Show THE SAUNA CALL SALINA if he had the decision to make over again he would decline such Influence It had been the cause of much doubt and some regret at the time The boss within him had protested— eurely it was a political mistake — and Che boss was louder than the reform-f- t UTAH test vote it would disclose bis own strength and the strength of Conway He looked over the red faces before him He saw Conway himself moving among the delegates snarling cursing quarreling with the friends of years he saw Conway’s candidate for the house McGlone over in the Second ward delegation his coat off a handkerchief about his fat neck a fum Ing cigar between his chubby fingers tuhning on his heavy haunches to revile some man who was numbered with Nolan’s crowd he saw in the First ward delegation Malachi Nolan in black coat and cravat hia iron gray hair cropped short calm alone of all the others He would have looked the priest more than the had he smoked his cigar differently Now and then he solemnly raised his band with almost the benediction of a father to still the which with clamor of his delegation votes was safe at all its twenty-onevents for Underwood was Conway’s Muldoon man — they would try to make the temporary orD’Ormand was ganization permanent knew one or two Conway men who could be got very cheaply but the boy shook bis head— the reformer within him demurred— and yet he smiled sardonically at the reformer thinking of the primaries and the convention itself Then Malachi Nolan caught the chairman’s shifty eye and moved an until morning But even adjournment as he spoke Grogan Bcowled at Mul doon shook his head his followers and the room rang with their hoarse gan His blear eyes were filmy with disappointment "He votes for John W Underwood MIsther Chairman” said Nolan comThe vote was unchanged placently The chairman ordered another ballot And then all at once as If a breath By BRAND WHITLOCK and more plausible He came forfrom a sanded desert had blown lnte ward with a brilliant scheme He reOF "TUB THIRTEENTH AUTHOR DISTRICT" "HER INFINITE'VARIETT" the room Underwood was sensible of called Baldwin’s reference to the "THE HAFFT AVERAGE" "THE TURN OF THE BALANCE" ETC ETC a change in the atmosphere The air Nolan and Conway between rivalry r was perhaps no hotter than it had Underwood remembered that when he at been for hours at the close of that suggested the possibility of Nolan’s with tobacce Btifling day no bluer himself shouts: running for the nomination Copy rig Lt by Tbe Bobbin Morrill Coaipaoy no heavier with the smoke smell Baldwin had shaken his bead — there "No! no! no!" borne in from Clark street on hot Nolan Heartened I1E senatorial convention conf- wasn’t enough in it he said by this confession of dollars a keg He winked weakness on Nolan’s part they kept winds that bad started cool and fresh In the First district was identially at himself in the mirror that could do very hiuch better In the coun the lake four blocks away a from ' oil where he was Besides Mr Weed on to convene at 10 o’clock night as he gave a final touch to his yelling lustily: smell compounded of many smells the “No! no! no!" In a dingy little ball in white cravat and surveyed his fine and Mr Peabody disliked him Bmell from foul and dark Underwood thought out his scheme lower Clark street light young form They even laughed and Muldoon cellars ascending arrayed in evening beneath the sidewalk the so long clothes for the reform banquet at the that afternoon while hunting in the ed by windows smpte the table to declare the motion smell of stale beer the ammoniae unwashed His speech was The digest for cases in point to be cited that lost they Palmer house smell of filthy pavements mingled looked like ground glass Tendencies of Modern Politics The In a case his father was preparing for On the ballot one of the of with unclean feculence bodies lookFrom the chandeliers newspapers said it was a very brilliant the appellate court The work of the Simmons votes went over to Con that had sweated for hours in the viblack and sticky with speech breathing lofty political senti- ing up cases In point while Its results way and there was a faint cheer On tiated air of crowdthat dead flies shreds of tia ments that were bound to make John are impressive and seem to smell of one of the Simmons the ed room fluttered relics of some W Underwood votes Also the Re- - the lMnP had In reality grown quite votes went to Underwood and parity A hush fell Muldoon his black Automatic to Underwood and as he fete an Italian society form club Indorsed his candidature was restored On the Unlocks with shining perspiration there long ago The derwood gained another of S'mmons’ curly As Underwood leaned against the !oafed °ver dlEe8t8 and reP°rtB and was leaning on his improvised gavel And Muldoon °tted down his notes he elaborated Underwood’s candidate floor was damp in arabesque votes — Nolan It seemed wrought had promised greasy wall of the little hall on low- - the his keen eye the Irish eye that s Bcheme’ Just what be would 8ay won Underwood had lost the first to get him on the Janitor’s for the Janitor by a sprinkling-caIn er Clark street this morning the seizes such situations do how he would appear and so round and readily bad sprayed water there to lay the whole campaign flashed before house— state and the him the vote was ing into every face before him dartThe candidates for senator were to tied This