The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-31

run the Machine any longer. eh ?zspit
II out Ssaatz! If#you're qualifying Tor
my shoes you got to learn to look less
like a whipped puppy when you're
spoke to. Stand up and IS, state a., yours
that lifted out Of jail. You, 100,
Bourke! Where's your tongne2 And
all the rest Of you that was on the
point OF choosing q new Leader.
NO one answered. The Boss's INSTINCT
power rather than his mere words held
them sulky and dumb. oyer eacn was as
creeping the old subseryisnee 70 dae
peerless will that had SO long *shaped3
the Mountain States destinies anu
Il talk too much. eh?" Knocked Con
over. Well. to prove th ,at s SO, IN
School talk right now. You say: cut
out the old methods. this campa a, On. y
did And why did do IT. Because
If these reformers had thought they,
were licked unfair there's SO many OF
3 .em they'd a carried the case to every
court in the land, and a draWed the
whole country's op'ra- glasses onto 1,1l'
p'ticular Machine. and started anotner
such wave as swamped Dick Croker
and Tamnany in '94. And then, where'd
the Machine and you ellers have been!
There's got to be reform N statog
just SO often, just life there's got TO
he Group in a nursery. Every other
States had it, And each time they've
fishcd up something queer about their$
local Machine, and that same nIaGll'1t ~
never been SO strong again. Vel. me
Mountain States turn for reform WAS VA.
overdue. 1t had to come. And this
was the time. l thought maybe & -
could beat en enad G rsform here
forever and amen. Even II II was
beat, i knew the people would get SO
sick OF one term Of reform, 4. they'd y q
come screechng to us to take en-
back. And then's the time my kid
glove stunts OF this campaign would
slime out fine against rotten reform s,,'n
4 administration. The Machine W i9,lla
that follers a crooked campaig and
we'd simply be begged to take every
thing in sight for the rest OF our U
lives, Maybe YOU think, a f tna ,,9,,c =,
to pay for such a future cinch;? IS,
The speech-reasons and al--was
improysed as he spoke AND a. again
was the BOSS manner t, an4 ~, us ,yords
that carried conviction,
b BECAUSE didn't print this all out
in big letters and simple Wor rl !. .n y
You dots could understand" resumed
Caleb. i'you forget the holes I've got
yn, ana the party out of in the nast.
" and go grouening about my .DresaKlng
up Maybe my brain Is softe m &, = =
Sit, Just to keep company with th Z,
ninnies / travel with. Blu Is stu
a brain. And that's more'nF any ono
else here can boast Of having. NOW,
s3 I've showed you now ~ 2 nv lay D
Which of you would a. carried the
Machine ovcr8it any safer. and how
would he'd "a done It? You, for IN
81 stance. Staatz?"
The big German sheeplshly gr;.,nbled
something sunintelliglble under his
breath.
sounds about ms clear and sensible
z. ~ as most of your5idens, 'Dolphe," COM
mented Caleb. you'll have to lenrn
more 3words'n that before you're Boss
Now, them no resumed, throwing
aside his stolid bearing and hammer.
ing imperiously on the table with his
u riding crop, "We'll proceed to choose
a new Leader. It's irregular. but
there's easy a quorum of district lead
ers here. Who'll It be that steps into
Caleb Conover's shoes? Who'll say
he's strong enough to hold the rein.
lie thinks I'm too weak to handle
Who'll 1t be? I lifted the party ant
every man here from the@dirt to {
higher, stronger place than any ont
dreamed they could be, lifted. Who'll
hold 'em there now that stand aside
4 Speak up! Choose your leader!'
"CONOVI1R!'s yelled Billy Shevlin$ec
statically. NJ!
"shut up, you NANCY little fought!
nercclY ordered Caleb; but IA half-scor
of eager voices had caughtgup the cry
About the Railroader pressed the dis
VI trict lenders, shifting him on the bacl,
81; striving to grab his hands, over an,
over again Yociferating his name;Ecry