It was due doubtless to the traditions of these visits, when Judge Gould, the hero of the great Biggs murder case, would be at the Nedahma House, and Senator Yates, who unravelled17 and dragged to the pitiless light the masonic plot to blow up Mount Vernon, was to be found at the turnpike tavern7, and both would keep pretty well in-doors toward evening because Colonel De Lancey, who had shot four men before Hamilton’s death discredited18 duelling, was in town on private business—it was no doubt due to these memories that Tyre kept up its political tastes and, in a faded way, its political prestige, long after its material importance and interest had vanished. The mills were remembered now only by the widened reaches in the stream where their dams had once been; the starch factory was a dismantled20 ruin, from which what woodwork the lightning had spared had long since been abstracted for fuel; one of the taverns was now a private dwelling21, and the other two neither profited themselves nor pleased the wives of the village by their dependence22 upon local custom. But the men of Tyre were still intense politicians. Indeed their known virulence23 had given to their county sobriquet24 of Jayhawker an almost national fame. Nowhere else in the State, proportionately, were so many weekly partisan25 papers taken—not tame, dispassionate prints, but the fire-eaters of both party presses, with incessant26 harrowing accounts of peaceful and confiding27 negroes being massacred in the South, on the one side, answered regularly on the other by long imposing28 tables of the money stolen by notorious criminals in the public service. This was the meat Tyre fed on, and contending editors could not serve it out too rank or highly peppered for its taste.
The one excitement of Tyre too—far transcending29 the county fair, which had only interested them casually30, and which they had seen moved over to Sidon, on the line of the newly-extended railroad, without a protest—was a political convention. There would be such a crowd about the Court House then as scarcely the spectacle of its being consumed by flames could draw at another time. The freeholders of Tyre paid much more than their fair share of county taxes; they knew it, and did not grumble31 at the injustice32. In fact it rather pleased them than otherwise to see their town rated on the Supervisor’s assessment-rolls according to its ancient wealth; the amercement was a testimonial to their dignity. Upstart towns like Sidon might wrangle33 over a few hundred dollars, and cheapen their valuation in the public eye by unworthy tricks; Tyre would have none of such small doings; it would preserve a genteel exterior34, even if it had to eat pork grease on its buckwheat cakes in domestic seclusion35. But if there had been so much as a hint about holding a county convention anywhere else than in the Tyre Court House—then, to use Abe Beekman’s homely36 expression, you would have seen the fur fly! Other towns might indulge their modern and mercenary tastes in county fairs, railroads, gas, reservoirs and the like, to their hearts’ content, but they must keep their hands off political conventions. He would be a brazen37 Jayhawker indeed who should question Tyre’s monopoly of these!
So new generations of county politicians followed precedent38 without thought of murmuring, and accepted the discomforts39 of jolting40 in crowded democrat-wagons over the stony42, bleak43 hills to Tyre, of eating cold, bad dinners in the smoke-dried, draughty barracks which had once been hotels, of drinking limed well-water with the unspeakable whiskey—as natural consequences of being interested in the public affairs of the nation. This resignation of other Jay County towns to the convention claims of Tyre swelled45 into a spirit of truculent46 defence every two years, when the question of a joint47 Congressional gathering48 for all three counties of the district came up. Precisely49 what would have happened if the bigger shires of Dearborn and Adams had combined in a refusal to come to Tyre, I am not bold enough to guess. The general feeling would probably have been that a crisis had arisen in which Jay County could do no less than dissolve her relations with the Federal union.
Fortunately no such menace of secession and civil war was ever suffered to rise glowering50 on the horizon. Abe Beekman, the boss of Jay County, always managed to have Tyre designated by the District Committee, and the politicians from Dearborn and Adams amiably51 agreed to console themselves for the nuisances of the trip by getting as much fun out of it as was possible—which, reduced to details, meant bringing their own whiskey, sternly avoiding the dangerous local well-water, and throwing at each other during the dinner scramble52 such elements of the repast as failed to attract their metropolitan53 tastes. This procedure was not altogether to the liking54 of the Tyre landlords, who, however, compensated55 themselves for the diminution56 of the bar traffic and the havoc57 wrought58 in the dining room, by quadrupling their accustomed prices; and the invasion of boisterous59 aliens had its seamy side for the women of the place, who found it to the advantage of their dignity to stop indoors during the day which their husbands and fathers consecrated60 to the service of the Republic. But Tyre as a whole was proud and gratified.
On the morning when the adjourned61 District Convention was to reassemble, political interest throbbed62 with feverish63 quickness in all the pulses of Tyre.
