MACOCHEE'S FIRST CAMPAIGN FUND
Squire Goddard had been renominated as
mayor of Macochee for the fifth time, and for
three weeks had played his customary checker
games with the firemen in the town hall, serene in
the conviction that he could not fail of reëlection.
Then suddenly he awakened to the fact that he had
been the victim of a gum-shoe campaign. Election
was but a week off, and something had to be done.
So they raised a campaign fund. Now, Macochee,
in that day, had never had a campaign fund.
The state committee never put any money into
Gordon County, even in a presidential year. The
Republicans didn't have to, and the Democrats
knew better. The local candidates, of course, had
little expenses of their own—for cigars, for carriages
when there were township meetings out in
