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inrf phrases, "the poweftbat rules , us both." and "our master," jarred on me. So far as ho knew, Indeed, bo far as "our master" knew, were not and I in the same class? But that ,wu no time for personal vanity. All I said was: "The bills must go through. This is one of those crises that test a man's loyalty to the party." "For the good of the party!" he muttered with a bitter sneer. "Crime upon crime yes, crime, I say that the party may keep the favor of the power!! And to what end? To what good? Why, that the party may continue in control so may be of further use to Its raters." He rested his elbows on the table and held his face between his hands. He looked terribly old. and weary beyond the power ever to be rested again. "I stand with the party what am I, what am I without it?" he went on In a dull voice. 'The people may forget, but, If I offend the master he never forgives or forget. IH sign the bills, Sayler If they come to me as party measures." Burbank had responded to the test. . A baser man would have acted as scores of governors, mayors, and judges have acted in the same situation would have accepted popular Iruin and would have compelled the powers to make him rich in compensation. A braver man would have deified it and the powers, would have appealed to the people with one chance of winning out against ten thousand chances of being disbelieved and laughed at as a "man who thinks he's too good for his party." Burbank was neither too base nor too brave; clearly i assured myself, he is the man I want. I felt that I might safely relieve his mind, so far as I could do ao without letting him too far Into my
' (secret plans. ' I had not spent five minutes in explanation before he was up, his face (radiant, and both hands stretched out to me. "Forgive me, Harvey !" he cried. "I shall never distrust you again. I put jny future in your hands." 'Chapter xu. 6urBank Fires the Popular Heart. ' That was, indeed, a wild winter at the state capital. a "carnival of corruption," the newspapers of other states called it. One of the first of the "black bills" to go through was a disguised street railway grab, out of which Senator Croffut got a handsome '.'counsel fee", of fifty-odd thousand dollars. But as the rout went on, ever tnore audaciously and recklessly, he became nneaay. In mid-February he was urging me to go West and try to do something to "curb those infernal prabbers." I refused to interfere. He went himself, and Woodruff reported to me that he was running round the state house and the hotels like a craxy jnan; for when he got into the thick of it, he realized that it was much worse than it seemed from Washington. In a few days he was back and at me again. "It's very strange." said he suspiciously., "The boys say they're getting nothing out of it. They declare they're simply obeying orders." i "Whose orders?" I asked.. ' "I don't know," he answered, his ves sharply upon me. "But I do know
that, unless something is done, I'll not "he returned to'the Senate. We'll lose the legislature, sure, next fall." "It does look that way," I said with touch of melancholy. "That street Railway grab was the beginning of our yake's progress. We've been going it, P ell bent, ever since." He tossed his handsome head and was about to launch into an, angry dejense of himself. But my manner Checked him. He began to plead. You can stop it, Sayler. Everybody out there says you can. And, if I am reelected, I've got a good chance for the presidential nomination. Should 3 get it and be elected, we could form a combination that would interest you, J think." It was a beautiful Irony that In his
Conceit he should give as his reason-j
why I should help him tne very reason
why I was not sorry he was to be beaten. For. although he was not dangerous, still he was a rival public
flgure to Burbank in our state, and, well, accidents sometimes happen, un
less they're guarded against. hat shall I do?" I asked him,
J "Stop them from passing any more
black bills. Why, they've got half a
dozen ready, some of them worse even
than the two they passed over Bur-
bank's veto, a week ago." ' "For instance?" i . He cited three Power Trust bills
"But why don't you stop those three T said I. "They're under the snecial natronage of Dominick. You
.have influence wtth him."
"Dominlck!" he groaned. "Are you cure?" And when I nodded emphatically he went on: "I'll do what I
ican, but " He threw up his hands.
He was off for the West that nig
Vhen he returned, his face worey!he
iWk 01 aoom. tie naa always puu for the benefit of the galleries, especially the women in the galleries. But now, he became sloven in dress, often Issued forth unshaven, and sat sprawled at his desk In the Senate, his chin on his shirt bosom, looking vague and starting when any one spoke to him. Following my advice on the day when I sent him away happy. Burbank left the capital and the state Just before the five worst bills left the committees. He was called to the bedside of his wife who, so all the newspapers announced, was at the point of death at Colorado Springs. While be was there nursing her as she "hovered between life and death," the bills were jammed through the senate and the assembly. He telegraphed the lieutenant governor not to sign them, as he was returning and wished to deal with them himself. He reached the capital on a Thursday morning, sent the bills back with a "ringing" veto message, and took the late afternoon train for Colorado Springs. It was as good a po
ut wi "a-rand-stand clay" as ever
thrilled a people.