The town could remember many a desperate and stirring combat on its well-worn battle-field, but never such a resolute64, prolonged, and altogether delightful65 contest as this. The fight had its historic side, too. Every voter in Tyre could remember, or had been taught in all its details about, the famous struggle of the wet fall of ’34, when Hiram Chesney, the Warwick of Jay County then, locked horns with the elder Seth Fairchild of Dearborn, and, to pursue the local phraseology, they pawed up more earth in their fierce encounter than would dam the Nedahma creek66. Poor Hiram had finally been worsted, falling ignobly67 on his native stamping ground, before the eyes of his own people. He had long since passed away, as Warwicks should when their king-making sinews have lost their strength. But another boss, perhaps in some ways a greater boss, had arisen in Jay County, in the person of Abram K. Beekman, and now, nearly half a century later, he was to try conclusions with a second Fairchild of Dearborn—a grandson of the hero of ’34. They had grappled once, a fortnight before, and had had to separate again, after an all-day tug68, with a fall credited to neither. Now, in a few hours, they were to confront each other once more. What wonder that Tyre was excited!
The two gladiators had been the observed of all observers during the preliminary skirmish. Tyre was almost disposed to fancy the Dearborn man. In his portly, black-clad figure, his round, close-shaven, aquiline69 face, and his professional capacity for oratory70, he had recalled pleasantly the days when the Jay County bar was famous. The local magnate, Beekman, was not a lawyer; he could not make a speech; he didn’t even look as if he could make a speech. He had none of the affable, taking ways which Albert Fairchild used to such purpose, but was brusque, self-contained, prone71 to be dogmatic when he was not taciturn. Thus the balance turned enough in Fairchild’s favor to about offset72 Beckman’s claims to local sympathy as a Jayhawker, and put Tyre people in excellent mental trim to enjoy all the points of the duel19.
For in the minds of these practical politicians, it was a duel. There was a third candidate, named Ansdell, it was true, supported by nearly all the Adams delegation73, but then he was a reformer, and had not even come to the Convention, and Tyre had no use for him. A county boss who had got a machine, and purposed doing certain definite things with it, either to build up himself or crush somebody else, was natural and comprehensible; but a man who set himself up as a candidate, without the backing of any recognized political forces, who came supported by delegates elected in a public and lawless manner without reference to the wishes of leaders, and who pretended that his sole mission in politics was to help purify it—who could make head or tail out of that?
Thus Tyreans talked with one another, as the village began to take on an air of liveliness after breakfast, and groups slowly formed on the sidewalks in front of the two hotels. There were many shades of diverging74 opinion as to the merits and the prospects75 of the approaching contest, but on one matter of belief there was a consensus76 of agreement. The fight lay between Beekman and Fairchild, and the third man—it was interesting to note that ignorance of his name was fashionable—wasn’t in the race. Steve Chesney, whose right to speak oracularly on politics was his sole inheritance from the departed Warwick, his father, summed up the situation very clearly from the standpoint of Tyre when he said, leaning comfortably against the post office hitching77 post, and pointing his arguments in the right places with accurate tobacco juice shots at a crack in the curb78:
“The hull79 p’int’s this: Dearborn’s got seventeen votes, ain’t she?—solid for Fairchild. Then he’s got two ’n’ Adams, ain’t he?—makin’ nineteen ’n’ all. Th’ dude, he’s got what’s left of Adams, fifteen ’n’ all. Jay County’s only got ten votes, ain’t she? Very well, they’re solid for Abe. Now! Twenty-three’s a majority of the convention. Git twenty-three ’n’ that settles it. Th’ reformer, he needs eight votes. Kin44 he git ’em? Whair frum? Frum Dearborn? Not much! Frum Jay? Well, not this evening! Count him out then. Of th’ other two, Fairchild wants four votes, Abe needs thirteen. Thet looks kind o’ sickly for Abe, mebbe yeh think. But bear in mine thet th’ Adams men air pledged agin’ Fairchild by th’ same resolution which bines ’em to th’ other chap. Abe wasn’t a candidate then ’n’ he didn’t git barred out. But they made a dead set agin Fairchild all through Adams, on ’count of his funny work at th’ State Convention. So, Adams kin go to Abe, ’n’ she can’t go to Fairchild. I tell yeh, Jay can’t be beat, ef she’s only a mine to think so—thet is, of course, ef Dearborn fights fair. Ef she don’t, p’raps she may win to-day, but I tell yeh, in thet case ther won’t be enough left of her candidate come ’lection night to wad a hoss-pistol with.”
The Jay County delegates had begun to straggle into town, and percolate80 aimlessly through the throngs81 in and about the bar-rooms, listening to the discussions, and exchanging compliments and small talk with acquaintances. Pending82 the appearance of their leader there was nothing else for them to do. There was a rumor83 that Abe Beekman was in town, sending for men as he wanted to see them, one by one, but nobody professed84 to be in the secret of his hiding place, and nobody dreamed of attempting to find out what Abe wished to keep dark.
