Show r M T IR by DAV DAVID ida GRAHAM RA I 1 M P PHILLIPS ILL author I 1 ol of the cost the e D deluge e g e E etc t J bobin M C juraky continued from last weel week 1 I have have done what I 1 thought tor for the best lie answered never more direct arid and manly in mariner manner 1 I have always been afraid beben on oil guanil debt my personal fondness for ion should betray nia me into yielding to lo you when v hen I 1 ought not perhaps I 1 have erred coreil at times have leaned back ward in my anxiety to bo be fair but I 1 had bad and have no fear ot of your not understanding der our friendship is too ions iong established too well founded and I 1 do not doubt that lie he believed himself the capacity for self decap tion is rarely choit of tho the demands upon it its unfortunate I 1 agan I 1 was going to say it was unfortunate that no such anxieties bad over ever re 1 strained rained him front from yielding to goodrich cooil but I 1 the heart instead I 1 finished my sentence with vath llo wever its idle to hold a postmortem on oil this case the cause came of death is unimportant tile the fact of it Is no doubt you did the best you could mr president my aly manner was that ol of finality tt it forbade further discussion lie ile aban boned the finesse of negotiation I harvey larvey I 1 ask you as a personal calior to help hell me through this crisis lie he said 1 I asu ask ion oil my filand and my dead wife s friend xo no depth too loo low no sentiment too loo sacred anger whirled it up in me against this miserable shortsighted choit sighted self seeker who had brought to a climax of spoliation my plans to guide tile the strong in fit developing the resources ol of the country and I 1 tinned upon him intending to over overwhelm ill him with will tho the truth about ills his trea treachery cliel Y about his attempt to destroy me for I 1 was now safe front his arid and goodriche Goodrich Good richs vengeance they had des destroyed troYL d themselves with the people and with the party but a glance at him arid and how could I 1 a I 1 man stretched in ill agony upon ills his deathbed death bed it I 1 could help you I 1 would 1 I you you and I 1 together can call get a convention that will nominate minata no me he urged hope and fear jostling each W hgr io joac til an fn yi ills Is eyes possibly I 1 said hut of oc what use rise would that be lie sank back lit in the cartilage car ilage yel low white chite and with trembling hands and eyelids then you dont think 1 I could be elected he asked in fit a bicken brea breathless way for answer I 1 could ony only shake my ilea head N no 0 mitter matter who alio Is the nom inee I 1 went on after a moment our party cali cant t win I 1 halt yielded to the impulse of sent sentimentality mentality menti lity and turned to him film appealingly james sald said 1 why don dont t boit ou sight light away beffie the country sees aces aou ou are to be denied it ii publicly an all bounce that iou wont talie lake it lit in any circumstances why dont you devote the rest of 0 your out term to regaining your lost popular fly every everyday clay has its thIC of opportunities fo the man mail in the white alte house meat bieak boldly find and openly with inith goodrich and an his crowd I 1 siw saw and read the hauge change in hn hit face my addico about the nor nomination nina closed liis ills mind against me at the mention of gool geoit bleb his old notion of my jealousy revived arid and I 1 saw too loo that contact with willi and use of and subservience to corruption had so corrupted hita him that ili he nad had no longer any faith haltli in all any method riot not corrupt in tin an instant I 1 reali realier rea lied fed the full fill folly of what I 1 was doing I 1 felt confident that by kursu lilt iii tile the line hue I 1 had indicated lie he could so change tile the situation la tile the next few months that he would malke make it int possible po sible for them to refuse to cuate him might make it possible for him to be elected but even it he had the N wisdom osdorn to listen ft here would lie get the courage and the steadfastness to acta act I 1 gave him up lip finally and forever A man may lose ills his own character and still survive and even go far but it he lose belief in character as a force he Is damned lie fie could not survive in a community of sc aun diels sat motionless and with willi closed eyes for a long ions time I 1 watched the people in the hie of ca carriages hund hundreds reds of faces till nil turned toward him all showing that mingled admiration envy eavy arid and awe which humanity gives its exalted cai ted great the deritt the president I 1 heard board every few yards I 1 in n excited excite il undertones under tones and hats were cre lifted arid and once a crowd of oe enthus lastic iaiser a cheer tho the pies president ident I 1 thought with 6 ith mournful irony and I 1 glan glanced cd at suddenly lie ho was