Show TT ii J V I Ii i C 41 Shoe P Pegged rU to a Governorship C 0 I i L r LT pt HB I etory NOT Ilor of Ut Ut ti nt conttI l n I for tor the of ot Matt MUIS I 1 I T I MI U It 11 dill did In InA InI Inthe j A te the of ot tit till I r mule William U I Douglan ot of j 1 r u ft 1 chapter politics oC of t D th 1111 history hillory h I of the ry v if It r the Ihl th Douglas campaign li Ii I II a I of Ut how ft II L clever cleer Yankee Yanke shoo hoo U tk HO ha hu literally d lila liU way WIY I the he gubernatorial chair of ot A t state tAlo for tor scholast scholastic M 1 I u II I stands tande proverbially ic 1 IL m ond nd erudition In Ita Its statesman di i 1 givers I jr it ed so 10 strong has his been the Re nee 4 t 4 4 e s VV 7 of a strange altogether force ore which one once It Mil lied gained lt momentum neither he hll nor any tny other human being could have stayed Mae Mad wined at al hIss hi el election For hours houri utter after It II happened ett could not believe that It had hUll really happened The Boston DOlI Ion newspaper that HUt port ed eU him mom mOIl n durIng the gasped too at lit his hla hl election and for Cor hourt held back their special editions with account of ot the landslide for tor the Democratic candidate Hven Eoll vot they thy doubted th the evidence of ot own reports upon theIr pet peL aun oan A POLITICAL If It It U scorned to nil thoe V V V V V l i I 1 t t i Y tY i 1 Y 1 t I Is Ij Y I J x s I a J r 1 si i y 1 4 y 1 4 I 1 t I b I i 1 I 4 t rr i ii j I I I I c ct I i I l I I Y t l I I Y 1 Y 1 i 1 Y YI I I I 1 gS j I Y V t i III IIII I I Y I Y z s y 1 i iI i y I ii iiI I 1 id I j 0 fo I w V L 1 DOUGLAS t of ot Massachusetts m In hit thIll campaign that thai cv eve ve i 1 ther Candidate both bolh elate and na nat nai i t MR IIRI v who ho received a plurality ot of votes votis A 1 S ii 1 The state whIch i t 14 t th I i iI i l hy by a i of over oVir Govel i iJ J hi ht i L I Betea I Republican i i f t i i CIt dat a plurality of ot otI J I vit It ten M for tor Roosevelt over Parker MUM w is IH a single lingle other lither Demo Demoi i it mi 1111 ill tin thit stute ticket who was we nut hot hotI iio I h ly hUlled under thu 1 all al 1 UL lL lLA V A nan Mill then sih 11 William L Ll l III at in II 1 to tu an office uh luch as oe asK Il t It K of ot un on ont t 1 s so III fill far from fromI I odium must of necessity l hll i tiling of C un 1111 III M tilt New ew York Hoi aid One Ono us rea usI i jl that due uh h a i 1 man must musti i j I ni ed of oC more moru then than the average j i jut n of nf f Yankee wit It and shrewdness c I It t M I have ha accomplished no co much mich un on IM j I F 1 so 10 10 eQ l 11 Ii t 0 his hili hI nry ambition and project I h Ii must have In him of or ie ge 11 J And yet ct tt a careful study of ot the tho thoi thel i III l t I at cloie Io t range In hi the light of ot a ai 1 i 1 know ledge of ot the true Inward of or his recent election will not 1101 bear mih Uh Ih u a 1 theory In the light bight of ot ti II tarts fat that are Ire dally daily re ro roH ret t H Iv i ri r new and Important accretion It i perms that William L I Douglas fur far fru being a U III only the tI victim If It all 11 these henchmen grasped gaped lt with a lIa their surprise wa Was as SC to 10 that of ot the shoemaker r of ot That h he should have wake up the Ih morning after election to 10 the lb c choun hot en governor of ot the ho state of Will wee undoubted undoubtedly ly I as 55 great creal a surprise an all It was Wa to every everyone everyone everyOne one of the th men who cut their vole vol for tor him on the eventful day dllY pre coding They have a 1 sa aying up In etta that thai as Hull JO S HO gOC pos the Ih state The state lilt OH IH every overy schoolboy Is III a of or tile lie aJl 21 party It lias 1181 uIT In teon counted upon to 10 cast cui a heavy vote vole for tOt the Ih purls presidential candidate Its III IL great its to great orators In III fact the hone bone and marrow of ot Its it po political