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

iSdCiiiIIS across party INES Tor votes
1 kept my face blank
| GU We played politics only in your own
state or against the eastern crowd these last
rev years, he went on, as If in answer to
my thoughts. You don't realize what
a hold Scarboroughs got through the
entire west. He has split your party and
the machine of his own in our state,
and they know all about him and his doings
| fellow that knocks out the regulars
"A good many call him demagogue
don't they?' said l.
4es-and he Is, in sort of a way" replied
MerrlWeather. 'But-well. he's got knack
or telling the truth that it doesn't scare
folks. And he's managed to convince them
that he isn't looking out for number one. 1t
can't be denied that he made good gov
ernor. For instance he got after the
monopolies, and the cost of living is twenty
per cent lower in Indiana than Just across
the line In Ohio"
Then I should say that all the large in
teTests or the country would line up against
him." said l.
Every ONE said Merriweather, and an
expression OF understanding fitted across
his face He went on: But it amt much
nomlnat1on-at least. it wouldn't be easy to
get it for him.
Il suppose not" said I. That's a Job
for first-cass mainland they're rare"
And l shook hands with him.
About week later he returned and tried
to make report to me. But sent him
away. treating him very formally l appre-
clated that, being an experienced and ca
pable man, he knew the wisdom of getting
intimately in touch with his real employer;
but, as l had my Incompatible Woodruff
better far than I at the rough work of
politics. there was no necessity for my en-
tangnng myself. Merriweather went to
Woodruff and Woodruff reported to me
Scarborough's friends in Indianapolis all
agreed that he did not want the nomina-
ton and would not have It,
I'VE must force 1t on him." said I. I've
must have Scarborough"
Immediately after Burbank's nomination
Goodrich concentrated upon nominating
Judge Simpson. He had three weeks and
he worked hard and well. l think he over
did 1t in the editorials in our party organs
under his influence in New York, Boston
and other eastern cfties-never a day with
out lugubrious screeds on the dismal out
look for Burbank if the other party should
put up Simpson. But his Simpson editorials
IN big opposition papers undoubtedly pro-
duced an effect. 1 set for De Milt and his
bureau of underground publicity the task
OF showing up, as far as 1t was prudent to
expose int mate politics to the public
Goodrich and his crowd and their con-
spiracy with Beckett and his crowd to Sc
cure the opposition nomination for a man
OF the same offensive type as Cromwell.
And l directed Woodruff to supply Slli-
man and Merriwether and that depart
ment of my bipartisan machine with all
the money they wanted They can't
except for travelling expenses" said l. Our
best plan, anyhow, Is good honest mis-
sionary work with the honest men Of the
other party who wish to see it's best man
nominated"
While Goodrich's agents and Becketts
agents were industriously arranging the
eastern machinery of the opposition party
for Simpson, Merriweat Their had Silliman's
men toling in the west and south to get
Rumble delegates or unnstructed delega-
lions. And, after our converse ton, he was
reinforced by Woodruff and such men of
his staff as could be used without suspicion
Woodruff himself could permeate like an
odorless gas; you knew he was there only
by the results. Nothing could be done for
Rundle in his own state; but the farther
way from his home our men got the easier
1t was to induce-by purchase and other
wlse-the politicians of his party to think
We'll OF him. This the more because they
regarded Simpson as a stuff" and "stiff''
and they weren't far wrong.
1T may not be Scarborough and II nroh-
ably won't be Rundle," Woodruff said In
his hnal report to me, but it certainly
won't be Simpson. He's the dead one, no
matter how well he does on the first bal
lot
But l would not let him give me the de-
'aiis-the story of shrewd and slippery
plots. stratagems, surprises. Il am worn
out, mind and body said l in apology for
my obvious WEAKNESS and indifference
For six months had been necessarily at
work The tax upon memory alone, to say
uotitlHS Oh the Otflef faculties, had been
crushing. Easy as political facts always were
for me. could not lightly bear the strain
of keeping constantly In mind not merely the
outlines, but also hundreds of the details,
of the political organizations of forty-odd
states with all their counties. And the tax
on memory was probably the least Then
added to all my political work was bust
ness care, for while 1 was absorbed in pol
itics, Ed Ramsay had badly muddled the
business. Nor had /. like Burbank and
Woodruff. the power to empty my mind as
touched the pillow and so to get eight
hours of unbroken rest each night
Woodruff began asking me for instruc-
tions. But my Judgment was uncertain
and my imagination barren. do as you
think BEST said I. Il must rest I've
reached my limit'-my limit of endurance
of the sights and odors and befoulings of
these sewers Of politics l must in person
| adventure In order to reach my goal.
must pause and rise to the surface for a
breath Of decent air or 1 should not have
the strength TO finish these mental and even
vile tasks which no man can escape If he ia
| practical leader in the practical activities
of practical life