Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-07-13

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"Don't You See, Don't You Feel, How
!, Who Love You, Suffer-"
fooled or fooled with. n he's elect
ed he'll carry out his programme, sen
ate or NO senate-and no matter
what scares you people cook UP in
the stock market" To this they made
no answer beyond delicately polite
insinuations about being tired of pay.
ing for that which was theirs of
right. l did not argue; 1t is never
necessary to puncture the pretenses
OF men of affairs with view to
saving them from falling into the err
ror Of forgetting that whatever
right" may mean on Sunday, on
week days 1t means that which
man can compel
returned to Fredonia and sent
Woodruff east to direct a campaign
of calamity bowling In the eastern
press. for the benefit of New York,
Boston and Philadelphia captains OF
industry" At the end of ten days
recalled him, and sent Roebuck to
Wall street to confirm the fears and
alarms Woodruff's campaign had
aroused. And In the west / was
laying out the money had been
able to collect from the leading men
Of Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio and west
ern Pennsylvania-except a quarter
~ mil I'D nf
York, to whom We gave the vice pres
idential nomination for that sum, and
about half 4 million more given by
several eastern men, to whom we
promised cabinet offices and posts
abroad. l put all this money, not
far from two millions, into our cam
paign OF education" and into those
importing delegations upon Burbank
at his rural retreat"
To attempt to combat Scarboroughs
popularity with the rank and file Of
his own party, was hopeless. l con-
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, Ii 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, l mean-was
almost nothing. The big papers and
news associations were big proper
ties. and their rich proprietors were
interested in enterprises to which
Scarboroughs election meant disas-
ter; 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
was vital to our success; also il was
| one OF the doubtful states where,
next to his own Indiana, Scarborough 8
| chances were best. l felt that we
must put a heavy handicap on his
| popularity there. had noticed that
| in Illinois the violently radical wing
| OF the opposition was very strong. So
| | sent Merriweather to strengthen the
radicals still further. hoped to make
them strong enough to put through
| their partys state convention a plat
form that would be a scarecrow to
umid voters in Illinois and through
out the west; and l wished for a
wild man" as the candidate for gov
| ernor, but l didn't hope it, though
| I told Merriweather ii mast be done.
| Curiously enough, my calculation OF
the probabilities was just reversed.
| The radicals were beaten on plat
form; but thanks to a desperate eff.
! fort of Merriweather's in "coaxing'
rural delegates 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--sld. therefore,
from Scarborough. And our machine
there sacrificed the local interests to
the geenral by nominating a popular
and not insincere reformer.
When Roebuck and | descended
upon Wall street on October 16,