The establishment and maintenance of a national park with suitable buildings and appurtenances wherein might be maintained an elected individual in a state of freedom, with access to alcoholic7 beverages8, in order that successive generations might view for themselves the devastating9 effects of alcohol upon the human system.
No political campaign was ever contested with more zeal10 and zest11 than that which led up to the election of the Perpetual Souse. Life had grown rather dreary12 under the innumerable prohibitions13 of the Chuff regime, and the citizens welcomed the excitement of the campaign as a notable diversion. Quimbleton appointed himself chairman of the committee to nominate Bleak14, and the editor (acting under his friend's instructions) had hardly begun to deny vigorously that he had any intention of being a candidate before he found himself plunged15 into a bewildering vortex of meetings, speeches, and confessions16 of faith. Marching clubs, properly outfitted17 with two-quart silk tiles and frock coats, were spatting18 their way plumply down the Boulevard. Torchlight processions tinted19 the night; ward20 picnics strewed21 the shells of hard-boiled eggs on the lawns of suburban22 amusement parks, while Bleak, very ill at ease, was kissing adhesive23 babies and autographing tissue napkins and smiling horribly as he whirled about with the grandmothers in the agony of the carrousel. More than once, reeling with the endless circuit of a painted merry-go-round charger, the perplexed24 candidate became so confused that he kissed the paper napkin and autographed the baby.
He found Quimbleton a stern ringleader. Virgil was not satisfied with the old-fashioned method of stumping25 the country from the taff-rail of a Pullman car, and insisted on strapping26 Bleak into the cockpit of a biplane and flying him from city to city. They would land in some central square, and the candidate, deafened27 and half-frozen, would stammer28 a few halting remarks. He felt it rather keenly that Quimbleton looked down on his lack of oratorical29 gift, and it was a frequent humiliation30 that when words did not prosper31 on his tongue his impatient pilot would turn on the motors and zoom32 off into space in the very middle of a sentence.
Nevertheless, the campaign went famously. Bleak had one considerable advantage in being comparatively unknown. He had never permitted himself the luxury of making enemies: except for a few ex-reporters who had once worked on the Balloon he had not a foe33 in the world. Quimbleton had been eager to import a covey of gunmen from other cities, but when these arrived there was really nothing for them to do. They were glad to accept jobs from Bishop Chuff, and were well paid for waylaying34 and sniping the few grapes and apples that had escaped previous pogroms.
There was only one plank35 in Bleak's modest platform, but he walked it so happily that it began to look like a gangplank leading onto the Ship of State. He expressed his doctrine36 very agreeably in his speech accepting the party nomination37; though credit should be given to Theodolinda, who had assisted him by a little private seance before he addressed the convention.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he said (looking as he spoke38 at one of the handbills announcing his candidacy for the dignity of mouthpiece of the nation)—"I issue dodgers39, but I never dodge40 the issue. I can Take It or Let It Alone, but frankly41, I prefer to Take It. I hope I speak modestly: yet candor42 insists that both by past training and present inclination43 I feel myself fitted to deal with the problems of this exalted44 office. If elected to this high place of trust I shall regard myself solely45 as the servant of the public, solely as the representative of your sovereign will. As I raise the glass or peel the lemon, I shall not act in any individual capacity. My own good cheer (I beg you to believe) will be my last thought. I shall remember, in every gesture and every gulp46, that my thirst is in reality the Thirst of a Nation, delegated to me by ballot47; that my laughter and song (if things should go so far) are truly the mirth and music of a proud people expressing themselves through me. I shall be at all times accessible to my fellow-men, solicitous48 to hear their counsel and command. Believing (as I do) in moderation, yet I should not dream of permitting private sentiment to interfere49 with public interest when more violent measures should seem desirable.