The legislature passed the bills over
his veto and adjourned that night. Press and people, without regard to
party lines, were loud in their execrations of the "abandoned and shameless wretches' who had "betrayed the state and had covered themselves with
eternal Infamy." I quote from an edl torlal in. the newspaper that was re
rardd as mv ceraonal organ. But
there was only praise for Burbank; his enemies, and those who had doubt
ed his independence and bad suspect
ed him of willingness to do anything
to further his personal ambitions, admitted that he had shown "fearless
courage, inflexible honesty, and the highest Ideals of private sacrifice to
public duty." And they eagerly ex
aggerated him. to make his white contrast more vividly with the black of
the "satanic spawn" in the legisla
tare. His fame spread, carried far and
wide by the sentimentality in that supposed straggle between heart and conscience, between love for the wife of
hfs bosom and duty to the people. Carlotta, who like most women took
no interest in politics because It lacks "heart-interest," came to me with eyes swimming and cheeks aglow. She had
Just been reading about Burbank's heroism.
"Isn't he splendid!" she cried. "I always told you he'd be President.
And you didnt believe me."
"Be patient with me, my dear," said
I. "I am not a woman with sevenleaeue boots of intuition. I'm only a
heavy-footed man."
much to be said against us, so mueb, worse things than they can possibly
make out yoar election to be, that itll
soon be almost neglected."
"They're beginning to drop me al
ready and go teck to harrying those
poor devils of oars in the legislature said Woodruff. "A few week! more," I went on
"and you'll be sife and you are to
stay chairman, n matter what hap
pens. When theybave leisure to at
tack you, there'll e nothing to at
tack. The people J1 have dismissed the matter from tbir minds. They don't care to watchie threshing of old straw." I saw, that I had ted a weight from him, though he ssd nothing. So much for my flrstmove toward the chastening of my cliits. Further and even more effective'n the same direction I cut down o; campaign fund for the legislative tket to onefifth what it usually was'nd, without even Woodruff's knong it, I heavily subsidized the oppiction machine. Wherever it coulde done with safety I arranged for to trading off of our legislative ticketor our candidate for governor. "T legislature is hopelessly lost," I toIVoodruff; "we must concentrate the governorship. We must save w we
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ment as marvelous. n;verytning was in my favor; against me, there was nothing no organization, no plan, no knowledge , of my aim. I wonder how much of their supernal glory would be left to the world's men of action, from Its Alexanders and Napoleons down to its successful bandits and ward-bosses, if mankind were in the habit of looking at what the winner had opposed to him Alexander faced only by flocks of sheep-like Asiatic slaves; Napoleon routing the badly trained; wretchedly officered soldiers of decadent, monarchies; and the bandit or ward-boss overcoming peaceful and unprepared and unorganized citizens. Who would erect statues or write eulogies to a man for mowing a field of corn-stalks with" a scythe? Mankind is never more amusing than in its hero-worship. No. I should simply have been stupid had I failed. But even had I been disposed to rein in and congratulate myself at the quarter-stretch, I could not have done It. A man has, perhaps, some choice as to his mount before he enters the
race for success. But once in the sad
die and off, he must let the reins go;
his control is confined to whip and
spur.
CHAPTER XIV. A 'Boom-Factory."
In the early autumn of that last
year ot his as governor, Burba irs
wife died a grim and unexpected ftil
fillment of their pretended anxieties
of six months before.
It was, in some respects, as great
; a loss to me as to him how great to
is both I did not indeed, could not
leasure until several years passed
I -
he was what I regard as a typical
nerican wife devoted to her hus-
td, jealously guarding his interests, 'as keen to see his shortcomings
ahe was to see her own. And how
111 'rMinir It er fa ill t a than Vio In
recT his! Like most men, he was 7alnhat is, while he would probably
fiaTmitted in a large, vague way
"Let 'Em Do Their Damnedest."
