Show Q kz 1 1 P L I 1 U TR R top ry dav by DAVID I 1 D G author h of the th cost the e amuge muge ted IM by continued from 1 esst st week I 1 heard carlotta asking a woman in tle the box next ours the name of the woman the white alte plume planie in the big black hat in tho the seventh box on the other side mrs scarborough was the answer oh is that she exclaimed mrs sandys almost snatching her from me in her eal eagerness erness you 1 know who she wa was S J ohn john dumones Du monts widow you le ie member him she must have been an uncommon person to have attract attracted ea two such men but scarborough was nominated now nov lie waved aside those who tried to take him up tip and b bear ear him to the platform ile he v walked albed down the aisle alone and ascended amid a tense silence lie he stood looking calmly out ilis his face had lost its whiteness of a few minutes before As lie he stood there big and still a sort of embodiment of 0 fearlessness I 1 wondered and I 1 fancy many others were wondering whether he was wag about to refuse the nomi nomination nut but a an instants thought drove the wild notion from my iny mind ile he could not strike that deadly blow at his party fellow delegates said he a clear clean er more musical voice than his 1 hane never heard 1 I thank you for this lionor honor As you know I 1 opposed the platform you saw fit to adopt I 1 have nothing to retract I 1 do not like it dut but after all a candidate must be his own platform and I 1 bring my public record as proof of my pledge that lie he paused and the silence was tremendous ile he went on each word distinct and hy by itself if I 1 am elected a long pause 1 I shall obey the constitution another pause 1 I shall enforce the laws ito ile was descending the aisle before the silence was broken a feeble rippling applause significant of disappointment at what seemed an anticlimax lie he had merely repeated in condensed form the oath of 0 office which a president takes at his inauguration augu ration but somehow no doubt it ft was the magic of his voice and his manner and superb presence pie sence those bimble words kept on ringing and all at once full halt half a minute must have elapsed a long time in such circum stances all at once the enormous meaning of the two phrases boomed into the brains of those thousands if this man is elected there will be a president without fear or favor and lie he will really obey the constitution will really enforce the laws that little speech though only a repetition of an oath eib embodied bodied in our century old supreme law was a firebrand to light the torch of revolution of revolution back toward what the republic used to be before differences of wealth divided its people into upper middle and lower classes before enthroned corporate combinations made equality belbie the law a mockery before the development of our vast material resources restored to the intelligent and energetic few their power over the careless and purposeless many continued next week |