Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1908 — Page 6

BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE

COPYRtOHT,I9O7 EOT 0K0194M M.RROADHimST

CHAPTER XV. WILLIAMS entered with Roberts In tbw. The latter wore a haggard, troubled look, and his natural nervousness bad visibly deepened, so much so that be had not even noted Phelan’s appearance In the corridor as he passed Into Horrlgan's private room. “Good evening, alderman,” said Horrlgan civilly. “Good evening, sir,” answered Roberts palpably 111 at ease. “I understand there’s a full meeting today. Even Ellis came back from the south to be here. You’re the only man mißsing.” “I couldn’t get here sooner. I” “I see. That’s all, Williams. Yon needn’t wait. Roberts and 1 want a little talk before he goes in. Now, then,” went on the boss, with a complete change of manner as Williams left the room, “what’s the matter with you?” "l—l can’t”“Can’t what? Speak 'out, manl Don't stand there and mumble at me!” "I can't vote for the Borough franchise bill.” "Can’t, hey?” roared Horrigan. “Why not?" "Because—because"— faltered Roberts; then, with a rush of hysterical emotion that blotted out his fear, he cried: "Have you heard what that man Bennett has done? He organized a voters’ committee in my ward and sent them to ask me at my own house what I was going to do about that bill. They bad been stirred up by Bennett till they looked on me as a crook and on the bill as a personal They told me if I voted for It they’d know I was a dirty thief and grafter and that they’d kick me out of the wqrd.” "Well, well!” rumbled Horrigan soothingly, as though trying to calm a fractious drunkard. “What do you care? When they’ve forgotten all about the hill you’ll still have the dough, won’t you? Folks won’t ask ‘How’d he get It?’ All they’ll care to know Is ’Has he got It?’ ” "That isn’t all!” Roberts blundered on, scarcely heeding the interruption. "Bennett’s next step was to organize a committee of voters’ wives, and they came to see my wife this morning when I was out and told her they’d beard I was going to sell myself and vote for a dishonest bill. My wife—my wife thinks I’m the squarest, noblest mau on earth. Oh, you needn’t sneer! Her trust means everything to me. She told the ivomen I wouldn’t stoop to any deed that wasn’t honest, and they answered: ‘Our husbands believe Mr. Roberts Is a crook. If be Is really honest he’ll vote against that bill, as be did before.’ Then on my way home this noon I met my little boy. He was crying. I asked him what the matter was. He said tiiat some boys laid told him I was a grafter. I tell you,” bis voice rising almost to a scream, “Bennett’s made my life a bell. I'm no crook. I’m honest aud”-

"Sure you’re honest!” Horrigan exclaimed. ns though to a cross child. '•Honest ns the day! That’s why you're voting for our bill. Because the TTooked clauses have been cut out of ft, and in its present form it’s a benefit to the city.” “That isn’t why I promised to vote (Or It,” contradicted Huberts, with a Saspairiug dash of courage. “It was because I—because" “Never mind wny, then, but Just go •head and do it.” “I won’t! I dare not”— “You’ll do it, 1 say!” stormed llorrl gan. “You can’t welch on me at this stage of the game. Those Sturtevant Trust company notes of yours were sent to you and" - “And l won’t take them!” declared Roberts, shimming two slips of paper down upon the table “There! Take them back!” “What do l want of them?” argued Horrigau craftily. “They belong to you.” “They don’t. I won’t keep them.” “You’li have to. I keep you to your promise.” “What promise?” asked a voice behind them. j Rennet!, hastily summoned by Phelan, had entered the room unobserved by either of the excited men. “What promise?” be asked again. “A promise to”— “What are sou doing here?" bellowed Horrigan fn fury. “You celled me . down once for coining Into your private office without knocking. What Cron mean hr coming into mine 7”

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THE MAN OF THE HOUR

"Youra?” querled'Alwyn. *“1 bad sn Idea It was the city’s. The time is past when the words ‘Horrigan* and ‘city* meant the same thing. Well, Roberts, how are you going to vote? I want to believe you honest, and— Why. what's all this?” his eyes falling on the forgotten notes on the table. “Nothing of yours!” shouted Horrigan, making a futile, furious grab for the documents which Alwyn was picking up. “Drop tbeml Drop them. I say. or you’ll—- “ Why should I?” asked Bennett calmly, bis quick eye taking In the nature of the slips of paper even as bis alert brain grasped in full the meaning of the transaction in which they figured. “Do they belong to you?” “They don’t belong to you anyway,” retorted Horrigan. “and if you dare read them”— “I’ve already read them. Roberts," he added In a kinder voice, turning to the shaking alderiuun, “these were to have I icon your hr 1 lie, weren’t they, for voting for the Borough bill?” - Ii;«* quietly compelling tone and piii i ice forced from Roberts a frightened “Yes” before Hnrr.gnn could Interfere. ”1 thought so. Be quiet. Horrigan,” he commanded as the Infuriated boss sought to «i»eak through his choking wrath. “This Is between Roberts and me. Now, then”—

