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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

CHAPTER EIGHT: The Great Fight for Clean Government
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He says he must find a place for O'Hooligan.

The Irish, he says, don't care for clean government; they want Irish Government." "I see," said Mr.Boulder very thoughtfully, "and in regard to the renewal of the franchise and the expropriation, tell me just exactly what his conditions are." But Mr.Fyshe's answer to this was said so discreetly and in such a low voice, that not even the birds listening in the elm trees outside the Mausoleum Club could hear it.
No wonder, then, that if even the birds failed to know everything about the Clean Government League, there were many things which such good people as Mr.Newberry and Mr.Peter Spillikins never heard at all and never guessed.
* * * * * Each week and every day brought fresh triumphs to the onward march of the movement.
"Yes, gentlemen," said Mr.Fyshe to the assembled committee of the Clean Government League a few days later, "I am glad to be able to report our first victory.

Mr.Boulder and I have visited the state capital and we are able to tell you definitely that the legislature will consent to change our form of government so as to replace our council by a Board." "Hear, hear!" cried all the committee men together.
"We saw the governor," said Mr.Fyshe.

"Indeed he was good enough to lunch with us at the Pocahontas Club.

He tells us that what we are doing is being done in every city and town of the state.


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