ballot stood : dust he was too indifferent to remove Just as the events of a lifetime are forth And so when he entered MaAnd suddenly came that for which first UnderPerhaps a hundred chairs were set in said In books to flash before the mind lachi Nolan’s place in Dearborn street be placed In nomination First Second Fifth they were waiting A man entered the and before of a drowning man amphltheatrlcal order He recalled ev- early that evening heof was fully pre- wood stood In the crowded doorway Ward Ward Ward Total hall and strode straight across the this incident and heard Conway’s name presented them stood a kitchen table on which ery vivid detail of the call Baldwin pared The details 32 10 Then in the cheering floor into the Fifth ward delegation with his heart Conway was a white water pitcher flanked by had made upon him how be entered came back Just as the details of Bald4 32 Underwood Into the group where the Underwood a glass thickened by various sedi- his private office without troubling win’s visit had done — the empty sa- In his sanded throat he heard the Simmons 6 loon leadwere men alderman himself about the their clustered leaning chairman say: mentary deposits within the pale pimpled office boy to anThe Simmons men were bolding out He wore evening clothes er his "Are there any other nominations?” In the saloon below at 9 o’clock Bhl8 baLWhAef apr°“ troj?d nounce him how he lifted from his There was a momentary stillness waiting to throw their strength to the black dinner coat and white shirt bosscores of delegates were already shuf- carefully parted hair his straw bat into balwinner in the round hole at the corner and then he beard a thick When the note in the scene om a vivid striking cigar in strong covered the that sawdust the with fling its youthful band of blue and of been mind taken walked was his mouth He lot but his had out Muldoon voice: squintgone that briskly denoting floor holding huge schooners of beer laughed out "John my boy how are it was time for him to go down the “MIsther Chairman” ing in the miserable light at the sec- so Intent upon his pose that It was not In their hairy fists gorging grossly at you? Hot Isn’t it?" He could see and get his pop from "The gentleman the First retary’s figures bit the table with the until he bad removed his cigarette the free lunch table with Baldwin as he sat in the solid oak alley to Billy Boyle’s bologna from his lips and had observed Unchair leg and said ward” rank onions and rye bread The foam chair that stood Intimately beside his terhouse and baked potato derwood that his white teeth showed Underwood watched Malachi Nolan On this ballot Conway receives 32 “MIsther Chairman" the thick of the beer clung to their mustaches desk fanning bis ruddy face beneath his reddish mustache in the 32 Simmons nl cockta 5 There bestrong voice said “I roise to place In Underwood which after each sip they sucked be- with the hat which had Impressed splash It a”1 hs fIaft smile of George R Baldname wan the of choice no a 0 you will prepare your sparkling glass and nomynation tween their llpB Most of them maning Un- - ‘ure8T y red band on his forehead win He elbowed his way into the It with a Marasch no cherry It was the voice of Malachi Nolan ballots for another vote1 aged at the same time they were eatderwood had been glad enough t0 suddenly remembered Just then one of the Conway men very midst of the Underwood men ing and drinking by a dexterous close "Cooley on Taxation” and re ‘hen grave14y take a cigar for himself and Underwood to from the Fifth ward and leading one hlS and st°" that Nolan was place his name be- from the Second ward left his place to smoke cheap do- volve his chair to face Baldwin Just fore the convention olan PPed the He listened an and touched one of Nolan’s fellows in of them aside talked with him an inmestic cigars and a cloud of white as if he had been a client for Bald-- c°a’ Then‘aB stant and then returned him as it hl8 white Instant but could not endure It long the First ward delegation— Donah u smoke rolled along the low p5ofeBBloaal BweP win was the most Important politician ceiling to his place in the delegation were eved muscu ar arm Underwood He could not endure that men should on the shoulder Donanue started The Each new arrival was greeted with who had ever called upon him profes- Then he brought forth another whisfolded b8 brilliant scheme some obscene but endearing skirting see him in the hour when his name man whispered in his ear and returnepithet to him for an earnest moment pered ed his to his and the room rang with laughter and delegation eye weeping He knew Baldwin had come with on Donahue looked on and sent him back with a smile and Underwood A keg of beer had been some profanity and when practical proposition The third slap on the shoulder manprovided by one of Conway’s breathlessly Nolan revolving slowly the lobbyist suggested that he was too him longer and held his hat for every vote— last of delegate detained agers and the bartender wiping his respectable and would run better in all for Donahue’s hands on a dirty towel was rid so some The man dropped once as he argued with him the residence district that the boys his folded ballot into the bat and hupg slightest shade of displeasure crossed long as the keg lasted of the responsilooked upon him as a reformer and an face Instant in Baldwin's but the head Nolan the his of account of calmly