life lite have bays been bach The little town lown of ot Hull Bull carts not quite 00 votes vole nil all told lold and jf It there thore Is III I such Much a It thing as n a Democrat Demo within 1111 lt corporate limits he IH le not known In defiance denance of or all ill tradition Hull huh r cl cIc RepublIcan Hull the state elate political political cal barometer split Us te ticket to u a man thin year ear and cast a 1 unanimous vote ole for tor forthe forthe the Democratic nominee the Drockton shoemaker It ft would seem Indeed that there thero wan wa truth In tho the proverb every tra traditionally Republican city and town toun In Inthe Inthe the state stale did follow tollow the tho example of Hull From rom And Plymouth Rock Hock to In the Ihl J III 18 north east Baal south and Ind wet WINt Mn B split the th I ticket In favor of ot of ot one ona II L Man lall Who Will VilI Become the IIII of ot ls a 1 Couple of Weeks IVic And Who WID Was Vas Elected as a by h J a Cl Plurality of 0 35 no III in a State Thai Pia jaw Jac a l Plurality of 0 1 lolls ICIS ails iia Ih Slaty of His Lift and ami amiR Recent R ell car are ct of Industry n 4 n I nan man only rind elected him hilt by b a i iI doue dOUB I on plurality over hair own candidate Ida to entering Into InlO consideration of nt ofha ha the spectacular m of ot electioneer r rInK lug InK adopted by b the J campaign management It i may b hi bot to 10 Settle Ittle the Inc In hi the readers mind b by iy telling him hl that there U Is only one W WI V I 11 Douglas D and und that ho Is IB ui same came gentleman whose whom who fibs greet rata them Khem no 10 frequently and 10 co In Iii fa ta I The Th splendid enterprise displayed In the conduct of the campaign ln gIves Ie lh to If the theory Nover In sill nil nilis its III is lIsle has the au auStere old trUe of ot I lunette tl wen en such auch u it Ion of ot electioneering tradition traditions nit All tint thAI set net In motion l hy by y this ilio m ker of Brockton who Is 9 Incidentally u it multo Ir mid 1101 It hAnk bank president with Ith a political ex ox which has hu Included a state ami antt the lie mayoralty of oC hie his tome town HIS ills START STAnT IN LUCK anil alIst prosaic MB William L 1 I Douglas dally daily routine may appear to day his hili early earl curser career It is full Cull of or inherent romance not unmixed with adventure Ills 1111 father fa was 11 a liar and wu iva w drowned at III sea aea when tie the little boy bo WIlliam waa Wal five 1111 yean old Left Lell to the and nd care CUI of ot his hie mother rno hr who a Ii large lurge family of children with no If meant of or support the boy bo wag bound hound out at al the lie a RitA RC n of or seven leven to Mi hll uncle und who had a IL cobbler shop chop hof In Pl Ph mouth Itle uncle iscle WM WILl a 11 hard harl toaster made him bUst work from sunrise to sunset sunnet t He pegged he hl went Into Inlo the Ih w wooda Hd dl to cut and prepare fuel for tor torI two I wo urea he ha dill did what t he had to do dowell dowell well but III for tor four tour yeara years he lie led a ml mi mis miserable erable weary weal suffering Buffering all the of at a lonely childhood chillI hood with 1111 non none or of Its Ita II joys joy For brief period each y year elit ar ho hn wan waK allowed to stop ato pegging long enough eMU lilt to attend school where here he secured the tha of an fan n education which li lihas he has 1111 In Inter years tall added to by rending radIn and study At 1 eleven he hll returned to tobin bin mother lit uncle un ll thou then made a 1 proposition that Ihal he h would Ilow the boy hoy boya 6 a month and anti his keep If It ho would return to 10 the cobblers cobbler and barc barche he went to 10 the Ih unremitting drudgery Por Jor another tour four year ho hp d ho uncomplainingly much aol saying little hIttIe method of or procedure which IB II ly Iy of ot the man today toda At AtIS 16 IS he pot get a Job jtb which at the till time up ap p I pareil