THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
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Bryan’s Ghost
VOTE
By ARDEN X. PANGBORN
© McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
X 59 - Fred E. Schmidt
FOLLOW // CROWDS
MGRAND
PENINO"
VEN in his high, peaked nightcap
E
and his long white nightgown there
was a certain dignity about Colonel
CANDIDATE FOR
Trigg as lie padded out to the door
way. A certain dignity In the way he
carried his stately head with its un
tamed sea of silvery hair; in the way
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY ELECTION
he held back his shoulders, which were
still straight for all their sixty-eight
years.
A little sound of displeasure came
from his thin throat and a frown of
Mrs. D. R. Starkweather, Mrs. J. petty annoyance creased his forehead.
“Clumsy," he muttered. "Clumsy
V. Lane, Mrs. Frank Sloan, Mrs. C
t STANFIELD NEWS t E. Greathouse and Mrs. Ila Wallace oversight No invitation yet.”
By Sopbronia Rhea
Back in his dressing room he peered
were Pendleton visitors Friday af-
at the watch which hung over the back
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Chapin are ternoon.
the proud parents of a baby girl
of his bed—the big, gold watch Wil
Mrs. Horace Cronkite was a busi-
born at their home early Wednes
liam Jennings Bryan had given him in
ness visitor in Portland over the gratitude for his speeches in the cam
day morning.
Miss Dorothy White is quite ill week end.
paign of '96.
with scarlet fever.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hoggard and
Nine o'clock. Three hours before
Miss Selma Kjontnedt spent the Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Greathouse mo- the President's arrival—and still no
week end visiting friends in Pendle
tored to Rufus, Ore., Sunday where Invitation. It was inconceivable that
ton.
they had not intended him to be one
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Smith they spent the day visiting friends. of the President’s reception committee.
Mrs. Adolph Heyden and son Har
and son Teddie of Portland visited
Mrs. Smith's sister Mrs. Herbert Gil- lan spent last week visiting rela They were irritatingly careless some
times, these younger men. He would
landers last Sunday.
tives in Portland.
speak quite plainly to young Olmstead,
The Rebekah lodge held its reg
Mrs. Frank Sloan entertained at
ular meeting in the lodge hall Mon a bridge party Monday afternoon at who had been made chairman of the
committee.
day evening.
her home, honoring Mrs. Margaret
The colonel dressed slowly, carefully.
A group of young people from Laughary.
Not even to himself would he have
Hermiston and Stanfield charivari-
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Russell are admitted that bls pleated shirt was
ed Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rhea at their visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Penney Just a trifle soiled from the Fourth of
home Monday evening.
July parade, nor that his white, pat
this week.
Miss Ethel Dunn and John Dunn
Miss Marie Thorsen and Earl At- terned vest was frayed along the edges
and their mother left Wednesday tebury, students of La Grande Nor and spotted from the wear of seasons
for Halfway. Ore., their old home. mal, spent the week end in Stanfield past His high wing collar was fresh,
Mrs. Frank Sloan was hostess to visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. at least ; and his black string tie was
"
the Ladies Aid on Thursday after- S. Thorsen and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. hardly worn.
He found young Olmstead buzzing
noon in the parlors at the church. Attebury.
about central committee headquarters
Special music was furnished by Miss
Mrs. C. D. Connor of Pendleton with the self-importance of a newly
Rose Hoosier and Mrs. Edgar Hoos- entertained the senior class at din hired head office boy.
1er. Rex and Mrs. Jesse Griffith ner at her home Friday evening.
“Well, what of it?” Olmstead halted
were present to give missionary Guests were T. C. Baker, Boyd Jack- long enough to bark In answer to the
talks. Mrs. Mabel Richards read an son, Miss Selma KJonotnedt, Merle colonel's question, while he wiped the
annual report of her work as mis- Hutton, Doris Greene. Mary Rhea. perspiration from his long thin nose.
“What of it? The whole town can’t be
sionary chairman.
Bill Beebe and Leonard Connor.
on the reception committee. There's
Boyd Jackson spent the week end only the governor and the mayor and
in La Grande with his mother.
the president of the chamber and a
Misses Billie Hedrick and Viola couple of others. If you wanted to
Krause were in Stanfield Saturday be on the committee, why didn't you
say so a month ago?”
evening visiting their parents.
