Show of course everyone of those I switch and a reasonable sum — $400K present had read Oormly’s startling j —for the privilege” "I want you to mark Mr Haldane" announcement of bis candidacy Moat of them had read them with amuseput in LlfTey “that if we’re mixed up ment d only the most prescient with in a fight it’s the extortionate of the Gotham Freight Tracmends oven that of and alarm any feeling deep to tion company which haa brought it feeling was not sufficiently have awakened any special degree of about” “My dear sir” answered Haldane con Yet the fact that each one anxiety “how are we to satisfy had teen summoned temptuously to Haldane’s house the politicians through Llffey the demands made upon ub by you Haldane and your fellow members of the Saand the financier through chem Bociety and make a profit for himself rather startled them The eight men assembled in the ourselves out of the matter If we don’t make men like Gormly spacious library of the Fifth Avenue pay house The curtains were discreetly heavily Now Wrn sow incmntal vw --RELATION TO THE WOMAN Cv&U3 IbWTTSZND Brady &ivriMTt9M ' "mmmr 8YN0P3I8 A foolish young tenderfoot becomes fascinated with the bold artful wife of a drunken prospector In a western mining town They prepare to elope In a bllxzard but are confronted by the maudlin husband He la shot by the wife but the chivahws pins a note to the body taking boy the orlme upon himself In their flight to the railroad station the woman's horse Tails exhausted the her puts on his own and followsyouth hanging to the Seeing he Is an stirrup thestrap woman thrusts her escort int sis stumbles Into the railroad station Just s the train bears the woman away Twenty-livyears later this man George In New Oormly Is a York He meets Eleanor Haldane a beautiful and wealthy settlement worker and with her In her work becomes a owner of Gormly steamship line and finds himself frustrated in pier and track extension plans by grafting aldermen backed by the Gotham Traction An automobile accident brings Company the Haldanes to his country home Gormthat he will be mayor of ly announces Jfew Tork and redeem the city from corMr Haldane In a long desired ruption Interview with Gormly makes an Indirect to which proposition compromise the the latter has been waging In fight the newspapers against the Gotham laTraction company and which Haldane suspected of being the head Gormly boldly announces nla plan of campaign to Haldane Gormly rides to Haldane's place oarrylng word of the auto accident The next morning lie refers to the ride of the night before os mild compared to one he experienced In his boyhood days The papers a pounce bis candidacy fop mayor Vll— Continued CHAPTER "Mr Poole excuse me It Is quite useless to talk to ms any more on this line My mind is made up and nothing you can say' or anyone can say will change it" “Mr Gormly” said Benson rising contempt and resentment striving for the mastery of his voice “In some ways you’re a mighty smart man Tou have begun this movement brilliantly hut the position you’re takln’ bow makes me regard you as you’ll a damned foOl!" Corgi vt the language “Mr Benson" said Gormly “thank Your opinyou for your compliment ion does me honor at least the last part of It Let me say that I have been considered by politicians of your stamp as damned fools who have done Mr the good work of the world IPoole Mr Fitchett I vjlah you good afternoon” The disgusted delegation tramped out The three men had to run the gauntlet of reporters outside the busicommunicated ness office They nothing whatsoever of the results of to these assiduous ithelr Interview young men t By DemfoomM flctVH1 trmmr mu emxmn’ stances were suspected but their actuality had not been allowed fo transHaldane kept In constant touch pire with Llffey the boss but no one 'lave the inner circle suspected that the two were hand in glove together Haldane did not often meet with In this instance anyone but Llffey however he at least appreciated the gravity of the situation and had directed Llffey to bring with him those whose advice would naturally be sought on such subjects as he desired to discuss Hs hsd also assembled two of the directors of the Gotham Freight Traction company to wit Van Slyke and McRonald men associated with him upon whose judgment and ability he could rely In addition to them came Llffey grand chief of the Sachem society and the acknowledged and undisputed boss of the party Connell the chief of police Rutherford the district attorney Habber-lethe street commissioner and last and also least Hon Peter D Warren mayor of the city aa leader of the Great Llffey Sachem controlled society the orThe chief of ganization absolutely police wielded? the vast powers for graft of that remarkable organization The district attorney through whose hands all criminal prosecutions must pass was the safety valve of both the Saohem society and that portion of the people to which it looked for aup-: f drawn The men had arriv’pC4y times and at different They Were confidential admitted by Haldane’s and Cigars secretary in person and the eight liquors were provided from all sorts of differing social ranks mingled ireely together on terms of absolute equality The district attorney for instance was a graduate of Yale Haldane him-self had come from Harvard The mayor was a product of Columbia Llffey had started in as a poor Irish The of chief police had immigrant been a saloonkeeper and finally the colonel of a National Guard regiment McRonald was a Scotsman whose and ability had won him shrewdness a high position among the financial Van magnates Slyke belonged to an old Dutch family and had Inherited a vast fortune which his adroit man Increased egement had tremendously life with They represented