The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-16


I. Il guarantee that in no case will
the unpleasant consequences to you
be more than . few disagreeable but
soon forgotten newspaper articles.
You haggle over these tribes, and
why. look at your cabinet list! There
are two names on 1.-TWO Of the four
Goodrich men-that will cost you
blasts of public anger-perhsps tho
denomination"
rs this my friend Harvey Sayler?'
he exclaimed, grief and pain in that
face which had been used by him for
80 years as the sculptor uses the mold
ing clay.
TT is / answered calmly. And
never more your friend than now,
when you have ceased to be friend
to him-and to yourself"
Then do you ask me to share the
fnfamy of those wretches," he pleaded
They are our allies and helpers"
said, "wretches only as / and all of US
In practical politics are wretches. DIFF
ference Of degree, perhaps; but not
of kind. And, James, IL our promises
TO these invaluable fellow workers of
ours are not kept, kept to the utter
group of senators to oppose and de-
feat your most important nomina-
tions. And | shall myself, publicly,
from the floor of the senate, show up
these Goodrich nominees of yours as
creatures of corrupt corporations and
monopoIists." / said this without
heat; every word Of 1t fell cold as arc
tic ice upon his passion.
A long pause. then: Your promises
shall be kept" he assented with great
dignity of manner; mot because you
threaten, Harvey, but because I value
your friendship beyond anything and
everything. And 1 may add l am
sorry. profoundly sorry, my selections
for the important places do not please
you
Il think CT your future 1 said.
''you talk Of friendship
NO, no, Harvey" he protested,
with a vehemance of reinsurance that
ruck me as amusing.
And" l went on. "it is in friend
ship, James, that / warn you not to
fill all your crucial places with c.ea-
lures of the Goodrich crowd. They
will rule your administration. they
will drive You. in spite OF yourself on
and on, from excess TO excess. You
will put the middle west irrevocably
against you. You viii make even the
east doubtful. You are paying pay
ing with your whole future. for that
which is already yours. If you lose
your hold on the people. the money
crowd will have none of you. If you
keep the people. the money-crowd will
be your very humble servant
| happened just then to glance pas.
i'm at a picture on the wall over his
hair. 1t was a crayon portrait of his
wife. made from an enlarged pkc.o
graph-a poor piece of work. almost
lCdicrous in Its distortions of proper
tion and perspective. But 1t touched
me the more because il was such .
humble thing. reminiscent Of her and
his and my lowiy beginnings. And an
appeal seemed to go straight to my
heart from those eyes that had SO
often been raised from the sewing in
sympathetic understanding of the
things l was struggling to make her
husband see
l pointed IN the picture: he slowly
turned round IN his chair until he.
too. looked at it, What would she
say. Burbank" | asked. If she were
with us Tow
And then ! went on to analyze his
outlined administration, to show him
in detail why | thought it would ruin
him. to suggest men who were rs
good party men as the Goodrich crowd
and would be a credit to him and q
help. And he listened with his old
dead wife's picture all the while "You
must be popular, at any cost" I end
ed The industrial crowd will stay
with the party, no matter what we do.
As long as Scarborough IS in control
on the other side, We are their only
hope. And SO. we are free to seek
popularity-and we must regain it or
we're done for. Money won't save US
when we've lost our grip on the rank
and file. The presidency cant be
bought again for you. II it must be
bought next time. another figure-hsad
Will have to be used
Il can't tell you how grateful I am"
was his conclusion after 1 had put my
whole mind before him and he had
discussed IT. But thsre are certain
pledges to Goodrich"
Break them" said /. ITO keep
them Is catastrophe"
I knew the pledges he had in the
foreground-a ST. louis understrap-
per OF the New York financial crowd
for secretary OF the treasury; for at.
tcrney general q lawyer who knew
nothing OF politics or public sentiment
or indeed anything but how to in.
struot corporations in law-breakins
and lawdodging.
He thought long time. When he
answered 1t was with . shake OF the
head. Too late. I'm afraid, Harvey.
I've asked the men and they've &C.
cepted. That was = most untimely
illness OF yours. I'll see what can be
done. It's a grave step to offend sew