Show 4 V I 1 V P ie IL T I 1 m ter SA L I 1 Mj jl ny ily DAVID GRAHAM author of III the cost the acci age etc elc led IM 13 courant I 1 opened one ole ot or tile linna cases glanced at him tor for permission took out a slip or of paper under the Ms it was covered notes in mrs burbanks writing of a reception given to liim him it at tho ilan u bract frers club in st louls louis three years before A lot of names after each sum reminders ct cf the standing and personal appear aphea vilce of tile hie lyan another slip taken at from the sarre same box contained similar notes ot of a trip ii montana eight years before wonderful I 1 exclaimed as the full ya kalua lue of ti these ase accumulations ironed in my mind 1 I knew that she was nis an ail extraordinary rr v woman oman now I 1 see that she had ro genius lillis for politics ills his expression cx a peering through thou b that eternal pose of his lis made macic me re rc nise lise my first judgment judg meat of oc his mourning for I 1 caught a glimpse of a real human dicing one who loved and lost lo looking oldrig ar grief ler ard pride and gratitude it if she lad left tile me two or thice years earlier ile he said in that solemn posing tone lose 1 I doubt if I 1 should have got one step further As it is I 1 may bo be able to so go on though I 1 have lost my staff what fantastic envelopes does man after lie ho has been finished by nature about bian himself self in his efforts to improve improve her handiwork physically even when most dressed we are naked in comparison with the en sva things that hide our real mental anti and moral selves fra from one cue another and from ourselves my campaign was based on oil the contents of those filing cates cases I 1 learned all the places throughout the west cities to towns centrally located villages where he had been and had bad made an impression and by simple end and obvious means we were able to convert them into centers of the burbank boom I 1 could afterward trace use we nemo randa the direct getting of no less than delegates to the national con lention prid and that takes no account of the vaster indirect value of 0 so much easily worked up genuine and nur bur bank sentiment the man of only local prominence whom burback remembered perfectly after a abin chance 0 o meeting yeas ye could have no doubt who ou ought ht to be the bartys nominee for president the national machine of our party was then in n the custody and supposedly in the control of senator goodrich li of new jersey lie iio had a reputation for machiavellian dexterity but I 1 found that lie was an accident rather than an actuality the domination of the great business interests over politics was the rapid growth of about 20 years the consolidations of business naturally producing concentrations of the business wo worlds ids political power in the hands of the few controllers of f tile the big railway industrial and financial combines goodrich had happened to be acquainted with some of the most influential of these business kings they naturally made him their agent for tho the conveying ot of their wishes and their bribes of one kind and another to the national managers of both I 1 pal ties they knew little of the details of practical politics knew only what they needed in their businesses and as ion as they got that it did not interest them what was done with the rest of the iho power their campaign contributions gave with such resources any man of rood good intelli intelligence jence and discretion could have got the same results as good lites was MIS simply a lackey rt rutting abd cutting a figure in ills his ina master s and under his masters I 1 name lie ile was pitifully vain of 0 ills his as a Macli lavell ali and a go between vanity is sometimes I 1 I 1 source of s cat strength hut but vainly of that sort and about a position li if chilli li secle y is the prime requisite could mean only eake ss throughout his bis ceat years of cor troi of oc our party it had had possession 0 of all depart morts of tile national administration except of the hoeme of 0 representatives during the past two years this meant the uninterrupted and unchecked of mhd interests to treat with consid oration file interests the strong men icen of the country they who must have a free hand for developing its resources to give them privileges and immunities beyond what can call tie be permitted the ordinary citizen or corporation that la is 1 a I course which however offensive to abstract justice still has as it seems to me a practical justice in it and at any rate must bo be pursued so long as tile the magacs of the voters are shortsighted short sighted burc aso ning arid and in nose rings to political machines A mans mails rights whatever they may be in theory are in practice only what he has the intelligence and tile the power to compel cut but for the sake of the nation for the upholding of civilization itself these over powerful interests should never be givon elvon their heads should be restrained as closely as may be to their rights thrle practical rights goodrich had neither the the patriot patriotism imn nor the roce fore ot of will f for or that matter to keep them within the he limits of decency and discretion blenco the riot of 0 plunder and privilege which revolted revolt fd and alarmed me when