Show OVERTURNING BOSSISM Ono One da fla lay along don toward the autumn of 1904 a young man drove down the tho hilly Main Mam street in n N. N II H. and stopped in front of a lawyers lawyer's of of- fice ice Ho lIo had barely turned 30 years r rs and ho looked very boyish but ho lie holad lad bad an air niT of quiet determination that would have haye singled JM him out in a crowd In n the of tho the building ho lie met methe the th he man he was seeking the seeking tho local Republican Republican Re Re- publican hose boss ono one of that far faT reaching railroad ring that extended to the re- re sections of the commonwealth J 1 want to run for the le legislature sad ad the young man You You cant Bob Boh was the reply he be jot got ot It Itis is nil all fixed In time you ouma may he be e allowed to run tJ But suppose the people want me persi persisted ted the young youn man The lawyer lawver laughed There Thore iR ii sueD such thin I the no thing as people peo pIe in this state he said Tho The young man made marle no threats but ho tM next day ho bo began to visit the farmers in the county He Me told them thorn that hat ho was going to have hac his namo name put up OJ in the tho caucus the use usef they thep said Its Hs all an dried cut and Its worth trying If you will win only come conic he be ur urged The ni night ht of the caucus was cold old and drizzly just the kind of wea weather hor to keep teop the farmers at home bv by their com corn stoves lIt and firesides But a n good many showed up greatly to the tle surprise of the bosses who had been he-en in iD in inthe tho the habit of putting their program prow through h with a l handful of nf henchmen Moro More surprising s than this was tho the young mans man's nomination on the tho first ballot Thus Robert Perkins Bass BaBS entered en en- into tb the politics of New Hampshire Hamp I shire thereby taking the tho first step toward toward to ward a n public career that makes hun him today a figure of nation wido wide interest and significance He is still in his hiM thirties still youth youthful ful in in appearance and enthusiasm am and h he sits flitS in the tho governors governor's chair at Concord Con Concord cord an executive of all aU the tho people The dent that ho hI made in the little local local lo 10 lo- lo cal machine machino on that rainy autumn night nigh of his Ilia first nomination on was merely th tho beginning of his crushing blows at th the tho corrupt and se seasoned political oligarchy y that had harl ruled the tho state for years In a arear a year rear ear when Republican candidates caudiel throughout hout the eastern states went wen down ilon under a Democratic landslide h lie Jle was elected by a comfortable m majority Now No-i the thc fact that Mr Bass is is 18 governor gov governor ov at an nn ago afro when most men nr are arc cutting cuttin their teeth in bi big politics is no not as important perhaps as 38 tho the lar largo larger r meaning of his position as a n link bo boo tween east and west in progressive Republican Re publican thought He lIe has made New Ne Hampshire touch shoulder with Oregon To him too more than to any other per son Hon ia is duo tho divorce of tho the railroad from politics The fIJO Tho |