SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1908.
THE MORNING ASTOItlAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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8YNOPSIS OP PRECEDING
CHAPTERS.
Chapter I At the suburban borne
of Chnrlci Wttlnwiight, "high finan
cier," he and hit broker, Scott Cibbs,
hatch up a scheme to corner Borough
treet railway stock, They rely upon
the aupport of Dick Horrigan, bom of
the neighboring city, who It coming
to diicuit matters. Alderman Phe
Ian, the thorn In Horrigan'i aide,
whom Wainwright is anxioua to con
ciliate, is also coming. Among the
members of Wainwright's household
are his niece and nephew, Dallas and
Perry Wainwright, and his secretary,
Thompson, a secretive young man In
whom the financier has implicit confi-
dence. Judge Newman, ft neighbor of
. Wainwright, whose continuance in
' office depends upon Horrigan's favor,
requests Walnwright'a . Intervention
with the boss, Another visitor to the
Winwrlghts' Is 1 Alwyn Bennett; In
loe with Dallas, who la calling to ask
her about her rumored engagement to
Cibbs. Perry Is In love with Synthla
Carrison, also a neighbor. II Cyn
thia is the daughter of bank presi
dent who nine years before the open
ing of the story was ruined by the
dealings of an unnamed dishonest
financier 'and shot himself. His son
thereupon disappeared. Mr. Bennett
congratulates herself upon the imma
culate record of her son's defeased
father. Dallas refuses to marry
Alwyn unless he does something
worthy of his fsmlly and education,
Thelan and Horrigan face each other,
III. Phelan defies Horrigan. Judge
Newman is turned down by the boss,
but at Walnwright'a request Horri
gan becomes suspicious of Thompson,
but Wainwright scoffs at the Idea,
Horrigan and Wainwright makes a
corrupt deal whereby the former, for
a big constdeation, is to procure from
the board of aldermen a perpetual
franchise for s the Borough street
railway. The boss is worried by the
reform movement threatening i hit
power at the coming election and is
casting about for a candidate for
mayor with a clean word. He hits
upon Bennett, who has had some
slight political experience. The lat
ter accepts, but warns Horigan that,
if elected, he will be absolutely honest
and independent'
IV. Bennett is elected and ap
points Cynthia his private secretary.
Phelan tells him that the financier
who caused the ruin of the Garrisons
was Wainwright, who is also the pow
er behind the crooked Borough fran
chise bills, with Horrigan and Gibbs.
Dallas and Mrs. Bennett visit the city
hall.
V Gibbs tries to induce Bennett to
sign the bill. The mayor's talk with
Dallas is interrupted by Horrigan.
CHAPTER VI.
WAT a strange man!" ex
claimed Pallas Wainwright
In wonder, as the anteroom
door slammed behind the
boss. "And what utterly abominable
manners! Who Is ho. Alwynr
rilorrlgan."
" "Itichard Horrlgnn. the"-
"Tbe boss. Yes. He has pleasing
way of stamping tuto this office on-
asked, as If be owned It and as If I
were bis clork. But today's behavior
was the worst yet. It's got to stop!"
"But don't do or say anything reck
less, Alwyn. Promise mo. Kemeuibor
how strong he Is!"
"Tbero'a no danger of his letting me
forget his power," said Konnott with
a bitter smile, "lie" ,
"But you'll be .careful, won't you?
riense do,' for my snke. And you
mustn'.t keep him' waiting. If there's
a way out through Cyuthlus olflee
we'll go by that. Goodby. I'll explain
to your mother. No: you must let us
go now. Olllce business must come
first, Won't you call this evening? I'll
be home and alone."
Despite Bennett's remonstrances slio
was Ann, and It was lu no pleasant
frame of mind that the mayor threw
himself Into a seat when he was left
alono In the room. That tho talk with
Dallas, which had promised so much
for him, should bo thus rudely Inter
rupted. That- Horrigan flung open
the door and stamped In. The boss'
anger had by uo means subsided In
the few moments of delay, but had,
' rathor, grown until It vibrated In his
every word and gesture. He wasted
no time In formalities, but came to
5 the point with all tho tender grace and
, tact of a pile driver.
"Look here, Benuott," he rumbled,
menaco underlying tone and look, "I'm
told Phelan's been here this afternoon.
What did he wunt?"
"To seo me." answered Bennett calm-
lv. the effort at self control visible
only In the whitening of the knuckles
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"What did ho want to see you about?"
"A business matter."
"What business matter?"
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"Yours, eh?" sneered Horrlgnn.
"Well, young man, I want you to un
derstand here and now that no one
can bo ehummy with Jltn I'belan and
be my man at tbe samo time. Got that
through your heud?"
