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


run as might be necessary.
My daughter Frances was driving
me from the Fredonia station. A man
darted In front Of the horses, flung
up his arms and began to shrek
curses at me. II she bad not been q
skiliful driver, we should both have
been thrown from the cart. AS 1T
was, the horses ran several miles
before she got them under control.
] sitting inactive, because / knew
how II would hurt her pride II
should interfere.
mo doubt he is. was my reply
And began. compIimenting her on
her skill with horses, chiefly to pre-
vent her pressing me about the man
l had heard, and had done. SO much
lying that ] had horror of it, 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 l instantly recognized,
through the drunken DISAGREEMENT, 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 liza.
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
Freaepis. ea1is ~....-.
I had one Of my secretaries tele-
phone the police to look after him;
they reported that he had djsap-
peared.
The next morning but one, my
daughter and 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 scare
crow, but not scarecrow-swung
from a limb overhanging the drive.
The face was distorted and swollen;
the arms and legs we're drawn up in
sickening crookedness Before saw,
l knew II was CRANKY
l took Frances home, then returned.
passing the swaying horror far on
the other side Of the road 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 it that the
corpse should be reported as found
In the open woods long distance
from my place. But CRANKY had left
a message ito the public" in his room
at the hotel: Senator Sayler ruined
me and drove me to death. have
gone to hang myself in his park
Down with monopoly" In spite OF
my 4 efforts, this was published
throughout the country-though not
in Fredonia. Such of the big oppo
sition papers as were not under oul
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
me in too bad light.
1t was the irony of fate-my power
thus ludicrously thwarted by a trivial
ity. Within "a hours / realized the
danger to our campaign. sent Wood.
run post-haste to the widow. He gave
her convincing assurances that she
and her children we're 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
generating me from all blame for
her husbands reverses, and saying
that he had been acting strangely
for over year, and had been in
sane for several months. In brief,
did everything suggested by sim
cere regret, and such skill at ipfiu-
encing public opinion as ! 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 ! 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 partizans who we're wavering.
The Scarborough speakers had, with
powerful effect, been haunting us with
our huge campaign fund, daring us to
disclose It's sources. On that Sun
day morning when 1t was too late
for the opposition to discount me, l
boldly threw open a set of campaign
ledgers which showed that our fund
was just under million dollars, with
the only large subscription, the hun
dred thousand dollars which | N.Y.