The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-10-01

MiaiStrg ton.
There's hope he" Miss Andrews
said that evening rs the little settle
ment family was gathered in the fami-
ly library and the accounts in the diff
ferent papers We're being reviewed.
"Maybe this is the first murmuring Of
the people. God grant
The bell rang, and 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.
/ cles was at that moment the most in
| teresting personality, next TO their own
head, in all the city. I've had in mind
TO come here for some time" he said
/ TO Miss Andrews when they We're AL
seated again. 81 want TO know you and
your work at first hand. Unless | am
mistaken the storm center of the next
campaign will be somewhere in this
vicinity"
"Will you be anywhere near the cen
ter of that CENTER" asked Gordon, lean
ing over and looking ut Chambers in.
/ tcnScly.
| BY the grace of God. Mr.. Gordon. |
| want to be as near the center of it rs
! can get. and nothing would please Inc
more than to have your company"
Gordon tinglcd all over. He arose
and put out his hand. The judge took
/ it. Neither said word. but from that
minute the tWo men We're knit to each
| other.
They sat late that night around the
| library table. tAc most enthusiastic in.
| tcr,Stcd and in some ways the most
unSCltiSh group of men and women in
that city. Gordon and Chambers laid
out plan of campaign. II included the
| use of every moral and Christian force
| in the city. And the message they were
10 bring TO the people was the message
of murdered childhood the double
decker for a background the political
boss Il necessary result of politics that
lived on its spOils and cared no more
for humanity's loss and ruin than any
machine cares for the dust that whirlS
through its mechanism, to be blown out
I over the world or trod under foot to
rise and be swept again into the rush
of the wheels that with metallic heart
lessnrss grind on, doing the will of
their maker, but caring for 10 mans
soul
1t seemed to them all during the
weeks that followed that the city was
awakening to some stern reality of its
moral obligations AS the young judge
had said that night when he appeared
at Hope House. The hour Of the peo-
pie is at hand" He himself, sometimes
alone. oftener with Gordon or Fal-
mouth. night after night addressed
great mass meetings held under the di-
rectiOn of church or temperance or mu-
nicipal reform bodies. Falmouth and
score Of other ministers organized tho
young people into campaign material.
The pulpit began to speak out. The pa
pers contained columns Of very free al.
vertising Of Tommy Randall and his
methods. Chambers voice spoke
through an astonishing number Of edi-
torials and other articles. exposing long
standing cases of awful incompetency
and fraud in the city government. The
storm of the peoples fury rose aud
grew with every nights gathering, and
the storm center was literally the Wa
terside district.
Under the leadership Of Gordon.
Chambers and Falmouth hundreds of
business men visited the tenement
houses and saw for the first time the
horrors that We're intensified by the
| machine. Hundreds of them were TAX
cn by Miss Andrews OF Gordon to
Tommy Randall's double decker, which
had gone steadily up through all til"
rising of the storm, and the lawlcsSneSs
of his acts WAS IA visible illustration Of
, the whole situation Miss Andrews
| had written to Mrs. Captain George
| EtlinGham telling her the situation.
and that old lady had replied: Use
the first hundred thousand if necessary
in carrying on the campaign and the
| StcOuu UlSO. VIII lTI W Hlu SDlHe
more II you only succeed In cleaning
out Mr.. Thomas Randall"
So the settlement workers thanked
God and plunged into the thick of the
! fight as it grew in power for every
saloon interest, every gambling hell.
every house OF evil fame, fought for
| its miserable life. For once almost
like magic to the astOnishmcnt Of evil
all the good Of the city appeared to
be united, on its knees praying, on its
! feet working And as the campaign
drew near It's climax every dark and
hideous viper that had fattened in
| the security of years of protection
from the city crawled out of its hole
| and showed its ugly and poisonous
| front, rearing it against an assault
that for the first time in history was
really doing something to vindicate the
name Of the stern Righteousness of God
in men.
One morning John Gordon, going by
Tommy Randalls double decker, found