George Kibbe Turner

“ Why shouldn't we say that woman's coming brings a new force into American politics, both morally and intellectually? That the church is founded on the work and loyalty of woman, that the temperance movement was hers, and most of the welfare work—that she today has more leisure, more interest to give to public affairs than man? ”

“ The sensational seizure yesterday of John Gallagher, the so-called Seven Dead Men, by a woman, marks a new era in the history of Chibosh, if not the nation. The Morning Truth is enabled to say that this signal service to the city is due to the efforts of a well-known woman's organization, The True Women Home Defenders, organized through the efforts of Mayor Herman J. True. Growing with tremendous speed, its aim now a million members, the new society makes this as its first contribution to the welfare of the city, which it was organized to promote. ”

“ A silent, masterful personality, shunning the fierce spotlight of publicity of the present day, Meeghan's method of leaving anonymously in an ambulance, even his face covered over on his stretcher, the city he had ruled is characteristic of the man. Little known or seen by the citizens of Chibosh, those who knew him best describe him as a self-made man, often kind to his mother and the poor in his ward, and state that the story of his having murdered his younger brother over a game of craps in early life, though often repeated, has never been substantiated in any court of law. ”

“ The name of Michael F. Melody, after its one brief appearance, now dropped again from the press of Chibosh—its owner hoped, forever. But the Seven Dead Men, set loose by his captors, the two women politicians with the card catalogue, still dominated the front pages of the journals of that great city, and through them the great mass of the citizen voters; destined, as all in that marvelous metropolis now knew, to lead on the great current political revolution there to its end ”

“ For the type of men in practical politics there—rising largely from the slums—are the discards not only of the city but of their own section; men who have failed as a class to measure up to the better jobs provided even by the poorest section. ”

“ Chinese, or Silent, Meeghan, known as the uncrowned king of Chibosh, was suddenly stricken and entirely deprived of speech after luncheon yesterday afternoon, and was removed at once, on the advice of physicians, to shipboard for treatment by European specialists. “His speech may be recovered,” said Dr. George Barclay Beagle, his physician, in a statement to the press; “but his memory, for now and probably for months to come, is gone. There is a deep lesion affecting all the memory centers. It may be years before he can remember consecutively.” ”

“ But it is not to us two that the credit is due, but to the class of women voters of Chibosh and the United States who are now coming forward everywhere to put principles into politics. “It is this kind of women in Chibosh who secretly joined and now have taken over the old-fashioned fake political organization, first known as the True Women Home Defenders. ”

“ He was making his regular advance with lowered head as he turned the corner, when he hit something firm and hard, and sat suddenly on the pavement. Looking up, he saw a large, fine, heavy figure of a woman, slightly younger than himself, leaning over him. ”

“ That is, among the better-class women, the really American women, especially in the past ten years.
“There are six million members of women's organizations in this country today,” she asserted—“all organizations of the better class, who constitute the new element in American politics, under active women leaders.” ”

“ The Peoples Pictures displayed as its opening two large portraits, side by side, of a man past middle age, with a small, round, close-haired head and rather watery-looking eyes; and a large, substantial, round-faced woman in a small hat—the whole ornamented at the four corners with cupids, tied with ribbons and connected with a chain of keys to form a border. ”

“ Elaborating this, it gave an interview with the attorneys of the arrested man, Goldfish & Goldfish, who spoke with indignation upon the legal outrage which was being perpetrated under the eyes of all the citizens of Chibosh upon not only their client but the American people:
“Whether or not this man is guilty,” said I. Goldfish to the Morning Truth reporter, “we will not discuss at this time. But we say this, and we say it loud so there will be no mistake: The issue here is bigger and stronger than this one man. ”

“ They can't make the women register and vote in the poorer districts.”
“Exactly,” said the secretary of the Chibosh Women Voters' Association. “Women organize and function in politics from the top down—directly opposite from the men. And that is why we are going to elect John Henry Peters mayor this fall. Aren't we?” she said to the male reporters, now questioning in her turn. ”

“ Gallagher has always been a drinker—a hard-drinking man. The shock of arrest has thrown him into delirium tremens, and his memory is useless—a total blank.” Dr. George Barclay Beagle was also a passenger upon the steamer. He stated to an Evening Truth representative that he went in response to wireless messages saying that Mayor True's memory is no better, and asking him to meet him for consultation, as his family physician, with Doctor Proginthog, of Vienna, the great amnesia specialist. ”

“ The wisdom of our forefathers distinctly specifies that no man can be railroaded to prison, as they are doing here to this man. We shall demand the constitutional right of habeas corpus, and no court will deny it. We stake our professional reputations on this.” Nevertheless, later on in the morning, the right of habeas corpus was in fact denied to their client, Mr. Gallagher. This development, though given first place in the Evening Truth, was awarded second consideration in Peoples Pictures. In a later edition of this the leading headline said:
BOSS MEEGHAN'S BROTHER OVERCOME! ”