Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-13
wide, yes, history-wide, horizon of that

plans to focus, had 1 not seen how
 great and how near was the peril tc
 my party It seemed to me not in deed perfect or even satisfactory
 but the best available, instrument for holding the balances of order as even as might be between our country's two opposing elements of dsorder-the greedy plunderers and the rapidly in Irritating plundered. And I saw that
 no time was to be lost if the party was not to be blown to fragments The first mutterings of the storm were
 in our summary election from con trol of the house in the midway cleo tion. If the party were not to be dismembered, I must oust Goodrich, must defeat his plans for nominating Cromwell, must nominate Burbank in.
 stead. If I should succeed in elect. ing him, I reasoned that 1 could
 through him carry out my policy of moderation and practical patriotism
 to yield to the powerful few mini
 mum of what they could compel, to
 give to the prostrate but potentially powerful many at least enough to keep them quiet-a stomachful The
 world may be advanced; but patriot.
 ism still remains the art of restrain ing the arrogance of full stomachs and
 the anger of empty ones.
 In Cromwell, Goodrich believed he
 had a candidate with sufficient hold
 upon the rapk and file of the party to enable him to carry the election by the usual means-a big campaign fund properly distributed in the
 doubtful states. l said to Senator
 Scarborough of Indiana soon after Cromwell's candidacy was announced: What do you think of Goodrich's mal?"
 Scarborough, though new to the senate then. had shown himself far and away the ablest of the opposition senators. He had as much intellect as any of them; and he had what theor- ists, such as he, usually lack, skill at grand tactics"-the management of men in the mass. His one weakness and that, from my standpoint, a great one-was literal belief in dem- ocratic institutions and in the inspir- ing but in practice pernicious princi- pie of exact equality before the law
 "Cromwell's political sponsors" was his reply, are two as shrewd bankers as there are in New York. have heard it said that fitting sign for bank would be: Here we do nothing for nothing for nobody"
 An admi-able summing up of Crom- wells candidacy. And I knew that it would so appear to the country, that no matter how great corruption fund Goodrich might throw into the campaign, we should. in that time of public exasperation, be routed if Crom- we'll was our standard-bearer-so ut terly routed that we could not pos sibly get ourselves together again for s, perhaps 12 years. There might even be re-alignment of parties with some sort of socialism in control of one of them. If control were to be retained by the few who have the cap- ital and the intellect to make eff cient the nations resources and en. ergy, my project must be put through at once.
 l had accumulated fund of s500,- 900 for my presidential fiotation"- half of it contributed by Roebuck in exchange for promise that his son. in-law should have an ambassadorship if Burbank were elected; the other half set aside by me from the Ire serve" I had formed out of the year. by.year contributions of my combine. By the judicious investment of that capital l purposed to get Burbank the nomination on the first ballot--at least 46O of the 900-odd delegates.
 In a national convention the dele gates are. roughly speaking. about evenly divided among the three sec. tions of the country-a third from east of the Alleghanies; a third from the west; a third from the south. It was hopeless for us to gun for dele gates in the east; that was the espe- cial bailiwick of Senator Goodrich. The most we could do there would be to keep him occupied by quietly en. couraging any anti-Cromwell senti. ment-and it existed a-plenty. Our real efforts were to be in the west and south.
 I organized under Woodruff a corps of about 30 travelling agents. Each man knew only his own duties, knew nothing of the general plan. not even that there was a general plan. Each was a trained political worker. a per. sonal retainer of ours I gave them their instructions: Woodruff equipped them with the necessary cash. Dur. ing the next five months they were in- cessantly on the go-dealing with our paTty's western machines where they could; setting up rival machines in promising localities where Goodrich controlled the regular machines: us- ing money here. diplomacy there, both yvnu-r. promises of patronage every where.
 Such was my department of se- crecy. At the head of my department of publicity I put De Milt. a sort of cousin of Burbank's and a newspaper man. He attended to the news agencies. He and three assistants wrote each week many columns of
 boom" matter. all of which vas carefully revised sy Burbank himself before it went out as syndicate let ters." If Goodrich hadn't been igno- rant of conditions wes. of the Ale ghanies and confident that his will