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Show MR. O'HARA, LEFT IN CHARGE BY JOSEPH P., DISCUSSES 'HIS PLANS "Mo son," said Mr. O'Hara, "from now on, whin 3ez come hero to sco me, yez will be under tho nccissity of Binding Bind-ing 3-our card in an' announcing vour business. "For why? navn't yez heard that Joseph F. has wint to tho Sandwich islands an' lift mo in charge av th' works? That's win, an' there's going to be several things dono differont on th' job while I'm on it. "I havo full authority, barrin' tho instructions I havo to deliver to Reed in Washington an' th' bunch hero, an' while tho boss is from home, mo word's law, see? "Thoro'o .been siveral things happen sinco 3'cz woro hero th' last time, but our policj. av course, niver changes. "Tho killing off av th' bill Saturday bo th' committee, av course, is wan av Ihim, but there's nothing new about that becauso ivry wan know it was to come off that way, or some other, an' when th ' gang comes to me an' wants to know how to do it, I gives thini th' old man's last word, which cays: 'I don't cavo how yez do it, sa long's it's well done. Yez can give it chloroform chloro-form or take th' meat ax to it :f yez want,' ho says, 'but it must bo dead whon yez get through,' ho sayg. "Av course. I give thini th ' benefit av mo advice in th' matter whin Fussy ask's for it, an' that is like this: There's no uso in makiu' a public show av an3'thing in politics, 'I sa3-s, whin there's an' easier way, I says, nn' all yez havo to do is notliing at all, I saj's. Thero 's sioral av th' state sinntors who's crazy to kill th' bill, I says, an' all yez 've got to do is to keep your hands off an' leave thim kill it, I says. Av courso, they acted on me advice, an' yez can see th result. Tho Ultimatum to Reed. "Th message th' old man left for Reed was for him to go along makiu' himself famous, th' way he's oeen do- fit ' Hcbor J. to Bo Disciplined. ing, taking lunch with Tidd3, and making mak-ing speeches about trees an' things, but to keep his mils off things in Utah, except by special instructions. "I telegraphed th' message to him, but there was trouble over th' business av this bill, becauso Itoed wanted to butt in, just as soon as th' old man lift; but mo answer '11 hold him for a while I gnoss, an' th' uixt timo ho wires to any av th' bunch about business busi-ness at this end av th' line, I think he'll wire me instead. "lie had th' nerve to wire Spry in-stid in-stid av me, concerning th' way' this bill was to .bo killed in th' sinate. and Spr3' 6int mo th' message, becauso he was afraid to do anything else, an' I wired Reed to ring off or pack his grin an' get ready to como home an' cultivate culti-vate his dwarf fruit trees, which showed signs of pinin' for him. "Th' most troublesome feature av mo new job so far has been Apostle Ileber J. Grant, who's gone nuts over this prohibition business, an' I had to disciplino him sovere. "Av course, I knew I could control con-trol th' matter in th' sinate this time, but if old Grant kept fussing around, holding wimin's- meetings an' other kinds of gabfests, I didn-t know what we'd be up against some time, so I had to pin tho twinty-three- badge to him an' give him a mission in th' countr3'. "His health isn't th ' best anywav, an' I'm strong on th' fresh air 'an' mental suggestion cure for him an' I'm treating him at a distance meself. "I've have hnd organized espcciall3' for th' purpose an' old ladies' soc.ict3' JDour UAHT r Hulaiiiski Takes the Count. for th ' study av th' interesting science av th' .best methods av incubating eggs, an' I've siut llebcr J. down there to bo th' prisident "av that, an' gel some 1 healthful fresh air an' disciplino at th'j samo time. Bad Politics. ".T attinded th' banquet av th' traffic traf-fic association th' other night at the Commercial club an' noticed a few things th' lynx-eyed reporters for th1 papers overlooked, thnt was very interesting inter-esting to me. "wan thing I noticed was thJ fact that I'll soon find it inc jut" to the old man, an' for th' good av th' state, 1 to give Spry some correspondence demo . on th' gentle art av dipJomac3 Ho shouldn't use such expressions as I 'throwing th' hooks into the railroads,'' Tt's slang, in the first place, an' out' av placo, coming from the governor, at a dinner like that, an', beside?, it's con-' sidcred raw in th' best, political circles, i It has 11 tinfloncy to make the ".old chills creep up th' Bpinc av th' railroad managers, an' makes them get ready; to head things off in th' legislature, because thim is shrewd min, an' ihcy'vo I dono business with- politicians before, j an' wbincver they hear a politician sn3 i 'I he don 't want to throw th ' hooks into 1 em', it's pretty good evidence that j there's going to be a shako-down pulled 1 off pretty soon. "Take rue friend Hulaniski, for in- 1 stance. He's au old-time traffic man-; agcr, an' he's nixt to about all h.'i schemes to get th ' monev bo th ' po- liticians. an.' whin Mr. Babcock, who I was making a speech, was busy gct-; gct-; ting traffic for tho D. & R. Or. here, . th' enptaiu was getting th' goods tori th' U. P. Th' caplaiu listened mighty! careful, I noticed, to ivry thing that ; was said to iveryono, then Spry sprung that con' talk about not being anxious j to 'throw the hooks into th' railroads,' Mr. Caruiou Discovors tho Wino. whin he wint again th' .back av Lis chair an' took th' count. Privately he told me yisterday that whoever spread th' report that ho wint to sleep at that time wa3 slandering him. Cannon Was Dry. "Another thing I noticod was th'j fact that whin Mr. Cannon, th1 martyr, j who 'so suffered so much for th' power 1 an' glory av lh' church, took his seat1 at th' board, a waiter who maybe was j onto his job, or ma3'be did 11 't kiiow who th ' gintleman was, poured him a glass of that claret with th' bubbles lift in it. I know Cannon was dr3' I eouid tell from th' wishful look 110 sint towards to-wards th ' wine, an ' th ' last I .-aw av th' wine ho was still looking at it, an' it was bubbling that cheertul way it has an' whin I looked again th' glass was omnt3 Ma3'.bc ho tipped it over wid his elbow, I dtinuo. "STow, me son, I'm expecting some av th' gang to blow up this way an.y time now, an' th' business is important, so you'll havo to fado away. "That utilities bill? Am" I going to mis in that? I guess yez don't know me verj well 3et. me boy. That's just what I'm expecting to hear from now. |
