Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-13

up"-he paused in his deliberate man. ner, compressed his lips, then added together"
 I opened one of the filing-cases, glanced at him. for permission, took out a slip of paper under the Ms. It was covered with notes, in Mrs. Bur banks writing, of reception given to him at the Manufacturers Club in St. Louis three years before. A lot of names, after each sum reminders of the standing and personal appear ance of the man. Another slip, taken at random from the same box con tained similar notes of trip through Montana eight years before.
 Wonderful" I exclaimed, as the full value of these accumulations loomed in my mind. ''I knew that she was an extraordinary woman. Now I see that she had genius for politics" !" i, His expression-a peering through that eternal pose of his-made me re- wise my first judgment of his monrn- ing. For l caught q glimpse of a real human being, one who loved and lost, looking grief and pride and gratitude. If she had left me two or three years earlier" he said in that solemn, pos ing tone. q doubt if I should have got one step further. As it is, may be able to go on, thought have lost my staff"
 i What fantastic envelopes does man, after he has been finished by nature, wrap about himself in his efforts to improve her handiwork! Physically, even when most dressed, we are naked in comparison with the en- swathings that hide our real mental and moral selves from one another and from ourselves.
 My campaign was based on the contents of those filing-cases. l learned all the places throughout the west-cities, towns. centrally-located villages-where he had been and had made an impression; and by simple and obvious means we were able to convert them into centers of the Bur
 
 to the use we made of those memo randa the direct getting of no less than 107 delegates to the national con vention-and that takes no account of the vaster indirect value of so much easily worked-up. genuine, un- purchased and unpurchasable Bur bank sentiment" The man of only local prominence, whom Burbank re- membered perfectly after chance meeting years before, could have no doubt who ought to be the party's nominee for president.
 The national machine of our party was then in the custody, and sup posedly in the control. of Senator Goodrich of New Jersey He had a reputation for Machiavellian dexterity, but I found that he was an accident rather than an actuality.
 The domination of the great busi. ness interests over politics was the rapid growth of about 20 years-the consultations of business naturally producing concentrations of the busi- ness worlds political power in the hands of the few controllers of the big railway, industrial and financial combines. Goodrich had happened to be acquainted with some of the most influential of these business kings" they naturally made him their agent for the conveying of their wishes and their bribes of one kind and an- other to the national managers of both parties. They knew little of the de- tails of practical politics. knew only what they needed ia their businesses; and as long as they got that. it did not interest them what was done with tEe rest of the power their campaign contributions" gave.
 With such resources any man of good intelligence and discretion could have got the same results as Good rich's. He was simply a lackey. strutting and cutting a figure iu his masters clothes and under his mas ter's name tie vas pitifu!iy vain Q. his reputation as a Machiaveln and a gO-between. Vanity is sometimes a source of great strength; put vainty of that sort and sbou: a position in which secrecy is the prime requisite, could mean only weakness.
 Throughout h.s eight years of con. trol of our party it had had posses sion of all departments of the nation al administration - except of the house of representatives during the past two years This meant the un- interrupted and unchecked reign of the interests. To treat with consid- eratiOn the interests. the strong men Of the country. they Sho must have a free hand for developing It's re- sources. to give them privileges and immunities beyond what can be per mitted the ordinary citizen or corpo- ration-that IS a course which. how ever offensive to abstract justice. still has. as 1t seems to me. a practical jus tice in it. and at any rate. must bs pursued so long as the masses of the voters are shOrt-sighted. unreasOning and in nOse-rings to political ma chimes A mans rights. whatever they may be in theory. are in practice only what he has the intelligence and the power 10 compel But. for the sake of the nation. for the unfolding of civil izatiOn itself. these over-poverful in- terests should never be given their heads. should be restrained as closely as may be to their rights-their prac- teal rights. Goodrich had neither the sa-zcftv nor the T2triotisn-nor the force of will. for that rzstts--sO keep