",' assented Bennett; "I think I
have. And while we're Hpeaklng plain
ly I want you to understand here and
now that no one can bully me, either
here or elsewhere, and that I'm uo
man's man. Have you got that through
your head?" ti' , '
Horrigan stared in savage amaze
ment Ho doubted if his ears bad not
played him false. Bennett bad always
treated the bos with uniform cour
tesy, and Horrigan belonged to the
too numerous class who do not under
stand until too late tha difference be
tween gentle breeding and weak cow
ardice. That a man should speak to
blm courteously and not Interlard bis
talk with oaths, obscenity or rough
ness seemed to Horrigan, as it does to
many another boor, an evidence of tu
midity and lack of virility. A Damas
cus blade is a far more harmless look
ing weapon than a bludgeon, yet it Is
capable when the necessity arises of
far deadlier work.
It is only the man whose gentleness
has not granite strength as Its founda
tion who deserves the newly popular
tern of "mollycoddle"
Had norrlgan'a largo experience
with men been extended to embrace
this fact be would probably never have
picked out Alwyn Bennett in the first
place as candidate for mayor nor
deemed the younger man a fit tool for
the organisation's crooked work. The
French nobles of the old regime, whose
polish of manner was the envy of the
world, fought like devils on occasion
and went to death on the scaffold with
a smile and a Jest on their Hps, while
many a brutal demagogue in the same
circumstances broke down and scream
ed for mercy. However, norrlgan
chanced to be mors familiar with the
history of the orgnnUatlon than with
that of France: hence, deeming Ben
nett's reply a mere sporadic flash of
defiance from a properly cowed spirit
be resolved to crush the rebellion at a
blow.
"Don't give me any Insolence!" he
roared. "I won't stand for it, and" .
"Moreover," quietly continued Ben
nett ns though the boss bad not
spoken, "I shall be very much obliged
If in future you wrlli kuock at my door
Instead of bursting in on me. This Is
my private otllce, not yours."
"Do you mean to"
"I've explained as clearly as I can
Just what I mean. If you don't under
stand me I can't supply you with In
telligence." ?
"Bennett" said tho boss, his burn
ing rage steadied ! down to a white
heat far more dangerous, but less In
coherent, "you and me are talking too
much and saying too little. We've got
to come to a showdown. You're a clev
er boy and you made a rattling good
fight, and you're on the right side of
the public and of the press too. You're
the best material we've got and If you
try and do the right thing there's no
limit to what you can rise to-but only
If you do tho right thing.'
"'The right thing,'" echoed Bennett
"What do you mean by tha right
thing?"
"I mean you've got to do the right
thing by tho men who put you where
you are today." ...
"That's fair. But who put me where
l am today?"
"I dld-I. Dick Horrigan. Who ever
hoard of you till I took you up? No
body. If I didn't make you mayor,
who did, I'd like to know?"
"The voters. The people of this
city." '
"The voters." scoffed Horrigan. "The
deuce they did! Who had you nomi
nated?" "You did. But It was tho public who
elected me, and I'm going to obey
your orders lu one thing. I'm going to
'do the right thing by the men who
put me where I am today. I'm going
to pay tho voters for their trust in me
by giving them a fair and square ad
ministration. In the case of this Bor
ough Street railway franchise bill, for
Instance," tapping the document lying
before him on his desk, "before I sign
that bill I intend to make sura it's for
the good of the people, that it is for
the good of the city, not merely for
the good of Richard Horrigan and a
clique of Sis friends and heelers. No.
don't swear. It'll do yon no good. I'm
firm on this 'matter. If you're discon
tented with me It's your own fault.
I warned you months ago that If 1
was elocted I should keep my oath of
office. As for this Borough bill"
"As for this Borough bill," broke lu
Horrigau savagely, "you'll slgu it. If
you don't"
"Well?" queried Bennett, as the boss
paused, choked by his own fury. "If
I don't sign it-what then?"
"If you don't, your political career is
ended from this time on. See? It'B
ended. Smashed flat. You think of
Or
yourself as a flue, promising young
man who's on the road to the gov
ernorship and maybe to tbo White
House. Well, you aren't You're what
Dick Horrigan mado you, and your
future will be what Dick Horrigan
chooses to make it I lifted you up,
and I can tear you down Just as easy.
And, what's more, by , I'll do it if
you don't sign the Borough bill. I'm
a man of my word, and before over
you were nominated . I pledged my
word to have that bill put through.
The bill paid your election expense.
It"- .
"I paid my own election expenses.
You know that."
'"Your personal expenses, perhaps.