picked drinks that the silk stockings were not pracbility keeping ballot out of the bat and gave It back smile replaced It and he talked — conand of ringing up the change on the him Underwood tical enough to to Donahue who looked up in affected vincingly It seemed Before Baldwin cash register At 11 o’clock the keg had felt that at help was coming last it returned this man to his delegation was empty the free lunch table abansurprise It was simple enough Baldwin had he shook hands with him doned to the flies and the delegates been “What’s the trouble Malachi?" he talking that very morning about was The secretary scuffled up the dingy stairs to the Underwood’s the calling said as innocently as he could He to Mr Yed candidature and Nolan had announced the wards hall Half an hour later the chairman of was not much of an actor Motor the Metropolitan System of the senatorial district committee “This won’t do” Nolan said giving result in his delegation The Fifth and to Mr Peabody of the president ward was a long while in preparing pounded the kitchen table with a leg Gas company the ballot back to the man and they had been very ballots There was trouble of of a broken chair and shouted: "It’s all right Malachi much interested They had an anxiety honest to its some sort there among the Under"The convention will be in order” God It is!” protested Donahue to see good men nominated that year men Nolan was urging exposwood This declaration made no impresfor they had large business interests "Thin I’ll Just put this wan In for The tulating cursing commanding sion upon the babel of voices the that were more or less affected by ye heh?” said Nolan drawing anwas tense It seemed to Underwood the profanity the noise of legislation and had feared they would laughter other ballot from the pocket of his air that it must inevitably be shattered chairs have to Settle on Conway shuffling feet and scraping and poising it above huge waistcoat Conway some moral in the soul by cataclysm Finally the chairman of the commithad experience ' in legislative matters the hat of man Grogan's brow was knit as tee growing Impatient split the table and had been The crowd had pressed around the he friendly enough in the waited hat in hand The delegates with his club and yelled: city council yet they felt they could First ward delegation The conve- voted Feverishly with trembling fin"Damn it all boys come to order!” — he him trust a was such ntion had risen to its feet craning red hardly and counted the gers Grogan And then eager to resign such a dif- grafter and in such necks and out of the mass Grogan bits of paper opened things Baldwin Then he sprang to his ficult command he hastened to an blandly assured Underwood cried they had a with feet wild in his glad light nounce: to depend upon a man's honor alone Aw here Malachi Nolan none o’ face "The committee has named Honor- and so they had sent Baldwin to sugthat now!” Mister Chairman!” he cried "the able John P Muldoon to act ‘as gest that Uriderwood mee them at Nolan turned bis rugged face to- Fifth ward casts votes twenty-fivfor luncheon Baldand talk matters over temp’ry chairman” ward him and said simply: He handed the chair leg to John P win with his love of ease and luxury Conway and four for Underwood!” ‘‘Who’s runnin' this dillygation you The three bolters in the Fifth ward Muldoon who stroking back his curly had preferred a dinner over at the or me?” delegation sat with defiance in their hair from his brow began to beat the Cardinal’s In the evening but Mr Pea“Well— none o’ your bulldozing— we faces but they could not sustain the table Impartially body had something on hand with the won’t Stand It!” replied Grogan even by huddling close toexpression of trustees his All this while Underwood church and couldn’t stood his blue eyes blazing They broke for the door gether Baldwin had taken on The meet them then against the wall looking "You get to hell out o’ this” And wriggling their way through masses question that had been agitating him out his watch at this point with the so saying Nolan dropped the ballot of men who made their passage unair of a man who suddenly remembers for weeks was about to be decided Into the hat and turned to face the certain almost perilous A billow of but now that the ordeal was actually some important engagement — the carefully the acute suspicions of an was being thus laid naked to the chair applause broke from the Conway men But Nolan world beat tails all came back with a fidelity that old politician were the consciousness It upon him mopped Reporters writing "Have you all voted?” — DeleInquired and submerged the convention and stood awaiting Un- - blinking at last putting down perhaps the crowd would laugh Muldoon numbly against his brain so that the was painful inscrutably gates all over the hall were on their whole scene lacked reality almost in derwood s reply with the open watch the damp cloth away in some or whistle or hiss Besides candi"First ward!” the secretary called feet clamoring for recognition but in his palm Impatiently rious place under the counter The fat dates do not remain in the convention terest He was dazed He was about Nolan squared his shoulders not Malachi Nolan’s voice boomed heavily Of course Underwood to take his baptism of political fire had under- - Maltese cat waiting until the hall they await the committee of notilooked In his hat or counted above all other voices His