CHAPTER Xllf. Roebuck & Co. Pasa Under the Yoke. And now the stage had been reached at which my ten mutinous clients could be, and must be, disciplined. As a first step, I resigned the chairmanship of the state committee and ordered the election of Woodruff to the vacancy. I should soon have substituted Woodruff for myself, in any event. I had never wanted the place, and had taken it only because to refuse it would have been to throw away the golden opportunity Dunkirk so unexpectedly thrust at me. Holding that position, or any other officially con
necting me with my party's machine, made me a target; and I wished to be completely hidden, for I wished the people of my state to think me merely one of the party servants, in sympathy with the rank and file rather than with the machine. Yet, in the chairmanship, in the targetship, I must have a man whom' I could trust through and through; and, save Woodruff, who was there for the place? When my resignation was announced, the independent and the opposition press congratulated me on my high principle in refusing to have any official connection with the machine responsible for such Infamies. When Woodruff's election was announced It came as a complete surprise. Such of the newspapers as dared, and they were few, denounced it as infamy's crown of infamy, as I had known it would be. He made not a murmur, but I knew what must be in his mind.
I said nothing until six weeks or two
months had passed; then I went straight at him. "You are feeling bitter against me," said I. "You think I dropped out when
there was danger of heavy firing, and
put j'ou up to take it." "No, indeed. Senator," he protested
"nothing like that. Honestly, I have
not had a bitter thought against you
I'm depressed simply because, just as I had a -chance to get on my feet
again, hey won't let me."
"Btit.'VT rejoined. "I did resign and
put yon in my place because I didn't
want'to take the fire and thought you
coutd.
And so I can," said he. "I haven't
ny reputation , to lose. I'm no worse
off than I was before. Let 'em do
their damnedest."
"Your first campaign will probably be a failure." I went on. "and, the day
after election, there'll be a shout for
your head."
He shrugged his shoulders. "I'm
enlisted for the war," said he. "You're
my geneiQf. I go where you order.
I, hope .the feelings that surged up
in me showed in my face, as
stretched out my hand. icank you
Doc." said I. "And there's another
sldettqit; It isn't all black.
"It Isnt black at all." he replied
stoutly. tf t
I explained: "I've wanted you to have the place from the outset. But I shouldn't dare give it io you except
at a time nke this, when our party has
done so Qmany unpopular things that
one more won't count; and there's so
can." In fact, so overwhelmingly was our party in the majority, and so loyal were its rank and file, that it was not only by the most careful arrangement of weak candidates and of insufficient campaign funds that I was able to throw the legislature to the opposition. Our candidate for governor, Walbrook Burbank was ineligible to a second successive term was elected by a comfortable plurality And, by the way, I saw to it that the party organs gave Woodruff enthusiastic praise for rescuing so much from what had looked like utter ruin. My clients had been uneasy ever since the furious popular outburst which had followed . their breaking away from my direction and restraint. When they saw an opposition legislature, they readily believed what they read in the newspapers about the "impending reign of radicalism." Silllman, the opposition . leader, had accepted John Markham's offer of $160.000 for Croffut's seat in the senate; but I directed him to send Veehoft,
one ot the wildest and cleverest of the opposition radicals. He dared not
disobey me. veehoft went, ana Markham never saw again the $75,000 he had paid Silliman as a "retainer." Veerhoft in the United States sen
ate gave my clients the chills; but I
was preparing the fever for them also.
I had Silliman introduce bills in both houses of the legislature that reached
for the privileges of the big corpora
tions and initiated proceedings to ex
pose their corruption. I had Wood
ruff suggest to Governor Walbrook that, in view of the popular clamor, he ought to recommend measures for
equalizing taxation and readjusting
the prices for franchises. As my
clients were bonded and capitalized on the basis of no expense either for taxes or for franchises, the governor's
suggestion, eagerly adopted by Silllman's "horde," foreshadowed ruin. If the measures should be passed, all the
dividends and interest they were pay
ing on "water" would go into the pub
lic treasury.