The Adams County men, delegates and others, came over the hill from the Spartacus station in a carryall, with four horses, and created a genuine sensation as they drew up with a great clatter85 and splashing of mud in front of the Nedahma House, and descended86 jauntily87 from the rear step to the curb-stone. The natives eyed them all with deep interest, for upon their action depended the issue of the day, but there was a special excitement in watching the nine delegates with stove-pipe hats and gloves, and tight rolled umbrellas, who came from Tecumseh itself. Tecumseh was the only city in the district, or the whole section, for that matter, and Jay County people timidly, wistfully dreamed of its gilded88 temptations, its wild revels89 of sumptuous90 gayety, its dazzling luxuriance of life, as shepherd boys on the plain of Dura might have dreamed of the mysteries and marvels91 of Babylon. It was something, at least, to touch elbows with men whose daily life was passed in Tecumseh.
Such of the younger Tyreans as had been introduced to these exalted92 creatures on their previous visit crowded around them now, to deferentially93 renew the acquaintance, and shine before their neighbors in its reflected light.
Then the news filtered through the groups round about that Ansdell himself had come up this time, and was the short, wiry little man with the drab overcoat and the sharp black eyes. This aroused a fleeting94 interest, and there was some standing95 on tip-toe to get a good view of him, but it could not last long, for Ansdell as a politician was not a tangible96 thing on which the tendrils of Tyre’s imagination could get a real grip.
It was of more importance to learn whether the views of the Adams delegates had undergone any change—whether a new light had dawned upon them in the interim97. They submitted graciously to the preliminary test of drinks at the bar, and pretended with easy affability to remember distinctly the various Tyre men who came up and recalled their acquaintance of a fortnight ago, but they had nothing to say that was to the purpose. They were waiting; they would see what turned up; they would certainly vote for Ansdell on the first ballot98; further than that they couldn’t say, but they saw no reason now why they shouldn’t keep on voting for him; still, perhaps something might happen—this and nothing more.
Meanwhile there was an uneasy whisper going the rounds to the effect that the two Adams men who had previously99 voted for Fairchild were now for Ansdell, having succumbed100 to local pressure during the fortnight. The story could not be verified, for the two gentlemen in question had secreted101 themselves upon their arrival, and the other Adams men only grinned bland102 mystery when interrogated103 on the subject. This worried the Tyre men a good deal more than they would have liked to admit, but there was a certain element of pleasure in it, too, for it added piquancy104 to the coming fight.
The wooden minute hand of the old clock on the court house cupola had laboriously105 twitched106 along to the zenith of the dial once more, marking ten o’clock; only half an hour remained now before the time for the Convention to reassemble, and the Dearborn delegates were still absent. People began to stroll toward the court house, and casually attach themselves to the outskirts107 of the cluster of saturnine108, clean-shaven, thin-featured old villagers, in high black stocks and broad-brimmed soft hats, who stood on the steps, behind the fluted109 columns of the building’s ambitious Grecian front, and chewed tobacco voraciously110 while they set up the rival claims of Martin Van Buren and Francis Granger, or mumblingly111 wrangled112 over the life and works of De Witt Clinton. These old men, by reason of the antiquity113 and single-heartedness of their devotion to their country, had two inalienable and confirmed rights: to sit on the platform close by the speakers when the Declaration of Independence was read each Fourth of July and to have the first chance for seats when the doors were opened at a political Convention.
At last the eyes of those who had lingered about the Turnpike Tavern were gladdened by the sight of the Dearborn crowd, driving furiously up in three or four vehicles. Milton Squires114 was in the foremost wagon41, and he was the first to alight.
He trembled and turned around swiftly as a man laid a hand on his shoulder.
“What d’yeh want?” he demanded, with nervous alertness.
The man whispered in his ear: “Abe Beekman is over in the back settin’ room at Blodgett’s, ’n’ he wants to see your man Fairchile right off.”
Milton had regained115 his composure. “So do I want to see him. Whair abaouts is he? I was to meet him here.”
“There ain’t been no sign of him here, this mornin’. Nobuddy ’n Tyre’s laid eyes on him, so far’s I kin fine aout.”
“Thet’s cur’ous,” said Milton reflectively. “He started to drive over early enough. We cum by train, expectin’ to fine him here. P’raps he’s seen Beekman by this time, on th’ quiet.”
“No, he ain’t!” The messenger’s tone was highly positive.
“Then mebbe I’d better go ’n’ see Beekman myself. Whair is Blodgett’s?”
The man led the way off the main street, to a big, clap-boarded, dingy116 white house, fronting nowhere in particular, and stopped at the gate.
“Ain’t you comin’ in?” Milton asked him.
“I dasen’t.”
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| n.谣言，谣传，传说 | |
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| v./n.(使)发出连续而清脆的撞击声 | |
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| adv.心满意足地；洋洋得意地；高兴地；活泼地 | |
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| adv.表示敬意地，谦恭地 | |
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| adj.短暂的，飞逝的 | |
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ballot
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piquancy
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| n.古老；高龄；古物，古迹 | |
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