The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-07

an me cough up half what we get, an
yet he's maxim three times as much
as we are himself. That's the kind O.
bloke like to do, an I'm goin' to do
him this election. He's the meanest
CRATER in this berg, an you know 1t
an I know it. What you bloEzes don't
know is that this Renshaw push is
gOin' to be easy to work. Any reform
police force they put in Offices goin'
to be dead-dead, tell you. Renshaw
an his gang don't know US from any
other four stiffs in town. He'll change
the whole force, thinkin' they're all
crooked, an them that's turned out'n
Keep up under cover out o spite, an
no Barwood around to squeeze the
profits out of US. See? You take my
tip, an turn in an elect Renshaw."
These were his words. and the first
exposition of the Great Idea. What
Ruderick McKlowd recommended with
a take my tip" whether it was in
York in Chi or in Cornville, usual
~ went" so highly did the Under
/. World appraise him. And thus IL came
about that in Cornville the Under
World determined to turn down Bar
wood and his following and help elect
a reform administration. Wadlow, Gan
mes and Latane were simple minded
men who went about their business
with a Homeric directness when once
they had decided what was to be done.
They got themselves constituted the
official guardians of the ballot box and
judges of the election in the Nineteenth
ward, which had decided other cleo
tiOns, and would decide this one.
Election day came and went. Mayor
Barwood counted on the Nineteenth
ward, which had won the former cleo
ton for him. The judges Of the cleo
ton sat about the stove in the polling
booth behind locked doors. smoked good
cigars, drank Scotch highballS and re-
ceived reports from time to time of
how the other wards had gone. They
made no effort to count the votes. There
was a dispute in the Thirteenth ward
in regard to the admissibility of Ger
tain votes. which lasted all the night
following the close Of the polls, and the
next daz- and the night after that
There was understood to be a dispute
in the Nineteenth ward, also in regard
to the admiSsibility Of certain votes
At O'Clock on the second morning a
message arrived that the dispute in the
Thirteenth was settled; Barwood need
ed a majority of 500 in the Nineteenth
to elect him. AS the count stood he
had a majority of but 200 odd. The
faces of the four men in the polling
booth were grey and sticky with ia
tigue, but a glance Of understanding
passed around.
There's nothin' like an honest count,
blokes, is there?' remarked Ruderick
with a yawn- IF we hadn't been here
to see that the thing was done on the
level the majority 'ud "a been cheated
out of its rights-aind't it?-aS Dutchy
used TO saZ.''
II.
When Mayor Renshaw came into his
kingdom he governed 1t so as to save
his own soul. Incidentally his course
exasperated a great many other people,
who but for him would have lost their
souls but once, or possibly not at all,
into losing them twice over, but every
one bent on saving his own soul is
bound to think first of himself and to
regard other people and their souls as
details in the landscape. His great
achievement was the creation of the po-
lice force that did not know how to
wink Edwin Cowles' inability to wink
gIorified all his remaining abilities in
MAYOR Renshaw's eyes, who begged
him to sacrifice himself on the altar of
civic duty, which was Cornvillese Tor
accepting an appointment as chief of
police. Mayor Renshaw said that Meth
er he nor his suborEnateS should take
tithes from the harvest of sin and
shame. and Edwin Cowles sacrificed
himself. Both played their destined
part in the realization of the Great
Idea
Then was the city of Cornville deliv-
cred into the hands of the three bad
men, who opened it as their oyster,
and that was their destined part in
the realization of the Great Idea. -'Frit-
zie'' Cannes, with his sure thing en-
terprises, reaped q harvest which he