My clients came to me, singly and in pairs, to grovel and to implore. An
interesting study these arrogant gen
tlemen made as they cringed, utterly
indifferent to the appearance of self-
respect, in their agony for their Ini
periled millions. A mother would
shrink from abasing herself to save
the life of her child as these men
abased themselves in the hope of sav
ing their dollars. How they fawned
and flattered! They begged my par
don for having disregarded my ad
vice: they assured me that, if I
would only exert that same genius of
mine which had conceived the com
bine, I could devise some way of sav
ing them from this tidal wave of pop
ular clamor for they hadn t a suspi cion of my part in making that tida wave.
Reluctantly I consented to see
what I can do."
The instant change In the atmos
phere of the capital, the instant out
crv from the organs of both parties
that "the people had voted for reform not. for confiscatory revolution," com
nlted mv demonstration. My clients
realized who was master of the ma chines. .The threatening storm rapid
v scattered; the people, believing tba
the Silliman programme of upheaval
was not to be carried out, were glad
enough to see the old "conservative
order restored our people always rea
son that it is better to rot slowly . by
rnmintion than to be fnehiened to
death by revolution.
"Hereafter, we must trust to your
judgment in these political matters Harvey." said Roebuck. "The mana
jrer must be permitted to manage."
I smiled at the Ingenuousness of
this speech." It did not ruOle me. Roe
buck was one of those men who say
their pravers in a patronizing tone.
Yss. I was master. But it is only
now. in the retrospect of year?, that I
have any sense of triumph; for I had won the supremacy with smail effort, comparatively with the small effort required of him who sees the conditions of a situation clearly, and, instead of trying to combat or to change them, intelligently uses them to his
I ends. Nor do now regard my acnieve-
wasn't oerfect. when it came
Ik. aet, ne woui defend his worst fault ngt any and ajj criticism.
Like mt
women, she. too. was vain
DUt an Mlierfht woman's v&nlrv. In
stead otajcjng Self-complacent
somenow her on tQ hIde her
weak poi. and tQ Bhow her best
nAinta ini
ViUlO
ample.
best
Mfi).,.!...!,
light. For ex
a nrettv wom
an ana proif it was yet conscious of her defUcies Jn dre98 and jn manners thrt her pa,n and early surrouiyg n WR8 lnterest.
mg ana instrue too to WAtch her studying and cV,v copyingt or rath. er, adapting Gtta; fop ghe took from Carlotta o tnat wh,ch could be fitted without, ble joint into hef own pattern.
Latterly, when, T rtrin.
upon Burbank a lL,f acti(Jn requlr. ing courage or a sa e of gome one of his many insidHformg of per. scnai vanity. I farranged for her to be present at, conference.
And sne-wouia.sii apparently absorbed In her sewini t In reamy
n was seeing
tBe important people wno" were mere.
notes of all the people I ever met any-
where, every letter or telegram or note
I received. If you do. you may find after a few years tnat you have an enormous list of acquaintances. You've
forgotten them because you meet so
many, but they will not have forgot
ten you, who were one of the princl
pal figures at the meeting or recep
tion. That's in substance what she
6aid. And so, we began and kept It
up" he paused in his deliberate manner, compressed his lips, then added
"together."
I opened one of the filing-cases, glanced at him for permission, took out a slip of paper under the M's. It
was covered with notes, in Mrs. Bur
bank's writing, of a reception given to him at the Manufacturers Club In
St. Louis three years before. A lot
of names, after each sum reminders of the standing and personal appear-
ance of the man. Another slip, take
at random from the same box con
tained similar notes of a trip through
Montana eight years before.
"Wonderful!" I exclaimed, as the full value of these accumulations
loomed in my mind. "I knew that she
was an extraordinary woman. Now I
see that she had genius for politics
; His expression a peering through
that eternal pose of his made me re
vise my first judgment of his mourn
ing. For I caught a glimpse of a real human being, one who loved and lost.
looking grief and pride and gratitude
"If she had left me two or three years
earlier," he said in that solemn, pos
ing tone, "I doubt if I should have got one step further. As it is. I may be
able to go on, though I have lost
my staff."
What fantastic envelopes does man, after he has been finished by nature.
wrap about himself in his efforts to
improve her handiwork! Physically, even when most dressed, we are naked in comparison with the en-
swathings that hide our real mental
and moral selves from one another and from ourselves.
