Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-19

me from the Fredonia station. A man darted in front of the horses, flung up his arms and began to shriek curses at me. If she had not been a skillful driver, we should both have been thrown from the cart. As it
 was. the horses ran several miles
 before she got them under control,
 sitting inactive, because I knew
 how 1t would hurt her pride If
 should interfere.
 When the horses were quiet she gave me an impetuous kiss that
 more than repaid me for the strain
 on my nerves. You are the dearest papa that ever was!" she said Then --"Who was he? He looked like a
 crazy man!''
 "No doubt he is" was my reply.
 And l began complimenting her on
 her skill with horses, chiefly to pre-
 vent her pressing me about the man.
 I had heard. and had done, so much
 lying that I had a horror of 1t, and
 tried to make my children absolute.
 ly truthful-my boy Ed used to think
 up and do mischief just for the pleas
 ure of pleasing me by confessing. To
 make my example effective, was always strictly truthful with them.
 did not wish to tell her who the man was; but instantly recognized, through the drunken dishevelment, my mutineer, Granby-less than a year
 before one of the magnates of the state. My orders about him had been swiftly and literally obeyed. De. serted by his associates, blacklisted at banks, beset by his creditors, har- assed by the attorney general, his as- sets chained with injunctions, his lia- bilities given triple fangs. he went bankrupt, took to drink, became a sot and barroom lounger His dom- inant passion was hatred of me; he discharged the rambling and frantic story of his wrongs upon whoever would listen. And here he was in Fredonia.
 I had one of my secretaries teie- phone the police to look after him; they reported that he had disap- peared.
 The next morning but one, my daughter and I went for an early walk. At the turn of the main drive just beyond view from the lodge, she exclaimed: "Oh, father, oh!" and chung to me. Something--like a scare crow, but not a scarecrow-swung from a limb overhanging the drive. The face was distorted and swollen; the arms and legs were drawn up in sickening crookedness. Before saw, l knew 1t was Granby.
 took Frances home, then returned, passing the swaying horror far on the other side of the road. I got the lodge-keeper. and he and went back together. had them tele- phone from the lodge for the cor oner and personally saw to 1t that the corpse should be reported as found in the open woods a long distance from my place. But Granby had left a message ito the public" in his room at the hotel: Senator Sayler ruined me and drove me to death. I have gone to hang myself in his park. Down with monopoly" In spite of my efforts, this was published throughout the eountry-though not in Fredonia. Such of the big oppo- sition papers as were not under our control sent reporters and raked out the whole story: and 1t was blown up hugely and told everywhere. Our organs retold 1t, giving the true color and perspective; but my laundering attempt to avoid publicity had put 5 me in too bad a light
 It was the irony of fate-my power thus ludicrously thwarted by trivial ity. Within 24 hours I realized the danger to our campaign. sent Wood run post-haste to the widow. He gave her convincing assurances that she and her children were to be lifted from the slough of poverty into which Granby's drunkenness had thrust them And in return she wrote at his dictatIon and issued an ap- parently uninspired public statement. exonerating me from all blame for her husbands reverses, and saying that he had been acting strangely for over a year. and had been in- sane for several months. In brief. I did everything suggested by sin cere regret. and such skill at infiu- encing public opinion as I had and commanded. But not until my re- ports began to show. the good effects of the million dollars Woodruff put into the last week of the campaign, did l begin to hope again.
 Another hope frightened toward confidence. when, on the Saturday be fore election. sprung my carefully matured scheme for stiffening those of our partizsns who were vavering The Scarborough speakers had. with powerful effect, been taunting us with our huge campaign fund. daring us to disclose its sources. On that Sun | day morning. when It vas too late { for the opposition 10 discount me, I boldly threw open a set of campaign { ledgers which showed that our fund was just under a million dollars. with t the only large subscription. the hun dred thousand dollars which I my seslf had given Tens of thousands i of our partizans. longing for an sx- cuse for staying with us. returned cheering to the ranks-enough of them in the doubtful states. re be- lIeved. to restore the floating vote to it's usual balance of power.