Cañon City record., 1904-04-28
The Gentleman
From Indiana
By Booth Harrington.

with gasp of delight, for there was
something she wanted to do.
Rodney McCune had lifted his head.
and the friends of his stricken enemy
felt that they and the cause that Hark
less had labored for were lost with
out the leader. for the old ring that the
Herald had beaten rallied around Nc
Cune. THE boys were in line again.
Every one knew that Holloway, a dull
but honest man. the most available ma
terial that Harkless had been able to
find. was already beaten. II John
Harkless had been ION the ground to
work for him" 1t was said. Holloway
could have received the nomination
again. but as matters stood he was
beaten and beaten badly. and Rodney
McCune would sit in congress, for nom
ination meant election.
But one afternoon the Harkless
forces, demoralized, broken, hopeless.
woke up to find that they had a leader
There was political conference at
Judge Briscoe's. The politicians de-
scended sadly at the gate from the
omnibus that had met the afternoon
train-Boswell and Keating. two gen
tlemen of Amo. and Bence and Shan
non. two others of Gaines county, to
confer with Warren Smith, Tom Mar
tin, Briscoe and Harkless' representa-
tives. Fisbee and the editor Of the
Herald. They entered the house gloom
lily. and the conference began in de-
jected monosyllables. But presently
Minnie Briscoe, sitting on the porch
pretending to sew. heard Helen's voice.
clear, soft and trembling little with
excitement. She talked for only two
or three minutes, but what she said
seemed to stir up great commotion
among the others. All the voices burst
forth at once in exclamations, almost
shouts. Then Minnie saw her father.
seated near the window, rise and strike
the table great blow with his clinch-
ed fist. will | make the nominating
speech?" he cried I'D walk from
here to Roucn and back again to do
itr'
Wen swim outr exclaimed Mr..
Keating of Amo. "The wonderful
thing is that nobody thought Of this
before. There are just two difficulties
Holloway and our man himself. He
wouldn't let his name be used against
Kedge. Therefore we've got to work
it quietly and keep 1t from him"
Its not too difficult" said the speak
ers colleague. Mr.. Boswell. "All we've
got to do is to spring 1t as a surprise on
the convention. Some of the old crowd
themselves will be swept along with us
when we make our nomination, and
you want to stuff your ears with cot
ton. You see. all we need to do is to
pass the word quietly among the Hal
loway people and the shaky McCune
people. Rod may get wind of 1t. but
you can't fix men in this district against
us when they know what we mean to
do now. On the first ballot well give
Holloway every vote he'd have got If
he'd IN against McCune alone. 1t will
help him to understand how things
were aftcrward. On the second ballot
why, we nominate. OF course it can't
be helped that Holloway has to be kept
in the dark. too. but he's got to be-"
There one danger" said Warren
Smith. "kedge Halloway is honest, but
believe he's selfish enough to disturb
his best friends deathbed for his own
ends. It's not unlikely that he will get
nervous toward the last and be tele-
graphing Harkless TO have himself car
ried on a cot to the convention to save
him. That wouldn't do at all, of course.
And Miss Sherwood thinks maybe
there'd be less danger If we set the
convention little ahead of the dag
appointed. It's dangerous. because it
shortens our time, but we can fix it fnr
three days before the day we'd settled
on, and that will bring it to Sept. ~
ITS Il great plan.' said Mr.. Ben"c.
who was an oratoricnl gentleman. Hc
thrust one hand in his breast. raised
the other toward heaven and contln-
ued. For the name of Harklcss
shall"-
wait a minute" said Kcating. "Td
like to hear from the Herald about its
policy. if Miss Sherwood will tell u.s."
Yes. indeed" she answered. at will
be very simple. Don't you think there