II a In III the way Wll of nf wages RII Kor a t wage of or 13 as 8 cent cente a day I he left off olY pegging and nd went to 10 toa toa a cotton will In Plymouth 1 where I a 1 a f tf few w months work walk he broke lit ht his log leg Ip In Inan InIn an sn accident and was laid up Ip for tor tile the rest rent of ot the winter win Once more inure able to hobble about on nn he returned to the Ing In trade Retting getting a job at South Brain UtIn Braintree tree Ir where shere for tor the ensuing thre year lIar earv he learned the details of ot the craft cratt In an III which wan wall consIdered a Urge one olle In III laYs days He was wag now In Ida his hI nineteenth year yeartie He tie threw th down don his awl and ami hlll his lioe ho i k kels rs last ast and started out wept walt In lii a R prairie schooner r which hl h took tonk him HI is tar fur furs tarIS riB IS s Iowa whore he worked Intermittent I y nt at his trade tralle while trying to gather u clent tn to carry carr him him to Call CaU fornia The spring of ot ISM 1 aw paw him a 11 team Into Inlo the th city rilY of Denver Ioner I oner after nUn a IL MO td mile walk behind the lumbering from Neb IllS 1113 AllIED Ho JIo tired of ot nenver and In n a few 1 drove bit lita h ox qC Q team back biCk again eln I to 10 Us I appointed with the Ihl world and ond with life Itt In hi general and with hI mAtt nfl nd hi bl his lu k In par I titular No sooner had iad I lit unhitched I hit his weary oxen oven ofle nv mill ms i in lii Nebraska than he hi LI took look another BuMen notion to togo go 10 0 I h i m ju J 1114 of ot Montana WIN Ware the objective point and to 10 gut gui ut the there IL II UK un m Ill s sto 41 to 10 the that lay la between him and Dt Dewel v His HI Eons gIvIng out on this tola journey journy and his hll funds having entirely nUrel disappeared he reentered re U on foot Coot but without nil his on O te turn un Hue Ule he was wat a ft taw raw New England shoemaker without nv without without Wends frienda more than miles mil fro from home hom un us U III I In u it 1 coun COUll coUntry try tr that thu tad hall more mon u cobblers cobble bbl i than Ihan It U could gIve five Iv wort wont tn t U It 1 wits the spectacle of t a oun mini gunS west Welt to sock tuek fortune while n R darling one was Ws WI lying 1111 at horn home for tor hIm biro I 20 ao miLes of the allot h he ha was Wa k orn Duck Back at al lost lat he h earn came tu to Plymouth I tiller titter a 1 lapa lapie of ut tour four yum penniless and ami weary war Balk Baik ID to CJ he h came cam settled MIt Id down mice lIlice more to 10 0 the work of ot pegging shoes and BUd before he ho had hid been beon g very erY loin he got lot married He H had no money mon y he had hi no particularly bright prospects of oC over having much more motley money mOlle but bul he h got 80 married all hl the Ihl tame same to 10 the th young girl trl of his hi choice Hies II Augusta AugustaT T lerry rry from up ill way wa at as they express IX pre It In lit thai country From hi hIs wedding du d day ua changed for Hill HIli Douglas oUI Thor was us for tor or him then no more nor lor wandering so nl more mo nio 0 menta menu of ot Indecision A he was Will and u ii 1 shoemaker he A uld hae have to tobe tobe be lit with it y yun ung wife to SupPort He lie 11 not ot only IN irs IfIll w nt st al aly but bul buthe buti he i began to In save lave money out oUI of ot his hll mea mis meager ger earnings He lie II gradually dually attained to the rank of at a foreman aol ami in lii UTO went wen I Ito to where lie he In the ensuing five years yeara the Ibe master of every very detail of ot the shoemaking In 1178 he borrowed tI a 11 l room feet teel and started out OUI aa as A II manufacturer on his hi own hook hoole and with this amount of ot borrowed capitol a as A nu nut I u us hn ha h hits hns hll built buill up U a I fortune tor tune Which Is it estimated to be In the thi hood 1001 of ot although the good fOod goodma ma mal of ot Mr Buchanan