ABSTRACT
A Quickstep march tune sounded from the orchestra pit. The curtain rose upon a crowded stage of excitedly moving people. “The marchers, with their torchlights and banners, move against a shadowy background of skyscrapers, churches, and—almost certainly—speakeasies. Across this background is thrown a huge election banner on which are gargantuan reproductions of the faces of the party’s candidates. Highlit and prominent is the party’s battlecry: FOR PRESIDENT, JOHN P. WINTERGREEN.’ The name of the vice-presidential candidate, however, is lost in shadow. As for the countenances of the candidates, it is a little hard to pick them out in the general blur, and the chances are that that’s a break for the party.”