transformed by an all expression the most fright frightful ful I 1 have ever seen it was tile the look ot of a despairing sp ring weak vicious thing cornered giving battle for its life like a fox fo c at bay before a pack of 0 huge dogs it was vas not burbank tio no he was wholly holly unlike that it v was as burbanks ambition interrupted at its meat meal by the relentless sure alln aiming rii hunter fate aate tor gods oils sake burbank I 1 ex chimed all these people are watching us to hell with them lie he ground out 1 I tell you sa ler I 1 will be nominated arid and elected circled too by god I 1 I 1 will not be thrown aside aside like an awill 1 will show them hem those words salt said by some men in some tones would b haie ate thill led me ine said by eflin arid and in that tone and with that look they made me shudder and shrink neither of us spoke again when hen he dropped me at my hotel we touched hands arid and sullied smiled formally for appearances beffie tho the gaping peeping peeling crowd and as he drove away aay how they cheesed him the man mail risen high abbie SO alone on oil the mountain peak peaR in the glorious sunshine of success ta the c president tho the next seven months wore were months of 0 turmoil in the party and in the country a tuini oll of 0 which I 1 was a silent spectator conspicuous by my silence burbank bin bank the deepest passions ot of his nature lampane lam pant had burst through the meshes of partisan pant isau ship and the meshes of social arid and personal intimacies cies lit in which lie as a 1 good party man and as the father of children with social aspirations arid and as the worshiper of wealth and respectability was entangled and bound down with the desperate courage that comes from fear of destruction he was trying to save himself but ills only available instruments were all either goodrich men or other kinds ot of machine men they owed nothing to him they had nothing to fear ficia him a falling fallin g kins king is a fallen allu king every project he devised tor for striking down his traitor friends and lakhi making himself popular was subtly turned by ills his cabinet or by the senate or by tile the press or b by 1 all three into something futile and ridiculous Nl culous or contemptible lie ile hid had tile the wisdom ls lom or othe timidity to proceed always witia caution and sara sac legality aid aad so to avoid avo ld impeach and de degradation ra dation his 1113 chief attempts viere ere naturally upon monopoly they were A ere slyly balked by hi his sly attorney general arid and their failure was called by the press aej wa wai 3 believed by the people the cauze cause of the hard bird times which were just beginning to be acute c what made lade liim him such an easy victim to his lieutenant was not their craft but the tact fact that he fie had lost his sense hense of right and wrong A nian man of affairs may not indeed will not always steer by that corn pass I 1 but lie he must have it without it lip ho cannot know how hov far 0 lt T the course lie he is or how to get back to it ills list last stagger was or seemed seema d to be an attempt to involve us its in a war with germany I 1 say seemed to be because I 1 hesitate to ascribe a project as infamous to hirn him even when un tin balanced by despair degli air the first ugly dispatch lie he his goodrich secretary of slate to send soni somehow ellow loaded leaked to the newspapers before it could be iut into cipher for transmission it I 1 was not sent tor for from the press of the entire country rose a clamor aap enst deliberate provocation of a r i ailon lon with which we ate aie and wish an fn rem liln at peace lie ite repudiated the dispatch and dismissed t the io sec secretary of state in dla grace to disgrace the one om troice in ills fight against Go gunarich in which he got the advantage nut but that advantage was too email too doubtful and too late ills 1113 name was riot not presented to lo tile tho convention CHAP Tarl A spasm of virtue I 1 forced upon goodrich my place nf n chairman ot of the national committee and went abroad I with my daughters we stayed there until scarborough was inaugurated lie he lial hail got his nomination from it a of men who hated and 1 jared him but who dared not trout Us the people aid aad fling dins away victory lie lal had got ills his because the deflections from our ranks lit in the doubtful states tar far alced extensive purchases there itri the huge campaign fund of the interests the wheel horse parti manship san ship had broken down and the leader plutocrat Pluto crac could not dr draw aw the chariot c h art ot to victory alone As soon as the election was over 01 our I 1 r people bogin began to cable me to come home and take charge cli arge put but I 1 wailed I 1 niall woodruff and my other had thoroughly convinced all the ile officers of the machine how hon desperate its plight was and that 1 I alone could repair and