“Oh, yes! but just look at him. He believes in keeping us women down, denying us the rights which the Creator designed for us.”
“If we are to judge men by their looks I cannot see where the other candidate has the advantage. They both look as if they didn’t exactly realize the difference between women and peaches.”
The woman continued: “I know one to be a good man, and I am going to work for him. Excuse me, here comes one of the doubtful delegates. I must speak to him.”
The delegate is arrested in his onward flight, and proves to be one of the ablest men in the house, as well as an accomplished gentleman.
“I learn, Mr. H——, that you are going to desert us?”
“Desert the ladies?—never!”
“I mean that you are going for Shepherd?”
“That is another thing. I have thought the matter over seriously, and whilst I don’t approve of all the deeds done by the board of public works, upon the whole I must give them my hearty support.”
“But you know my candidate is a good man.”
The tall, handsome biped looked down on the little woman, and his eyes twinkled whilst he said: “We are all good men.”