“Say so? Sir, a gentleman . .
But Olmstead interrupted,
SHE MARRIED HER BOSS”
“See Grimes. He’ll find a seat back
IS ACE FILM FUN
in the caravan some place.” And Olm-
stead was gone.
The problems of a private secre
The colonel’s step was as majestic
tary are briskly dealt with in Clau- as ever as he searched out Grimes,
dette Colbert’s picture, “She Mar- the young man in charge. Members
ried Her Boss,” which will be at the of the general committee would meet
the President at his train, would es-
Oasis theatre.
Miss Colbert herself delightful; cort him up the river to the dam he
was to dedicate.
her inherent charm and vivacity
Grimes paused but a moment. "Good
have never been shown to better ad lord !” he exclaimed. “What do you
vantage. As a very efficient secre expect? The seats were gone a week
tary who carelessly (alls in love ago.”
with her boss, she sees to it that
“But I say . . ." began the col
he takes time ott one day to buy onel In his best oratorical manner.
her a wedding ring. That proves a Then his month closed suddenly, weak-
costly mistake, for the marriage iy. His audience had departed. He
fell
turns out to be one of the maddest Ing. back, uncertain, almost unbeliev-
A voice came to his ears from
things one can imagine.
the headquarters beyond. Olmstead's
The tun continues fast and furi voice was loud. They were talking
ous, with Miss Colbert as the storm of him.
center.
“That old codger!" he beard, and
Edith Fellows as the bosses' pre there was no mistaking the scorn In
Candidate for the
cocious
nine-year-old
daughter; the words. "Of course not. He's liv
Katherine Alexander as his nerve- ing forty years behind the times. Why,
It’d be like dragging Bryan's ghost out
Nomination for
wracked sister; Raymond Walburn on the platform.”
as a butler; Jean Dixon as Miss Col
“Bryan's ghost . . . The words
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bert’s crony; and Clara Kimball blurred In the colonel's brain. He
Young In a small role are all splen Stood, scarcely moving, his long, bony
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did.
fingers clutching the gold knob of his
cane until the flesh went white nnd
at the Primary Election
the veins stood out upon his hands like
blue cords. Bryan’s ghost . . . Yes,
May 15, 1936
they were right. Just another old man
clinging desperately to the past; an
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old man suddenly broken In spirit,
INCUMBENT
tired. The trembled slightly. A mist
came over his eyes.
at The Hermiston Herald.
Colonel Trigg did not remember very
clearly what happened then. He had
n vague recollection of a stuffy ex
cursion train, of crowds and heat and
noise. He had a recollection of soiled
red plush, nnd of glimpses from a dusty
window of the broad artery across
which the dam had been stretched like
WHAT DO YOU MEAN
a tourniquet—the dam the President
was to dedicate.
THERE'S A SURE WAY
Then he found himself In a swirling
mass of humanity. He lacked the spir
FOR ME TO GET THE
it to fight back as he was flung from
shoulder tn shoulder, hurried and
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pushed and jostled. Presently the mill
ing ceased nnd the President was being
ushered to the speakers’ stand. Young
Olmstead, smiling, self-Important, was
at his side.
Memories rushed hack to Colonel
Trigg. There was the speech at the
/ MEAN JUST WHAT /
Chicago convention in ‘D6, nnd the time
he himself had introduced Bryan. But
SAY/ BE SURE IT MEETS
those days were gone nnd he was just
an old man with drooping shoulders.
an old nun i In a willed, slightly soiled
high wing collar and bedraggled black
string tie.
He reali: d the President was speak-
Ing. but It words did not register in
the turmoil of his mind. There was
something about a debt to the state,
something about speeches.
Then abruptly the crowd fell back
around him and suddenly he under
stood. Ills shoulders snapped back
straight, his head rose high. There
was dignity, almost majesty. In the
flourish of bls gold knobbed cane.
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“That campaign I followed as a boy."
President
saving. "Those
speeches, brilliant in their pleas for
Bryan, fired me with a great ambition
—an ambition you, the people of our
country, have willed that I should real-
ize. To their ‘author, let me say again.
I owe a debt of humble gratitude.
His name was Colnel Martin Trigg."
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