But who paid for parades, balls, ban
ners, fireworks, speakers, advertise
ments, workers and watchers and all
the other million things that elected
you? The men behind that Borough
bill paid them. And they did It on the
understanding you'd slgu the bill."
In other words," remarked Ben
nett, "you made a bargain for me.
Well, I can't keep it"
"Ob, I'll keep it all right You'll
sign that bill or you'U"-
"Mr. Horrigan," exclaimed Bennett
controlling bis temper with more and
more dlttlculty, "you said something
Just now a 1 wut our coming to a show
down.' This Is the time for It I want
you to remember henceforth that I
wear no man's collar yours or any
one eise's-and that you can't deliver
any goods you've bargained for In my
name. If I sign that bill It won't be
under your orders, but because I tblnk
it right"
"Oh," laughed Horrigan, who thought
be began to see the drift of the oth
er's mind, "I don't bold out for that I
dou't care why you sign it as long as
you do sign it"
"What do you think about the bill
yourself V Inquired Alwyn. "Do you
consider It honest V
"What do I care? It's got to be
signed, and"
"I care. And I think the bill is
fraudulent" v
"Getting tender in the conscience,
aren't you? Well"-
"If you put It that way, yes. I tblnk
this Borough bill is crooked from flrst
to last Bur- ' ".' ;";.
"What's the matter with it? Aln't"-
"Let me explain," pursues" Alwyn.
"This bill gives the Borough Street
Hallway company the right to use
whatever motive power they choose to.
It gives them the right to charge Ave
cent fares without any transfers. In
one paragraph there's a clause permit
ting them to build a subway' if they
waut one. By another paragraph's con
cessions they can build a conduit and
lease It out for telephone or telegraph
wires. By another they can do an ex
press business. But all these provi
sions are as nothing compared to the
fact that the bill gives the streets
above ond below ground to the Bor
ough company forever and ever not
for a term of years, but until the end
of the world. It delivers that route to
the company not only for our time, but
for always, and binds us and our de
scendants to its terms. That la the
chief outrage of the whole thing. To
think that the"-
"Oh, we've got a howling reformer
in the mayor's seat have we?" scoffed
Horrigan. "If I'd known that"
"The people have got a man who Is
trying to protect their rights and prop
erty. Here's a letter I received to
day. You'll recognize the name of the
capitalist who wrote It. You know he
Is honest as well as wise. This is his
proposition: He will pay $2,000,000 for
that same franchise, give the city 10
per cent of the gross receipts and turn
over tho whole plant to It at the end
of fifty years. What do you think of
that?" " ' a
"It's a fake."
"It is a bona fide offer. He volun
teers to deposit $1,000,000 to bind the
bargain. Now, what I want to ask
you, Mr. Horrigan, is this: If the fran
chise Is worth $2,000,000, why are you
and your faction In the board of alder
men so anxious to give it away for
nothing?" -
"Look here!" blustered ' the boss.
I" " ' "'
"I am looking," returned Bennett.
'Tve been looking deeper into it than
you realize. I asked you a question
Just now. I'll answer it myself In
one word-'Graft!' "That Is1 why you
want to give away a franchise that Is
worth $2,000,000."
"Graft!" snorted Horrigau contemptu
ously. "The same old reformer howl!
What's your Idea of graft anyway?"
"Graft Is unearned Increment Money
to which the' recipient has no legal or
moral right. That Is"- -
"So! Then show me the man who
ain't a grafter! A lawyer shows his
client how to evade the law, and he
takes a fee for doing it. What's that
but graft? A magazine takes pay for
printing an advertisement its editors
know Is rt fake. What's that? Graft!
When a congressman votes for an ap
propriation because another congress
man . has agreed to vote for one of
his, what's that? Graft! When a five
thousand a year Benator retires at the
end of ten year? worth a million, what's
bat? Graft! A police captain on 12,
f.7) a year buys yachts and country
estates. , Graft! How about the rail
road president who gets stock free in
a corporation that ships over bis road,
or the Insurance man or banker who
gives or takes fat loans on fancy se
curities and clears 1,000 per-cent?
Grafters, all of 'em! Grafters! Every
one grafts who can or who Isn't too
stupid, Show me a man who doesn't
groft and I'll show you a fool. Present
company not excepted."
"That's where you're wrong," return
ed Alywn, ignoring the slur and speak
ing with a Judicial quiet oddly at con
trast with the boss' vehemence. "The
man who said 'Honesty is the test pol
icy' knew what bo was talking about.
