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`` Do you know that the Penal Code makes soliciting a candidate to buy tickets a misdemeanor ? '' Hinchey smirked . `` A party whut I know buys 'em without askin ' , '' said he . Jasper Hinchey did not call at the _ Whig _ office any morning between ten o'clock and twelve . It developed that he was engaged in some not too arduous labor at the quarries of the Eureka Sandstone Company . Had the fantastic bolt of the Sprague clique been left to its own courses , Shelby would have borrowed no further trouble , but a fortuitous matter of radishes and ice-water suddenly put the quarrel on an altogether different level . About the hour when Bernard Graves hobnobbed with Jasper Hinchey , the third factor in the Demijohn District 's political muddle sat down to dinner in a neighboring city .