"I like to think, my fellow-citizens, that you have conferred this nomination upon me not wholly at random50. I like to think that I am only expressing your thought when I say that many drinkers have been the worst enemies of the cause we all hold dear. The alcoholshevik and the I.W.W.—the I Wallow in Wine faction—have done much to discredit51 the old bland52 Jeffersonian toper who carried tippling to the level of a fine art. I have no patience with the doctrine of complete immersion53. Ever since I was first admitted to the bar I have deplored54 the conduct of those violent and vulgar revelers who have brought discredit upon the loveliest, most delicate art known to man. Now, at last, by supreme55 wisdom, drinking is to be elevated to the dignity of a career. I like to think that I express your sentiment when I say that drinking is too precious, too subtle, too fragile a function to be entrusted56 to the common crowd. Therefore I heartily57 applaud your admirable intention of entrusting58 it entirely59 to me, and look forward with profound satisfaction to the privilege of enshrining and perpetuating60 in my own person the genial61 traditions that have clustered round the institution of Liquor. If elected, I shall endeavor to carry on the fine old rituals and pass them down unimpaired to the next incumbent62. I shall endeavor to make duty a pleasure, and pleasure a duty. I shall remind myself that I am only performing the service to humanity that each one of you would willingly render if you were in my place.
"My fellow-citizens, I thank you for your amiable63 confidence, and am happy to accept the nomination."
There were some who criticized this speech on the ground that it was too academic. It was remembered that Mr. Bleak had at one time been a school-teacher, and his opponents were quick to raise the cry "What can a schoolmaster know about liquor?" It was said that Mr. Bleak was too scholarly, too aloof64, too cold-blooded: that his interest in booze was merely philosophical66, that he would be incompetent67 to deal with the practical problems of actual drinking: that he would surround himself with drinks that would be mere65 puppets, subservient68 entirely to his own purposes. The adherents69 of Jerry Purplevein, the nominee70 of the other party, made haste to assert that Bleak was not a drinker at all but was a tool of the Chuff machine. Jerry was a former bartender who had been pining away in the ice-cream cone71 business. Huge banners appeared across the streets, showing highly colored pictures of Mr. Purplevein plying72 his original profession, with the legend:
RALLY ROUND THE FLAGON
VOTE FOR
PURPLEVEIN
THE PRACTICAL MAN
One of the exciting features of the campaign was the sudden appearance of a Woman's Party, which launched an ably-conducted boom for a Woman Souse and nominated Miss Cynthia Absinthe as its candidate. The idea of having a woman elected to this responsible office was disconcerting to many citizens, but Miss Absinthe's record (as outlined by her publicity73 headquarters) compelled respect. She was reputed to have been a passionate74 and tumultuous consumer of sloe gin, and thousands of women in white bartenders' coats marched with banners announcing:
ABSINTHE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER VOTE FOR CYNTHIA
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OUR SLOGAN IS SLOE GIN
For a while there was quite a probability that the male vote would be so split by Bleak and Purplevein that Miss Absinthe would come in ahead. But at the height of the campaign she was found in a pharmacy75 drinking a maple76 nut foam77. After this her cause declined rapidly, and even her most ardent78 partisans79 admitted that she would never be more than an Intermittent80 Souse.
Purplevein's followers81, in their desperate efforts to discredit Bleak, overplayed their hand (as "practical politicians" always do). The sagacious Quimbleton outmaneuvered them at every turn. Moderate drinkers rallied round Bleak. Moreover, the Bleak party had an irresistible82 assistant in the person of Miss Chuff, who put her trances unreservedly at Dunraven's disposal. In this way Quimbleton was able to produce his candidate before a monster mass meeting at the Opera House in a state of becoming exhilaration. This forever put an end to the rumor4 that Bleak was not a practical man. Miss Chuff also campaigned strenuously83 among the women, where Purplevein (being a bachelor) was at a disadvantage. "Vote for Bleak," cried Miss Chuff—"He has a wife to help him." Purplevein's argument that the office of Perpetual Souse should be an entirely stag affair fell dead before Theodolinda's glowing description of the Hostess House which Mrs. Bleak would conduct next door to the little temple which was to be erected84 by the government for the successful candidate.
