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Show A BLACKBURN STORY Senator Blackburn tells1 a good story about a man who grew tired of "holding "hold-ing his conscience in abeyance." "This conscience stricken individual," says the Senator, "had been a cow attorney at-torney for a railroad, his duties being to resist claims brought for cattle that were killed on the track. He was full of all kinds of artful dodges, and was successful in saving the railroad company com-pany many good dollars which would have been paid out for 'genuine Jerseys.' Jer-seys.' However, the company had a disagreement with the attorney, and he was dismissed from the service, whereupon where-upon he became a very active and zealous zeal-ous promoter of like claims for the other oth-er side. One day as he was addressing a Jury in a Justice court he grew very severe, not only upon the company but "the lawyer representing it. Finally the Tailroad's attorney grew tired of the tirade ti-rade and threw the fellow's record at him. This you know is sometimes done by politicians as well as lawyers. The fellow winced atd said he acknowledged that for four years he had resisted Just puch claims, 'but,' said he, 'for these four years I held my conscience in abeyance, abey-ance, and now it has broken loose. I regret my acts, and propose to get every dollar I can for my clients.' " |