This attitude would have settled his case for him without further effort, but he had another attack of virtue on the same day, that made it absolutely sure.

It had been his habit for a great many years to change his religion with his shirt, and his ideas about temperance at the same time.

He would be a teetotaler for a while and the champion of the cause; then he would change to the other side for a time.

On nomination day he suddenly changed from a friendly attitude toward whiskey--which was the popular attitude--to uncompromising teetotalism, and went absolutely dry.

His friends besought and implored, but all in vain.