Show 1 D jille WITH SOME I 1 Y bif DIT froman cyras avns dr A t m cwi y dewrow advy flavin i via j emif SYNOPSIS A foolish young tenderfoot tend root becomes fascinated with the told old artful wite wife of a drunken 1 lo 10 a western mining 0 own w n they their prepare to elope lop in a blind IP in blizzaro bliz billiard zarA but are confronted by the he I 1 n a u oll husband IT te to hot shot by I 1 tbt fe f built amt U bol evl iw boy aln a 11 nto 0 te n thi th boby minx it the he c crime W sn q in their flight to the ingalf station the w woman ans here bore ake is tall cited th youth put puts her on ili hi own N ana nj 4 awa inpyn 11 sing alayo s trap soo irig be 0 impede lP lt rant the ih thoua 1 I hr by ea egx Z 1 lz 1 5 l he stumbles 1 IT 0 the th rall railroad ros by X I 1 I 1 0 n J ju u i SS ii itin aral bw a 1 the th fontan away brinly za nty n y five years latr rt tr thi plan bor eany annly Is a mu rn millionaire ton to to nw tark ut gf to glanor haman a beautiful health alth t tt lemont worker and ro o attl with hr in her bar work mir become become 0 own r of a hei I 1 ll 11 irr 01 ol find 1 tt aa fa in aa irack tonsley e 1 b grafting ah a droan backed br by I 1 th 0 got botham bk ain traction company om n an automobile automo blK accident brine brings th he nali al lino into tc td me bla country horn home gorm ly an announce anno no uniti unc thai that he win will be mayor of 0 nw w yo toru k and 1 th e et city t m c cor 0 autio air lir ll 11 aldan aldane rn in g lonbo ion d alred es lr e rs interview with make makes tIn n direct to compromise the th light g t which the th battor hai has been wagi waging ne i in n I 1 the he new as agrist the gothe r n T traction r sc t ton company maln 7 and which in I 1 Is sus petted of bon ng the th head gormly boldly announces his hi plan of campaign to haldane gormly I 1 ride rid a to nos place carrying wont word 0 of th the auto accod benl enl thi tha next he refers to the th radi of the night before a mild compared to one experienced in his hi boyhood day days the f announce in hi his candidacy for mayor CHAPTER VII continued sir poole excuse me it la to quit quite I 1 useless to talk to me any nore more on this line my mind Is made up and nothing you can aty or anyone can eay may will rill abang it tl mr gormly ald said benson denson ri contempt and resentment striving for the mattery mastery of hie his voice in some ways youre I 1 mighty mart smart man you have begun thil this movement bril i ll li antly but tut the position lon youre taking now make makes me regard you as forgive the language a 6 damned fool I 1 mr benson said 1 gormly thank you for your compliment your ion doc does me honor at least the lat last part of IL 11 let me say that I 1 have been considered con eldered by politicians of your tamp stamp LS va damned tools fools who hare have done the good work of the world mr poole mr hachett Ht rite chett bett I 1 wish you good afternoon the disgusted tramped out the three men bad had to run the gauntlet of reporters portera re outside the bual busl ale nees 1 8 office they corn com nothing to thing whatsoever of the of their Inter interview vieA tu to them these assiduous young men gormly however wan was more amen able to their appeal appeals for an interview ona resolution gormly had taken to give the people the fullest informs alon all the time about what he vo posed he lie was willing to discuss any public question at any time with any one and he had no objections to his hi opinions being quoted I 1 gentlemen bali salt bal i gormly to the group of newspaper men as has al at ready appeared in thu the press of the city these gentlemen who have just left came to offer me the nomination of the minority minori tir auty for the office for I 1 which I 1 have proposed myself I 1 thanked trem for the honor that they had lad done mel me I 1 declared t hat I 1 should i appreciate the individual votes of any i LUe members LuDera of that or any other party at election time but I 1 refused post dively to allow myself to be tied up to any party to be allied with any party to td be the candi dule of any larty I 1 intend to make this canvass as an ab independent mr lir poole a stockholder in the gotham freight traction corn com kanyr asked one une of the reporters 1 I know nothing whatever about mr poolo a finan clil undertakings M t dav lyer yer fitchett desire to run for district attorney attorn syr T asked another I 1 am not informed as to the political ambitions ambitious cf of mr fitchett I 1 what did dill bill benson say to your asked a third A ay a practical politician of large be he ventured in r give we some advice upon th the cand tet st my campaign did you take at arced another amid mid the roar of laughter which greet ed d this reply 1 I iun m sorry jo 0 o say that the cogency of bis bit arguments and the force of bis his representations did not appeal to me as be he expected my methods Ineth are so different from those he h advocated that it Is hardly possible to harmonize barmont xe cir lews or 1 I think that will be all 11 this after noon gentlemen said Gor gormly rising to sanky that the interview was over ever CHAPTER VIII A quiet melting meeting of the dictators OHa DIta tors early Is in te it to new ear at t the in tane stane of Ital lint a 9 meeting of the th loner