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MILROY.

Mrs. George Castor has been on the sick list Mrs. George Wood has been suffering with lumbago. Alva McCashen spent Monday with his mother and family. Wm. Chipman has moved to the farm vacated, by Dennis Castor. Mrs. Gene Marchand and Miss Irene were Monon visitors Tuesday. A. E. Abersol moved Wednesday to a farm 12 miles from Logansport. Charles McCashen moved in with his mother and will farm her place. Mrs. A. E. Abersol and children spent Tuesday night with Ed McKinley’s. Mr. Fry moved to the farm vacated by V. J. Boone, who is going to Michigan. Charles and Louise Marchand spent Tuesday evening with Martha Clark and Earl Foulks. Clyde Clark, of Newton county, spent Tuesday night with his sister, Mrs. G. Foulks, and family. Misses Vernice Gray and Edna Brock, and Leatha Clark spent Saturday night with George Foulks-’. Glen McKinley will be home from Fairmount, where he is attending school, to spend his vacation, and will preach at the church Sunday at 10 a. m., and also in the evening. Everyone invited. Sunday being Martha Clark’s 21st birthday, about forty of her friends gathered at her home at George Foulks’, to surprise her on her return from Sunday school. They brought baskets filled with good things to eat. The afternoon was spent in singings and conversation, and was enjoyed by all present.

FAIR OAKS.

Unele John Casey had a had spell of heart trouble last Monday. Several new people are in town attending the holiness meetings. Born, Tuesday, Feb. 25th, to Mr. and Mrs. Sharp Hanley, a daughter. The orchestra met and practiced at Charles Barker’s Monday evening. ? Ray Casey and wife have returned from a visit with Al Helsell’s at Virgie. Mr. Penwright is doing some carpenter work on John Casey’s house this week. Mrs. Kight has returned from several weeks’ visit at Indianapolis and Lafayette. There will be another Bible lecture Sunday at 2 o’clock and also one in, the evening. Orvil Bringle, who has been attending school at Valparaiso, spent Sunday With his parents here. Miss Coral Miles, who has been attending high school at Shelby, visited friends here over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. McFarland, of Marion, visited their daughter and her school here Sunday and Monday. Cal Burroughs is expecting to m have to make a trip to Moores Hill, in southern Indiana, as a witness in a lawsuit. Born, one day last week, a daughter, to Wm. Cottingham and wife, formerly of this place, but now living in Momence. Mr. Clevenger, who has been away for some time, looking after the interests of the pickle company, is home this week. , ; ,Mrs. Mollie Gundy has been on the sick list this week and Ruth has been kept out of school on account of toothache. About fifteen relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Winslow took well filled baskets and met at their home one day last week to celebrate their 12th wedding anniversary.

Mrs. E. Gilmore is on the sick list. Mrs. Josephine Anderson is on the sick list. Mr. Snyder, of Reynolds, was in Lee Monday. Mr. Davis moved Saturday to near Remington. Mrs. Ann Rishling called wi Mr®. Jose Anderson Monday. L. M. Jacks and family moved into their new home Wednesday. Misses Etha and Thelma Noland visited Miss Lona Jacks Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Armstrong moved to the Frank Fisher farm Monday. Willard Johnson went to Monon Sunday evening and on to Lafayette Monday. Alvin Clark was on the sick list the fore part of this week, but is better at this writing. Mrs. Charles Carlson returned to Lee Tuesday morning, after a visit of a week in Chicago. Mrs. Anchor and children, of Monon, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Akers, over Sunday. Several from here attended the shower on Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Steward at Mr. Baedeker's, Saturday. Mrs. Carl Westphal and children went Sunday to their new home at Smithson, and Tuesday Mr. Westphal and brothers moved his goods. Order your Calling Cards at Ths Republican offlea ; ;

LEE.

CALEB CONOVER, RAILROADER BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE Author of "Syria from the Saddle" "Columbia Stories," Etc. Copyright, 1907. Albert Payson Terhune

CHAPTER XVI.

