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"You are so popular in the ward?" asked Leonore.
"I think so, I find kind words and welcome everywhere. But then I have
tried very hard to be popular. I have endeavored to make a friend of
every man in it with whom one could be friendly, because I wished to be
as powerful as possible, so that the men would side with me whenever I
put my foot down on something wrong."
"Do you ever tell the ward how they are to vote?"
"I tell them my views. But never how to vote. Once I came very near it,
though."
"How was that?"
"I was laid up for eight months by my eyes, part of the time in Paris.
The primary in the meantime had put up a pretty poor man for an office.
A fellow who had been sentenced for murder, but had been pardoned by
political influence. When I was able to take a hand, I felt that I could
do better by interfering, so I came out for the Republican candidate,
who was a really fine fellow. I tried to see and talk to every man in
the ward, and on election day I asked a good many men, as a personal
favor, to vote for the Republican, and my friends asked others.


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