Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 13, 2025
In the other scale of the balance he had Gulmore's promise: it was trustworthy, he knew, but : "Do you mean that you'll run me for the next term and get me elected?" "I'll do all I know, and I guess you'll succeed." "I have nothing but your word." "Nothin'." Again Mr. Hutchings paused. To accept definitively would be dangerous if the conversation had had listeners.
The first manager of the works was rewarded with the position of Town Clerk an appointment which ran for five years, but which under Mr. Gulmore's rule was practically permanent. His foremen became the most energetic of ward-chairmen. He was known to pay well, and to be a kind if strenuous master.
He wanted "to grow up" with a town and become its master from the beginning. As the negroes constituted the most ignorant and most despised class, a little solicitation made him their leader. In the first election it was found that "Gulmore's negroes" voted to a man, and that he thereby controlled the Republican party.
Gulmore's, but it lacked the towers and greenhouse, the brick stables, and black iron gates, which made Mr. Gulmore's residence an object of public admiration. It had, indeed, a careless, homelike air, as of a building that disdains show, standing sturdily upon a consciousness of utility and worth. The study of the master lay at the back.
In six months or a year he would have to declare himself on Gulmore's side; the fact would establish his complicity, and he had feared what he now knew, that Roberts would be the severest of critics an impossible son- in-law.
Hutchings interrupted, "I said that this railway extension gives us a chance. All the workmen are Irishmen, Democrats to a man, who'll vote and vote straight, and that has been our weak point. You can't get one-half the better classes to go to the polls. The negroes all vote, too, and vote Republican that has been Gulmore's strength. Now I've got the Irishmen against his negroes I may win.
Hutchings interrupted, "I said that this railway extension gives us a chance. All the workmen are Irishmen, Democrats to a man, who'll vote and vote straight, and that has been our weak point. You can't get one-half the better classes to go to the polls. The negroes all vote, too, and vote Republican that has been Gulmore's strength. Now I've got the Irishmen against his negroes I may win.
I'll find out about it at once, and if it is as I fear, the debt shall be paid. That'll be one good result of Mr. Gulmore's malice. As for me, let him do his worst. At any rate I'm forewarned." "A poor satisfaction in case but here's May, and I must go. I've stayed too long already. You should look through our ticket; it's strong, the men are all good, I think anyway, they're the best we can get.
In six months or a year he would have to declare himself on Gulmore's side; the fact would establish his complicity, and he had feared what he now knew, that Roberts would be the severest of critics an impossible son-in-law.
It was evident that May was working as she had never worked before, for as the weeks flew by she seemed to increase her advantage. During this period Ida Gulmore's pride suffered tortures; day by day she understood more clearly that the prize of her life was slipping out of reach. In mind and soul now she realized Roberts' daring and charm.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking