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..-.. ,.:...,..: -,. .-yr-- ' . . ..-.v.-, a .. l .'.'. ' 4. ; t . . ' THE OREGON . SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, V olitiGS. SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL' 15.. 1008. - ' i5BCTg! Ill a III j m II n r--mrr. , , ( 4 ... .? ..J?: CrrTO reatMovelSfftacti(2iricaEf 'MM mill BT.VOrSM Or rtECKDIXO CHAMEEA. Rimr bW aaaM laWST. We be leslelature by Um ''.. tb bnae sad -hie eoilticel carem iflr4 a el-ot oyer, whes be TtaltW by rd Kaewy, a eeUi-ae cbam, as bow '"''J in lb. power treat, WhIW "'"''V ' , llrtwvd young aturar. waa la - k with Betty Croaby. hot --m KirVr wa mtreinee- a -eta. , csarlntla Itaiaary. whose be aurrloa. " . feu lUlrr aiMeiaUd attorney for JCWI tmit, 11 eanirea tb tatUmm ef "'"."' the prealdent tts rrt. wbe la betas Tad spa r tae aula Btw-Blse. baaded "by S.-n.tue Dunkirk, hjkr of.poaitfc.il machine and kaa " "7,' , lieutenant '-IW Waodroff. ." ttetaa. TH nw aiacblne woa It the election. ' HMylar.eniitrolled erary thins la the tale and waa elert.-d Inlted States kmW. Burbank. a , cmrMmini from the ', ;. aweroor and Heyler .lart.a '". tb" - ".mpaicn. The power "" '' wjlt,'? Hayler. but ba bad sort i tbat ba carried tl.e etm-ttoe end the treat end rorporatioae tried to auke peace with hint, m dictated paara at bla " a. tnalljr b- raate nalkxial cb.lrmea. Burbank wasted ba prealdest and Saytor had Mm nominated. chapter xvil. , : ------- -:-: " Ki-lPTirnOtTOTL N OW came th problem to elect i W hear much - of many wonder, of commnauon ana concentration of : lnduatrlal power -which railway ana uwiwj hivs wrought. But .netting, is mM about what seems ,M i"eeteet wndU o? tWm. all-how thew force. Java resulted In th. eor.oBtratlo of th. poltal Pwar of .pwarda of A- afMIP m ftalilfiniiV" Mr am Mk.taVaa- ' -,.- . " t hair will upcm wld.nln circle, out an otoJU acattere; tha power. of. man das. by day. . Tha padpia are i- thaow.ra ar. bound togethar by th. on. aelf-lnter.rt. Th. Ppl. .t cut auah political organlaatlon. a ar. PVlSeS foVthem: th. P'-l jWMJJj and their agent, mak. and ,V?E SowVr. ax. rich! Th. Wpl. ha not offlc. to beatow; th. pow.r. h.T. Th. peopl. til rntlea-l, ." r.l, PJir- au. thoa. who .opp.. ,n.;-.- onlr after th. onenuar - . . unconditlonaiiy. and ey ZZ lH. to thejr int.r,?t to ,er. It la to'-- ,hlt th,, ber. Th. power...- :'"",m know wVnt and hPowlo"g.Ut; th. ppL know ' j Marth. when Ooodrhih flrrt auspected that I had o"- ' mu iri knd hlmwlf by nominating a. Th"oppltion candidal, a man under their and hi. ntrol, nd by .lectlng " Wm wth an .normou. campaign fund. kett, th. gubtlett andmort In- i-STaVt?aSa Z .fftSrtT They knew what advlaera h. wou ect.ym.n trained in their iervlc. nd taken from their legal '"'Staff a. They' knew h. would ahrlnk .VL. -radical" or "di.turblng" "that 1 wSuld not moleat the two pkV of wolves th. buslne. and . t UtlcaU fct their feaat upon the public. Pu" . n f hi noted adherent. s orhUp:rTy;h.V-.r.dnf. :X"p in' tr.P.kT of Vhp and cow ?le wor. old-fwhloned rurU whl.kera, 'th'ckeet'ln th. thrt-t. thin nln toward th. Jawbone, afiint bont the lower lip, absent from th. upp. Th.-. MM - (a mm with up-lc-oe 4 corruption Vm ti end him t. th. WArroon M tboM M organ, of th. -bppo.ltlon that-w.ra to th. control of th. power, began to. talk of "on a. an HV "rtldat.. I .uTct4 What waa in th. wind.- But I hd my hands Tu" th. most I could o wa. to aupply my local -eft-bower." -tUIImM. "ith fund, and set Wm to work for 1 . i4aia for hi. party moro to jr it aa fortunat. for m. that I - had cured y..lf of th. habit of worry. .lng. ..For U wa. plain that. If Oood rlch and Beckntt succeeded In getting Simpson nominated by th. oppoaltlon, l Vhould hav. a hard fight to ralM th. necessary campaign money. The largs Interests either would finance Simpson or. should I convince them that Bur bank waa as good for their purpoaes a. Blmpson, would M. lnaiixennif -wmva I directed Bllllman to wQrk for Jlun dl. of Indiars, a thorougftly honest man. In deadly eArriest about half a dosen deadly wrong things, and capable of anything tn furthering them after tha manner of fanatics. If h. had not n m.hiin Ufa. .ha would have been a camp-meeting exhorter. Crowds liked to listen to him! the radical, and radi cally Inclined throughout the west .wor. ' k him- t. had had two terms In con gress, had got a hundred-odd votes for . th. nomination for president at th. last '. national convention of th. opposition. " a aniondld scarei-row for the wall " etreet Crowd.' but dlfflculr td nomlnaU over Goodrich a man Bimpson in av con' n( nrantlnal BoUticlanH. . . ln May- it wm th. afternoon of th. very day my mutineer, got back into the harness Woodruff asked m. If I would .p. man h. had picked up tn a delegate-hunting trip Into Indiana. "An old pal of mine, much th. batter 9 for th. II J-ear." wear .inc. I last .aw C him. Ho ha. always trained with th. ? opposition, lie'. rull-rieagM graa at nf the Indiana school of politics, and that", the beat. If. almost all eraft 7 """"" ther-th.y bat. to glv. up money and V don't use .kept m si reaort vt. hreucht In his man M errl weather by name. I liked th. first look - . him ken. rvnloal. Indifferent. He had .vldently aat In .o many game, of rhanc. of all Unas tnw piay irraana in him. only th. Ice-cold passion of th. ' nuralv nrof esslonal. "There', been nothing doing in our tat. for th. last two or three years at laaat nothing M my line; said n. a .nk amtalder. Scarborough' j . nodrted. "Tee. I know him. II. . cam. Into th. aanat. from your .tat. two year, ago." - ' "Well. Iie'a built op a maohfh. Of his onand run. thing, to uu Bimsair MerrlweaLher. bony fa how.d a -faint rla. "Tho beat .veri-aald he. "He', put th. professional, out ot bua iness. without It coating him cent. I've got tired of, waiting for him to blow ov.r." - ' Tlrad and hungry. 1 thonghU Aft.t half an hour of pumping I aent btm away, detaining Woodruff. "Wh.l doe he really think about RundleT' t Baked. "8y. he hasn't a ghost of a.ehanco that Hcarborough'U control th. Indiana delegation and that Scarborough has no mora use for lunatic than for graft er." " Thl. w. not enoouraslftg. I called Mrrlweather back. "Why . don't you people .nominate' Scarborough at . St. Louis f wUd I. Behind his aorfac. of attention. I aaw his mind traveling at lightning spaed lav March of my hidden purpose along every avenu. thatmy suggestion opened. "Bcarborough d be k dangerous man fop" you." he repllwL -He', got a nasty way of 'reaching across party lino, for votes." I kept my fac. a blank. - ' "You'v. played politics only in your own state or against the eastern crowd, these last few years," h. went on, as if 1n answer to my , thought.. "Tou don't 'realise what a hold Scarbororm got through the, entire -west. H. has spilt your party and tha machine of bis own In our state, and they know all about him sad -his doings In th. state to th. west The people like a fellow that knock, out th. regular.." - -"A good marry call blm a demagogue, don't theyfv.ald I.". -, "Tea-and h. U, la 4 aort of a way," replied Merrlwaath.r. "But well,-he s tot knsotliUlngja. lrVH.g .,tbi It doesn t scare-louts. Ana n. . man aged to convince them that h. Isn't look ing eut for Duanber one. r It ean't be denied that he mad. a good governor." For Instance, h. got after th. monopo lies, and th. cost of living la 10 par oent lower in Indiana than just across th. lino In Ohio." "Then I should My that all th. larg. Interest. In th. country Would kin. up agnt blm.". said I. - "Kvery on.," .aid lferrlweatTler, and aa expression of understanding flttted across his faoa. He -went on: "But It ain't much .. talking- about him. H. oouldn't get tho nomination at least. It wouldn't b easy to get It for him." 1 suppose not." said L "Thafa- a Job for a flrat-clas. man and they're rare." And I .hook hand, with him. - . adouc a wees, later n. reiurnei.-.anci tried to- mak. -a report to mo. . But X sent him away, treating blm very for mally. I appreciated that,-being an ex perienced and capable, man. he knew th. wisdom of getting Intimately In touoh with his real employer; but, aa I- had my Incomparable -Woodruff, better far than I at th. rough work of polities, there was no necessity tor my entang ling myself. . - M.rrlweath.r w.nt . to Woodruff, and Woodruff reported to me Scarborough, friends in Indianapolis all i agreed . that he did not want the nomination and would not have it. W. must force it on blm," said L "We must have Scarborough."- immediately after Burbank'g nomina tion, Goodrich concentrated upon nomi nating Judge Simpson. He had three weess, ana n. worxea nara ana well. think he overdid it in the editorial ln onr party organ, under his influence ln NewTorkv3oaton-an4 other eastern cities never a day without lugubrious creed on the dismal outlook for Bur bank tf the other party should put up Simpson. But hi. Simpson editorial in big opposition papers undoubtedly produced an effect. I set for Do Milt and hla bureau of underground publio- Ity tha taak of -ahowlng up aa far aa It waa prudent to expos. Intimate politic, to the public, Goodrich and hi. crowd and their conspiracy with Beckett and his crowd to secure the opposition nomi nation for a man of the same offensive type as Cromwell. And I directed Woodruff to supply Sllllman and Merrl weather and . that department of my TJI-partisan" machine with - all ' the money they wanted. "They can't spend much to advantage at thl. lata day except for traveling expenses," aald I. "Our beat plan, anyhow. I. good honest missionary work with the honest men ef th. other party who wish to see It. beat man nominated. While Goodrich's agents and Beckett'! agent, were industriously arranging th. eastarn machinery of the opposition party for Simpson, . Mem weather bad Sllllman' men tolling In th. weal and south to get Rundl. delegate or unln st rooted delegation. -And, after our con versation, he was reinforced by Wood ruff and such men of hM staff a. could be used without suspicion. Woodruff himself could per a; eats Ilk. an odorless gaa; you knew he "was ther. only by th. result. Nothing could b. don. for Rundl. In hla own state, but th. farther away from hi. horn, odr man got th. easier It wa to induce by purchase and otherwise politicians of his party to think well of him. Thl. th. mora be cause they regarded Simpson a. a "tuff and a "stiff' and - they weren't - far wrong. ' " ' "" . It may not b. Scarborough, and It probably won't be Rundl," Woodruff said In hi. final report to me, "but It certainly won't be Simpson. He' th. dead one, no matter how well he' does on th. first ballot." But I would not let him give me th. details tha story of shrewd and slippery plots, strategema, surprises. "I am worn out, mind and body," said I In apology for my obvious weariness and indiffer ence. -t -. For six months I had been Incessantly at work. The tax upon memory alone, to say nothing of ' th. other faculties, had been crushing. Kasy aa polltleai faots alwaya war. for me, I eould not lightly bear th. ..train of keeping con stantly In mind not merely the outlines, but also hundreds of th. details, of th political organisation, of the forty Odd states with all their bounties. And th. tax on memory wa probably th. least. Then added to all my political work wa business care, for while I wa absorbed In politic. Ed Ramsay had badly mud dled the business, nor nai i, iia. uur bank and Woodruff, the power to empty my mind a. I touched the pillow and ao to get eight hour Of unbroken reat aoh night. i Woodruff ,bn setting mo rar in struction. But my Judgment wa un certain, and my Imagination barren. "Do as ou think best." .aid I. "I must rest. I've reached my limit" my limit of en durance of th. sight and odor and be fouling of these sewer, of politic. I must in person adventure tn order to reach my goal. I must paus. and rise to th. surface for a breath of decent air or I should not hav. th. strength to finish three menial and even vUe task which no man ran escape If h. I. practical leader In th. practical activi ties or practical lire?. CHAPTER XVIII. , A DANGEROUS PAUSE. I Wok th. train for my friend Bandy country plac near ClevelandJ forbidding Woodruff or Burbank or my secretaries to. communicate with, ma. sandy had no Interest In politic hi. fortune wa la real estate and,: therefore, did not tempt or fore, him Into relation with political aaachlna. ... Early la th. morning alter my ar rival I got away from tho .there and, with a .tag-bound who remembered me with favor from my last vtalt, atruok Into wood that had never been de spoiled by man. A I tramped oa and on, my mind seemed to revive, and I tried to take up tn. plots ana scneme. that had been all-Important yesterday. But X dould hot-. Instead, a any sane man must when he and nature ar. alono and fac to face, I fell to marveling that I eould burn up myaell, th. beat or me. tb. best year, of my on. Ufa, ln such a fever of folly and fraud aa this political career of mine. I .earned to b. In a luoid interval between parox ysms -of insanity, I revlaw.4 the man and thing, of 'my world aa on. recalls the absurd and repellant visions ox a nightmare. I shrank from passing from thl. , mood of wakefulness and reason back Into tb. unreal reality of what had for yeara been my eui-in-aii. I wandered hour after hour. Sometime Imagining that 1 waa flying xrom.me llf. I loathed, again that aomewhere In those cool, green, golden-lighted maxea I should And my lost-youth, and her. For. how could I think of It without thinking of her aisoT it naa .neon lis-hted bv her: It had gon with her; It lived tn memory, illumined by her. The beautiful, beautiful world-that- ought-to-boK Th. hideous, th. hotrlblc world-that-U! I did not return to th. house until almoat dinner time. "I hav. to go away tnmnrrow morning. I announoea alter dinner." For I felt that tf I did not fly at once, I should to, all heart for tho task Whlcn must om nnisneu. "Vi ny." protested Band ye, "you cam to stay until w all .Urted with you for 8L Louis." 1 must go,"' I rspested. I did not rara to Invent an excuse; I could not ive th. reason. Had X followed my Impulse, I ihould hav. yon, at once, that nighU " ' ' . r , By noon th. n.kt day I had again fl.ma- mvself Into th. vexed political ooean whose Incessant buffeting, glv. tb. Bwlmmer. .mall chaneo to think of anything bayona tn. next oncoming wave. CHAPTER XIX. DAVID SENT OUT AGAINST GOLIATH f waa almoat master of myself again when, a week later, I got aboard th. car ln which Carlotta and I were taking our friends to look on at th. opposition' Annvantlnn at St. LOUiS. ' When w. arrived, I went at one. to confer with Merfiweather ln a -room at the Southern hotel which no on. knew be had. "Simpson has under, rather than over. BOO delegates," waa hi first Item of good news. "It takes (60 to non lnata. as his sort of boom always mu ters its greatest strength on the flrat ballot, I'm putting my money two to on. against mm, im Hrarboroue-hT" I asked. Wonder ing at my Indifference to thl. for.shad owlna of triumph. . ' "M men talk to him .very incoming delegation. If. well known that he don't want the nomination and ha. forbidden hla friends to vote for him and haa niada-ad them to work against him. Then too, th. bosses and th. boy. don't Ilk. hlro to put It mildly. But 1 think we're making v.ry on. feel h.'. th. only man they can put up, with a chance to beat Burbahk." ' My wife and our friend, dined at th. Southern mat nigni. a. we were uu. to leave, th. streets began to fill. And nresently through th. close-packed meas es cam. at walk an open carriage the storm-center of a roar that almost drowned tho muslo of th. four or five band. The Mlectrle light. mad. - th. Men. bright as day. "Who Is her asked th. woman at ray tide Mrs. Bandy. - Sh. was looking at the m.n In that carriage there were four, but ther. wa no mistaking him. H. wa seated, wa giving not the allghtost he.d to th. cheering ihronga. HI .oft black bat wa. pulled down well Over hi brows i his handsome profile was .tarn, hi. fae. pale. If that crowd had bean hurling curses at him and preparing to tear him limb from limb h. would not hav. looked different. He- wa smooth ehaven. which mad. him seem younger than I knew him to be. And over him was the glamour of the world-that-ought- t-be in which h. lived . and had th. air He Walked Down the Aisle Alone. power to compel other, to live a. long aa they were under th. spell of hi per sonality, .. "That," I replied to Mrs. Sandy., "I. Senator Scarborough of Indiana." "What ho ao stern about V lI'ro Jiur. I don't. know perhaps to hide hi. Joy," said L But I did know, and my remark wa. th. impulsive fling of envy. H. had found out, several weeks before, what a etrong undercurrent wa running to ward him. He wa faced by a dilemma if he did not go to th. convention. It would b. aald that h. had stayed away deliberately, and h. would be nominated; If h. went, to try to prevent his noml nation, th. enthusiasm of hi admirer and followers would glv. th. excuse for forcing th. nomination open him. And as he sat there, with that omlnoua tumult about hlm ho was realizing how hard his task wa. to be. HI. companion, pushed htm a paasag. through tho crowd, on tha sidewalk and tn the lobby, and h. shut himself away In the upper part of the hotel. When w left, half an hour later, tho people were packed befor. that face of th. hotel which displayed th. banner of th. Indiana delegation, wer cheering Soar borough, were clamoring-ln vain for him to show himself. '-" "But won't h. offend th.mT" asked mr wifa, '.'A orowd love. Ilk. a woman," .aid L -Indlfferenc. only excite It," "Oh, I never loved that way," pro tested Mrs. flandva. ' "Then." said my wifa, rather .ourly I thought, "you and Mr. Bandy have something to live for." And. o we. talked no. mor. . politic. Ther. may be American women who really Ilk. to talk politics, but I never happened to know ona with, so little sense." It's a pity we men do not 1ml- rtate our women mor. closely in on re spect. In season and out of Mason, they never talk anything but business worn' an', on. business. When other things ar. being discussed, they listen, or rath er, pretend to listen; ln reality, their minds ar. still on their business, and how they shall contrive to bring It back into tho conversation with advantage to themselves. Next day the convention adopted wlnhy-wnshy platform much like Bur banks if- anything, weaker. I law Goodrich' blight upon It. But tho vlo torv cont htm dear. That night th. del egate Veal I led what a blunder they had made or thought tney realised it arter Merrl weather and hi staff had circu lated among them. Few of them had been trusted by Beckett with th cret that, with th. platform and with Simpson aa th. nominee, their party would hav. th. Interests behind It, would almost certainly win. They only saw ahead a dull campaign, and no real Issuo between th. parties, and their can didate, if h. wa. Simpson, much the less attractive personality of th. two. The following morning th. voting began;- and after seven ballot. Simpson bad II vet, lee. than on tho first bal lot. "It wa Ilk. a funeral," wa. th. verdlot of my disappointed gueets that evening. A night of debate and gloom among th. politician, and ether dele gate, and en tne opening pauot merri weather aorun hla trap. ' Tha flrat big doubtful atat In the al phabetical states I Illlnol. Wh.n th. secretary ef th. convention called for Illlnol vote, it waa oast eolldly for Scarborough. There wa straightway pandemonium. It wa half an hour befor. anyone eould set a hearing. Then Indiana waa called. and Plereon, attorney general of that tat. and chairman ef It. delegation, cat it vote as in the ether ballots, for Hltohena, it governor. Tnm mr so waa watching Scarborough and hi Immediate friend, going from delegation t delegation, and 1 knew what b. wa. about. When Iowa was called and east lte -rot solidly for him I knew he bad failed. - - -. ' . "Hw whit he l.r '.aid Mr, eanays. who waa looking at him through opera- glBMOS. -,-- .--. X borrowed them and aaw mat nis gsa was fixed on a box on tb. other aid of tho hug. auditorium, on a woman ln that box I had only to look at bar to see which woman. Sb. wa beautiful, of that typ. of charm which the French urn up In th. phrase "th. woman ot 10." I have heard crowd bellow too often to be moved br tnougn-io. 10,000 or 10.000 gathered under that roof wer outdoing th. cannonade of any thunderstorm. But ' that woman', look In response to Scarborough's ther was sympathy and' understanding ln It, and more. Infinitely more. He had been crushed for tho moment and I under stood enough of his situation to unaer arand what a blow to all hi. plan, this untimaK . annarant - triumph . was. She was ahowlnr that aha too felt th. blow, but sh. wa. also .ending a message or courage to him on. of those mes sages that transcend words, like music. Ilka th. perfume, or xiower. ana neias. Ilk. that which fill u aa w iook straight up Into a eleae nigni exy. i lowered th. glasses and looked away I eould not bear It. For th. moment I hatod him hatlna- myself for It I heard Carlotta aaxing a woman in the box next our. th. name of ' "the woman with the whit. plum, la th. big black hst ln th .evehth box on the other aide." "Mrs. Scarborougn," was in. anawer. "Oh. Is that Bh?" exclaimed Mrs. Sandys, almoat snatching her glass. from m ln her eagerness. "You know mrtin aha was John Dumont'B widow you remember blmt Bho muet b. an un usual person to have attracted two .uch men," , - But Scarborough was nominated now Ho waved aside those Who tried to take him up and bear him to the platform. Ha walked down the aisle alons and nandad amid a tense silence: h. stood looking calmly out. Hi face naa lost Ita wtiltaneaa of a few minute before. Aa ha etood ther. big and still, a sort of embodiment of iaarisaneaa, i won dered and I fancy many otnera war. wondennr whether h. waa about to re fuse tha nomination. "But an lnstanTi thought drove the wild notion from my mind. He eould not strike that deadly hinw at hla earty. . . "Fellow-delegates," eald he a clearer. more musical voio that hla I hav never hoard "I thank you for thl. honor. A. vou know. I opposed the platform you saw fit to adopt. - I hav nothing to re traot. I da not Ilk It. But, after all, a oandldat must b his own platform. And I bring my publio record a proof of my pled ge-t hat" h. paused and the silence -wa. tremendous. He went on, each word distinct and by Itself "If I am elected" a long pause "I shall obey th. constitution" another long pause "I shall enforce the laws!" He waa descending to th. aisle before th. all.no. wa broken, feeble, rip pling applause, significant of disappoint ment, at. what seemed an antl-cllmax. H. had merely repeated fn condensed f.rm the oath of office which a presl dnnt takes at his inauguration. But somehow no doubt, it was th magic of his voice and his manner and superb presence those simple words kept' on ringing; and all at once full half -a minute must hav elapsed, a long time In such circumstance all at one th .normou meaning of th. two phrases boomed into th. brain of those thou sand: If thl man I elected there will b. a president without fear or favor, nd ha wilt really obey the- constitu tion, will really enforce the UwbI That little speech, tnougn oniy a repeuuon of ao oath embodied In our century-old supreme law, wa. a firebrand to light tha torch of revolution, of revolution back toward what the republlo used to b. before difference, of wealth divided lu, people Into upper, middle and lower olassoa, before enthroned corporate combinations mad. .quality befor. th. -law. a mockery, before tn. aav.iopmeni r aur vast material resources restored to the intelligent and ensrgetlo few their power over th. c artless and purposeless many. ' , . . . ' , A th multitude realised hi meaning I doubt If many time In all history uch a Sight ana souna nas ourst upon mortal sax and y for th. moment I was daunted; It wa Impossible not to think that h.r wa. th. whol. people, iint f a real that Scarborough had beefl chosen president And was about to fulfill hi. pledge. Daunted, yet thrilled too. For, at bottom, a re w not all passion ate dreamers cf abstract right and lustiest Then I remembered, and X aald te, my self. "He ha. defied th. Interests. David ha gone out .gainst Goliath but th David do not win nowaday. , X can Meet Burbank." -' But where wa th elation that thought would have sat to welling In the me of les than two week before T ..And then I began- clearly to see that, for me at least, th. prise, to be prised, must b. fairly won- from start to goal; and to b enjoyed. ... must gladden .yea that would ln turn gladden me with the ap proval and sympathy which only a woman can glv and without whloh a maa I alone and Indeed forlora. ' CHAPTER XX, ' , - FILORIMS AJID PATRIOT. , From St. touts , X " w.nt dlroot to Burbank., - Ill heart baa beta set upon grana speech-making tour. H. was fond ot wandering about, showing himself ' to cheering crowd ; and ,h. had a- deep, and by.no mean, unwarranted confi dence 1 hi. platform magnetism. At flrat I had been inclined to glv him hie way. But th mor. I considered tb. matter, th atronger seemed, to be come th force of the objection it take, a, far. bigger man than was Euro bank at that stag, of hi growth not to.be cheapened by "steeple-chasing for votes"; also, the coming of th candi date causea Jealousy and heart-burnings over matters of precedence, recep tion and entertainment among the local celebrities, and ao b. often leaves th. party lukewarm wh.r. h. found it en thuslastio. Further, it - use - Up- local campaign money that ought to be pnt hirtna wArvira ava I lis nana, wmun hrss." tor veto sMwtMT,-'r?? as "retalnlng-fee " U th polite phrase for bribe. . -. : - . ,: . . . X decided against the tour ana ror ths hlnhlv sxoanslv but alwaya admir able and profitable "pilgrimage plan." - Burbank'. own home was at nivtng ton, and I should have had him visited there, had It not beta on a elngle-traok branch railway whloh could not handle without danger and diaoomfort the acoree of thousands w wer planning to oarry to and from him almost dally. Bo. It was given out that h purposed a far ae possible to withdraw from the strife of the campaign ana te await tne results In the dignified oalm ln whloh he wished th voter to determine It. He took alter Woodruff bad carefully elected it a "retired" house "in the country." J And it was In the open country. A farm garden adjoined It on throne side, a wheat field on the other., a Urge orchard to the rear. The broad meadow In front gave plenty of room for dele gatlona visiting the "standard bearet ot the party of patriotism" in hut "ru ral aeclualon," to hear tn simple, spon- taneoue word of wtloome. , nut xer all the remote aspect of the place, it waa only five mlnutta drlv and ten minutes' walk from a station through whloh four big railroad passed. On ot th out-bulldlngs wa changed into a telegraph ofXlc from which account of tb enthusiasm - or tne aeiegations and of hla - speeches could 'be aent to the whol. country. . On hi. desk in hi little study stood a prlvat-wtr tele phone that, without danger of leakage, would put htm in direct communication either with my study at Fredonla or with Doo Woodruff prtvatest private room in th party national headquarters at Chicago. Thus, our statesman. though he seemed to be aloof, was in ths very thick of the fray; and the tens ot thousands of his fellow oitliens, though they seemed to come almost on their own Invitation Inspired by un controllable enthusiasm for tne great statesman, wer tn fact free excursion ists and a- very troublesome, critical, expensive lot they were. But the pub lio waa impressed.' It sits In It aeat ln th. theatre of action and believes that the play 1. real, and Ignore, and forget, th. fact that th.r. la a behlnd-the-ecenee. Th. party distributed from Various center ton. of "literature." And In addition to meetlnge arranged by state and local committee, a aerie of hug demonstration wa held In th cities of every doubtful state. Besides the party' regular speakers... we hired -a. many "Independent" orator . aa w. eould. But all these other branches of the public aid. of - the- campaign war. subsidiary to th. work at th. "retreat." It tulgbt be called the headquarter, of the rank and -fllo of . the party thoa millions et'"prinolple" voter, and work ers who were for Burbank because he wag the etandard-bearer of-their party, f No money, no bribe, or patronage have to be given to them; but It coat sev eral million to raise that maa t th pitch of hot enthusiasm whloh will mak aacH Individual In It certain t go te th poll on election -day and take hi neighbors. Instead of staying at horn and hoping th. party won't lose. Burbank'. work was, therefore, highly Important. But the .eat ef the real campaign was- Woodruff - prtvatest private room ln the Chicago headquar ter. For there were laid and were put In th. way of execution th. flan, for acquiring -ihos. .lament, that, in the doubtful etatea, hav. tha balance of power between the two s opposing, and about evenly matched masse of "prin ciple" voter. I Just now recall a talk I had with my wife about that time. She took no Interest In politic, and rarely spoke of political matters and both of us discouraged political talk befor the children. One day she said to me: "Thl campaign ot your and Mr. Burbank' must be costing an awful lot of money." "A good deal," ald X. "Several millionaT" "Thl I a big country, and you can't stir It up politically for nothing. Why do you askr "Who give, the money r she per sisted, : -- - - : .. : "Th. rich men th. big corporation, glv. most of It" - -Why r : - Patriotism," .aid I. "To save the nation from our wicked opponent' "Ho wdo Mr. Roebuck and th other get It backT" eh pursued. Ignoring my pleasantry. - , - - - - - "Get what backf" "Why, the money they advance. They aren't the men to 'give' anything." I answered with a smile only. - She lapsed Into thoughtfulness. When I was assuming that her mind had wandered off te something else ah. Bald: "Th. people must b. Very stupid not te suspeot" "Or, th. rich m.n and th. corpora tions vary stupid to give," I eugge.ted. , "Do you mean that they don't get It back?" .he demanded. "Of course," eald I, "their patriotism must be rewarded, W cannot expect them to save th eeuntry-year after year for nothing." "I should think not!" ah. ssld, adding disgustedly, "I think politic la very illy. And men get excited about itl But X vr lUten."' - Arriving at th "retreat" free the ' ..: ' I ... Scarborough convention, I found Bur bank much perturbed because. Soar- , borough had been nominated. He did not aay o on th. contrary, he ex pressed ln sonorous phrase hi satis faction that th.r. was t be ''a real test of strength between conservatism and radloallsm." He never dropped hi. . pose, even with me net even with him self, - .t ,, -"I eon fee I don't share your cheer-' fulness," Mid I. ."If Scarborough wer. a wild man, we'd have a walkover. But he Isn't, and I fear he'll be more and mor attractive to the wavering voters, to many of our own people. Party loy alty has been overworked in the last, few presidential campaign. He'll go vote-hunting tn the doubtful states, but It won't seera undignified. He's on of tho men whose dignity corns from tha. Inside and ean't be lost." 'Burbank wa unable to conoeal his annoyance be never eould hear -praise. -of another man ot hi own rank ln pub-' Ho Ufa. Also h. .hewed surprise. "Why, I understood I had been led to believe that you favored his nomination," -was hi guarded way f telling m he . knew. I had a band In bringing it about. . "So l did." replied I. "Ha wa. your only chance. He won't he able to gst a campaign fund of ao much as a quarter . of a million, and th best worker, of hi party will at heart be agaln.t htm. Simpson, would hav. bad well, Good rich could and would - have got him enough to elect him." Burbank' eye twi toned. "I think you're prejudloed against Senator Good rlolv -Harvey," aald he - In hla gentlest ton. "He la first of all a loyal-party . "Z2riil6$&k replied 1' HST 1 agent 1 Of the . Wall ' .treat crowd -they te hi. party. ' He'. Just the ordi nary