The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-09-03
6be Metz Mayor
Based ON 6. n. Broadhurst's Successful
Play
The Man

By ALBERT PAYsoN TERHuNE,
Copyright, 1907, by George Il. Broadhurst.

service men, laughed Bennett. Ihey
seem to have wonderful faculty for
quoting ones remarks literally, butt
"But did come here to ladle out hot
air to you?" supplemented Phelan.
''No, didn't come to tip you off to
a meetin' that's held last night at
lWainwright's house-him an Horri-
gan an Gibbs an some others, mcleod
in Hen Williams, who's Horrigan's
mouthpiece an handy man in the board
of aldermen. Didn't happen to hear Of
that meetin', did your
mo. am unfortunate in having no
secret service corps"
"Never mind" returned Phelan, on
whom the satire Of the reply was quite
lost. "You can get the benefit Of mine.
Now, at this meetin' they did lot of
jabberin' an they cussed you up hill
an down dale. Says Horrigan. If that
young cub'"-
Thanks" interposed Alwyn, "but I
don't care to hear what was said about
me. r.
"All right, then, but there's some
thing you do want to hear. They got
busy at last an framed up new word
in for the Borough bill that'n maybe
throw dust in your eyes if you amt put
on to it in advance. They've cut out
the subway paragraph an the express
business clause, an they allow trans
fers at all cross lines. That's the way
they'll put the bill up to the aldermen
next time. A nice, harmless lookin'
document it'll be, an perhaps the board
III swaller it if''-
"But do the alterations in the bill
also eliminate the perpetual franchise
clause?'
"Ah, there's the point! They don't.
All the other things you kicked against
have been wiped out, but the perpetual
franchise clause stands"
"And the 100000 cash offer stands,
too," added Bennett. II still fail to see
why I should present Mr.. Wainwright's
company with a franchise for which
another man is willing to pay the city
100000, and shall fight the bill to
the very end''
Good boy, your honor! An Jimmy
Phelan's with you. Wen make Horri.
gan look like
HE needs fourteen votes to carry
the bill past my veto. He has his thir.
teen aldermen, under Williams lead.
But only those thirteen voted for the
bill in it's original state. Unless Horri
gan and Williams can find fourteenth
alderman to-
Unless one Of the men who voted
against it before can be brought to
vote for it next time Horrigan loses"
answered Phelan. HE'LL make it his
business to buy fourteenth man, an
I'll make it my business to find out
who he tries to get an to help your
honor keep that same fourteenth man
straight. That's how it adds up so far.
Well, I'll be joggin'. I'll keep you post.
ed, an between us We'll make Horri.
gan give livin' picture imitation of a
man without a scalp before we're
through with him.
Little of Phelan's exultation was re-
Elected in the new mayors face as the
alderman hustled out. His duty lay
clear before him, and that duty he
would follow. But he alone realized
the cost. He had so counted on the
promised talk with Dallas wainwright
the preceding evening. On the hopes
of that interview he had staked his all.
In it he was to have received the half
pledged reward for his months of toll
and achievement
Yet in view of his present relations
toward Wainwright he could not, of
course, visit the financier's home, The
doors Of the house that contained the
woman he loved had been barred to
him. And Dallas-what must she have
thought of his failure to call?