Show plum IT I 1 by DAVID G W ap 11 ff author os of the cost lf the delig etc jy I 1 HOB by botas continued from last week CHAPTER XVI A victory for the people I 1 arrived at calca chicago 0 o the day before the convention and going at once to our state headquarters in ili the great northern shut myself in fit with doe doc woodruff my doorkeeper the mern mem her of the legislature from fredonia Fre donla ventured to 10 interrupt with the an no that a messenger had come from senator goodrich let him in ili said sad I 1 As the doorman door man disappeared doc glanced at his watch then said with a smile you ve been here seven ini minutes and a half bait just time for a lookout downstairs to 10 telephone to the auditorium arid nd for the messenger to drive from there here goodrich is on 03 the anxious seat ii il ll 11 right the messenger was goodriche Good richs handyman handy man judge dufau I 1 myself have always frowned on these public exhibitions of the lie intimacy of judges in practical politics but goodrich had many small vanities he liked his judges to hold his coat and his gov arnois to carry hs his satchel ane one would say that such petty neak weaknesses nesses would be the undoing of a man maa fortunately tuna tely we are not as weak as air weaknesses but ps is strong as our SL Length and while the universal weaknesses wea nesses are shared by the strong their strength is peculiar and rare after dufour had introduced himself himsel and we had exchanged commonplaces ne said senator theres a little conference of sonic some of the loaders leaders at headquarters and it complete without you so senator goodrich has sent scat me over to escort you thank you very courteous of yo you I 1 and of him said I 1 without hesitation hesitate ton for I 1 k knew no w what hat was vas coming as s soon con its ais ills his name had been brought in and my course was laid out but I 1 cant leave just now please ask him if lie he wont come over any time within the next four hours bout s this blandly and a sign that I 1 v was as con of dufour s stupefaction for his vanity made him believe that the god the great dufour knelt to must bo be the god of gods there is no more important bran branch lf i the art of successful dealing with men luen than llian the etiquette of who sha I 1 call upon whom many a man nan has I 1 in i his 1114 very hour of triumph ruined h hs 3 cause with a blunder there by going tu see some one whom he should ha have ve compelled to corns come to him or by compelling so some ine one to come to him when ile he should have made the concession of f going I 1 had two reasons for thus humiliating goodrich feilner of the reasons lie ho doubtless attributed to me the desire to feed iny sly ay iy fi fist first st reason was his temperament I 1 knew his having to conic come to me would make him bow before me in as he be was a tyrant ana and t tyrants yra 11 ts are always cr ingers my second reason was that I 1 thought myself near enough to control of the convention to be 10 able to win via control by creating the atmosphere of impending success there is always a lot of fellows who wait to see who is likely to win so that they may be on tho the side of the man mail in the plum tree often there are enough of these to gain aln the victory for him who can lure them over at just the right moment As soon rs as dufour had taken his huge body away I 1 said to woodruff go out with your men and gather ii the office downstairs as many members of the doubtful delegations as you can keep them where be bound to see goodrich come in and go out ile he rushed away and I 1 waited working g with the leaders of three far western estern A states at the end of two hours I 1 won them by the spectacle ot oc the arriving goodrich lie came in serene smiling giang giving rae me the joyously shining eyes and joyously firm f irn I 1 handclasp hand clasp of the iho politicians greeting not an outward sign that he would woud like to see me tortured to death by sonic some slow process then and there preliminaries were not merely unnecessary but even highly ridiculous yet so great was his anger and confusion that ile he began with the he prospects of an in old time tima convention ath old time enthusiasm and that generous rivalry which is the sign of party health 1 I 1 hope not senator saidi said pleasantly here we think the fight is over and won lie lifted ills his eyebrows but I 1 saw ills his maxillary muscles twitching we dont figure it out just that way at headquarters he replied but bill theres no doubt about it your man h 1 I s developed strength in n the west W est and south said I 1 with dell deliberate berato intent to laflame inflame for I 1 knew how he must feel about those delegates we had bad bou bous ot away from him there were teeth enough in ili his smile but little else 1 I think rii du bante bank and cromwell will be about even on the first ballot said lie he may the best man win were all working for the tha good of the party and the country lint but I 1 came rather to get your ideas about platform I 1 opened a draper in the table at it which I 1 was sitting and tool took out a paper weve embodied our ideas in this said 1 holding the paper toward h him I 1 in theres a complete platform plat forna but we only insist on thin th five paragraphs immediately after the preamble lie he seemed to age as he read in impossible n he finally exclaimed preposterous post erous it would be difficult enough to get any money for cromwell on such a platform well as our conservative men know they can trust win hm but tor for burbank you get a y IZ lz this Is a timely uncovering of a plot to turn our party over to demagoguery cent not a damn cent A rickety candidate on a rickety platform 11 what say I 1 made no answer may I 1 ask he presently went on has ex gov burbank seen this this astonishing document burbank had written it I 1 confess confes when lie ho first irs showed it to me it had affected me somewhat som as it was now affecting goodrich for a dealer with business men as well as with public sentiment I 1 appreciated instantly the shock some of the phrases would give the large interests dut but Burbank haa cot talked to me five minutes b before I 1 saw he was in the main right and that ills his phrases only needed a little toning down so that they rasp too harshly on conservative serva tive ears yes sir Dur burbank bank has seen it said 1 I he approves it though ot of course it does not represent ills his personal views or his intentions 10 as if mr NV Burba gurbach ulc approves this exclaimed goodrich red and tossing the paper ou on the table then my gravest doubts about him are confirm confirmed cd he is in an utterly unsafe man ile he could not carry a single state in the east where there are any large at capital c or enterprise not evea our yellow dog states stales TO BE CONTINUED |