machine polltlolan, with no more party feeling than than' I amiled "than any ether man behind the scene." Burbank dodged thl. by taking It aa A Jest H. alwaya shed my frank speeches as humor. "Prejudloa, preju dice, Harvey I" be aald ln mild reproof. "W. need Ooedrteh. and' -;- J "Pardon roe," I Interrupted. "We do not need him. On ths contrary, w must put him out of tho party oounclls. If w don't, he may try to help Scar borough. Th senate's safe, no matter. whs elected president) and Goodrich will rely on.it to cave hie crowd. He's a mountain of vanity and the two de feats we've given him have mad every atom ef that vanity quiver with hatred ef ur - . "I. wish you oould hav been her: when he cailecV. aald Burbank; "I am euro yon would have changed your mind.- . ' - "When doed he resign th chairman-' hip of th national committee?" I asked. . He agreed to . plead bad health and resign within two week after-tne convention." ' .-- r- " Burbank gave an embarrassed cough. -Don't you think. Harvey," said he. that, to sooth hie vanity. It might be well for us for you to let him stay on there nominally, of course T I know you care nothing far title. ' Instead of being angered by this at tempt to cosen me, by this exhibition of treachery, I felt disgust and pity ow nauseating and bow hopeless to try to forward one so blind to his own Inter ests, so easily frightened fnto surrender to hla worst enemlesi But I pok . very quietly to him. "The reason you want me to be chairman for It Is you that want and need it, not I the reason ' I must be chairman - la because th machine .throughout the country must know that Goodrich is out and that your friends are In. In what other way can this be accomplished V He did not dare to reply. I went on: "If he stay at the head of th national committee Scarborough wlU b elected.". .-"You are prejudiced, Harvey "Please don't say that again, gover nor," X Interrupted coldly. "I repeat, Ooodrlch must give place to me, er Scarborough will ba elected." . "You don't mean that you would turn against meT" cam from hint In a queer voice after a long paus. "While I was in St Louis, working to mak you' president," said I, "you were plotting behind my baok. plotting against me and yourself? "Ton wer at St Lout aiding ii 1 tn nomination or the strongest candi date," he retorted, hla bitterness dis tinct though guarded. "Btrongeat ye. But strongest with whom?" "With th peopl." h replied. . ''Precisely," said I. '"But the neonl ar not going t decide tma election. Th party linea are to be ao oloaely drawn that money will hare the decid ing vote. Th man who organise and direct Industry and enterprise they ar going te deolde it And, ln spit of Goodrich's traitorous efforts, th op poaltlon has put ap th maa who ean't get a penny from them." In fact X had Just discovered that Scarborough had Instructed Pieraon, whom he had made chairman ef hla campaign, not to tak any money from any corporation even if It was offered. But I thought It wiser to keep this from Burbank. -He eat folding a sheet ef paper again and again. T let him reason it out. Finally fae aald; "I see your point, Harvey. But I practically promised Goodrich practically asked him to re main" - ,. -1 waited. "For th sake of th cause," he went on when he saw ha wa to get no help from me, '"any and all personal sac rifice must.be mad. If you Insist on having Goodrioh's head, X will break my promise, and" "Pardon m again." I Interrupted. My mood would not tolerate twaddle about "the cause" and "promises" from Bur bank Burbank, whose "oause," aa he had : Just shown afresh, - was himself alone, and who promised everything te everybody and kept only th moat ad--vantageous promises after he had made absolutely sure how his advantage lay. "It'a all a matter of Indifference to me. If you wish to retain Ooodrloh, do so. He must not be dismissed as a personal . favor to me.- The favor Is to you. X do not permit any man to thlmblarlg hla debts to me into my debte to him.? Burbank seemed deeply moved. He came up to me and took my hand. "It Is not like mx. friend Sayler to use the' word Indlfferenc. In . connection with me," he aald. . And then I realised" how completely the nomination h.d turned his head, ror hi. ton. was thafof ths great-matt addreeslng his henchman. .. I did not heap my amusement out of my eyee. "James," eald L "Indlfferenc. la preoieely the word. I should welcome a chance to withdraw from this cam paign. X have been ambitious .for power, you want plac. If you -think th. time has com. to dissolve partner ship, ay so and trad, youra.lt off te Goodrich." tCatlnud following Pag0 I.
