The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-04-24

or seII-cOndemnatlOn from which |
had been held up for few days by
the excitement of the swiftly throng-
ing events and by the necessity of
putting my whole mind upon moves
for my game.
Il am heartily glad you were sue
cessful," he began when we were
alone. THAT takes a weight of my
mind"
You misunderstood me, see,"
said 1. 81 haven't got anything from
those people in New York as yet. But
within a week they'll be begging me
to take whatever I need Thwing's
report will put them in panic"
His face fell. Then l must De es-
pecially courteous to Goodrich" he
said, after thinking intently. Your
hopes might be disappointed
mot the slightest danger" was my
prompt assurance. And If you take
my advice, you will ask Goodrich how
his agent found Senator Scarborough's
health, and then order him out of this
house. Why harbor a deadly snake
that can be Of no use to your"
But you seem to forget, Harvey.
that he is the master of at least the
eastern wing of the party. And you
must now see that he will stop at
nothing unless he is pacif1ed."
"TIe is the fetch-and-carry of an i'm
pudent crowd in Wall street" I re-
torted that is all When they find
he can no longer do their erranda
they'll throw him over and come to
US. And we can have them on our own
terms"
We argued with growing irritation
on both sides, and after an hour or
so. saw that he was hopelessly I'M
der the spell of his pettiness and his
moral cowardice. He had convinced
himself that l was jealous of Good
rich and would sacrifice anything to
crafty my hate. And Goodrich's
sending an agent to Scarborough had
only made him the more formidable
in Burbank's eyes. AS l looked in
upon his mind and watched its weak,
foolish little workings, my irritation
SuDSlu6Q. OO DIS you CuIAh DSoI,
said /, YEARLY. But when he pre-
sents the mortgage you are going to
give him on your presidency, remem-
Der my warning"
He laughed this off, feeling my
point only in his vanity, not at all in
his judgment And how will you re-
ceive him, Harvey? He will be sure
to come to you next-must, as you
are in charge Of my campaign"
I'll tell him straight out that I'll
have nothing to do with him." said I,
blandIy THE Wall street submission
to the party must be brought to me
by some other ambassador. I'll not
help him to fool his masters and to
hide it from them that he has lost
control"
l could have insisted, could have
| destroyed Goodrich = for Burbank
would not have dared disobey me.
But the campaign, politics in gen.
eral, life itself. filed me with disgust,
paralyzing disgust that made me
almost lose confidence in my theory
of practical life.
Whats the user" l said to myself
| LET Burbank keep his adder. Let II
sting him. If it go much as shoots
a fang at me, I can crush it,"
And so Burbank lifted up Goodrich
and gave hostage to him; and Good
rich, warned that I would not deal
with him, made some excuse or other
to his masters for sending Senator
Revell to me. See Woodruff" saiG
to Revell, for was in no mood fol
such business. "He knows best
what we need"
They gave up too damn cheerful
ly," Woodruff said to me, when l saw
him a week or ten days later, ant
he gave me an account of the nego
cations. II suspect they've paid more
before"
They have" said I. TN two cam
paigns where they had to cleo
against hard times"
But I've a notion" he warned me
that our candidate has promised
them something privately"
mo doubt" replied, as Indifferent
ly as l felt.
/ had intended to make SOM
speeches. had always kept the pub
lie side Of nay carer in the fore
ground, and in this campaign my en-
forced prominence as director of tn
machine was causing the public t
dwell too much on the real nature O
my political activity. But 1 could no
bring myself to It. Instead, 1 set on
for home to spend the time with m
children and to do by telephone, as
easily could, such directing of WOOD
ruff as might be necessary.
My daughter Frances was drivin
me from the Fredonia station. A ma
darted in front of the horses, fun
up his arms and began to shrie
curses at me. If she had not been
skillful driver, we should both hav
been thrown from the cart As 1
was, the horses ran several mile
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