American Its opportunities and its possibilities “Gentlemen” began Haldane quietly “I have called you here as you have doubtless of the surmised because announcement of of the candidacy George Gormly for mayor” Do you think it’s of sufficient imMr Haldane for such an portance unusual conference as this Is?” asked the boss “I certainly do Llffey" was the reply “It isn’t the first time” said Ruth erford a man of exceptional ability and great distipctlon of manner and was more amenable to their appeals for an interview to One resolution Gormly had taken fullest Informathe the people give tion all the time about what he proposed He was willing to discuss any public question at any time with and he had no objections to his Gormly opinions however being quoted "Gentlemen” said Gormly to the group of newspaper men “as has already appeared In the press of the city these gentlemen who have just left came to offer me the nomination of the minority party for the office for which I have proposed myself thanked them for the honor that they had done me I declared that I should appreciate the Individual votes of any of that or any other party 'members at election time but I refused post itively to allow myself to be tied up to any party to be allied with any party to be the candidate of 'any party Intend to make this canvass as an absolute Independent" In “Isn’t Mr Poole a stockholder ithe Gotham Freight Traction company?” asked one of the reporters about “I know nothing whatever Mr Poole’s financial undertakings “Doesn’t Lawyer Fitchett desire to run for district attorney?” asked an other “I am not informed as to the political ambitions of Mr Fitchett” "What did Bill Benson say to you?” asked a third “As a practical politician of large experience he ventured to give me come advice upon the conduct of my campaign” “Did you take It?” anked another lamid the roar of laughter which greeted this reply “I am sorry to say that the cogency of his arguments and the force of his Irepresentatlons did not appeal to me My methods are so las be expected idlfferent from those he adyooated that lit Is hardly possible to harmonize our ' views or practises” “I think that will be all this gentlemen” said Gormly rising was over Interview that the to signify CHAPTER VIII r Meeting of the Dictators Early In the new year at the a meeting of the of Haldane body linner cirole of the governing ipopularly known as “The Ring” was called at his private residence on Fifth avenue which he very unobtrusively reoccupied for the occasion The meeting was held late at The men summoned thereto night icame up town quietly and unostentatiously slipped into the house For many reasons Haldane’s relation to the Sachem society was careHe represented a fully concealed (distinct group Of financiers and buswith iness Interests whose relations (the party in power were most These relations in some In- A Qulst The Disgusted Delegation Tramped Out who bearing report The street commissioner “that some Impracticable had at his disposal more appointments former has offered himself for popular than all the rest of the administration suffrage on such a platform” “But It is the first time in my put together used them primarily for the good of the party1' and after that recollection’' returned Haldane “that for cleaning the streets ' a man possessing the peculiar comThe mayor the ostensible head but bination of business ability unquesreally the servant of the quartet was tioned integrity and unlimited money there because of his office and he was has put himself forward and I beg to In office because he could be conassure you that I consider him the trolled From the point of view of most available man from the point of the men present he was the best view of the opposition that has ever mayor that New York had ever appeared on the political horizon” had He was a man of some parts “I don't care a cuas how available He could make a brilliant speech pre- he Is” Said Llffey “We can beat him side gracefully and with dignity at and we wijl Of course It’ll take and was altogether more money" ' public meetings an admirable figure to head a great He looked significantly at the trio in morals of financiers but everything city Associated with these four Intensely "The amount of money that it takes practical men and this pliant willing now” said McRonald grimly "Is somewere the interests reprefigurehead thing terrific” sented by the Gotham Freight Trac“I should say so” added Van Slyke "Well tion oompany of which Haldane was you get what you bargain In absolute oontrol although the presifor don’t you?" returned the boss "You get a free hand to dency was vested In another man The viciously interests of Haldane and his asso- take It out of the people don’t you?” to ciates were not confined “Gentlemen the gentlemen” said HalGotham Freight Traction company dane authoritatively "I hardly think They had their hands on every public the discussion Is taking a profitable franchise Their private affairs of turn Doubtless as Llffey says we course were vast and multiform but can beat him certainly we must do with them we have nothing to do It will cost more money Their alliance with the political party tbat'la if In some way his candidacy for which they had pild and would cannot be headed off" continue to pay enormous Can he be Induced to withdraw sums do them had brought think?” asked Rutherford very material "NoI think not but if we made advantages In one form or anAll the trusts that make him some concessions other it is barely posNew Jersey their headquarters hardly sible he might though I gravely doubt In wealth and control the It He’s all stirred up equaled over this swltch business I have already taken organizations these men represented Haldane from hla one