inner circle of the governing body popularly known as the aung wae was called at his bl private residence on up ut per fifth avenue which he very un obtrusively for the tho occa elon slon the meeting waa was held late st t night the men summoned thereto came up lowr quietly and unos tiou piously sly slipped into the house for many reasons haldane m rela rew tion to the sachem society wae was carefully u y concealed IN II 11 represented a distinct troup group of at finanders fin and bust ness interests Inte reste whose relations with the pany party la in power were most autt mate theae relations tc in rows stances were suspected bic actuality lad had not been allowed to tran trans pire Ila haldane idane kept la in con constant stant touch with littey the bos boss but no one save the inner circle suspected that the two were hand band in glove together If haldane aldane did tild not often meet most with anyon anyone hut but utley in tah tl lape bo however wever he at least ampre the gravity of the tho rt tion find plad ha bad dl III reeled liffey cliffey to brine wath with him tj enose one who aou net nal elij pg sous 1 u 1 t on su 11 A subjects as i he delred desired to discuss lie bad had also d two of the directors of the gotham freight Tract tort company to wit van and mcronald men associated with him upon whose judgment and ability he could rely in addition lo 10 them I diffay liffey grand chief of ine tho sa sm chent society and the acknowledged and undisputed bors of the party connell contell the chief of police author auther furd top dietr strict lct attorney blabber ley the street commissioner and laet last and also least lion hon pett peter ID D warren mayor of the city liffey cliffey aa as leader cf of the great sachem society controlled the or absolutely the chief of police wielded the vast power powers for craft graft of that remarkable organization the district attorney through whose hand hands all 11 II criminal prosecutions must pas pass waa was the safety valve of both the sachem society and that portion of the people to which it looked for aup up NOW of course everyone of those present resent bad read gormly startling announcement announcement of his candidacy most blost of them had lead them with amuse ment only the most prescient with any feeling of alarm and even that feeling waa was not deep to have awakened any degree of anxiety yet the bet fact that each one bad been sum summoned to ladane a house the politicians through liffey cliffey and the through ll If aldane himself rather startled them the eight men assembled in the spacious pa cloua library of the fifth avenue bouse house the curtains were discreetly dran the men had arrived singly and at different times they were admitted by Ilal ll aldano danes confidential secretary in cigars and liquors were dad alq and the ht eight flora hom all corts forts of 0 41 differing flerlage agala acl ranka ranks mingled taws rte oget hr tin in terms 4 at 0 abatu aque quality ity the district attorney torney al for tot ot taace va a graduate of yale idimo fm m telf sell bad come from ird the mayor was a arg product 4 act ot of columbia his I 1 lofft be bad als started a aed in AZ a I poor trish irish immigrant frant the abler ol 01 police bad had been A saloonkeeper nd finally the colonel of a national gut gutt t was as a scotsman alose shrewdness ness and ability had won baul a high position among the Anano jal marcatos marn atos nan nn belonged to an old dutch family and bad had inherited a vast fortune which aich bla hit adroit man bad tremendously increased they represented american life with its opportunities and its possibilities gentlemen began Ilal ll aldan dans quietly I 1 hava called you here as its you have doubtless surmised because of the announcement of the candidacy of george gormly for mayor do you think it a of sufficient im port acce mr air haldane aldane ll for an unusual conference as this Is naked the tha boes boss I 1 certainly do utley was the he re ply it the first time said sald ruth erford a man of exceptional ability and great distinction of manner and T 6 I 1 the disgusted delegation tramped out port the street commissioner who lad bid at his disposal borc more appointment appointments than ban all the ret rest of the administration put together used them primarily for the good of the party and after that for cleaning the tit the mayor the us ostensible head but really the beryant of the quartet as there because t office and he be was lu fu office because he could be con trolled prom from the point ot view of 0 the men present he was tha the beet best mayor that new york had bad ever lad he lie was a man of some parti parts he lie could make a brilliant speech preside gracefully and with dignity at public meeting and waa was altogether an admi ralie ag ire to head a great city in eye but wals aai ass with these four our intensely Inte niely practical men and thin this pliant plant willing ad were the interest interests depre een sea d by the freight traction company of which haldane was la in absolute control the preal dency wei tested 4 in another man the interests inte reeta of It haldane aldane and bis his aio elates clates were not confine 1 to the gotham freight traction cora pany they had bad their hands on every public ranch lie tse their