Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-07-13

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people turned out at every crossroads,
even beyond the Alleghanies And
Burbank knows Il If be wasn't clean
daft about himself he'd realize that IL
1t hadn't been for you--well, I'd hate
TO say how badly he'd have got left.
But then. IL il hadn't been for you,
he'd never have been governor. He
was dead one and you hauled him
out Of the tomb"
True enough But what did il mat
ter nowY
He's going to get horrible Jolt
before many months" Woodruff went
on Il can see you after him"
You forget. He's president" an
swered He's beyond our reach
Not when he wants renomina.
ton. insisted Woodruff
He can get that without us--if, :"
I said. ~You must remember we've
made him fetish with our rank and
hle And he's something OF fetish
with the country now that he's presi-
dent. No, we cant destroy him
can't even iniure him. He'll have
to do that himself, If it's done. Be
sides"
| ! did not finish, ! 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 certain sympa-
thy and fellow feeling for all kinds
of weakness--I have never pursued
those who have played me false. ex-
cept when exemplary punishment was
Imperative.
We'll" Woodruff looked bitterly
disappointed. Il guess you're right"
He frightened. Il forgot Goodrich for
a minute. Burbankll do himself up
through that--l'd have to be in a
saloon to feel free to use the Ian
guage that Describes him"
Il fear he vsll.' said And II was
not a Hypocrisy ] did not, and
could not, feel anger toward him.
Had not cut this stan deliberately
because II was crooked? What more
natural than that it should give way
under me as soon as ] leaned upon
1T rs-x sss'~sli.snsE. E1cSa'suxseF~a,--
"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 "a
have found him out sooner And II
he had hidden himself until later he
might have done us some serious mis-.
chief"
As he was the president-elect, TO &c
to him uninvited would have been In.
fringement of his dignity as well as
OF my pride. A few days later
wrote him, thanking him for his mes
sages and inquiries during my illness
ana saying that l 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 telegram OF con
graduation, following 1t with note
He urged me to go south, as ! had
planned, and stay until / was fully re
stored. i shall deny myself the pleas
ure OF seeing you until you return
I That sentence put on our meeting in
| defnitely---f could see him smiling al
it's adroitness as he wrote 1t.
But he made his state OF mind even
clearer. His custom had been to be-
gin his notes: Dear Harvey" OF
Dear Sayler," and to end them
James or Burbank This note be
gan: My Dear Senator" 1t 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 been
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 I wished
And when anger flowed away and pity
and contempt succeeded. really did
not wish to war upon him. But there
was Goodrich--tbe real corruptionist
the wrecker OF my plans and hopes
the menace to the future Of the party
sent for Woodruff. and together we
mapped out a campaign against the
senior senator from New Jersey In all
the newspapers we could control or
influence. gave him a free hand
to use-with his unfailing discretion,
OF course-all the facts we had accu-
INFLATED to Goodrich's discredit. ]
put at his disposal 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 to watch at my ease the