interview upon myself to offer to use my Influwith Gormly had sn idea that in this ence to get the price demanded cut Instance the two forces to be dread- in half He declined the offer Immeed by the ring were Incarnated in diately I think he said he Wouldn’t Goraly and would rally about Gormly pay anything except the cost of the First State BANK :of Salina- - r f “That’s your lookout” Well you will find that it’s also yours if we stop payments” “Oh I don’t know I guess there’s others that’d be glad to enjoy' the drawn on all the principal cities of the United Banking in all its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited Drafts States and Europe franchises" Now Llffey" said the district atwho perhaps from his official as public position had prosecutor more Influence over the boas than any “Don’t talk like a fool! body present You know perfectly well that we are all necessary to one another that we are all in the same boat we all have to fight the same battle Have you anything to propose Kir Haldane?” “I don’t know that I have any definite proposition just at present” was the answer “I have met this — I — have er as you would Gormly say sized him up carefully I put him down for a man of Indomitable courage Whatever his motive may be he is thoroughly determined his upon course However small his experience In politics he Is a business man through and through” Does he dabble In Wall street?" asked Warren “If so It would be easy for you to form a combination to torney Four £cr cent interest via H -- (Ty BE CONTINUED) Years In One School ' Pro'f Zephanlah Hopper the oldest who school teacher In Philadelphia Is years old began his at the of teaching year Central Hlfch school He was greeted by the faculty and by another7generation of students as he marched into the assembly hall the other )day He Is as active as ever still walking every day to and from his home The veteran professcr was gradu-ated In thlf first class that left the After spending a few high school years at c dlege and in special work he went h ick to the school as a H has remained there ever fessor since ' There aVe men all over the country who now grandfathers who ar as their member Hopper It Is estimated that he haa teacher thousand ful fifteen students y taught during hli long service Fifty-s- Sounc sd Like Another Word Maud — iVhat Is woman’s sphere? Jack— T bat hey hat isn’t on straight & DENVER RIO IN CONNECTION FAST TEA TWO NIGHTS TO CHICAGO TWO NIGHTR TO ST LOUIS NIGHTS TO NSW YORK INS THREE DAILY I FROM SALT 8:15 8:10 4:30 7:10 Pullman LAKE St a M a m p m p GRANDE WITH Burlington Route Bock Island Route Missouri Paciffio FOUB they are sired” on time deposits paid New Train Service break him" “Hla business methods are confined to hla mercantile establishment and purely legitimate" “What resources has he got?” “Well I should say he can command perhaps a score of millions” “Whew!” exclaimed “He Llffey might he a good man to tie to" “You can set your mind at rest as to that Llffey He wouldn’t tie to a man like you” “Oh I don’t know Pretty good men have found it to their interests to tie up with me and they haven’t lost anything by it Have you Mr Haldane?” Haldane locked his teeth It was this sort of covert Insult which was the necessary concomitant of his alliance which in his secret heart he loathed Again It was the district attorney who interposed 'I take it that this is a conference” he said equably “as to what we are to do If anything to head off this' man You don’t think he can be bought off Mr Haldane?” “I am sure he cannot be" “Well then he’ll h&ve to be fought down” returned the other "for It Is evident that we cannot Afford to have the workhssa of the Rachem society The thing brought before the public to be done now Is to get together and beat Gormly” keep together “You think he’s got a chance do you?” “More than a chance” “But we control everything” but Gormly apparent"Everything ly” answered Van Slyke "Yes" said Rutherford disregarding the last remark “but you know our control rests largely upon th indifference of the people If they get waked up it would go like that” He snapped his finger as be spoke and no man contradicted him for true It is that on the Indifference of the the power of the many is founded one “We could still count the votes” said the chief of police uncertainly but If there ars “Undoubtedly enough people Interested In the affair the votes will be counted as cast” “And we have the courts on our side” added Habberley Yes to a certain extent hut there are limits beyond which even our own judges could not go Therefore if Mr Haldane's estimate of Gormly Is correct and for myself I am rather lhcllned to believe that it is we are face to face with a terrific proposition” “Well then” said Llffey “I think the best thing to do if you gents are all agreed that it’s serious Is to pitch We want to have upon a candidate and a man that’s entirely respectable yet who knows which side his bread’s buttered on and who’ll take care of the organization” I think” said Warren tentatively that I have earned another term I in failed my certainly haven’t duty — ” "To the people?’’ asked Rutherford “To the organization” answered the mayor wlt£ dignity “and my private character ls all that could be de- ’ Louis and Toorist without Sleeper to change of car For further iaferm aiton aetW agont or address ns I F A BINTON G A A WADLEIQH P MFornf D G P A aid Chicago local Salt Lake Ut Denver Colo 3EZJ C Why Your not say Hello to them? friends all want tho ’Dhone to talk to you over Better havo it put in With a Salina telephone In yonr boms yon osn ran errands go shopping do business sto without leaving home Yon will enjoy the Why net have It? 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