Despite the exhaustion85 of the campaign, Bleak stood it well. Quimbleton, knowing the disastrous86 effects of over-confidence, kept his man at fighting edge by a little judicious87 pessimism88 now and then, and rumors89 of the popularity of Purplevein among the hard drinkers. Day after day Quimbleton and Miss Chuff, after a little psychic90 communing, would prop6 the editor among cushions in the big gray limousine91 and spin him about the city and suburbs to bow, smile, say a few automatic words and pass on. Over the car floated a big banner with the words: Let Bleak Do Your Drinking For You: He Knows How. The unhappy Purplevein, who had to do his electioneering in a state of chill sobriety, was aghast to see the beaming and gently flushed face of his rival radiating cheer. At the eleventh hour he tried to change his tactics and plastered the billboards92 with immense posters:
BLEAK DOESN'T NEED THE JOB—HE'S SOUSED ALREADY
This line of argument might perhaps have been powerful if adopted earlier, but by that time the agreeable vision of Bleak's ascetic93 features wreathed in a faintly spiritual benignance was already firmly fixed94 in the public imagination. The little celluloid button showing his transfigured and endearing smile was worn on millions of lapels. As one walked down the street one met that little badge hundreds of times, and the mere repetition of the tenderly exhilarated face seemed to many a citizen a beautiful and significant thing. Men are altruistic95 at heart. They saw that Bleak would make of this high office a richly eloquent96 and appealing stewardship97. They were reconciled to their own abstinence in the thought that the dreams and desires of their own hearts would be so nobly fulfilled by him. Alcohol was gone forever, and perhaps it was as well. They themselves were conscious of having abused its sacred powers. But now, in the person of this chosen representative, all that was lovely and laughable in the old customs would be consecrated98 and enshrined forever. Men who had known Bleak in the days of his employment on the Balloon recollected99 that even during the cares and efforts of his profession little incidents had occurred that might have shown (had they been shrewd enough to notice) how faithfully he was preparing himself for the great responsibility destiny held concealed100.
The day of the election was declared a national festival. The Chuff government, a good deal startled by the universal seriousness and enthusiasm shown in the enrollment101 at the primaries, was disposed (in secret) to regard the office of Perpetual Souse as a helpful compromise on a vexed102 question. The war against Nature had been only partially103 successful: indeed the chuff chief-of-staff declared that Nature had not learned her lesson yet, and that some irreconcilable104 berries and fruits were still waging a guerilla fermentation, thus rupturing105 the armistice106 terms. The countryside had been ravaged107, all the Chautauqua lecturers were hoarse108, industry was at a standstill, misery109 and despair were widespread. Even the indomitable Chuff himself was a little nonplussed110. Better (he thought) one man indubitably, decorously, publicly, and legally drunk, than millions of citizens privily111 attempting to cajole raisins112 and apples into illicit113 sprightliness114.
The citizens went to the polls in a mood of exalted self-denial. They knew that they were voting away their own rights, but they also knew that their private ideals would be more than realized in the legalized frenzy115 of their representative. Bleak, appearing on the balcony of his hotel, smiled affectionately on the loyal faces that cheered him from below. He was deeply moved. To Quimbleton (who was supporting him from behind) he said: "Their generosity116 is wonderful. I shall try to be worthy117 of their confidence. I hope I may have strength to put into practice the frustrated118 desires of these noble people."
The result of the polling was to be announced by a searchlight from the City Hall. A white beam sweeping119 eastward120 would mean the election of Purplevein. A white beam sweeping westward121 would mean the triumph of Miss Absinthe. A steady red beam cast upward toward the zenith would indicate the victory of Bleak.
At ten o'clock that night a scream of cheers burst from millions of people packed along the city streets. A clear, glowing shaft122 of red light leaped upward into the sky. Dunraven Bleak had been elected Perpetual Souse.
Purplevein, who was rather a decent sort, hastened to Bleak's hotel to offer his congratulations. Bleak, who was sitting quietly with Mrs. Bleak, Quimbleton and Theodolinda, greeted him calmly. Poor Purplevein was very much broken up, and Quimbleton and Theodolinda, in the goodness of their hearts, arranged a quiet little seance for his benefit. They all sat their drinking psychic Three-Star in honor of the event. As Quimbleton said, helping123 Purplevein back to his motor—"Hitch your flagon to a Star."
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