To Smash the Machine. | THE crowd had trooped back | > | into the Convention Hall. The Conover machine, having greased the wheels and oiled the cogs, did not propose to lose any time in running its Juggernaut over the young reformer who had dared to brave an entrenched and ruthless organization. The Committee oh Resolutions offered a perfunctory platform filled with the customary hackneyed phrases, landing the deeds of Democracy and denouncing the Republican party. Bourke, temporary chairman, succeeded himself as permanent chairman. Then, while the Conover claque booted joyously and the Standish men sat by in helpless silence, the finishing stroke was delivered. Two reports were offered from the Committee on Credentials, one of the minority, signed by the six members from Wills and Matawan, recommending the seating of the contesting Standish delegates from the other six counties; the other, signed by the eighteen Conover members of the committee. recommending that the delegates holding credentials be allowed to retain their seats. The majority report was jammed through, while Shevlin’s noble army of brazen-lunged shouters cheered, screeched and blew tin horns. In his den behind the stage Caleb Conover's mouth corners twisted In a grim smile of satisfaction as the babel of noise reached him. From some mysterious source Shevlin had produced a half-dozen bottles of champagne, and there, in the room of the successful candidate, corks were drawn and success was pledged to “the Mountain State’s next and greatest Governor,” with Caleb’s timehonored slogan, “To hell with reform!” as a rider. In another room, directly across the stage, a very different scene was In action. Karl Ansel had left his seat in the Wills County delegation, turning over the floor leadership of the forlorn hope to Judge Shelp, of Matawan, and had gone direct to Standish’s quarters. The room had been empty when he entered, but before he had waited thirty seconds, the door was flung open and Clive hurried in. Ansel looked sharply at him, then in astonished bewilderment He had expected to find the beaten man dejected, bereft of even his customary strong calm. On the contrary, Standish, his face alive with resolve and with some other impulse that baffled even Ansel’s shrewd observation, came into the place like a whirlwind. Kicking aside the litter of dusty stage properties and dingy, discovered hangings that were piled near the door, he made his way to Karl and grasped his hand. “How goes it?” he asked. *Tm sorry to be late. I thought—" “Well, Boy, It’s all up,” said Ansel. “Some fool said once that virtue was its own reward, and I guess it just naturally has to be. It never gets any other. In half an hour from now Caleb Conover will be nominated for Governor, and we will be bowing our necks for his collar, and pledging ourselves to support him and his dirty gang, just as we always have in the past and just as we always will in the future, I presume. We put up a good fight and an honest one, but you see where it’s landed us. So far as we are concerned, It’s all over but the shouting.” And the grim old New Englander dropped his hand upon the shoulder of the defeated candidate with .an awkward gesture that was half a caress. “You’re mistaken,” retorted Clive, “the shouting has just begun. Ansel, I have made up my mind. A man owes more to his State than he owes to his party. Political regularity is one thing, and common decency is another. I marched into this convention a free man, with nobody’s collar on my neck, and I’m going to march out in the same way.” “What?” almost shouted Ansel. “You’re not going to bolt?” “Yes, I am,” answered Standish. “And I'm going to bolt right now before the nomination la made.” “But man," protested Ansel, “think of It—the irregularity of it! You’ll be branded as a bolter and a renegade, and a traitor and a lot of other things. Why, man alive. It’ll never do.” “It will do,” responded Standish. “I have it all planned. If we walk out of this convention now, we are going to take some of the delegates with us. I believe that the Independents will Indorse us, and I believe that the Republicans will indorse us; if we take this stand. I believe that there are thousands of Democrats who think more at the State than they do of any one man or any one party. They have

followed Conover because there was no one else to follow. Yes, I’m going to bolt, and I’m going out there now and tell these people why 1 do it" ' “But look here, Standish," remonstrated Ansel, “that’s mighty near as irregular as the bolting itself, going out there and making a speech. No candidate’s ever supposed to show his face to the convention until after the nomination is made?' You know that, don’t you? Then, after the nomination he comes out either to accept it or to promise his support to the winner. You’ll bust the party traditions all to flinders." “Very well,” assented -Clive, “if 1 can smash the Machine, too, it’s all I

“This convention has been a mockery, a farce.”

ask. I tell you my mind is made up. This convention has been a mockery, a farce. You know how many voters were with us, and you know the deal our delegates got. The time’s come In this State to draw up a new Declaration of Independence. And right now, I’m going to be the man to start the ball rolling.” “But, hold on!” began Ansel. Clive did not hear. Brushing past the lank manager, he walked out of the room and made his way to the front of the platform. Karl, muttering perplexedly, followed him. As the young candidate’s tall figure emerged from the wings, a buzz of wonder went up from the delegates On the floor below, for, as Ansel had said, such an advent at such a time was without precedent. But there was neither hisses from the Conover crowd nor cheers from the corner where the survivors of the Standish hope sat. The delegates were too astonished to make any demonstration. Straight across the stage Standish strode. Shevlin, hurrying out from Conover’s room, made as though to bar his way, but gave place before the other’s greater bulk, and fled to tell the Railroader what was afoot. With Ansel still behind him, Standish kept on until he reached the table beside which the chairman sat. At his coming Bourke jumped nervously to his feet. "Hey! This ain’t regular,” he began, unconsciously copying Ansel’s words. "The nomination’s just goin’ to begin, and we—’’ But he could get no further. Standish pushed him aside, ignoring the chairman as completely as if he were one of the battered stage properties. Dropping one hand upon the table, he faced the crowd, his whole being alert with tense nervous force. A low murmur, like a ground swell, ran from row to row of seats, and found its echo in the galleries, where hundreds of the townspeople had packed themselves to hear the nominating speeches and to witness, with varying emotions, the crowning victory of Caleb Conover.

