The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-15

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| I'm mighty glad that you hnd the
! very present joys OF your new homo
better than any picture OF future
Paradise. painted in the sermons that
Elder Ripp used to preach to you IN
the little old Free witt Church, those
Sundays when you opened the cam.
paign by taking up your deyotionai
duties again. always did think you
were. put up on the lisht-running-
domestic order and that you'd drop
gracefully into the responsibilities OF
married life.
Consequently I'm not surprised TO
have you write In strain that shows
you arc disgustingly happy, and that
you have some earthly interest pe-
yond the glory OF representing con-
stituency and being an exalted errand
hoy for a bunch OF folks you wouldn't
hire out to for day wages. It's GOOD
for you to feel that there's something
in life beyond pulling and being
pulled-and for that which .'prohteth
not" Your decision to make a try
for some good fat appointment that
Will put you in position to provide
for your wife Is a very practical reso-
lutlon-but 1t recalls to me certain
speech which you delivered at Canade
Corners on the Fourth OF July. IN
which you magniled the glories OF an
elective and representative office and
dealt out high scorn for the "politi-
cal pot hunters" who prostituted am
bition for public SERVICE and made 1t
matter of ignoble commerce"
4 Those We're your words, Ned; but
can forgive your change OF heart
when remember that you were deal
ing a side cut to the boss Of the other
machine. who let the other fellows
take all the elective, bandstand places
while he dropped quietly into the KIND
OF nest you are now looking LOT,
Then, again, you're just married-and
that is enough to account for almost
any sort of a stampede IN the dlrec-
ton of settled income and secure
tenure of service"
But the man who can plunge INTO
matrImony and at the same time
stake his future on the efficacy Of
political pulls Is man Of faith, and
ought to be talking from behind pull
nit instead of prancing around on tho
stump.
the poltical pull is the rangiest and
most cock sure uncertainty OF cours9
YOU'RE going to come back at me With
the statement that the political pull
may be depended upon not to realize
mora than lIl6 CuHuAoato . SAsSSNst'
tions. Generally that so--but such
10 the consistency of this splendid un-
certainty that I'll have to tell you
what happened to my friend Driggs,
lust over the State line, He's re-
Gently been out to visit me and so the
matter is fresh In my mind
Now, Billy was always on the other
side OF the fence from me, politically,
and I used to rally him about being
always out in the cold. But he kept
right at the mourners bench, leaving
he faithful and exhorting the politl-
cal singers to come forward and get
the true light. And all this time
Isilly's law practice continued e gEsasyWe
lighter. and his line OF credit sandl.
longtime notes heavier. :,
Well, as you know, his SIDE ilnaAy'
came in on the great tidal wave, !
newer saw. pastor who had prayed
and sowed and watred and waited Tor
the increase, who was more surprised
when n real red-hot revival actually
orened up right at his feet ana mace
more rafters ring with the shouts OF
the saved than was Billy, When ne
hoard that the country had gone MS