private affairs of coarse were rast vast and multiform but with lib them we ve have nothing to do their with the political party tor for which they bad paid and would continue to pay eror movi same sums had brought teem them very material s in on form or an arher all the trusts that make new jersey their headquarter headquarters hydle equated in wealth and control the these mn mon represented Ital haldan daa from bis his one interview with gf gt anly had an idea that in this th In instance the two forces to be dread KJ ea by the stox were incarnated 11 1 l and wc would 04 rally about beating beat that ome some impracticable re ormar tae has offered himself for popular suffrage tuf frage on uch such a platform bit B it it Is the first time in my recollection returned li haldane aldane that a man poisoning possessing the peculiar corn com bi ration of bast bartness ness ability ungues integrity and unlimited money has pit himself forward lor ward and I 1 beg to absure you that I 1 con connyer him the most aval labIG maa man irom from the point of lew few of the opposition that has ever appeared on the political horizon 1 1 I dont care a cur cuss bow how available be Is I 1 said laffey I 1 we can beat him and we will of course till it 11 take more money I 1 lie looked at tle the trio of financiers finia clere the amount of money that it takes now aid said trimly grimly 1 I is ome some thing ter rifle 1 I shoud ahou ld say so added van well inell you get what you bargain for don t you returned the boss viciously you get a free hand to take it out of the people dont you gentlemen gentlemen laid said hal hat dane authoritatively 1 I hardly think the ie Is taking a profitable turo turn aa as utley says we can beat him certainly we must do to 0 o probably it will coal coat inure more money that li Is if it in ome some way his bl candidacy cannot be headed off can be he be induced to withdraw do you thiner asked rutherford no I 1 think not but it we made him omo some once ailon it ie in barely po poo table he might houch I 1 gravely grin rely dot docot bt it all stirred up over thie this witch switch busin as I 1 have already taken upon myself tor offer after to uie use my foda trice to get et the price demanded cut in half lie declined the be offer immediately I 1 think he aid said ito h wouldn t pay anything except he the cost at of the aitch and a reasonable sum for the privilege 1 I want you to mark mr air haldane Hald put in utley I 1 that it ve ere re mixed dij in a tight it if a the extortionate do d mauds mands ot of the gotham freight traction company which has brought it about ily sty dear sir answered haldee con how aro are we to satisfy the demands made uron us by ou and your fellow member members ut of the sa chom chem society and make a profit tor for ourselves out of 0 the mitter it we don t make men like goria gormly ly pay puy I 1 easily your loo lookout kotiL I 1 well you will find that lt it a also youre yours it we top stop payments I 1 oh I 1 dont know I 1 avels ua therea hald N h aglid W b lrowe 11 I 1 un tat 1 ow w liffey cliffey said the district at tor lorney who froni from his official position as public bud had morp corp influence over the was a than any body present don I 1 it ik it ike ke a tool you know perfectly well that we are all necessary nece esary to one another that we aro are cu 11 in the ame boat we all have to fight the nom scot baij bastio have you enyant to to propose fr liddane IId dane 17 don dont t know that I 1 have any d finite proposition just at present was tho answer 1 I I have met this gormly I 1 haar hav As to U would am sized lidl up carefully I 1 put him down for it man of oi indomitable cour nce age whatever his motive may be be he Is thoroughly bly determined upon his irever courso however email small his life experience in politics politico be he Is a business man inan through and through does he be dabble la in wall streeta street asked warren it so it coill be eany for you to torm form a combi combination natt in to break hini him ills business busl nees methods are re confined to his mercantile establishment and they are purely leLl timi to ahat ahat resources baa ban he fotr well I 1 should scy sty he to can command perhaps a score of ru illions H exclaimed licey he ile might be a good man to tie to toa you can set your mind at rest u to that liffey cliffey lie wouldn t tie to a it nan tuan like you oh I 1 dont know pretty good goad men bave found it to their interests Inte to tie de up ith me and they haven t lost any thing by it IL have you mr Il Ilal aldane dans Ila II aldane idane locked his teeth it was this hta sort of covert ilch was the necessary cone of if hie his nillance ill sil lance which in bis his secret heart he loathed again it was the district at lorney torney who interposed I 1 take it hat this Is a conference ie to said equa equally lily I 1 aj as to what wj wa are to do if it anything to bead head ott this man you don t think be he can be bought af 3 mr maldaner Hal Ilal daner 1 I 1 am sure be cannot be well then he it 11 arve to be fought down returned the other for it Is to evident that we cannot afford to hav havi the wor workings kingg of the sachem society brought before the bublie the thing to be dona now Is to ret rot together keep together and beat gormly |