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The Committeeman thus addressed responded with calm determination "and you must not forget that you are not the other four." This encounter excited much amusement among the remaining members and was the one and only occasion where anything resembling a serious difference appeared.
I've got a boy that I'll send, but whether you'll get enough to make it pay I don't know." "I suppose I can have the schoolhouse, Mr. Bates?" "Yes, there won't be no objection. Won't it be too much for you after teachin' in the daytime?" "It would take a good deal to break me down." "Then you'd better draw up a notice and put it up in the store and tavern," suggested the committeeman.
It was very muddy, and when I reached the home of the committeeman his mid-day meal was over, and his wife did not ask if I had dined although she was quick to tell me that the teacher had just been hired. Without a cent in my pocket, I could not ask for food therefore, I turned back weary, hungry and disheartened.
It made the good committeeman, who was rich and full of power, feel a little uncomfortable, as he tried to cover his embarrassment with effusive cordiality. In the background stood Mr. Groper, wet, and breathing hard, but plainly full of admiration for his tall friend, and the position he held as the centre of the group. The visitors referred all arrangements to him.
The government is in a committee of nine persons, who meet at London, but who are chosen annually by the freemen of the company at London, Bristol, and Liverpool; three from each place. No committeeman can be continued in office for more than three years together.
So I heard the talk running on, and I wondered at the bluff committeeman who broke up the group to get the men in line for a factional caucus. Did the election of a party favorite, the nomination of a man whose turn had come, or who would be favorable to "our crowd" in his appointments match in importance this terrible menace to life on our Indian frontier?
"Now, suppose a committeeman named Langdon absolutely refused to be taken care of, and insisted on handing in a minority report to-morrow, with a speech that read like the Declaration of Independence?" Steinert jerked his head forward quickly. "You mean what would I do if I was er if I was runnin' the job?" "Yes." Steinert leaned toward Peabody.
"And that leaves it a fifty-fifty break between us on the name-calling proposition," rejoined Despeaux, "I'll bid you a kind good day!" He strode away and his group trailed him. A deprecating committeeman turned back, however. "I know you are honest, Morrison. But a lot of us are beginning to think that the general policy in the state regarding outside capital has been a bit too conservative.
And forthwith the bargain was struck. Gilgan, as a Republican central committeeman chairman, possibly was to visit every ward, connect up with every available Republican force, pick strong, suitable anti-Cowperwood candidates, and try to elect them, while he, Hand, organized the money element and collected the necessary cash. Gilgan was to be given money personally.
The election of the committee not infrequently turned upon the interest of some influential citizens. The great evil was the inefficiency of the teachers. Even in cases where the committeeman was left free to act, he was usually incapable of forming a safe opinion as to the quality of teachers.
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