Mv camnaiKn was based on the
contents of those filing-cases. I learned all the places throughout the
west cities, towns, centrally-located
villages where he had been and had made an impression; and by simple and obvious means we were able to
convert them into centers of "the Bur
bank boom." I could afterward trace
to the use we made of those memo
randa the direct getting of no less
than 107 delegates to the national con
vention and that takes no account of the vaster indirect value of so
much easily worked-up, genuine, un
nurchased and unpurchasable "Bur
bank sentiment." The man of only
local prominence, whom Burbank re
membered perfectly after a chance meeting years before, could have no doubt who ought to be the party's
nominee for president.
.The national machine of our party
was then In the custody, and sup
posedly ' in the control, of Senator Goodrich of New Jersey. He had a
reputation for Machiavellian dexterity, but I found that he was an accident
rather than an actuality.
The domination of 'the great bust
ness interests over politics was the
rapid growth of about 20 years the
consolidations of business naturally
producing concentrations of the bus!
ness world's political power in the
hands of the few controllers of the
big railway, industrial and financial
combines. Goodrich had happened to be acquainted with some of the most
influential of these business "kings;
they naturally made him their agent
for the conveying of their wishes
and their bribes of one kind and an
other to the national managers of both
parties. They knew little of the de
tails of practical politics, knew only
what they needed in their businesses;
and as lone as they rot that, it did
not Interest them what was done with
Via i li rf a r-a
reasons i gave mm, u. tQose underlying and more po l reagong which we do not utter, M-
cause we like to play tT te to ourselves, again becauf
give the other person a
play the hypocrite mmsen And often I left him reluctan ing to muster courage to finesse to evade, only to findlthe
next day consenting, perupug i as tic. Many's the time sheVd me the disagreeable necessity of peremptory doubly disagreeably cause show of authority has ever distasteful to me and because at
der can never be so heartily exectl
as is an assimilated suggestion
When I went to him a month afthe rest of the power their "campaign
her death, I expected he would soentributions" gave.
be crushed as he was at the funerawith such resources any man of
I listened with a feeling of revulsioiod intelligence and discretion oould
to his stilted and, as it seemed to me,e got the same results as Good
in our summary ejection iroul control of the house in the midway election. If the party were not to be lismembered. I must oust- Goodrich, nust defeat tis plans for nominating "rorawe!!, must nominate Burbank intead. If I should succeed in electTg him, I reasoned that I could hrough him carry out my policy of moderation and practical patriotism yield to the powerful few a mini mm of what they could compel, to ve to the prostrate but potentially ?werfnl many at least enough to eep them quiet a storuarfc f ul. The orld may be advanced; but patriot m still remains the art of restrain ig the arrogance of full stomachs and be anger of empty ones. In Cromwell. Goodrich believed he ad a candidate with sufficient hole! ipon the rank and file of the party tc nable him to carry the election by the usual means a big campaign fund properly distributed in the doubtful states. I paid to Serator Scarborough of Indiana soon after Cromwell's candidacy was announced: "What do you think of Goodrich's man?" Scarborough, thoush new to the senate then, had shown himself far and away the ablest of the opposition senators. He had as much Intellect as any of them; and he had what theorists, such as he, usually lack, skill at "grand tactics" the management of men in the mass. His one weakness
and that, from my standpoint, a
great one was a literal belief in democratic Institutions and in the inspiring but in practice pernicious principle of exact equality before the law.
"Cromwell's political sponsors." was
his reply, "are two as shrewd bankers as there are in New York. I have heard it said that a fitting sign for
a bank would be: 'Here we do nothing
for nothing for nobody."
An admirable summing up of Crom
well's candidacy. And I knew that
it would so appear to the country, that
no matter how great a corruption
fund Goodrich might throw Into the campaign, we should, in that time of
public exasperation, be routed if Crom
well was our standard-bearer so utterly routed that we could not pos
sibly get ourselves together again for 8, perhaps 12 years. There might even be a re-alignment of parties with some sort of socialism in control of
one of them. If control were to be retained by the few who have the capital and the intellect to make effi
cient the nation's resources and energy, my project must be put through
at once.
I had accumulated a fund of $500.-
000 for my "presidential flotation" half of it contributed by Roebuck In exchange for a promise that his son-
in-latf should have an ambassadorship if Burbank were elected; the other half set aside by me from the "reserve" I had 'formed out of the year-by-year contributions of my combine. By the judicious investment of that
capital I purposed to get Burbank the
nomination on the first ballot at least
460 of the 900-odd delegates.
