Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-06-22

mics. It would be insanity for the
party TO turn over hundred thousand
acres Of public land gratis to them
so that they can presently sell 1t to
you for a song"
He REDEEMED. Newspaper scandal"
he clustered, but changed the subject
as soon as he had shown me and re-
shown himself that his motives we're
pure.
I saw that Burbank's last winter
was to be crucial. My clients were
clamorous. and were limiting at all
sorts of dire doings If they were not
treated better. Roebuck was question
ing, in the most Indignantly friendly
manner, whether, after all, Harvey,
The combine isn't mistake, and the
old way wasn't the best" On the
other hand Burbank was becoming
restless. He had so cleverly. taken
advantage Of the chances to do popu-
lar things. which | had either made
for him or pointed out to him, that
he had become something of a ma
tfonaI figure. When he got 81 votes
for the presidential nomination In our
party's national convention his brain
was dizzied. Now he was in a tremor
lest my clients should demand Of him
things that would diminish or destroy
this sapling popularity which. in his
dreams, he already saw grown into
a mighty tree obscuring the national
heavens
| gave many and many an anxious
hour to anxious thought and careful
planning that summer and fall. II
was only few days before Doc Wood
ruff appeared at Fredonia with the
winters legislative programme that
saw my way straight to what I hoped
was broad day. The programme he
brought was so outrageous that it was
funny. There was nothing In IT for
the Ramsay interests, but each OF the
other ten had apparently exhausted
the ingentffty of its lawyers in con-
cocting demands that would have
wrecked forever the party granting
them"
Our friends are modest" said I.
They've gone clean crazy" replied
Woodruff. And If you could have
heard them talk! It's impossible to
make them see that anybody has any
rights but themselves"
We'll, let me have the Details said
Y lot s4s
tell me just what it means, and just
how the lawyers propose to disguise it
so the people won't catch on
When he had finished divided the
demands into three classes-the inn
possible, the possible. and the prac-
ticable Strike out all the impossi-
bIe," / directed "Cut down the pos
sible to the ten that are least out
rageous. Those ten and the practica-
BILE must be passed"
He read of the ten which were be-
yond the limits of prudence, but not
mob-and-hanging matters 1--WE can
pass them, of course" was his COM
ment I'VE could pass law ordering
the state house burned, but"
Precisely" said l. II think the
consequences will be interesting"
cross-marked the FIVE worst Of the
ten possibilities Save those until
the last weeks OF the session"
Early in the session Woodruff began
to push the five least bad OF the bad
measures on to the calendar of the
legislature, one by one. When the
third was introduced, Burbank took
the limited for Washington. He ar
rived in time to join my wife and my
little daughter Frances and me at
breakfast He was so white and sunk
en-eyed and his hands were so I'M
steady that Frances tried In vain to
take her solemn, wondering, plying
gaze from his face. AS soon as my
study door closed behind us. he burst
out, striding up and down.
81 don't know what to think. Say
ier," he cried, Il don't know what to
think! The demands of these corpor-
atoms nave been growing. growing.
growing, And now-You have seen
the calendar
EYES," said l. Some of the bills
are pretty stiff, aren't they? But the
boys tell me they're for our best
friends, and that they're all necesr
sary."
mo doubt, no doubt" he replied.
but 1t will be impossible to reconcile
the people" Suddenly he turned on
me, his eyes full of fear and suspicion.
Have you laid plot to ruin me. Say
Ter? 1t certainly looks that way. Have
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