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

I arrived at Chicago the day before
the convention and, going at once Il
our state headquarters in the Grea
Northern, shut myself in with Doc
Woodruff. My doorkeeper. the mem
Der OF the legislature from Fredonia
Sentured to interrupt with the an
nouncement that a messenger hao
come from Senator Goodrich.
Let him in" said l.
As the door-man disappeared Doc
glanced at mis- watch, then said with
D smile: You've been here seven
minutes and a half-just time for Z
lookout downstairs 10 telephone to the
Auditorium and for the messenger to
drive from there here Goodrich is on
1he anxious seat. All right"
The messenger was Goodrich 5
bandy-man, Judge Dufour. / myself
have always frowned on these public
exhibitions Of the intimacy of judges
In practical politics; but Goodrich had
many small vanities-he liked his
Judges to hold his coat and his gov
ernors to carry his satchel. One
would say that such petty weaknesses
would be the undoing of man. For
tunately. we are not as weak as our
Weaknesses but as strong as our
strength; and while the universal
weaknesses are shared by the strong.
their strength is peculiar and rare
After Dufour had introduced himself
and we had exchanged commonplace
he said: Senator, there's a little con-
ference Of some of the leaders at head
quarters, and It isn't complete without
you. So, Senator Goodrich has sent
me over to escort you"
Thank you-very courteous of you
and of him." said / without hesitation,
for / knew what was coming as soon
rs his name had been brought in. and
my course was laid out. But / can't
leave just now Please ask him :
he won't come oyer-any time within
the next four hours This bland
and without q sign that l was con
scious of Dufour's stupefaction-for
his vanity made him believe that the
god the great Dufour knelt to must
be the god of gods.
There is no more important branch
Of the art of successful dealing with
men than the etiquette of who shall
call upon whom. Many a man has in
his very hour of triumph ruined his
cause with a blunder thereby going
TO see some one whom he should have
compelled to come to him, or by COM
polling some one to come to him when
he should have made the concession
Of going. j had two reasons for thus
humiliating Goodrich neither of them
the reasons he doubtless attributed
to me, the desire to feed my vanity
My first reason was his temperament:
I knew his having to come to me
would make him bow before me in
spirit, as he was a tyrant. and tyrants
are always cringers. MY second rea-
son was that l thought myself near
enough to control of the convention
to be able to win control by creating
the atmosphere of impending success
There is always a lot of fellows who
wait to see who is likely to win, so
that they may be on the side of the
man in the plum tree; often there are
enough of these to gain the victory
for him who can lure them over at
Just the right moment.
AS soon as Dufour had taken his
huge body away / said to Woodruff: 1
go out with your men and gather in
the Office downstairs as many mem
bers of the doubtful delegations as
you can Keep them where they'll be
bound to see Goodrich come in and
60 out"
He rushed away. and waited
working with the leaders of three far
western states. At the end of two
hours l won them by the spectacle of
the arriving Goodrich. He came in,
serene. smiling. giving me the joyous
Iy shining eyes and joyously firm
band clasp of the politicians greeting;
not an outward sign that he would
like to see me tortured to death by
Some slow process then and there.
Hypocritical preliminaries were not
merely unnecessary but even highly
yet. so great was his an
ger and confusion that he began
with the prospects of an old-time
convention. with old-time enthusiasm.
and that generous rivalry which is the
kien of party health"
Il hope not. senator" said /. pleas
unity. Here we think the fight is
Cver-and won"
lie Hfted his eyebrows: but | saw
his maxillary muscles twitching I'VE
don't figure il out just that way at |
headquarters" he replied oilily but. |
there's no doubt about it. your man
has developed strength in the
west" L
And south" said I. with deliberate |
Intent to infiame, for / knew how he |
must feel about those delegates we |
had bought away from him.
There We're teeth enough in his |
Fmile-but little else. Il think Bur
bank and Cromwell will be about even /
On the first ballot" said he May |
the best man win, We're fau work /
Ing for the good of the party and the |
country. Butt came rather, 10 get |
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