“I returned the notes to him!” pleaded Roberts in panic. “Honestly, I did! Just before you came to. I could have kept them, and he couldn’t have prevented mo even if I voted against tbe bill. But Tm square and”— “You are square!” affirmed Bennett gripping the alderman’s cold, moist hand in friendly reassurance. “I knew all along yon were honest at heart Horrigan wanted to bribe you, and you wouldn’t be bribed. Now. I want you to go Into the council room and vote as yonr manhood telle you to.” Roberts, comforted, yet still trembling, obeyed, not venturing a second look at Hprrigan. “Now, my friend,” said Bennett pleasantly when he and the boss were alone together, “what are you going to do about It? It seems to me yonr game la np.” "I want those notes r* panted Horrigan, finding coherent speech with an effort through his red mist of rage. “Why? They’re not yours. They aren't made over to yon, and there is no cancellation stamp on them. They are the property of the Sturtevant Trust company, and I’ll send them back there tomorrow—after I’ve had them photographed.” "You’ll give them to me,” shouted Horrigan. bis mighty body vibrating with fury, “or you’ll never leave this room alive!” “You’re a fool, Horrigan.” remarked Bennett, with condescending calm, “for

Then wagcd the battle of wills, both men standing motionless.

tie of wills, both men standing motionless, tense, vibrant with dynamic force. Slowly, little by little. Horrigan’s eyes dropped. He moved awkwardly to one side from his position in front of the door nud Bennett, without so much ns a backward look, passed out. The boss, like n man in a daze, sank heavily Into a chair and gazed straight ahead of him. ills usually red face gray and pasty. But he was not to enjoy even the scant boon of solitude. From the anteroom Gibbs strolled in. “They’re going over some unimportant preliminary business,’’ remarked the broker, “so l came out for a breath of fresh air. How are things %oing?” “We’re bent," grunted Horrigan, not looking up. “Beat?” screamed Gibbs, ashen aud inert at the news. “You don’t mean it! You can’t mean it! Great heaven!” The sight of the other’s cowardly emotion seemed to rouse Horrigan from his apathy. “If I can stand it, you can!” he snarled. “You only lose your percentage on the deal, while I” “A percentage?” echoed Gibbs, too panic stricken to heed his own Indiscretion.- “Every cent I had In the world! I” ' ’ He checked himself an lnsthnt too late. “So?” drawled Horrigan, his keen little eyes searing the other with boundless contempt “So it was you who were secretly buying up the stock and tailing in on to our game, hey f'

“I'm ruined: Broke: Atid”— “And you’ve got It coming to you, you winning traitor! The 'man ‘who goes back on his partners deserves all the kicking be gets.” “I—l didn’t mean any harm!” mumbled tbe crushed Gibbs. “It couldn’t hurt you people to have me buy Borough stock for myself, and I’d have cleared up a million and more. Oh, don’t glower like that, Horrigan, but try to think out some way of”— “Of what, you cur?" “Isn’t there any way even now to make Bennett let up on bis fight?” “If there was you couldn’t be of use to us, so why should I talk about U to you?” “But I’d do anything in tbe world—anything”— “You would?” cut in Horrigan sharply. “Yes. yes! Only give me a chance! I’d”Horrigan considered, then said reflectively : “No chance is too slight to take at a time like this, and nobody’s too rotten to be of use. I’ve found there are three things, one of which will always buy any man—a woman, ambition or cash. We’ve tried Bennett on ambition; he doesn’t need money, so only the first of the three remains.” “A woman? I don’t understand.” “Miss Wainwrlght” “But”“Listen here. Bennett’s in love with Wainwrigbt’s niece. You’ve cut him out Go and tell him If he’ll let our bill alone you’ll smash tbe engagement and leave ber free to marry him. See?” “I can’t! I—hold on, though! Afterward I could deny the whole,, thing, couldn’t I? It’dWte his word against mine, and she’d never believe I could do such a thing. I—l might try.” “Yes,” growled Horrigan, “you might, A cur that’s lost all his nerve can try things that even an ordinary crook would balk at.”

