Show kv PI L A R by DAVID PHILLIPS author os the cost the deluge delude etc lot tod am by T continued from last week he the lieutenant governor not to sign them as lie was returning turning and wished to deal with them bl himself insell lie ile readied reached the capital on a thursday morning sent the bills back with a 1 i fusing veto message and took the late afternoon train tor for colorado springs gs it was v as as good a political rand stand play as ever milled a people tho the legislature passed tile hills bills over his veto and adjourned alt night press and people wit J t regard to party lines wore were loud in ia their cons of the abandoned aid shameless wretches who ho had bad betrayed the state and ar d had bad covet covered ed themselves with eternal infamy I 1 quote from an editorial in the newspaper that was regarded as ray my personal organ nut but there was only praise for burbank ills enemies and those who had doubted ills ia la dependence and had suspected him of willingness to to do anything to further his pors personal onal ambitions admitted that lie had shown fearless fea iless courage inflexible honesty and the highest ideals of private sacrifice to public duty and they eagerly e exaggerated ag him to make his white contrast more vividly with the blacko of the satanic spawn in the legislature ills his tame fame spread carried far and wide by the send sentimentality men tali ty in that supposed struggle between heair and conscience between love for the wife of his bosoni bosom and duty to the people carlotta who like most women took no interest in politics because it lacks heart interest antei est came to me with eyes swimming and checks aglow Sli she eliad had just been reading about burbanks heroism lie splendid she cried 1 I always told you hed be president and you believe me be patient with me my dear said I 1 1 I am not a woman with seven league boots of intuition im only a heavy footed man CHAPTER XIII roebuck co pass under the yoke and now the stage had been reached at which I 1 aich my ten mut mutinous in ou s clients could be and must be disciplined As a first step I 1 reigned ned the chairmanship of the state committee and ordered the election of woodruff to the vacancy I 1 should soon have substituted woodruff for myself in any event I 1 had bad never wanted the place and had taken it only because to refuse it would have been to throw away the golden go den opportunity dunkirk so unexpectedly thrust at me holding that position or any other officially connecting me with my bartys machine made me a target and I 1 wished to be completely hidden for I 1 wished the people of my state to think me merely one of the party servants in sympathy with nith the rank and file rather than with the machine yet in the chairmanship in the tar target et ship I 1 must have a man whom I 1 could trust through and through and save woodruff who was there for the place when tiny my resignation was announced noun ced the independent and the opposition press congratulated me on my mtr high principle in refusing to have any official connection with the machine responsible for such infamies amies when woodruffs election was announced it came as a complete surprise such stich of the newspapers as dared and they were vere few denounced it as amys crown of infamy as I 1 had known it would be lie he made not a murmur buti knew what must be in ills his mind I 1 said nothing until six weeks or two months had passed then I 1 went straight at him you are feeling bitter against me said 1 I you think I 1 dropped out villen there was danger of heavy firing and put you up to take it I 1 no indeed senator he protested nothing like that thal honestly I 1 have ha ve not had a lillier thought against you im depressed simply because aust just a as I 1 had a chance to got on my icet I 1 again they wont 1 II 11 me but I 1 rejoined 1 I did resign and pit put you I 1 in n m my y place because I 1 want to take the fire and thought you could I 1 and so I 1 can said he 1 I any to lose im no worse ot of than iban I 1 was before let iet I et em do their damnedest your first campaign will probably i lio be a failure I 1 went on and the day after election therell be a shout tor for your head ile he shrugged ills his eho Ehor im crill enlisted sted tor for the nar said he ha youre my general I 1 go where you order 1 I hope the feelings that surged up tip in me showed in my face as I 1 stretched out my land thank you yon doc said 1 I anil and theres another lide to it it all black it alst isn t black at 1 all 04 lie replied stoutly I 1 explained io ic wanted you to tave lave the plase place from the tha outset but I 1 I 1 dare give it to you except it at a time like this when our party has done so many unpopular things that ino no more wont count and theres so n much luch to be said against us its so much worse things than they can possibly maks make out your election to be that soon bo be almost neglected beginning to drop me al a 1 i teady eady and go co back to harrying those poor devils of ours in the legisla legislature tur e said woodruff A few weeks more 1 T went on and be safe nad and you are to stay chairman to no matter what happens when they have leisure to attack you oil thedell ell be nothing to attack the people will have dismissed the matter mailer