AN AMERICAN ELECTION STORY.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 59, 10 March 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN AMERICAN ELECTION STORY.

Lizzie Tobias was the central figure in quite the most unique post-election, ceremony that has been seen in an. American city for muny a year. It was the ceremony in which Anthony Bohlinger, a young moulder who lives with, his mother in Detroit, undertook to do public penance for voting for a ' certain candidate in tho laataelection. Anthony Bohliue^er. the moulder, had known Lizzie Tobias for a long timeThey live not many blocks from each, other, and the two families were-well acquainted. Lizzie Tobias is a fairhaired young woman of rather lively disposition, and she and Anthony, since the campaign for mayor became a topic of almost universal interest, have been in the habit of chaffing each other about it a good deal. Finally, in a spirit of desperate banter, Anthony proposed the following wager ; If Pingree was elected he waß to wheel Lizzie from the corner where he lived around the City Hall and back home again. The wager was accepted. Lizzie, not to be outdone, promised to do the same thing for Anthony if Godfrey was elected. This extraordinary wager was the talk of the whole neighbourhood for several days, and when the election finally declared Mr. Pingree the next mayor there was loud laughter and much excitement and gossip about the affair. The wager had been paid in full. One night about nine o'clock a strange procession was seen coming down the street. At the head of the procession was a boy carrying a flag. On either side of him two boys carried banners. Directly behind them, in a picturesque jockey costume, striped cap and waist, her laughing face lighted l>y the glare of a torch, sat Lizzie Tobias. She was perched upon some sort of a seat that had been fixed in the end of the wheelbarrow. Her feet were cuiled upon the front board of the barrow. In the barrow behind her were the hat and coat belonging to Bohlingor, Also there was a pail in which there was some sort of refreshments. A great crowd followrd the procession, shouting, laughing, and talkiug to the woman upon the barrow. But he was unrepentant still and kept shouting for Godfrey. When the procession had reached a certain street someone brought out a tray with beer upon it, which was passed around among the crowd. All drank the health of the lady on the wheelbarrow. She eeemed to enjoy the whole business as much as anyone. She did not seem to be in the least disturbed by the conspicuous position in which she found herself, and told everybody the terms of the bet. "Yes, I was to wheel if Pingree lost," she said, "and I would have done if too." After tho procession had stopped to take beer, the police, seeingthecrowd, came over, but, learning the cause of the assembly, did not disturb it. Before the procession started on its way around the city Miss Tobias gave three cheers for Pingree. Then they marched on, the boy with the torch leading the way and the boys with thebannersfollowing. They marched on around the City Hall and proceeded up the street, back towards the corner. There accompanied the procession a buggy with a young man and a young woman in it. The young woman was Mies Tobias' sister. It is said that many bets were made that when it came to the scratch Lizzie Tobias would not have the courage to ride down town on the wheelbarrow. It is fad tl a one young man bet his watch, and lost it, thnt the young woman would not fulfil tho conditions of the wager.

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