In a national convention the dele
gates are. roughly speaking, about
evenly divided among the three sec
tions of the country a third from
east of the Alleghanies; a third from
the west; a third from the south. It
was hopeless for us to gun for delegates in the east; that was the espe
cial i bailiwick of Senator Goodrich.
The most we could do there would be
to keep him occupied by. quietly encouraging any anti-Cromwell sentiment and it existed a-plenty. Our real efforts were to be in the west and south.
At the Theaters
Theatrical Calendar. GENNETT. Week of. April 1 Repertoire. April 11 "The time, the Place and the Girt. PHILLJPS. Week of April 1 Repertoire. T.HE THEATORIUM. Entire Week Motion pictures ana illustrated Songs.
Repertoire at the Gennett. Capacity business Monday niht marked the return of the North Brothers. comedians, to the Gennett for an engagement of a week. It will be remembered that when this company was here some months ago it mado
such a favorable impression that a request was made for it to return and the present engagement Is in responso to that request. Business for tha
house was broken on the previous vis it, but it is probable the present week will equal if not exceed that occasion. Monday night the company presented "A Daughter of the South" and tonight the bill will be "The Opera Singer," one of the strongest in Uio eiftire repertoire Monday night's presentation was entirely satisfactory, demonstrating what is already known, that the company , ranks much abovo the average and gives much moro than might be expected at popular prices. Interesting specialties an? given between the acts. Including singing and dancing and character sketches. Enthusiastic encores were accorded these. Matinees are put on, daily at ten cents and the night price are such as usually prevail for repertoire companies.
(To Be Gwitlnued.) CASTOR I A Por Infants and Children.
The Kind You Hare Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
Repertoire at the Phillips. Two large audiences, tnat showed marked enthusiasm, attended the opening performances of the Ethel lies mond company at the New Phillips on Monday. A new plan Is being tried at
this house this week, combined repertoire and vaudeville lein offered at popular prices instead of vaudeville, only, virtually giving two shows for the price, of one. For the first threu days of ths week the company is presenting "Woman Against Woman."
with Miss Desmond in tha leading rolo and acceptably so. Sho Is well supported. For the last three days of the week the company will present "A Broken Heart." The vaudeville feat' ures are no mean portion of the program. They are six in number, as has been produced regularly for many weeks, so that lovers of this style of entertainment will not lose anything in this regard, and have the play in addition. The specialties Include Ethel Desmond in high class songs; Frank Kelly in a tramp stunt; William Heanly, buck and wing dancer; Jac quin DeWltt, song and dance; DoForest Brothers, novelty acrobats; illustrated songs and motion pictures. A souvenir matinee will be given on Wednesday and a-five cent matinee for children on Saturday. Indications are that the new plan of conducting the house, which may continue for some weeks, will prove highly successful.
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nrhMnrv niatitudes on his Irre-V
reparable loss" stale rhetoric about her, and to her most intimate friend and his! I had thought he would be imagining himself done with ambition forever; I had feared his strongly religious nature would lead him to see a "judgment" upon him and her for having exaggerated her indisposition to gain a political point. And I had mapped out what I would say to induce him to go on. Instead, after a few of those stereotyped mortuary sentences, he shifted to politics and was presently showing me that her death had hardly interrupted his plannings for the presidential nomination. As for the "judgment," I had forgotten that in his religion his deity was always on his side, and his misfortunes were always of the evil one. These deities of men of action! Man with his god a ventriloquist puppet in his pocket, and with his conscience an old dog Tray at his heels, needing no leading string! However, it gave me a shock, this vivid reminder from Burbank of the slavery of ambition ambition, the vice of vices. For it takes its victims all moral, mental, physical. And,
while other vices rarely wreck any but
small men or injure more than what is within their small circles of influence, ambition seizes only the superior and
sets them on to use their superior
powers to blast communities, states, nations, continents. Yet it is called
a virtue. And men who have sold
themselves to it and for it to the last
shred of manhood are esteemed and.
mvsterv of mvsteries. esteem them
selves! I had come to Burbank to manufac
ture him into a president. His wife
and I had together produced an ex
cellent raw material. Now. to make
it up into the finished product!
