Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-19

1t hadn't been for you--well, I'd hate to say how badly he'd have got left. But then, if it hadn't been for you, he'd never have been governor. He was a dead one, and you hauled him out of the tomb"
 True enough. But what did 1t mat ter now?
 Hes going to get horrible jolt before many months" Woodruff went on. T can see you after him"
 You forget. He's president" Ian swered He's beyond our reach"
 Not when he wants renomina- tion,' insisted Woodruff.
 He can get that without us-if," said. You must remember we've made him fetish with our rank and file And he's something of fetish with the country now that he's presi- dent. No, we can't destroy him cant even injure him. He'll have to do that himself, if it's done Be- sides"
 did not finish. did not care to confess that since Frances and I saw Granby swinging from that tree in my grounds I had neither heart nor stomach for the relentless side of the game. Indeed, whether from cal culation or from sentimentality or from both-or, from a certain sympa- thy and fellow feeling for all kinds of weakness-I have never pursued those who have played me false, ex- cept when exemplary punishment was imperataive.
 We'll" Woodruff looked bitterly disappointed. T guess you're right" He frightened, T forgot Goodrich for minute. Burbank'll do himself up through that-Fd have to be in saloon to feel free to use the Ian guage that describes him.
 T fear he will" I said. And it was not hypocrisy-for did not, and could not, feel anger toward him. Had not cut this staff deliberately because 1t was crooked? What more natural than that it should give way under me as soon as I leaned upon 1t?
 Your sickness certainly couldn't have come at an unluckier time," Woodruff observed just before he left.
 I'm not sure of that" was my re- ply Tt would have been useless to have found him out sooner. And if he had hidden himself until later. he might have done us some serious mis- chief"
 As he was the president-elect, to go to him uninvited would have been in- fringement of his dignity as we'll as of my pride. A few days later I wrote him, thanking him for his mes sages and inquiries during my illness and saying that I was once more talk ing part in affairs. He did not reply by calling me up on the telephone. as he would have done in his cordial, in- innate years preceding his grandeur. Instead he sent a telegram of con graduation, following it with note. He urged me to go south, as l had planned, and stay until was fully re- stored. T shall deny myself the pleas ure of seeing you until you return" That sentence put of our meeting in- definitely--I could see him smiling at its adroitness as he wrote it.
 But he made his state of mind even clearer. His custom had been to be- gin his notes: Dear Harvey" or Dear Sayler," and to end them James" or Burbank" This note be- gan: My Dear Senator" it ended: Yours sincerely, James E. Burbank" As I stared at these phrases my blood steamed to my brain. Had he spat in my face my fury would have bees less. Sol" l thought in the first gust of anger, you feel that you have been using me. that you have no fur ther use for me. You have decided to take the advice of those idiotic in- dependent newspapers and wash your hands of the corruptionist who almost defeated you"
 To make war upon him was in wis dom impossible-even had l wished. And when anger flowed away and pity and contempt succeeded. really did not wish to war upon him. But there was Goodrich-the real corruptionist, the wrecker of my plans and hopes, the menace to the future of the party. I sent for Woodruff, and together we mapped out a campaign against the senior senator from New Jersey in all the newspapers we could control or influence. I gave him a free hand to use-with his unfalling discretion. of course-all the facts we had aecu- mulated to Goodrich's discredit put at his disposal a hundred thou sand dollars. As every available dol lar of the party fund had been used in the campaign, advanced this money out of my own pocket.
 And went cheerfully away to Palm Beach. there to watch at my ease the rain of shot and shell upon my en- emy.
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