In the midst of a silence in which the fall of the proverbial pin would have sounded like the early morning milk wagon, Clive Standish began the most unusual speech that a Mountain State convention had ever heard. “My friends —’’ i From Shevlin’s rooters came a volley of hisses and cat-calls, but the disturbance and the disturbers were speedily squelched. “My friends,” repeated Standish, his powerful voice echoing from floor to roof, "Abraham Lincoln freed the black men forty odd years ago. It’s time that somebody freed the white brother. For years this State has groaned under the tribute of a relentless Machine, under the rule of a railroad that was all stomach and no conscience, all bowels and no heart, all greed and no generosity. Our party—and with shame I say it—has been turned into a vest-pocket asset of this vile corporation. For months past, and more especially today, you have seen what its power is, as opposed to the power of the more honest citizens of our party. It won to-day, it won yesterday, and it won the day before. It always has won. It rests with us here to-day, now and in this hour, to decide whether a new Proclamation of Emancipation is to be issued or whether the great Democratic party in the Mountain State shall continue to be the chattel, the credulous, simple, weak-kneed, backboneless, hopeless, helpless, victim of the greediest, most corrupt railroad that ever trailed its steel shackles across the face of the earth. Whether Or not the Boss-guided Machine shall beat us to earth and hold us there forever. We have tried reforming the party from the inside, and we have failed. Has the time come to reform it from the outside?” He paused, and the answer came. From the Conover hosts went up a shout of “No! No!” mingled with hiss and groan. But instantly, from a

great mass of the audience, and from the Standish delegates on the floor, there arose an outburst of cheering that drowned the barking negatives of what had been but ten short minutes before a majority of that convention. The effect of this outburst was diverse on its hearers. With Standish himself it acted as a tonic, as an electric battery which gave him added force and vigor for what he had yet to say. Karl Ansel it seemed for the moment to stupify and paralyze. Conover’s lieutenants it threw into a state of consternation, which approached frenzy, panic, demoralization. They ran aimlessly to and fro, conferring excitedly in hoarse whispers. Conover, alone, from his den at the rear of the stage, smiled to himself and gave no other sign of interest. Standish was speaking again, and now behind him stood Karl Ansel recovering from his amazement, and intent to catch his leader’s every word. "I tell you,” thundered Clive, beside himself with excitement, “we have got to act —and to act now. I tell you that the people of this State, irrespective of party, are waiting for half a chance to throw off the yoke of the railroad —of the Machine. All over this country of ours bosses are being overthrown. They are going down to ruin in the wreckage of their own Machines; and it is the PEOPLE who are downing them. The day of Bossism is passing—passing forever. We came into this convention as free men. Some of us did. And I for one propose to walk out of it a free man. If we go before the people of this State on the issue of honest government as opposed to dishonesty, I tell you that we will win. It only needs a man with a match, and the nerve to use that match, to start a conflagration that will burn party ties to cinders and leave a free, emancipated people. “Let them call me bolter, if they will! Let them call me traitor, ingrate, renegade! 1 would rather be a bolter than a thief. I would rather rip my party, dearly as I love it, to rags and tatters, than to sacrifice my own self-respect any longer! “Yes, they may call me bolter, and properly so, for I am going to bolt this convention? Is there a man who will follow me out of doors? Out of the filthy atmosphere of this Machineridden, Boss-owned convention Into the pure sunshine of God’s own people?"

In the midst of an indescribable tumult, in which hisses and cheers were madly Intermingled, Clive Standish leaped off the paltform, cleared the orchestra railing and strode up the middle aisle toward the open door at the far end of the hall. And then a strange thing occurred. Karl Ansel, as a man wakened from a dream, rubbed his eyes, and peered for a moment at Clive’s retreating back. Then with a yell that shook the rafters, he, too, bounded over the rail and hastened up the aisle behind his leader. The delegates from Wills and Matawan counties arose as one man, forming in procession behind Ansel and Standish. Down the steps from the gallery earns not one, nor a dozen, but ninetenths of those who had heard the speech. Including the very cream of the representative business element Granite. The remarkable scene was over in almost less time than it takes to tell of it. In a daze sat the abandoned convention. Glancing about them, even the Conover delegates on the floor discovered here and there vacant chairs, gaps in their own solid ranks, where some one, weaker perhaps than the others—or perhaps stronger—had been moved by the furious oratory of Clive Standish to join that procession which even now was rolling out of the front door into the quiet, gaslit street like a living avalanche. Bourke managed to pull the remnants of the convention back into some sort of shape. The delegates went through the form of nominating Conover. A Quantity of hand-made enthusiasm burst forth; and then, without a speech from the successful nominee, the great occasion wound up in a roar of cheers, shouts and blaring music. (To Be Continued.)

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John Karch has begun his summer’s work for Wes Myze. Mrs. Clarence Hurley is slowly improving, but is yet unable to walk. Miss Grace Hoefgan and Paul Dye spent Sunday with the Karch family. There has been perfect attendance for the past three weeks and so far this week. Township institute will be held at Walker Center Saturday, March 8. Everybody invited. All the teachers from our township attended Teachers’ Association in Rensselaer Friday and Saturday. The box social given by the Oak Grove Sunday school Saturday evening was well attended considering the weather. The program was excellent. The most “taking” part of the program was a play given by Miss Daisy Pettet, Clarence Craig and Elmer Kerns. The amount taken in was $19.36. Miss. Mabel Karch received a two-pound box of chocolates for the most popular young lady in the room, and Guy Meyers departed smoking the pipe which had been given to the largest man.

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