The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-04-15
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great and how near was the peril to
my party. 1t seemed to me not in
deed a perfect or even satisfactory,
but the best available, instrument for
holding the balances Of order as even
as might be between our countrys two
opposing elements of disorder-the
greedy plunderers and the rapidly In
furiating plundered. And l saw that
no time was to be lost, IL the party
was not to be blown to fragments.
The first mutterings of the storm were
in our summary election from con
troll OF the house in the midway cleo
ton. If the party were not to be
dismembered, l must Gust Goodrich,
must defeat his plans for nominating
Cromwell, must nominate Burbank in
stead If should succeed in elect
ing him, l reasoned that l could
through him carry cut my policy Of
moderation and practical patriotism
to yield to the powerful few a mini
mum of what they could compel, to
give to the PROSTATE 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
upoa- the rank 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 / said to Senator
Scarborough of Indiana soon after
Cromwelrs candidacy was announced:
What do you think of Goodrich's
MANI"
Scarborough, though new to the
senate the7, 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-
lists, such as he, usually lack, skill at
grand tactics"-the management of
men In the mass. His one weakness
and that, from my standpoint, q
great one-was literal belief in dem
ocratic institutions and in the inspir-
fng but in practice pernicious prinei-
pie of exact equality before the law.
"Cromwelrs political sponsors" was
his reply, ARE two as shrewd bankers
as there are in New York. l have
heard 1t said that a fitting sign for
a bank would be: Here we do nothing
for nothing for nobody.
An admirable summing up Of Crom-
wells candidacy And l knew that
it would so appear to the country, that
no matter how great a corruption
fund Goodrich might throw into the
campaign, we should, in that time of
public evaporation, be routed If Crom-
well was our Standard earer-so ut
terly routed that we could not pos
sibly get ourselves together again for
8, perhaps IL years. There might
even be a 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
1 had accumulated fund of $780,
900 for my presidential flotation"-
half of 1t contributed by Roebuck in
exchange for a promise that his son
in-law should have an Enthusiastically
if Burbank were elected the other
half set aside by me from the re
serve" | had formed out of the year
by-year contributions of my combine.
BY the judicious investment of that
capital purposed to get Burbank the
nomination on the first ballot-at least
400 of the 900-odd delegates.
In q national convention the dele
gates are, roughly speaking, about
evenly divided among the three sec
tons of the country-a third from
east of the Alleghanies; a third from
the west; a third from the south. 1t
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
organized under Woodruff a corps
of about 80 travelling agents. Eact
man knew only his own duties, knew
nothing of the general plan, not ever
that there was general plan. Eacl
was a trained political worker. per
sonal retainer of ours. I gave then
their instructions; Woodruff equipped
them with the necessary cash. Dur
ing the next five months they were in
cessantly on the go-dealing with gu
party's western machines where the.
could; setting up rival machines il
promising localities where Goodrich
controlled the regular machines: US
iDg money here. diplomacy there. bot
yonder, promises of patronage every
where.
Such was my department of Sc
crecy. At the head of my department