Demijohn

The character of this aspirant for congressional preferment in the so-called Demijohn District may be readily judged by the company he keeps. "

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

Elsewhere in the Demijohn I've reason to know that he's in exceedingly bad odor, and that a third ticket would draw no end of support from thinking voters who like Shelby little, but the other party less.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

About the hour when Bernard Graves hobnobbed with Jasper Hinchey, the third factor in the Demijohn

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

This was his domesticity, amidst which must be sandwiched conferences and journeyings in Tuscarora County and the other counties of his district, and speeches on behalf of the party outside the Demijohn, entailed by too successful stumping in the past.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

"Candidate for Congress in the Demijohn District," returned the political expert, promptly, smiling at the signature.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

The returns from the laggard Demijohn presently thickened, and Shelby left his seat to pace the floor, while Bowers, with an unlighted cigar between his teeth, and looking very like Grant indeed, figured, discarded, and figured again as successive reports modified his calculations.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

It developed early that throughout the Demijohn split tickets had prevailed to an unprecedented extent.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

Not for years, in fact not since Bowers himself sat in Congress, had the nomination come to Tuscarora County out of the several counties which the Demijohn

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

And still Tuscarora and the Demijohn aped the Sphinx.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

Committee, set a pace in corruption unprecedented in the checkered history of the Demijohn.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther