News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-05-13

question, unless Judge Julius Cham
bers can scotch this viper more seri
ously than this | anticipate nothing ex.
cept endless delay of the case in the
court Of appeals. There is a case there
now that was appealed by Tommy
three years ago. 1t Is a case of laws
delay, and we seem powerless to do
anything"
Somehow have hope in Chambers.
Did you see the account in the Index
this morning? That sounded like him.
81 saw that" Ford spoke up brightly.
at gave Tommy a great roast, tell
you"
The article referred to in the morning
Index was conspicuous column ac-
count of the conviction of Tommy Ran
dali in public court on a charge sworn
out by the Hope House people. 1t was
q scathing article, written by some one
who had dipped his pen in something
more than a hired reporters ink bottle
There was a scorching vigor to it that
drove the fact deep home to the reader
that Tommy Randall was numbering
little children in Ward 1S by his con
Btruction contrary to law OF tenements
like the one that made possible the re
cent tenement house tragedy. The arti.
Gle concluded with these words:
VIII the people endure this sort of thing
much longer? Tommy Randall is not an
abstraction. He is 200 pounds of coarse
flesh and bad blood. which splits on the
law and says to the people you mind
| your own business" For thirty years
Tommy Randall has ruled Waterside dis
| trict like tyrant He has no office in
the service Of the people. He works at no
| trade. He is not elected to any position
in the city. Yet he has grown rich from
his blackmail of saloons, gambling dens,
| houses OF vice and business firms in the
district His trade is in flesh and blood.
No slave driver ever employed more art
| full means to trap his victims or more
| brutality in riveting on their manacles,
and the horror of the whole affair is in
tensified by the fact that this creature
who is after all the tool of the machine
| that created him has actually persuaded
| the miserable wretches who nourish him
| that he Is their best friend. There will
| be no release from this slavery until the
machine that made Tommy Randall what
| he is has been broken in pieces by the
| people so that it can neither turn out any
more product like him or keep in power
what has already been brought into ex-
istence. We say, Smash the machine.
The people are able to do it. Will they
do it?
The Review also contained a gooC
account Of Tommy's case in the police
court and In addition cited in full the
blue print incident and boldly de-
! nou2ced the lawyer and the boss for
attempt at conspiracy to deceive the
court. Three other papers had more or
less extended notice of the event and
all OF them were unfavorable to Tom
my. This was the more significant as
! two of the papers had been for the ad-
ministration.
There's hope here" Miss Andrews
said that evening as the little settle
ment family was gathered in the fami-
ly library and the accounts in the diff
ferent papers were being reviewed.
Maybe this is the first murmuring Of
the people. God grant
The bell rang, and a visitor was an.
nounced.
Mr.. julius Chambers came in, and
the little company around the table
rose to greet him. The slight, pale faced
figure with the gold trimmed specta.
Giles was at that moment the most III
teresting personality, next to their own
head, in all the city. 1--WE had in mind
to come here for some time" he said
to Miss Andrews when they were all
seated again. 81 want to know you and
your work at first hand. Unless | am
mistaken the storm center of the next
Slmpaign will be somewhere in this
vicinity"
"Wfll you be anywhere near the cen
ter Of that center?" asked Gordon. lean
ing over and looking at Chambers in,
tenscly
by the grace of God, Mr. Gordon ]
want to be as near the center of it as
| can get, and nothing would please me
more than to have your company"
Gordon tingled all over. He arose
and put out his hand. The judge took
it. Neither said word, but from that
minute the two men were knit to each
other.
Tbey sat late that night around the
library table, the most enthusiastic, in
terested and in some ways the most
unselfsh group of men and women in
that city Gordon and Chambers laid
out plan of campaign. 1t included the
use Of every moral and Christian force
in the city. And the message they were
TO bring to the people was the message
of murdered childhood, the double
decker for a background, the political
boss necessary result of politics that
lived on its spoils and cared no more