flat was la — and he wished fication in some end he trembled like a white novitisaloon He having ardently to be ture on the bar had evaporated above the and the and all ballots there air said fists other slowly nominated and elected He could see stretched herself again beside the sil squeezed through the mass of men ate “MIsther Chairman!” he yelled "1 impressively: Underwood belonged to one of the himself swinging idly in a big chair ver urn that held the crackers and who stood on tiptoes stretching their "On behalf av the solid dillygation challenge that vote!” Still Nolan necks to see and hear the old leader oldest families of Chicago — the name behind a walnut desk in the senate the little cubes of cheese av the First ward I cast twinty-wa"MIsther Chairman!" yelled Grogan as an chamber Just sees him-- blinked in silence like a hostile Jury of the First ward and fled actor bad been known there before the fire for John W Underwood” votes of "a order! self The gentleman with an artist’s ecstatic half-- with its mind made up until at last point The first ballot was taken — Conway His father who had lately taken him MIsther Chairman! MIsther Chai- Isn’t a member of the Fifth ward dele30 Underwood Into his law firm continued to cling frightened gasp in some new part he In desperation Underwood blurted out 31 Simmons thei rman!” cried Grogan waving his hand and can not challenge Its Nolan blinked some dark horse 8 necessary In his conservatism to an old stone is about to study The position would his proposition to a choice “"t“he "iThMlenge" that vo“te7“l gation vote!” house in Michigan avenue long after give him much importance he would more then half opening bis blue Irish 35 for The vote was unchanged that vote! “The point of order Is well taken" his neighbors had abandoned twenty-siballots till the afternoon chaiienge their be riding back and forth between Chi-- eyes grunted: "The gentleman from the Fifth ward on a pass mansions to uncertain boarders “Well I like your gall” had worn away and the trucks had promptly ruled the chair "The genit and cago and Springfield the vote challenges tleman from the First ward is out of either retreated farther south or ad- would be so pleasant to be addressed of Clark fell yet he was Jolted off the cobblestones Underwood’s spirits “MIsther Chairman" Nolan said — vanced to the North Side John Un as senator to be consulted to head not disappointed It was after all street till the lights were flaring and standing with one heavy foot on his order he will take his seat” Men were screaming brandishing derwood had come out of Harvard delegations in state conventions and just what be had expected men gamblers It served beggars chair and leveling a forefinger at fists waving hats coats anything with a young lawyer’s of ambition in cast the solid vote for any one he him right for his presumption If noth- street walkers all the denizens of order! The "a point besides chairs pounding the floor it would be a good ing more — though the subdued re- darkness were shifting along the sidean ambition that had the pleased: politics from the Fifth ward has no right scraping he could former within had hinted at other rea- - walks till the policemen with them There were United States senate merely as a be- training for Washington had been to brutal challenge the vote av the First oaths and here and thereheavy the smack ginning of its home stretch and when practice in oratory and parliamentary gons He hung his head twirling his changed on their beats and Pinkerton ward — he’s not a member of the of a fist on a face In the tumult the the year rolled around in which state law Just as he practiced on friendless empty glass disconsolately watchmen were trying the doors He dldpot gatlon!” over five In Simmons court paupers the votes criminal twlnkleid stores to were went be of senators elected In the to till Chinamen shuffled forth see the light that in the blue Conway Let the First ward be polled' some eyes he had not then known how odd numbered districts he decided when his father influenced very and Jewesses and Italian women calmly ruled Muldoon Nolan took his Muldoon was beating the table with Judge to appoint him to defend an that it was time to begin ready Nolan was to form any com- emerged for their evening breath of foot from his chair and stepped to his club and crying: It meant only one bination that would beat Conway and air bringing swart and grimy children Donahue's The newspapers had scented the indigent prisoner "Order! order! order!” side Every man in the little word he could be wary of prom- Baldwin especially with a reformer to play upon the heated flags The sensation that lurked In the candida“To hell with order!” bawled some delegation as his name ises His heart had expanded he had like himself who had money to spend hall was lighted Just as if some Ital- First ward from ture of a young man like Underwood was cane(j the credentials cried one from the First ward delegation Ian festival were to be held there The In the district 'like the First and be- turned half around in his chair to face on his ambitions He had not dis “On this ballot” Muldoon was nearAs the "Underwood'” secretary cause he went Into what is called so- Baldwin when suddenly the reformer cerned how badly the man whom the reporters’ plates at the table were ed the name of Donahue Nolan laid "there were votes cast him rose to object pointed to