Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19
XVII.
SCARBOROUGH.

scarborough.
| Now came the problem-to elect.
We hear much of many wonders of COM
| bination and concentration of Industrial
| power which railway and telegraph have
| wrought But nothing is said about what
| seems to me the greatest wonder of them
| all-how these forces have resulted in the
| concentration of the political power of up
| ward of - $50 010 of our 100000 voters;
| how the few impose their ideas and
their will upon widening circles, out and
out, until all are.ncluded. The people are
scattered; the powers confer, man to man,
day by day. The people are divided by
partisan and other prejudices; the powers
are bound together by the one self-interest.
The people must accept such political Or
CARNATIONS provided for them; the
powers pay for, and their agents make and
direct those organizations. The people are
poor; the powers are rich. The people
have not even offices to bestow; the powers
have offices to give and lucrative employ
ment of all kinds, and material and social
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that the vanity
or the appetite of man Graves. The people
punish but feebly-usually the wrong per-
sons-and soon forget; the powers relent-
lessly and surely pursue those who oppose
them. forgive only after the offender has
surrendered Internationally, and they
never forget where it is to their interest to
remember The powers know both what
they want and how to get it; the people
know neither.
Back in March, when Goodrich first sus-
pected that 1 had outgeneraled him, he
opened negotiations with the national ma
chine of the opposition party. He decided
that, If / should succeed in nominating
Burbank, he would save his masters and
himself by nominating as the opposition
candidate a man under their and his con-
troll, and by electing him with an enor-
nous campaign fund.
Beckett the subtlest and most influential
of the managers of the national ma
chine of the opposition party. submitted
several names to him. He selected
Henry J. Simpson, justice of the supreme
court Of Ohio-a slow. shy, ultra-conserva-
tive man, his brain spun full in every cell
with the cobwebs Of legal technically. He
was, in his way, almost as satisfactory a
candidate for the interests as Cromwell
would have been. For, while he was hon.
est, of what value is honesty when COM
bined with credulity and lack of knowledge
of affairs. They knew what advisers he
would select, men trained in their service
and taken from their legal STATS. They
knew he would shrink from anything rad
ical' or disturbing that is. would not
modest the two packs of wolves, the BUSH
ness and the political, at their feast upon
the public. He came Of line of bigoted
adherents of his party; he led simple, re-
tired life among sheep and cows and books
asleep In the skins of sheep and COWS. He
wore old-fashioned rural whiskers, thickest
in the throat, thinning toward the jaWbone,
scant about the lower lip. absent from the
upper. These evidences of unfitness to cope
with up-to-date corruption seemed to en-
dear him to the masses.
AS soon as those big organs of the oppo-
sition that were in the control of the pow
ers began to talk of Simpson as an ideal
candidate l suspected what was in the
wind. But I had my hands full; the most
I could then do was to supply my local
left bower" Silliman, with funds and set
him to work for a candidate for his party
more to my taste. 1t was fortunate for me
that l had cured myself of the habit of
worrying. For II was plain that, II Good
rich and Beckett succeeded in getting Simp-
son nominated by the opposition l should
have a hard fight to raise the necessary
campaign money. The large interests either
would finance Simpson or should l con-
vince them that Burbank was as good for
their purposes as Simpson, would be indf-
ferent which won.
1 directed Silliman to work for Rumble of
Indiana, thoroughly honest man, in
deadly earnest about half a dozen deadly
wrong things and capable of anything In
furthering them-after the manner of ia
natics. If he had not been in public life
he would have been q camp-meeting ex-
horter. Crowds liked to listen to him; the
radicals and radically inclined through
out the west swore by him; he had
had two terms in Congress, had got a
hundred odd votes for the nomination for
President at the last national convention
of the opposition. A splendid scare-croW
for the Wall street crowd. but difficult to
nominate over Goodrich's man, Simpson,
In a convention of practical politicians.
In May-it was the afternoon of the very
day my mutineers got back into the har-
ness-W oodruff asked me If l would see a
man he had picked up in a delegate-hunt-
ing trip into Indiana AN old pal of mine,
"a hat twelve
since l last saw him. He has always
trained with the opposition. He's full
fedged graduate of the Indiana school of
politics, and that's the best It's almost
all craft there-they hate to give up money
and don't use it except as last resort
He brought in his man-Merriwether by
name. l liked the first look at him-keen.
cynical, indifferent. He had evidently sat
that play reused in him only the lce-cold
passion of the purely professional.
There's been nothing doing in our state
for the last two or three years-at least
nothing in my line said he "A rank
outsider. Scarborough
/ nodded. Yes. l know him. He came
into the Senate from your state two years
ago.
well, he's built up a machine of his own
and runs things 10 suit himself"
Il thought he wasn't politician, said l.
Merriwether's bony face showed faint
grin. 1.-The best ever" said he. He's put
the professionals out of business, without
its costing him cent. I've got tired of
waiting for him to blow over
Tired-and hungry, l thought. After half
| an hour of pumping l sent him away. de-
| taining Woodruff. What does he really
| think about Rundle?" asked.
Says he hasn't the ghost of a -chance-
| that Scarborough control the Indiana
| delegation and that Scarborough has no
more use for lunatics than for grafters.''
| This was not encouraging called Mer-
riwether back. why don't you people
nominate Scarborough at St. LOUISE" said !.
Behind his surface of attention, saw his
| mind travelling at lightning speed in search
| of my hidden purpose along every avenue
| that my suggestion opened.
Scarborough be dangerous man for
you," he replied He's got nasty way OF