Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1912 — CALEB CONOVER, RAILROADER [ARTICLE]

CALEB CONOVER, RAILROADER

BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE

Author of "Syria from Saddle" - "Columbia Stories.” Etc. Copyright, 1907, Albert Payson Terhune

FOREWORD. The action of this lively, entertaining and accurately drawn story, turns around the character of Caleb Conover, a self-made railroad magnate and contractor who has used his riches and power to make himself the political boss of his party and state. And he is the boss. No doubt of this. He bosses about every person and everything he has to do with except Clive Standish, a young lawyer who is an idealist in politics, and who, like idealists everywhere, is unbossable. The men are perfect antitheses in all their aims and methods, but strikingly similar in strength of character. They become opposing candidates for governor, and the episodes of the campaign are full of spice and variety. Which The of romance is introduced through the mutual love of Standish and Anice Lanier, private secretary of Caleb Conover. A murder in New York city which resulted in a criminal trial that obtained world-wide notoriety is used to advantage. The anxiety of the Conover family to get into fashionable society, and their accompanying troubles and humiliations, constitute one of the delightful features of the story. But best of all is the tremendous personality of Caleb Conover himself. He may be all that is despicable in his railroad, his contracting and his political interests, and not admirable in his indifferent treatment of his weak little wife, but he has a dominating mind, spends money with prodigal recklessnes, is audacious, far-seeing and while responsive always to the intolerance that often comes with hardwon success, he is quick to recognize character and ability and reward them —especially in his own service It is a captivating tale, of whose creation Mr. Terhune, the author, has every reason to be proud.—THE EDITOR.