newspapers always cartooned with taken by the men who did politics for his hand heavily on the fellow’s shouciety promptly dubbed him a reform- within necessary to a choice er and thus weighted he had set out his Ideals rehearsed the speech on the First ward sticking out of his vest the morning papers themselves re- lder James P Conway has received forty “The Tendencies of Modern Politics” his race to duced He nomination takthe at last for the upon votes John W Underwood pocket needed a reformer in his businecessity of e "Donahue!” called the secretary liked to see his name in the newspa' recalled all the good words the Inde- ness as the saying is Hence his ing notes They brought reports of and George W Simmons”— he The fellow squirmed under Nolan’s pers liked to think of himself as a pendent papers had spoken of him glad surprise when Nolan wiped his the results In other senatorial conven- hand paused as if to decipher the vote — reformer though he was embarrassed urged the beauty of great sacrifices big hand on his apron like a washer- tions held about town that day— it James R Conway “none re"Donahue!” having seemed to be assured that John In this attitude by the fascinating fig- for principle At the Idea of woman and held it out saying: the necessary number of votes "Don’t let him bluff you!” cried ceived Underwood had felt a melting ure of the political boss he had hoped had carried the country towns "But I’m wit’ ye” is therefore declared the nominee of some one from the Fifth ward he admired himself In this to become — a Then the campaign under Nolan’s Lemont Riverside Evanston and so gentlemanVote as you damn please Jimmie!" this convention" new of a reformrole ly boss of course who while at home management In the most wonderful on In certain west side districts this "Trow the boots into ’im Donnie!” Underwood was stunned He stagman had won in certain north side in those saloons where he permitted er And so he flung the cigarette out legislative district — a cosmopolitan "Soak him one!" gered through the horrible uproar tothe convivial familiarity of the boys of the window watched It whirl down district bristling with sociological districts that man had been success“Take your hands off him Bull ward the door He longed for the air ful If nevertheless took his luncheons at his to the melting tar of the roofs below problems as old It looked the a district that has fewer gang was outside even the heavy air of lower club He fell Into a way of speaking and said firmly: homes and more saloons going to break back into the legislamore comSo they bawled and Donahue wrig- Clark street where the people surged "I have an engagement this morn- merce and more sloth more million- ture of the First as “my district” spoke But the hand of Nolan like the along under the wild dazzling lights gled I’m sorry but 1 aires and more paupers of it in fact as if he instead of ing Mr Baldwin And so the Interest in this one re- hand of and while it was and in two opposite his own Douglas procesMalachi Nolan and “Cinch” Conway guess I can’t come" confines within Its boundaries the skyconvention deepened the gripped fast maining His head reeled Grogan his face red sions He lost the more Once Underwood saw the scrapers clubs theaters and hundred owned it and when certain ward polistrain tightened the crowd thickened his eyes on fire leaped from his place sense of things the voices about him in ticians face churches of a metropolis the first days of the cam- pleasantness leave Baldwin’s Now and then the leaders made des-- In his delegation still boasts and started across seemed far away and vague he felt saw him fleck a flake of ash from the a police station with more arrests on paign called upon him Underwood perate attempts to trade himself detached as It were from all harrying the chairs for Nolan The big' was pleased to lend them money Just white waistcoat he wore with his sum- its blotter than any other in the world offering him everything for keeper gave him a look out of his that 'ad gone before But as he pressas he was pleased to comply with the mer suit of blue and snapping the lid Night after night with Nolan’s two seven votes Simmons himself In tie eye His left shoulder his ed his way through the crowd that requests of 'certain others who organ- of his watch shut he once more heard candidates for the house he spent In his turn tried to induce each faction left fist tightened Grogan dipped halted blocked the entrance and plunged toized the John W Underwood First him say In a final and reproachful saloons where a candidate must treat to swing its strength to him "Vote Jimmie me lad" said Nolan ward the stairs he saw Baldwin Ward Campaign club and sent a com- tone: and distribute his cards that the boys But the situation remained unchangIn a soft voice mapping the red band on his white mittee to inform him that they were "Well all right sorry my boy” may size him up ed “Underwood!” said Donahue in t brow Baldwin recognized him and assembled in the club rooms ready to Underwood wondered that morning But they were balloting for perma- Once Nolan sent for Underwood and whisper His weak pinched hungry said with his everlasting smile transact business and beer only four In the noisy convention hall whether nent chairman now It would be He thought he) face turned appealingly toward to him Gro whispered 'Sorry my boy— next time!" q pop O Reform in the First q POD ?r h |