of anti on both sides he would work with them wherever they were found in short while mr did not ask nor desire nor had any personal ambition to go to the state he would consent to be a candidate of the people regardless of party and would accept no other if elected he would be bound to no interest but that of the public he would be by no and influenced by no if defeated it would give him not the least concern that was the whole thing in a nut shell there was consternation in the party for each had felt that with him as their exclusive candidate victory was assured in advance both saw however that there was only one thing to do their regular must be allowed to pass for that year they must do their best to convince the people that they were the real party on election day everybody for the man who did not care to run who had as be defeated as not everybody but the of the rival bonds who were the objects of general hate these got together and another candidate one of themselves who received showing their entire strength mr s vote was the new railroad manager then only years of age was returned to the on his g en a tor from second year without a of opposition the third year he refused to run though his appealed to him with tears in their eyes his road was now completed that is it was built from end to end so that cars could run over it taking special care at the bridges stations not beautiful like those of the other road but places at which one could certainly alight from or enter the trains were scattered here and there president needed and deserved a rest the prayers of the people followed him with his young wife and babies when it was reported in the papers that he had sailed for a year s voyage abroad perhaps the prayers would have been given with less had they been delayed for another month for at that time it came out that the new railroad had passed into the hands of the and who had made a deal by which they had absorbed a majority of the stock at a very high figure the public could hardly believe its eyes and ears to get the requisite amount of stock to control the the had had to pay per share for a large quantity and who had sold them his stock at this rate why the hon mr was placed at once among the railroad of his day in the opinion of wall street and its newspaper organs he was a very great man his name would henceforth count as a power on change there was no doubt of that one authority placed his present wealth at another declared on information that it exceeded at any rate he mi had a good fortune for a young man of thirty who had started with nothing the people along the line of his late road were too stunned to say much those who could not get half price for their stock now that the v s and a s had got all they wanted and no was likely to be paid for a long time cursed quietly to themselves most of the others said a man could not be blamed for making his fortune when he got the chance and that he was no worse than other people he was a pleasant fellow anyway and had been generous to the poor the found he had not forgotten them altogether he had made it a condition of his sale that all passes should be renewed for at least ten years the first minister who asked for a half rate got it as before really was not as bad as some people would make him out probably he could have come back a month after he went away and secured a re election to the state a sure test of popular approval but in that respect he differed with the cat of he did not come back he remained for a year in europe as he had intended and when he returned to the united states he established two one was in the city of new york for the purposes of trade in for which he believed he had an the other was in the state of van west of the river where he purchased a large of land five years later he was a cattle king silver king and a railroad in many directions he was a member also of the lower house of the national he was a successful man in from material direction he had a handsome wife a boy of seven and a daughter of four years he no longer worked hard at his duties it was easier and better in every way to hire able men to do that for him he grew to be a veritable at the time of his introduction to the reader he was so very wealthy that the figures are quite superfluous no one would have suspected had he the matter to himself that he had not been reared in that delightful locality known as the lap of luxury but with all his money he had found it necessary to throw this fact into the scale on running for the united states there was a prejudice in the minds of some of the against extreme wealth and to carry the majority he had to have printed a picture of the cabin where he was born which he sent a to find a brilliant worked up a touching story of a poor lad who had been forced to leave his childhood s home at a tender age and had risen by the sheer force of industry to his present proud position mr was successful by a majority 