meeting may, with little modification, be said of all.
Reporters come and go; the last of the committeemen has said good night. Trueman is alone with his secretary, Herbert Benson. Benson, a young newspaperman, volunteered his services at the opening of the campaign. He is a brilliant writer, and what is of more consequence, he is beyond doubt an ardent supporter of popular government. There are few men in the journalistic field who are free thinkers.
The officers elected were a town clerk and treasurer; a board of three, to serve as selectmen, assessors, overseers of the poor, and fence viewers; three school committeemen; a water commissioner; a board of health of three members; two library trustees; three auditors, and seven constables.
It was not long before the halls, chambers, and committee-rooms of the capitol at Springfield and the corridors of the one principal hotel were being tramped over almost daily by rampant delegations of ministers, reform aldermen, and civil committeemen, who arrived speechifying, threatening, and haranguing, and departed, only to make room for another relay.
But the votes still stuck as firm to the hands as if a part of the skin, or of the dirt, which was much the same thing! Whenever Audley joined the other guests of an evening while Harley was perhaps closeted with Levy and committeemen, and Randal was going the round of the public-houses the one with whom he chiefly conversed was Violante.
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