Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-15
CHAPTER XVII.
Scarborouqh.


 Scarborough.
 Now came the problem--to elect.
 We hear much of many wonders of combination and concentration of in dustrial power which railway and tel egraph have wrought. But nothing is said about what seems to me the greatest wonder of them all-how these forces have resulted in the con centration of the political power of upwards of 100000 of our l5,000, 900 voters; how the few can impose their ideas and their will upon widening circles. out and out, until all are in cluded, The people are scattered; the powers confer, man to man, day by day. The people are divided by partizan and other prejudices; the powers are bound together by the one self-interest. The people must ac- cept such political organizations as are provided for them; the powers pay for, and their agents make and d. rect, these organizations. The people are poor; the powers are rich. The people have not even offices to be- stow; the powers have offices to give and lucrative employment of all kinds, and material and social Advancement everything that the vanity or the ap- petite of man craves. The people punish but feebly-usually the wrong persons-and soon forget: the powers relentlessly and surely pursue those who oppose them. forgive only after the offender has surrendered uncon- ditionally and they never forget where 1t 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 suspected that I had outgeneraled him. he opened negotiations with the national machine of the opposition party. He decided that, if l should succeed in nominating Burbank, he would save his masters and himself by nominating as the opposition can didate man under their and his control, and by electing him with an enormous campaign fund
 Beckett, the subtlest and most in- fiuential of the managers of the na- tional machine 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-conservative man, his brain spun full in every cell with the cobwebs of legal technicality. He was. in his way, almost as satis- factory candidate for the interests as Cromwell would have been. For. while he was honest. of what value is honesty when combined with credulity and lack of knowledge of affairs? They knew what advisers he would select, nca trained in their service and taken from their legal staffs. They knew he would shrink from anything "rsdicar' CT disturbing is. would no. modest the two packs of wolves. the business and the politl- cal, at their feast upon the public. He came of line of bigoted adherents of his party: he led a simple. retired 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 to- ward the jawbone, scant about the lower lip. absent from the upper. These evidences of unfitness to cope with up-to-date corruptionists seemed to endear him to the masses.
 As soon as those big organs of the opposition that were in the control of the powers began to talk Of Simpson as an ideal candidate, suspected what was in the wind. But I had my hands full: the most 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. It was fortunate for me that I had cured myself of the habit of vor- [ rying For 1t was plain that, if ' Goodrich and Beckett succeeded in getting Simpson nominated by the op- ttslliun I SuOuiu nave HhIu uSuA AO raise the necessary campaign money. 1 The large interests either would l finance Simpson. or. should con- | vince them that Burbank vas as good for their purposes as Simpson, would ] be indifferent which won
 I directed Siilinan to work for Run de of Indiana. a thoroughly honest
 man. in deadly earnest about half a dozen deadly wrong things. and cap able of anything in furthering them after the manner of fanatics If he had not been in public life. he would have been oamp-uesting exhorter. Crowds liked to listen to him. the rad ieals and radically inclined through out the west sSore by him. he had
 had two terms in congress. had got
 hundredOdd votes for the nomsns-
 ton for president at the last national eo1vention of the cp2csltiez- = A