Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-15
CHAPTER XVI. A Victory for the People.

cur SIdle nedQQudFteTS III the GredL Northern, shut myself in with Doc Woodruff. My doorkeeper. the mem- Der of the legislature from Fredonia, ventured to interrupt with the an. Eouncement that messenger had come from Senator Goodrich.
 Let him in,'' said I. |: AS the door-man disappeared Doc glanced at his watch, then said with a smile: You've been here seven minutes and half-just time for a lookout downstairs to telephone to the Auditorium and for the messenger to drive from there here. Goodrich is ou the anxious seat. all right"
 The messenger was Goodrich's handy-man. Judge Dufour I myself have always drowned 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 commonplaces he said: Senator, there's 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 I knew what was coming as soon as his name had been brought in, and my course was laid out But cant leave Just now. Please ask him if he won't come over-any time within the next four hours This blandly and without sign that 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 man has in his very hour of triumph ruined his cause with 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. I 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: <: l knew his having to come to me would make him bow before me in spirit, as he was tyrant, and tyrants are always cringers. My second req son was that I 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 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 NhOb6h OA hhCoC No Shlh luC NlANOl ' for him who can lure them over at just the right moment.
 As soon as Dufour had taken his huge body away I said to Woodruff Co 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 go out"
 He rushed away. and I waited working with the leaders of three far western states At the end of two hours I won them by the spectacle oi the arriving Goodrich. He came in serene. smiling, giving me the joyous ly shining eyes and joyoUsly firm hsrd-clasp of the politicians greeting; not an outward sign that he would like to see me tortured 70 death by soms slow process then and there Hy1pocritical prel'minaries were no merely unnecessary but even highly ridiculous; yet, So great was his all ger and confusion that he began with the prospects of an oid-tim, convention. with oId-time enthusiasm and that generous rivalry which is tht sign of party health
 T hope not. senator" said I, pleas antly. Here we think the fight il over-and won"
 He lifted his eyebrows: but I sav his maxiIlary muscles twitching w, don't figure 1t out just that way a headquarters" he replied oilily. But there's no doubt about il. your mar has developed strength in tn, west"
 And south said I. with deliberate intent to infiame. for I knew how h, must feel about those delegates v, had bought away from him.
 There were teeth enough in hi smile-but little else T think Bur bank and Cromwell will be about evel on the first ballot" said he Ma, the bes, man win, We're all work ing for the good of the party and tn country. But-I came. rather. to ge your ideas about platform
 I opened a drawer in the table a which was sitting and took out pa per We've embodied our ideas fl this" said I. holding the paper towaru him There's a complete platform but we only insist on the five par agraphs immediately after the pre- amble-
 He seemed to age as he read. 'Irz