restore arid and shaf I 1 could do it only if absolute control were ere given me when tile the ship reached quarantine woodruff came aboard and not hating seen mill him in many months I 1 was able to see and was startled by the contrast between lie he doe doc woodruff I 1 had met on oil tile the train more years before than I 1 cared to cast up lip anil and the united S tates or it E IR the esteem of its partisans anione amoia ill chii 11 people lie he was sa baling 1 ng yo you 11 can ca 1 have anything you want senator and so on 1 lut lint l I 1 was thinking ol of him of the vicissitudes of politics of the unending struggle of the fou foil stream to purify itself to sink or t tt a saturate its mud vor for we ought riot to forget that if the clear water ii saturated with mud also the mud I 1 is saturated with cleir clear water vater A eelk or so after I 1 returned ned ats tl chairmanship Sc borough alborough invited tile me to lunch alone with him at the white house when I 1 had seen him four years before just after his defeat he was in high spirits and looked a bouth auth now nov it depressed me but bill gave me no surprise to find him worn and overcast by that tragic sad hadnet neli which canopies cano pies every one of 0 the seats of the mighty m lahty 1 I 1 fear mr Pies president ident said 1 I you are finding the men who nill bill help you to carry out your our ideas as rate raie as I 1 once warned you they were not rare was ills his answer but bill hard to get at through the throngs of 0 baal worshipers that have descended upon me and are trying to hedge me in 1 n fortunately foi innately you are tree free boin political arid and social entanglements entangle ments said 1 I with ironle ironic intent lie he laughed with only a slightly concealed bitterness from political en tangle ments yes said he but not from social tolls toils ever since I 1 have been in ili national life my wife and I 1 have bave held ourselves socially aloof because those with whom we would naturally and even inevitably asso elate would bs be precisely those who would some day beset me tor for immunities and favors and how bow can one hold to a course of any sort of justice it doing so means assailing all ones friends and their friends and relatives for who are the offenders they are of the rich of 0 the successful of the clover clove of the socially agreeable and charming arid and bow can one enforce justice against one s dinner companions par ticul and 1 in favor of whom of tho the people voiceless distant un tin known to one personal friendship on tho the one side on oil the other an ah st bract I 1 n 1 I should riot not class you amons among thosa kikeh to yield many inches to the social bilbe said L I 1 that is pleasant but not candid lie he with its hla simple du econos ii no man or of your experience could fail ail to know that the social bribe Is the aich corrupter the one briber whom it is not lit in human natu ie to resist rut but as I 1 was tying saying s to my amazement lit in spite of 0 my cifes precautions aaa ial 7 4 I 1 4 1 y x e ff zv fix I 1 le k A 4 V 11 P I 1 I 1 let Us help each other mine I 1 find lysek beset and with what devilish insidiousness when I 1 it ic ruse fuse simply to sae myself from flagrant agrant tl bea bleachery chery to my obligations of duty I 1 find myself seeming even to my wife and to myself churlish clun lish an aej pil gish pharisaical in the loathsome son ie of a moral poseur common honesty in presence of this so cial bribe takes on the sn sneaking eakin seeming of oe rottenest rott enest it li it indeed hard to get through and to get at the men I 1 want and need and must and will have impossible said 1 I arld and it if you could get at them end nd it the senate would let you put them where they s seem to you to belong the temptation would be too much for them they too loo would soot acome baal worship ers the more a leous tor for their long abstinence some be admitted perhaps most but at al least it a lew few would stan the test and just one such would repay and justify all the labor of 0 all tile the search the 1 he trouble with you pessimists Is that you dont take out OIK ancestry into account man a falling angel but a rising animal atil mal so every impulse toward the decent every gleam of light la is a gain the wonder the bad but the good that we are so imperfect but that lit in such a few thousand aill years veve eve got so far so far up I 1 know you and I 1 have in the main tha same purpose where is there a tinaa like to think the world tha worse for ills having lived but we work ork by different means you beliesa the best results can be got ah that in man which lie he has inherited inherit ei el front from the past by balancing passion against passion by offsetting appetite with appetite I 1 hope for results from that lit in the man of today to day which is tio seed the prophecy of the man who wa 1 is s to be affo be continued i |