It pays best not only hereafter, but
here as well. Why did Missouri choose
Folk for governor? Because In spite
of bis faults be is honest Why was
La Follette sent to the senate from
Wisconsin? Because, faults and all he
was honest. Why did the people of
this country make Roosevelt their pres
ident? Were they blind to bis faults
and foibles? No, but they knew be
was honest! I am houest This bill
isn't That Is why I won't sign it"
"You won't ebT roared Horrigan.
Then veto it! Veto It if you dare! I'll
not only smash your political career,
but I'll pass the bill over your veto.
That'll show you pretty well how you
and me stand as to power in the city.
I'll make you the laughingstock of the
administration by taking tbe whole
thing out of your bands and passing It
In spite of you.
"I doubt it" answered Bennett, pal
ing, but meeting coolly tbe fiery wrath
In Horrigan's little red eyes. "1 Intend
to flgbt your Borongb bill In tbe alder
manic chamber and outside that coun
cil, To pass a bill over my veto you'll
have to get a two-thirds majority. That
means fourteen votes. You have only
your 'solid thirteen.' And I'll make it
my business to see you don't get a
fourteenth vote." ;
"I'll look out for that, all right all
right" ."'v.: 't
"One tiling more, Mr. Horrigan. I
have reason to believe there Is bribery
In this matter. I'll ferret out tbe name
of every man who gives or takes a
bribe in connection with tbe Borough
franchise bill, and I'll send every one
of them to Jail not only tbe aldermen,
I but tbe capitalists who are behind tbe
measure. Receiver and thief shall go
to Jail together."
"Is that so?" chuckled Horrigan.
"Then, Mr. Reformer, let me tell you
who is really behind this whole affair,
the man you'll have to Jail first of all,
Mr. Charles Wainwright uncle of tbe
girl you're trying to marry."
He leaned back to note tbe effect of
bis revelation, but Bennett's face
moved no muscle, gave no bint of what
lay beneath. .
' "Besides." went' on Horrigan, eager
to press bis advantage, "every cent
of Miss , Wain
wright's fortune
and of ber broth
er's has been put
by Wainwright
Into Borough
stock. If the
franchise is beat
en, that stock
will collapse and
Miss Wain
wright will be a
pauper. You'll
beggar , the girl
you're in love
with and her
young brother If
"JTow oo ahead and y0U veto that bill,
do m you Mfce," Nowgoaheadand
said Horrigan. &Q you m . , ,
It was Horrigan's trump card, and
he had played It well. White, si
lent Bennett walked back to his
desk. Tbe fight seemed all knocked
out of blm. Heavily be moved, like a
man overexhausted. Picking up a pen,
be wrote rapidly, then cast aside the
pen, crossed to tbe window and looked
out Into tbe snowy, crowded park.
"You've signed the bill?" cried Hor
rigan in delight
"I've vetoed it" replied Bennett
To be continued.
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QUEER EOUNDARIES.
The 10 o'Cleck Lino Was Suggested by
the Indians. t,,!
Tbe most original &udjn3nilUv. way
of "riiafUIng'a'twttndary was probably
that of Queen Dido and her colony
when they stipulated, before the found
lig of part bags., for us much land as
could be inclosed by a bull's hide. All
tribes belonging to the infancy of
civilization have lite peculiar modes
of reckoning. -
From a point near the mouth of the
Miami river exter.ds north west through
Indiana a boundary known ' as the
"10 o'clock line." : This is one limit of
an Indian grant. : When the tribe had
agreed to cede a portion of their terri
tory to the whites a meeting was held
for the purpose of marking out the
ground. v A surveyorwas present and
had mounted his compass and tele
scope on a tripod. jTbe bead man of
tbe( tribe went up to the Instruments,
stared steadily' at them for awhile,
grunted, and , returned to the circle
about tbe council fire. Not a word
was spoken by any one. Soon another
Indian arose, walked sedately to the
Instruments, gravely examined them,
grunted and returned to bis place by
the fire. This example was followed
by half a dozen others, after which a
short consultation was held.
The chief then approached the white
men. "That what Indian know;' he
said, drawing a small circle on the
ground with a ;' stick. That what
white man know," drawmg a larger
circle round the first. "This what no
body know." be added, pointing, to
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ow. Indian give white man land one
side." ,
After long consultation it was de
cided that a line drawn In the direc
tion in which the sun would cast a
shadow from an agreed point at 10
o'clock should be made the boundary,
tbe white. man taking the land on one
side and the Indians keeping that on
tbe other.' The other boundaries of
the concession were those of the origi
nal territory of tbe tribe, supplemented
by water courses and ottier objects.
Such lines have been frequently used
In concluding bargains with tbe In
dians and have become known as "10
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