But Gibbs did not hear. He had returned to the corridor to search of Bennett. Tbe man scarcely deserved the opprobrium heaped on him by Horrigan. A brilliant, daring operator, be was, unknown to himself, a rank coward at heart. For the first time to his life tbe cowardice had cropped out, and, to do Gibbs justice, it had driven him temporarily insane. In bis normal senses he would never have stooped to the plpn he was now so eager to carry out It was a putrid bit of jetsam at which a financially drowning man did not scruple to clutch. Horrigau followed him from the room, his own splendid nerve quite recovered from the crushing blow his hopes had received. He had staked heavily on the deni. Moreover, Its failure, as he knew, meant tbe wreck of that mighty political prestige he had so long and wearisomely built up. It might even, If Alwyn fulfilled bis threat about the notes, lead to graver personal consequences. Yet tbe bulldog pluck that had carried this mau qf Iron from the gutter to the summit of political power did not desert him, nor did he show the loss of one iota of his customary monumental calm. Scarcely had Horrigan quitted tbe Foom when Ferry and Dallas entered it - i ■

you don’t even know the right man to buliy!” He gazed unflinchingly into the maddened little eyes of the boss, and so for a moment they stood—patrician and proletariat—in the world old struggle of the two for supremacy. Horr igan’s face was scarlet, distorted, m u r d e r ou s; Bennett's pale, cold, deadly in its repose. And then waged the batATI Gtandimr nm.

“You could cut tlie atmosphere In there with a cheese knife,” Perry was saying. “Williams doesn’t think the Borough bill will come op for half an hour or so. We’d better spend the time till then In here than to stay there and turn our lungs Into a microbe zoo.” Dallas did not answer. She sat down by the table and rested her bead dejectedly on one little gloved hand. The sight of Bennett, his grave, hopeless appeal to her; the calm, utter despair of his brave face—all these had affected her deeply. Perry noticed with brotherly concern her look and attitude. “Feeling faint?” he asked. “No, I’m all right, thanks.” “You look pretty near as blue as Alwyn. He”— “Don’t let’s talk of him, please,” she begged. “Why not? Hes the whitest chap this side of Whltevllle.” “That’s what I used to think, but 1 know better now.” “Then, inlss,” broke In a voice from the doorway, “you're entitled to another ‘know.’ ” Phelan, who, passing down the corridor, had heard her last words as -he reached the threshold, turned into the room. “Excuse me for buttin’ ft on a family chat” he remarked, coming forward, “but I’m pretty well posted on his honor’s character, an’ when I bear any one knockin’ him it’s me to* the bat What have you got against Mr. Bennett? ‘None of your measly business,’ says y6u. *Q«tte so,’ says I. an*, that bein’ the case, let’s hear all about It" Something that underlay the seeming impertinence of the alderman’s bluff speech touched Dallas. On impulse she spoke; .# “Mr. Bennett.” said she. “Is opposing the Borough bill, knowing we shall be paupers If he defeat* it He also sold Borough stock short before he announced bis veto. What can one think of a man who enriches himself at the expense of his friends?" I

•Gee." cried Ferry, “that's a terrible thing! _ Bennett’s . the original man higher up, I’m afraid. I wonder be isn’t afraid to wear tbe clothes of such a wicked geezer az himself!” “Oh, Perry! Don’t Joke about it!” begged Dallas.* “Can’t you see tbe serious side of anything? We shall be penniless and dependent on"— “Fear thou not. sister mine!” declared Perry in bis best melodramatic manner. “Paupers, gayest thou? Far be it so! Little Brother Perry will guard thee from the cold, shivery swats of a wintry wind. Maybe we can sell violets or start a fight dab or”— > “Don't!" she urged. Jarred by his flipv. “You don’t understand. I” for that story of his honor’s aeUstock short and makln’ a pile of cash on his own veto,” pat In Phelan genuinely worried. “Horrlgan’s looked it up an’ got euough facts to make him think be can prove It He’s goto’ to make Williams tell the whole story to the aldermen tonight. It’s a Me. of course, but It’ll hurt his honor a lot, an’ the worst of it Is Bennett refuses to deuy It" “He does, eh?" remarked Perry. “Then I’ll do some talking about it. I’ll have* to fracture a promise I made Alwyu. but 1 guess It’s worth while.” “What do yon mean?” queried Dallas in wonder. “I mean Bennett lent me the money to sell enough stock short to' make up for w.hnt you aud I would lose If the bill was quashed, aud be gave me a letter to bis own broker. We carried it through, and uow you and 1 stand pat to win whichever way tbe cat jumps. We’re on velvet, tbauks to Alwyn. "He did this for us?” gasped Dallas iu ainaze. “But why didn’t you tell me? Why did you let me misjudge him?” “He made me promise not to let you know a thing about it. aud”— “Say. youngster.” broke in Phelan, tingling with excitement, “you come chasin’ along with me into the aidermen’s meetln’. I’ll have you get np there an’ tell what you know. It’ll knock that Me of Williams’ and Horrlgan’s so high it’ll forget to hit groan’ again. Come on, son! There’s sure liable to be hot doto’s to the meetin’ to about eleven seconds. Come along.*” (To b« uiied. i

