Electioneering Pleasantries.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 161, 10 December 1872, Page 7

Electioneering Pleasantries.

Pleasant times the political chiefs have in the United States. Mr Horace Greeley recently visited the capital of Indiana, and although treated with official discourtesy by Senator Morton, “ who rules Indiana.” through whose influence, it is said, a police detail was refused, ho was amply compensated by the enthusiasm of 40,000 men, and the kisses of as many pretty women as could approach “ the sage.” Here is the scene at the hotel after Mr Greeley's speech, reported bv ns on Wednesday, as described by the correspondent of the ?,'<>((• York Herald: — “ The girls commenced kissing the venerable sage. One buxom Iloosierlass had been noticed expressing her impatience on the preference given to the horrid men in all the arrangements, by stamping her feet and scolding her tall escort, and finally she said, as a kind of vent for her vexation, 1 I’m going up, and I’m going to kiss him, too !’ and she elbowed her way through the crowd and bestowed a hearty salute <>u the philosopher's chaste ffiuvl-:, which he received with the meekness of a lamb. Then an irruption of kisses commenced. The Hoosier girls broke from their escorts and showered their genial favours on the fair face of the liberal chief in such profusion Unit lie found it a umre difficult thing to respond than usual. One girl returning to her big beau, said triumphantly : “ I’ve kissed our future President right in the mouth 1” Mr Greeley is a determined opponent of the “ women’s rights” movement ; hut it is quite clear he is not averse to their assertion to the right of public kissing, so long as lie is the object of their chaste embraces. What would the candidates of the Superintendeiicy of Otago not give, if their canvass was to be of so agreeable a character as that of Horace Greeley’s in Indiana! We suspect the entrances for the SuperintendJntal cup would be numerous. —Emiing Star.