did not permit p no on much stress to 10 he hp laid upon his hi lift hIe 11 moneyed Interest during the stump limiting In the recent campaign oal l t I TUB TiL Im IlO E Cr I II I I Hut But It Is Ii I as lor rl that Mr Douglas bt om Iwer r t to Iii b be reck reckoned with In the he or the next nert four Cour years yeats or ra If perhaps 1111 It Ii I hl hi tile I young man B 13 H K Buchanan Who hat hail III i the man to 10 IM hi t looked Id to for tor develop development mint ment mn For Por Or to this young man min who wu vu several verB I years year ago ORO a NA York news newspaper paper reporter li is laid the credit of ot the victory It II was a I this Ihl young yo un man Inan who ho put the Douglas oulI flying wedge wede In tn motion and ami At who ho the and other spectacular features feature unprecedented In Inthe Inthe intile the tile conservative old Bay Ba state Ital The Tb first named feature t atur ws WU organ organised sd among amon the of tho the cotton cities and made a strong Iron appeal to their I Interests a unanimous vote vole for tor Its II candidate It was Will directed against Oni 00 Dates Dale who lest last year ve ye vetoed e toed the bill which prohibited the em employment nl plo of women and un children In the cotton colton on the tho night shift The bill had been strongly fought for Cor by the tabor labor unions union and anI ani Sir dr Ir Douglas stopped d dIn In lit at al the tho proper psychological moment nt at a moment when hen sentiment running u I high against pates nat wai wU w JIlt juit awaiting i tome some one Ulle urn to organise It Into Illta political effort The Democratic nominee had hall tortu fortu fortunately i natel for him already won u ii favorable refutation a I as an all employer anti and 11 U a sub friend of 01 labor laborA A OP OJ tAilOR LABOR While serving as at a tate state senator len tor he I had fathered the law creating the I board of ot arbitration and conciliation He Its had been Ih the first Massachusetts i manufacturer man to loin join with his hll employ i es pa a In III adopting arbitration In hit his tao fac factories I tories lorl more than Ihan 1000 men strikes are unknown 1 mil fla men mn are continuously employed No wheel hat has been no door hm hill I i been closed no workman has hns been laid off II fr for fur It IS years and among the thi Ib work working ing people pt of a that counts for rM II u great deil when whoa It II comes comei com tn In get getting lit ting little votes The consequence was wai that with cotton out of work In Fall FaIl river Lynn and Lowell the Douglas wedge swept the labor Me rte t of the state Th Fit barb cues cuel are aiso oso IO laid to te the Hie Ingenuity of ot tile the young newspaper mull nil II In their way they were wen quite at as effective aa U the niece more I and mere highly organised Douglas J lying flyIng wedge The barbecues with their smoking toast ox their savory vory coffee coffett their pumpkin plea pies and slid sausage did for tor the farm tum folk what the lying Hying wedge did for tot the people of the Ih cotton I It on cities and an 1 what flying Hying wedge and barbecue missed ml td was wu caught on the Ihl win by b the migratory url brass band with lIh their transparencies In wake and anil by the vivid eight sheet posters wl 11 which every highway and line lane In the th Ih I state flute was wa ond and the moat matt prom print mont feature of which was waa the i I fact face fae of ot the shoo shoe hog box boxA lOX lOXA A mt kindly kind I pleasant face lull hat Mt Mv II 1 PI K Klas tr las 11 shrewd as II becomes a thorough i F I Yankee born and asid all bred In the good goodtown i 1 i town lown of The eyes are art 11 I blue blu clear and well set the eyes r n a aman man who It is I scrupulously honest M 1 though the face tarp Is Ii I 16 1 years lor older t 1 n the familiar portrait there Is II not parent any Rn change chane Were It IL not f fr r the snow white hair which fing Oln a IL prominent baldness one |