HUGHES WRONG ON TARIFF.

Cannot 8w That Trust Products Should Bo on Frse List. In Governor Hughes' speech at Lincoln, Neb., he quoted one of Mr. Bryan’s proposals thus: “Let us go through the tariff schedules and put on tbe free list tbe things that are being manufactured by the trusts. That will destroy them.” Mr. Hughes rejoins, “True enough, but would it not also destroy tbe weaker manufacturers to the same line, who are fighting against the trusts and who, being small, have tbe least power to resist?” We cannot suppose Governor Hughes to be ignorant of tbe fact that Mr. Bryan and others in proposing the “free list” for trust made products have never proposed to “destroy” the trusts as industries or pnt them oat of business, but only to destroy the monopolistic character of their business aud make them conduct it legitimately oil a competitive basis. Can Mr. Hughes name a trust that would cease to do business if deprived of the tariff protection which now enables it to charge l monopoly prices? Is be Ignorant of the extortions of the steel trust, tbe oil trust, the borax trust and many others, made possible by the tariff which keeps out foreign competition?

So far is Mr. Bryan from proposing to destroy any business by removing tariff duties that he stated lu his Des Moines’speech and again in his New York speech that if any trust considers the “free list” remedy too drastic “It cab avoid it by giving up its monopoly.” If the trusts are not to be forced into bankruptcy it cannot be assumed that their smaller competitors will be ruined. They will, rather, be benefited by being rid of the domineering tactics usually employed by monopolies. What excuse can Mr. Hughes give for his unwillingness to apply so obvious and just a remedy for oppressive tributes levied by the trusts, and what excuse can be give for misrepresenting his opponent’s position?

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Humor and Philosophy

By DUNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. Why, oh, why does tbe hired girl so Inconveniently desire to change the Initial letter of hen appellative and become a tired girl and proceed to retire from the scene? The bill collector always falls to respond to your polite “pray don’t mention It.”

About this lime of the year sees a renewal of the old story that Is ever new as to whose duty it Is to get up and see how the furnace fire is behaving. t No Harmony. "What makes Clarice so cross?” "She can’t decide on her color scheme for the winter.” “Why?” “Maroon promises to be fashionable." "Doesn’t she like it?’ "But, you see, she wants to wesr red hair this winter.”

Cheap Pottage Benefit*. The past Is all forgotten: t It's hands across the sea. And England is our neighbor. It’s bosom friends are we. We send King Edward greeting Across the waters damp And ask him for a favor All for a two cent stamp. Of course we licked the British In that old family row, But why should we hold grudges Against them for it nowT Perhaps we can forgive them And set the matter straight By writing them a letter On that new postage rate. That they deserved a licking They couldn’t well deny. And also that they got It— That scrap was not a tie— But we should not endeavor Those battles to revamp And tei( them all about It Just for a two cent stamp. Then hale the penny postage! A penny over there Is two cents of our money. As 1 have read somewhere. So write King Ed a letter And tel! him that your boy Had measles, but is better. That ought to give him joy.

PERT PARAGRAPHS. It might be well for some people to learn that one of the natural results of a butting in Is a throwing out. Some people trust the Lord and thou ask their fellow men to treat them as they treat the Lord. Money makes matrimony go and frequently makes alimony come. As a general thing the man who is absolutely certain that he knows how wants some one else to do It. On the one band some people can’t make an effort and on the other hand any amount of effort couldn’t make some people. If the bachelor were abolished. It Is Interesting to reflect whether he would strive to acquire a residence in Nevada. The politician who to out to win should be chary about lubricating his machine with any grade of Standard oil.

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