from their minds they dont care to watch the threshing of old straw I 1 I 1 saw sav that I 1 had lifted a weight from him though he said nothing so much for rny my first move toward the ha chastening cha of ray my clients further and even more effective in the same direction I 1 cut down our campaign mud for the legislative ticket to one fifth what it usually was and without even woodruffs knowing it I 1 heavily subsidized the opposition machine wherever it could be lore done with safety I 1 arranged for the trading oft off of our legislative ticket for our candidate tor for governor the le legislature b is is hopelessly lost I 1 told woodruff we must concentrate on the governorship we must save what we ja ah 17 ig 7 it sp I 1 V P I 1 r I 1 11 rk let em do their damnedest Damned esl can in fact so overwhelmingly was our party in the majority and so loyal wei acie e its rank and file that it was not only by the most careful arrangement of weak candidates and of insufficient campaign funds that I 1 was able to throw the legislature to the opposition our candidate for governor walbrook burbank was ineligible to a second successive term was elected by a comfor comfort tabU abIr plurality and by the way I 1 saw to it that the party organs gave Woodi tiff enthusiastic praise for I 1 resau rescuing ing so much from what had looked like utter euln my aly clients had been uneasy ever since the furious popular outburst which had followed their breaking away from my direction and restraint wien when they saw an all opposition legislature they readily believed what they read in the newspapers about the impending reign of radicalism sillman silliman the opposition leader had accepted john markhams Mark Marh hams offer biter of for seat in the senate but I 1 directed him to send one of the wildest and cleT cleverest crest of the opposition radicals ile he dared not disobey TOO me went and markham larkham never saw again the lie he had paid silliman as a retainer lift 1 in the united states senate gave my clients the chills but I 1 40 was preparing the fever tor for them also I 1 1 had d man introduce blus bills in bo both th houses of the legislature that reached for or the privileges ot of the big corporations and initiated proceedings to expose ther corruption I 1 had woodruff suggest to governor walbrook fleat that in v view f c w 0 of fm tho lie popular clamor ho 0 ought ii g ht t to 0 re recommend c 0 belld measures for or equalizing taxal taxation an and readjusting read Justin the he prices for franchises As my clients were bonded and capitalized on the basis of no expense either cither for taxes or tor for frane franchises aises t alio c governors suggestion eagerly cau erly adopted by still mans horde foreshadowed foreshadower fore shadowed ruin it if the measures should bo be passed all the divi dividends dards and interest they wore were paying on water w would so go into the public treasury lly v clients came to me singly a and n d in pairs to grovel and to implore an interesting study ahse arrogant gentlemen ci L nade dc as they cringed crin sed Zed utterly indifferent to tho the appearance ot of self respect in their agony for their imperiled millions A mother would v shrink from abasing hei herself self to save the life of her child as these men inea a based abased themselves jl in tile the hope hop 0 of 0 f alv saving in their dollars ilow how they faland dav ap d ard and flattered they begged my par arz n for having a e disregarded carded my advice they assured in me that if I 1 would only exert that sade genius genitis of nine mine I 1 which lia had ad conceived the combine I 1 could devise sarno way of saving them from this tidal wave of 01 popular popit clamor tor for they hadit it a a alib suspicion P of my part in making t that ba t tidal wave reluctantly I 1 consented to va fie e what I 1 can do the instant change in the atmosphere of the capital the instant outry from the organs of both parties hat tile the people had voted for reform lot for revolution completed my demonstration 1 my clients cali zoil who was master of the ma aa hines aines the threatening storm rapid 3 y scattered the people believing that he silliman sill iman pro gramme of upheaval nas aas noi not to bo be carried out were glad to see the old conservative arder restored our people always reason that it is 13 better to rot slowly by corruption than to be frightened to death by revolution hereafter we must trust to your judgment in these political matters nat harvey said roebuck the manager must be permitted to manage I 1 smiled at the ingenuousness of this speech it did not ruffle me roebuck was one of those men laen who sy siy their prayers in a patronizing tone yes I 1 was master nut but it is only now in the retrospect of years that I 1 have any sense of triumph tri imph for I 1 had bad won von the supremacy inacy nith small effort comparatively with the small eal effort tort required of 0 him who sees the conditions of a situation clearly and instead I 1 of trying to combat or to change them intelligently I 1 uses them to ills ends nor do I 1 now regard my achieve achie achievement vc m e n tas as marvelous everything was in my favor agalise me there was nothing no organization no plan no knowledge of my aim I 1 wonder low how much of their supernal