I 1 came to vi ashens clashing ton and saw politics in the wintry mintry wid 3 es history wide horizon of that viewpoint view point probably I 1 should have blei mole moie leisurely in bringing my plans to a focus had I 1 not sf bon on how great creat and how near was the peril to my party it seemed to me not indeed a perfect or even i a satisfactory satis factory but the best ava available flable instrument for holding the balanc balances ts of order is as oven even ai aa might be between our count rys ys two opposing elements clements of disorder tho the greedy plunderers and the ra rapidly P idly infuriating fur furia lating ting plundered plunder vil and I 1 saw that no 0 time was to be lost it if the party was ins not to lie he blown to fragments the first iines of the storm were in n our summary ejection from control of the house in the midway clec election if tho the party were not wo to be dismembered I 1 must oust goodrich aust defeat t his plans tor for nominating cromwell must munt nominate burbank instead it if I 1 should succeed sa in electing him I 1 reasoned that I 1 could cod through him carry out my policy ol of moderation bild practical patriotism to yield to the po powerful weful few a minimum of what they could compel to give to the prostrate but potentially potent fally powerful many at least enough to keep them quiet a the world may be advanced but patriotism stilt still remains the art of 0 restraining the arrogance of full stomachs and the anger of empty ones jn in cromwell goodrich believed he be had a 1 candidate with sufficient clent hold upon the lie rank and file of the party to enable him to early cam the election by the usual means a 1 big campaign fund properly distributed in the doubtful rates I 1 cald to senator scarborough of In indiana lana soon after Cromuel ls candidacy was announced what do you think of man scarborough blough now new to the senate then had chown himself far and away tile the ablest able at of the opposition senators lie ile had bad as much intellect as any of ct them and li hi had what theorists such as he usually lack at grand tactics the management of men in the mass id ills s one weakness antl that from my lily standpoint a great one was a literal belief in democratic institutions and in fit tho the inspiring but in practice pernicious principle ot of exact equality before the law political sponsors was his reply are two aa shrewd d bari barkers kers as there here are in new boik I 1 have heard it said that a fitting sign for a bank would be here wo we do nothing for cor nothing for nobody an admirable admira blo summing up of candidacy and I 1 kne knew v that it would so appear to the country that no matter how great a corruption corrupt lon fund goodrich might throw into the campaign v we e should in that tinis time or public exasperation he ba routed it if cromi crom well was our cur standard bearer so lit utterly routed that wo we could not possibly get ourselves together again for S perhaps 12 years there might even be a realignment alignment re of parties with some sort of socialism in control of bf one of them if control were to be retained by the few nho K ho have the cap ital arid and the intellect to make effi clent the nations resources and energy my project must be put through at once I 1 had accumulated a fund of for my presidential notation flotation half of it contributed by roebuck ir in exchange for a promise that his son inlaw in law should have an ambassadorship if burbank Hill bank were elected the he other halt half set asido by me from the re serve I 1 had formed out of the year by year contributions of my combine by the judicious ilav investment estment of that capital I 1 purposed to get burbank the nomination on the first ballot at least of the odd delegates la in a national convention tile the delegates area are arc roughly speaking about evenly divided viled Il among the three sections of the country a third from east of the a third from a iron from south it was hopeless tor for us to gun for delegates in the east tha was tho the especial cial balli bailiwick of seri ator goodrich the most we ve could do thero would bo be to keep him occupied by quietly encouraging courage cou raging ging any anti cromwall sentiment and it existed a plenty our real error effort st were to he be in the west and south I 1 organized under woi wm druff a corps of about 30 traveling artents nen ts each man mail knew only his 0 wit own duties k anoa new nothing or of the general plan not even thai was a general plan each yas was a trained political wok er a per foual soual soul I 1 lot r er of ours I 1 raye them their instructions instructions woodruff equipped them with the necessary cash during ill be h next aest eve bivs mcilwin were incessantly on the go dealing with nith our bartys machines where v tury coul could CA setting up rival machines in promising localities where goodrich Co odrich controlled the regular machines us ing money here diplomacy there both yonder promises 0 of o patr patronage oLage everywhere such was my apartment department of so clecy at the licad head of my department of publicity I 1 put do milt alit a sort of cousin of s and a newspaper man inan ile he attended to the news agencies ile he and three assistants wrote each neck many columns of