The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-14

| did not finish. j did not care TO
confess that since Frances and / saw
CRANKY swinging from that tree in
my grounds | 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 have never pursued
those who have played me false ex-
cept when exemplary punishment was
Imperative.
We'll" Woodruff looked bitterly
disappointed. II guess you're right"
He frightened Il forgot Goodrich for
minute. Burbank'H do himself up
through that-Td have TO be in
Ealoon to feel free to use the Ian
guage that describes him"
IL fear he will" / said And it was
not a hypocrisy-for | did not and
could not. feel anger toward him
Had I not cut this STAFF deliberately
because il was crooked? What more
natural than that it should give way
under me as soon as | leaned upon
It?
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 1T would have been useless tc
have found him out sooner And n
he had hidden himself until later. be
might have done us some serious mis-
chief"
a. IL
10 him unlimited would have been in
Engagement OF his dignity as well as
Of my pride. = few days later
wrote him, thanking him for his mes
sages and inquiries during my illness
and saying that I was once more tax.
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 IL with q note.
He urged me TO go south. as l had
planned. and stay until | was fully re-
stored. Il shah deny myself the pleas
IRE of seeing you until you return"
That sentence put off our meeting IN
definiteiy--I could see him smiling at
fits 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 | stared at these phrases my blood
steamed to my brain. Had he spat
in my face my fury would have beex
less. Sol" ! thought in the first
gust of anger, you feel that you have
been using me. that you have no fur
Their 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 | 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. |
j sent for Woodruff, and together we !
out campaign against the !
senior senator from New Jersey in all |
the newspapers we could control or |
influence. l gave him a free hand |
to use-with his unfailing discretion. |
of course-all the facts We had accu- |
mulated to Goodrichs discredit l |
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 10 watch at my ease the |
rain of shot and shell upon my en-
envy.