Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-18

tented myself With restoring order and arousing enthusiasm in the main body of our partizans in the doubtful and uneasy states. So ruinous had been Goodrich's management that even at that comparatively simple task we should not have succeeded but for the fortunate fact that the great mass of partizans refuses to hear anything from the other side; they regard reasoning as disloyal- which. curiously enough, 1t so often is. Then, too, few newspapers in the doubtful states printed the truth about what Scarborough and his sup porters were saying and doing. The cost of this perversion of publicity to us-direct money cost, I mean-was almost nothing. The big papers and news associations were big proper ties. and their rich proprietors were interested in enterprises to which Scarborough's election meant disas- ter;'a a multitude of the smaller pa- pers, normally of the opposition, were dependent upon those same inter- prises for the advertising that kept them alive.
 Perhaps the most far-sighted-cer- tainly, as the event showed, the most fortunate-single stroke of my cam ,paign was done in Illinois. That state one of the doubtful states where, next to his own Indiana, Scarborough's chances were best. I felt that we must put heavy handicap on his popularity there I had noticed that in Illinois the violently radical wing of the opposition was very strong So I sent Merriweather to strengthen the radicals still further. hoped to make them strong enough to put through their party's state convention plat form that would be a scarecrow to timid voters in Illinois and through out the west; and l wished for a 1 wild man" as the candidate for gov ernor, but I didn't hope it, though Curiously enough, my calculation of the probabilities was just reversed. The radicals were beaten on plat form; but, thanks to desperate ef- fort of Merriweather's in "coaxing" rural delegates a frothing, wild-eyed. political crank got the nomination. And he never spoke during the cam paign that he didn't drive voters away from his ticket-and. therefore. from Scarborough. And our machine there sacrificed the local interests to the geenral by nominating a popular and not :nsincere reformer.
 When Roebuck and I descended upon Wall street op October 16. three weeks before election, I had everything in readiness for my final and real campaign.
 Throughout the doubtful states. Woodruff was in touch with local ma chine leaders of Scarborough's party. with corruptible labor and fraternal order leaders. with every element that would for cash price deliver a body of voters on election day. Also he had arranged in those states for the right sort" of election officers at upward of 800 polling places, at ] least half of them places where sev- eral hundred votes could be shifted without danger or suspicion. Also. Burbank and our corps of 'spellbind- CTS" had succeeded beyond my hopes in rousing partizan passion-but here again part of the credit belongs to Woodruff Never before had there been so many free barbecues. distribu- tions of free uniforms to well-financed Burbank and Howard Campaign clubs, and arrangings of those expensive pa. rades in which the average citizen de- lights. The wise Woodruff spent nearly one-third of my education" money in this way.
 One morning found him laughing over the bill for a grand Burbank rally at ndianapolis-ab0ut ;35,000. as I remember the figures.
 What smuses you?" said L
 T was thinking what fools the peo- pie arc. never to ask themselves where all the money for these free shows comes from. and why those who give are willing to give so much. and how they get it back. What an ass the public is"
 Fortunately. said L
 For us" said he.
 And for itself" rejoined.
 Perhaps" he admitted Tt was born to be plucked and I suppose our crowd does do the plucking more scientifically than less experienced hands would"
 T prefer to put it another way said L Let's say that we save ii from a worse plucking"
 That is better" said Doc. For. on his way up in the world. he vas rap. idly enveIoping what could. and should be called conscience
 looked at him. and once more had a quain like shame before his moral superiority to me. We wers plodding along on about the same moral level: but he had ascended to that level. while I had descended 10 it There were politicians. posing as pure before the world and even in the pz-ty's behfnd-the-scene. wh5 would have s1eerei at Docs con science Yet tO my notion. they. vho started high and from whatever soPhistry Of motive trziled down into the nire. are lower far than they uho began deep in the mfre and have been struggling brzvely toward the surface I know a man Vho uss