boom matter all of which was carefully revised by burbank himself it went out as syndicate letts letters it if Clo goodrich odrich been ignorant of conditions west of the alle and confident that ills his will was law he would have scented out this department of publicity of mine and so would have seen into my notation but he be knew nothing beyond his routine I 1 once asked him how country newspapers mere were in the united states and lie he said oil oh I 1 dont know P perhaps or even had bad I 1 enlightened him to the iho extent of telling him that there were about five times limes that number ae S e mi i P ari t arl ry r A Y 4 X 7 J irv f m ap ah tz i I 1 I 1 senator this burbank none honec ss has acne fr en elgh he v haver have profited profit cd nothing had lie ho been able to see the importance of such a fact to capable political management he would have learned it long iong before through years of constant use of the easiest avenue into the heair of the people H HP did riot not wake up lip to adequate action to until the fourth of that group of states whose delegations to our national conventions were habitually bought and sold broko broke its agreement with him and instructed its delegation 9 at to vote for burbank Dur tank by the time he had a corps of agents in those states doe doc wood I 1 liar had I 1 acquired more than a hundred delegates goodrich was working only through h the regular machinery of the party parly and was fighting against a widespread vide spread feeling that cromwell cad aad pro babb babij be elected we tye on the other hand were man manufacturing af faatu ring pre ident lal sentiment tor for a candidate who was already popular nor had goodrich Gc odrich much advantage over us with the regular machines anywhere except in the he east just as I 1 was myself that nothing could happen to prevent our triumph at the convention roc buck telegraphed rae rac to come to chicago I 1 found with him la in the sit ting room of his suite in the audi tori urn annex partridge d e and granby next to ahra the most important members of my combine since they were the only ones who had interests that extended into many states it was after an uneasy silence that granby the uncouth one of the three said senator we brought you here to tell you cu this burbank nonsense has gone tar far enough CHAPTER XV mutiny it was all I 1 could do not to show my astonishment and sudden fury 1 I dont understand said I 1 L in a tone which I 1 somehow managed to keep down to tranquil inquiry but I 1 did understand it instantly came to io rao me that the three had been brought into line for cromwell by their powerful business associates in wall street probably by the great bankers who loaned them money swift upon pon tile the surie surge of anser anger I 1 had suppressed essed before it named fl am e d at a t the surface S ur came a stir surge e of triumph which I 1 also suppressed I 1 had often wished perhaps as a matter of personal persona this opportunity and here it was cromwell must be nominated said granby in his insolent tone le io had but two tories tones the insolent and the cringing hes zafe safe and sound burbank trusted in the east and we i like his conduct last year I ile he le caters to the demagogues roebuck through his liking for me I 1 imagine rather than through refined instinct now began to speak disguising his orders as re quests 1 I waited until he had talked himself out I 1 waited avith the same air of calm attention until partridge had given me his jerky jephy variation I 1 waited still apparently calm until the silence must have been extremely un comfortable for therm them 1 I waited until granby said sharply then it is settled yes said 1 I keeping all emotion out or of my face and voice it 1 Is settled aled ex gov burbank i is to be norn nominated 1 I am at a loss to account for tills this out brehl i Ilo however wever I 1 shall at once take measures to prevent its oc crr cerins ins agala good d day y and I 1 was vas gone straight to the tha train I 1 did not pause pausa at fradonia onla but wont went on to the capital the next morning I 1 had the legislature and the attorney genera at work demolishing grandys Gra Gran abys bys busness business in my state for I 1 bad selected him to make anike an example of incidentally because he hall had insulted me but chiefly because he was tile the most notorious cf my ten tea was about the greediest gre ediest and cruelest cruel cst robber baron in the west my aly legislature was to 0 o revoke his charter charier my attorney nicy general was to enforce upon him the laws lans lan s I 1 lad had put on the statute books against just such emergencies ard and it had never entered their swollen heads beads that I 1 might have taken these precautions that are arc lu in the primer of political manag management ament my three s pursued me to the capital capita missed me were standing breathless at the door of my lily house near Fic Fie donia donla on tb the morning of 0 the third day I 1 refused to be seen until the afternoon of the fourth day and then I 1 forbade granby but when J 1 I descended to the reception i room oom ho he 7 rushed at me tried to take my hand pour irr out a stream of sickening apologies I 1 lang the bell when a servant appeared 11 1 I said show this man mail the door I 1 |