made
a speech in Yimville he most certainly would not--never, never,
never--have expressed the sentiments so brazenly attributed to him. He
was an office seeker in the interests of public rather than personal
welfare, and for no other reason. He had yielded to the overwhelming
petitions of his friends, indeed, not without considerable pain. And
then Jimmy read something that for the first time caused him to
appreciate the possible grave consequences of his ebullient imposture:

"'I am not at the moment in a position to make any definite and
specific charges,' his Honor told the representative of the
_Morning Star_: 'but I have certain well-defined grounds for
believing that the citizens of Yimville, for whom I have the most
profound respect and admiration, knowing that they include some of
the most intellectual and patriotic ladies and gentlemen in the
whole of the United States, have been imposed upon by an individual
who (I have been told) faintly resembles me as far as personal
appearance is involved. Yet how this person, who is, I regret to
say, but a common, vulgar ignoramus, could have the barefaced
effrontery to address an intelligent audience either in his own or
an assumed character, I can not comprehend. Needless to say I shall
at once take steps to learn the truth, and the impostor shall be
made to suffer the extreme penalties of the law providing for the
punishment of such flagrant acts against the public and private
welfare of duly constituted citizens. The world must be made safe
for Democracy. Those who are guilty of lack of observance for those
common and well-defined and closely stipulated rules that govern
the intercourse existing between individuals or those collections
of individuals which are in turn by mutual consent formed into
committies, must hereafter be consistently regulated by those able
to dictate either by force of arms or the divine influence of
reason, until they can no longer prove a menace to the rules
governing, by consent of the governed and the voice of the
governed, human relations in general, in particular, and in
private.'"

Jimmy pondered over the last sentence a long time.

"I suppose he means 'The guilty shall be punished,'" he said, and then
added, admiringly, "By gosh! If he were a Democrat he'd be president of
the United States yet. He surely