He looked inquiringly at the town clerk, but Asaph was evidently quite as much in the dark as he concerning the threatened disclosure.
"Feller Bayporters," went on Tad, "there's one thing we've all agreed on, no matter who we've meant to vote for.

That is, that a member of our school committee should be an upright, honest man, one fit morally to look out for our dear children.

Ain't that so?
Well, then, I ask you this: Would you consider a man fit for that job who deliberately came between a father and his child, who pizened the mind of that child against his own parent, and when that parent come to claim that child, first tried to buy him off and then turned him out of the house?
Yes, and offered violence to him.

And done it--mark what I say--for reasons which--which--well, we can only guess 'em, but the guess may not be so awful bad.

Is THAT the kind of man we want to honor or to look out for our own children's schoolin' ?" Mr.Simpson undoubtedly meant to cause a sensation by his opening remarks.