glory boull be left to the worlds men of action front from its alexanders an and napoleons apo leons down to its successful bandits and ward bosses it mankind were in the habit of looking at what the winner had opposed to him alexander faced only by flocks of chec sheep like asiatic staves slaves napoleon routing the badly trained wretchedly officered soldiers of decadent monarchies and the bandit or ward boss overcoming peaceful and unprepared and unorganized citizens who would erect statues or wl wilto to eulogies to a man for mowing a field of corn core stalks with a scythe scytha mankind Ian kind is never more amusing than in its hero worship no I 1 should simply have been stupid had I 1 failed dut even had bad I 1 been disposed to rein in and congratulate myself at the quarter stretch I 1 could not have done it A man has perhaps somo some choice as to his mount before he be enters the race for success but once in the saddle and off lie he must let the reins go his control Is confined to whip and spur CHAPTER XIV A A boom factor factory y in the early amuil of that last 3 bear ear of 0 his W as 1 governor governo r durbak burnaka Bur baka q w alf iro dlud d a i grim r 1 in and unexpected till willment fill ment ellen of the their r pretended anxieties 0 of f six ix months 0 nt hs before it was in some respects as great a loss to me ino as to him how great to us its both I 1 did not indeed could not measure until several years passe pass 1 d I sho she was what I 1 icard as a typical american wife devoted to her husband jealously guarding his interests yet as leen heen to seo see his shot shortcomings as e SQ 0 was to see her own and how much more P persistent and intelligent int elligant in in correcting her faults than he in correcting his like I ike most men he was vai that is while hs he would probably nave admitted in a large vague way that he perfect when it came iz 1 delav i i he would defend ills his worst fault against any and all crItIc criticism IAM I 1 like ike most women she tw too was vain but lin an intelligent womans comans vanity instead of making her self complacent somehow spurs her on to hide bide her weak points and to show her best points in the best light for example mrs burbank a pretty woman and proud of 0 it was yet conscious of her deficiencies in dress and in manners through her plain and rural early surroundings it was interest ing in and instructive too to watch her studying and cleverly copying or rather vi adapting carlotta for she took from carlotta only that which could bo be fitted without visible joint bolit into her own paL pattern tern latterly r whenever he never I 1 was urging upon burbank a line of action requiring courage or a sacrifice of some one of its his many insidious forms of personal vanity I 1 always arranged for i her to bo be present at our conferences and she would sit there apparently absorbed in her he sewing but in reality she was seeing not only the surface reasons I 1 save gave him but also those underlying and more powerful reasons which wo we do not utter sometimes because we like to play the hypocrite to ourselves again because we must give the other person a chance to play tho the hypocrite himself and us and often I 1 loft left him reluctant and trying to muster courage to refuse or finesse to evade only to find him the next day consenting perhaps enthusiastic alanes the time she spared me the disagreeable necessity of being peremptory doubly disagreeable because show of ever been distasteful to me and because an order can never bo be so heartily executed as Is an assimilated suggestion when I 1 went to him a month after i her death I 1 expected ho he would s still be crushed as he was at the funeral I 1 listened with a feeling of revulsion to his stilted and as it seemed to me perfunctory platitudes on his irro irre reparable loss stale rhetoric bout about her and to her most intimate and his I 1 had thought h iv id be imagining himself done tion forever I 1 had feared hi his strongly religious nature would lead him to sw sea a 1 I judgment upon him and her for having exaggerated her indisposition to gain a political poll point it and I 1 had mapped out what I 1 would boull rl say to induce him to go on instead after a I 1 few of those stereotyped mortuary sea bences he shifted shafted to politics and evv was presently showing me that her death had hardly interrupted his plantings ings for the presidential nomination A at tor for the judgment I 1 had forgo for ea i that in ills his le ie ligion his deity was always on his side and his misfortunes ere were n always of the evil one these lefties of men of action man alan als ais god a ventriloquist puppet li I 1 is bocket and with ills his conscience an old jog tray at his heels needing no load ng string however it gave me a jcck s ach reminder from JS urbank of tile tha slavery of ambition ambition the tha vice of vices for it takes its victims all moral mental physical and while other vices rarely wreck any but small men or injure more than what is within their small circles of influence ambition seizes only the superior and sets them on oil to use their superior powers to blast communities states na nations ions continents yet it is called a virtue nd ad men who have sold aba themselves to it and for it to the last |