Show S y LIU M tra 1 0 E 7 by Y davin DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS f A auldor au bior or of 0 1 I th the C cot cost t cdavid the I 1 D deluge elg etc laif BOBB continued from last week in january we had our big batteries loaded aimed and primed we un mamaed it and for jiuu nied filed I 1 had expected the othor side bido to art stupid I 1 1 t I 1 had not hoped for such stu ns as they exhibited burbanks Bur banka acar car of bathing bat liing in presidential flatter ies and of fawning on oil and cringing i i ille hie inuit ml illonal res a aej IJ their agents hedging hini him around had so wro right upon hint him that he had wholly lost iiii his point of view ani r h ho 0 1 let t his attorney lenvial 10 it I 1 the in proceedings oce edings this lu in it alie I 1 c face or of tho the great popular excitement and enthusiasm thusia sm it waa not until roa 1100 bucks lawyers got far enough into the case against him to see ills his danser that ihal tile the administration stopped g lu the teeth of the cyclone ut public sentiment and began beean to pretend enthusiasm while secretly plott linc the inist ital or of fergusons Fergus ons case aud not I 1 until the die united states stales attorney general a vain Good gondlich lich ci calure whose talents were crippled by liis his con enila for the rabble and derno don 0 o gog ici not until ho hie had it forced apon hini him that ilia fei fergnson guson could not tio he binter co inter winded did they bagin to treat villi me for peace I 1 shill shall not retail the negotiations tae taa 14 shut was that I 1 let the iho adain admin oration tri tion drop tho the criminal cases against roebuck in fit for tho restoration lest oration of my rower lower in the national committee of abe party to lo the smallest amal anial lest ejected postmaster in lite hie farthest state stale the civil action wa was pressed by ferguson vt with ith all his skill as a lawyer and a po popularity seeking politician and lie he aoa in the supreme court the lower fe federal court with its po cr trust judge had aeldred to hla h by dec decle 13 lag ing aist him roebuck was therefore there fori under the necessity of 0 going goina the customary forms of 0 outward obedience to the supreme courts order to him to dissolve lie he had to get at IIII 1111 ahle V expense and to carry out at bug huer ger a plan of 0 though h he was wa glad enough to escape thus lightly i he fie ossea it idled Ms his content con teil and grumbled so loudly that burban iv s s fears woe roused and arrangements arran geme n ts were made to placate him the scheme adopted was I 1 believe suggested by vice president howard as sh shrewd ewd and cynical a rascal as eyer lived in the mire without getting brantch or splash upon its his fine linen of oe respectability ability for several years there had jeen been a strong popular demand for a rev slon sion of the tariff the baity had promised to yield but lit had put off redeeming its promise now there arose a necessity for revising the larin in the interest of the interests of 0 tho schedules were too low protected articles which etheln tho interests wanted as ties law materials a few could bs be abon stica without or of sending any laige interests and with the eject of 0 punishing 9 some ones that 11 had ad been niggard in contributing to tile the campaign fund which maintains the standing army of po lotical workers and augments it alic when 11 ever a battle is on oil accordingly a revision of the was in fit progress to soothe roebuck they gave him a schedule that would enable him to collect each year more than the total of tile the extraordinary expenses to to I 1 had put I 1 him I 1 im I 1 roebuck forgave me and I 1 leally forgave burbank dilt but I 1 washed my hands of his administration not only did I 1 actually stand bland aloof but also I 1 dis associated maeir fiora it in the public mind when the crash should come as come it must with such men at the helm I 1 wished to be in a position success fully to take full charse charge for the work ork of repair CHAP CHAPTER T ER A glance behind the mask of grand e eur or not late in hl iho ot of ills his second year lid did find a trace ot of sail gall in fit ills gln the lie night or of lits ills clec election tio par pa aites and ani plunderers and agents of had him fildbe in the ligual presidential fools fool s the organs or the interests and their con gross ress ional henchmen praise d every thing lie ho did I 1 and my iny group croup of con gless glessman giessm men cn and my newspapers is loyat loyal partisans parti ai eizans bent first hasl or of all upon res ul arity N etere ere silent v where hero we lid did not 40 11 W 0 i L v he sank back in the carriage yellow white and with trembling hands praise also tint but the second year of a presidents first term Is the begin D in of frank it ft guadet gua gu aided ded of him front ills his own side for it is practically ills his last year or of ventu venturing iring to exercise exer cis any