' He pointed to the filingcases that covered the west wall of his library
from floor to ceiling, from north win
dow to south. "I base my hope on those next to you, of course." said
he. Then with his "woeful widower"
gestIon3."
I looked at the Sling-cases and wait ed for him to explain.
"When we first married,' he went on presently. she said. 'It seems to rae, if I were a public man, I should
keep everything relating to myself
every speech, all that the newspapers
said, every meeting and the lists ot
He was simply a . lackey.
lung and cutting a figure, in his
r's clothes and under his mas-
came. lie was pitifully vain of
gutation as a Machiavelli and a BOyen. Vanity is sometimes a
ofDf great strength; but vainty
wn;fort ana aoout a position in
coufjrecy is the prime requisite.
Ttn only weakness.
trol o?u eight years of con-
sion ol PartT t had had possesal admepartinentB ' the nation-
house c011 except of tbe past twQresentatlTes during the interruntf- This meant the un-
the inter? unchecked reign of
eration tb;iTo treat with consld-
, x, Vests, the strong men
KJ I LUC tUU a free hanbey who must hare sources, to developing its reimmunities flem privileges and mitted the c ; what can be perration that is citizen or corpoever offensive prse which, howhas, as It seemiract justice, still tice in it. and a practical juspursued so long rate, must be voters are short-i masses of the and in nose-rings, unreasoning chines. A man's rigolitical mamay be in theory, ahatever they what he has the inVactlce onlypower to compel. Boce and the the nation, for the uhe sake of Ization itself, these o of civilterests should never 1erful in-
heads, should be restrain their
as may be to their nghV closeiy tical rights. Goodrich bar pracsagacity nor the patriother the force of will, for that mattr tbe them within the Iimit3 of dkeep discretion. Hence the riotand and privilege which revdder alarmed me when I came tond ton and saw politics in thegwide. yes. history-wide, horizon-view-point.
Probably I should nave Deenj leisurely in bringing my presid plans to a focus, had I not seen, great and how rear was the mv party. Tt seenifd to me no nrf.rt or even a satisfacti
but the best available, instrument! . holding the balances of order as ex as might be between our conn try s t opposing elements of disorder th greedv plunderers and the rapidly ini . inrirfl- And I saw that
no time was to be lost, if the party rrr- not to be blown to fragments. The first mutterinss.of the sorm were
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GEP3P3ETT THEATER, ?g5SS
WEEK OF APRIL 1st.
MORTIHI IB ROT i
COMEDIAN
W ITU
WINGIEZBA GOO
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And Their Own Operatic Lady Orchestra, Who Pliand Sing Selections
From ail the Late Popular Opelis. One Lady Admitted Free on Opening Night.
If accompanied by a person holding a Reserved Seat Ticket which must le
reserved before 6 p. m., Monday. Daily --matinee, 10c, beginning Tuesday. Prices, 10, 20, SOc. Seats at Westcot Pharmacy.
The New Phillips Vaudeville Theater
O. G. MURRAY, Lessee and Mgr. G.A. SCHWENKE, Treas. & Asst. Mgr.
Daily at 2:30 and 8:15 p. m. Saturdays at 2:30and 8:15
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT OP
ETHEL DESMOND A"
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Woman Again
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
Daily Matinees at 2:30; 10c to all. Evening, 10c,
This Week Only.
LADIES FREE TICKETS, Monday and Thursday Nights.
mitted free with one paid 20c ticket. Best Seats.
6 BIG VAUDEVILLE ACTS 6. 2 BIG SHOWS IN ONE FOR 10c. Special Matinee each Saturday; children 5 cents. All other matinees, 10
cents, except to children under i years. Souvenirs -at, Wednesday's matinee. -'-,' " -
KERBIG STOCK COMPANY. wan."
OK EN HEART."
a few seats at 20c.
One Lady ad
THE THEATOKOUU 620 MAIN STREET i
THE TIME
J. H. BROOM HALL, Mgr.
- THE PLACE
MONDAY, TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY.
THE BEAUTIFUL CO LOREOJ
"THE MAGIC FLU"
AND THE SIDE-SPLITTING!
"THE GR AFTER,
MR. A. P. MALOTTE WILL
"DREAMING LO VE OF YOU." of Quality, and the Cost, o nly 5 Cents; ; rJ, f.
THE SHOW
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