test leal official jimper the alif selection of delegates to the bartys national convention to which a ident must nn st submit himself for leave to le ie subnet Ilits olf to tile the people is well under way before theand the end of ct ills his third year anil and direct and active preparations for it must begin lous lu in advance lite in thai second spills burbank made a monr of the hie country to give the people the pleasure of see sec fit ins their great man to rive give himself the pleasure pleas or of their admiration an ana I 1 to help on the congressional campaign the lebbilt I 1 of which would be 1 I 1 tile the preliminary popular verdict upon 1 his administration the thinness of 1 the crowds crowd tile the feebleness of the oni enthusiasm the dihe thusia sm the neus newspaper paper sneers and flins flings at that oratory once hailed as a model of 0 dignity and eloquence eveni lie he could not accept the smooth explanations of 0 its his flatterers flatter ers and in november came the bartys mern mem notable overwhelming cl defeat feat reducing our in lit tile the senate from 20 to u and substituting biting for our majority of 03 93 in the house an opposition majority of 67 I 1 talked with wilh him early in january ind vas r as amand aina ned that hat while he appie appi e kaied 1 1161 led like pubic anan ass lisl the party he be still believed himself personally popular lir there Is a lull in prosperity said be and the people are peevish soon however by a sort of to which the densest lit danily alty jr ja somewhat subject the truth beg i oy through and to penetrate h 0 n o 1 I am abort to io pet together mar m friends ls with a il diw w to next year said lie through an uneasy smile what to do you the prospects what do your our friends say I 1 asked oh of course I 1 am alit assured of a I 1 lie ile paused and iiii if look at me made the confident af ii matlon a dubious question yes said 1 I and dou dont lou oil think my illy record has made me stron strong 9 he went on nervo isy strong with whom said 1 I lie ile was silent finally lie laid ills hl hand bana on my knee we were taking this the alp on the ocearl drive II irvey i he said 1 1 can count on you yon I 1 shook my iny head 1 I shall take no part lit in tha next campaign I 1 sam said 1 I shall resign the nut but I 1 have selected yon yen as aa my illy chaliman I 1 have insisted on you yon I 1 cant trust any ono one else I 1 need I 1 use ilse ethers but I 1 trust only oaly boil I 1 shook my linail 1 I shall I 1 n sign I 1 repeated repe atel the in neatter atter wont Good goodrich ilch take the hie place he looked away 1 I have not lot seriously thought of oe any one but aou lie he said reproachfully I 1 happened to know that the place had been offered to goodrich and that lie he h had ad declined it protesting th eliat I 1 it a western man mail must not lie be its imbed w when han the tha west was vital to the pai tys s success my ic te solution Is 13 flexed said 1 I A long ions silence thou then saylor sayler have you yen headd anything of 0 an attempt to fo defeat ine inc tor for tile the nomination goodrich has decided to nominate gov ridgeway Hidge way or of illinois said 1 I lie ile blanched and had to moisten ills his aty diy wrinkled lips several times before he be coun speak A report of that nature reached nc ine last day he anent on 1 I for or soule some time I 1 have been perplexed by the ridgeway talk in many of our organs I 1 have questioned goodrich Goodr ieh about it 11 and I 1 must say lils hla explanations are not not wholly satisfactory 1 I have come to tile the conIn co cli islon slon that you were right about goodrich sayler I 1 am glad that I 1 took look your advice fee and never r trusted him I 1 think you and I 1 together will be too strong stron bior for him blin you aie going to seek a renora luka lion I 1 asked llo ile looked at tile me lit in genuine astonishment ish ment it Is 1 impossible that the party I me inc he said I 1 was silent re be flank nith ith ino in sayler lie ex c claimed at last lie be biank lie be my iny friend your own old self relf As frank and aid as 13 friendly as you have been said 1 I rather to renil re binl lid myself than to reproach ic ie lihn him for I 1 was afield of the lie devling feeling of fornier former carb the liking for ills his per serial cl charoni arnis and clitu s lite forbear anie ance toward that leali dpn aness ness velch lie ho could no more inore change than lie hs could change the color ot of lila ills eyes eye J hiis is moral descent hal bai ba I put no clear wark ings upon lipon his lil spose poso on oil the contrary ll 11 he c had grown in dignity through the custom of derer price the peo people lILs passing us its looked admiration at him had 11 ad a new sense of the elevation 0 of the it he presidential office often it takes the trained iad aad cai ebing g eyo eye to detect in th ill facade the evidences evidene dene es that the tha enlace has degen j JL i erald into a rockery for to be continued |