The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-13
A Senator'S Foes.

An old wheel horse called on Sena-
tor Hnrdman In careless way and
talked about the lieutenant governor.
shin and what would naturally follow
II. Lieutenant governors had come 90
be presidents. The senator nodded his
head In the Affirmative, bat did not rIce
10 the bait. The old wheel horse limited
at the financial obligations the ring
would be under if certain new sena-
tor went straight" and Hardman
opened the door and held It open uptD
the other had passed out.
The ring employed bureau to hunt
M Hnrdman's record. and there was
gnashing OF teeth when the report
came back that all was clear. There
was not even the robbery of n henroost
In his boyhood days on which 70 found
a charge against him. He bad oaco
been engaged TO be married, and IL was
whispered that the girl had learned
something against his character and
broken the engagement A detective
was sent west TO hunt mp the female
and offer her thousand dollars TO e:z-
pose the senator. brit the officer wac
, too late. She hat married a butcher
two weeks before he found her, and
! the husband threw the sleuth out.
A female lobbyist tried to throw her
charms about the senator, and n pitfall
was nicely arranged, but he glided over
It and escaped. 1t wee at length real
lied that the battle must he fought out
knee to knee. and the ring girded up It's
lolns for the combat. Hardman was
hunting up facts and statistics for n
| telling speech against rings and graft
lcrs. lie worked quietly. but faithfully,
and he finally gathered such mass of
evidence In favor OF the stand that he
had taken from the first that his enc.
mics became alarmed and desperate.
when the senator's notes we're at last
completed he put them in the form Of n
speech. and the copy YVES given TO .
| female typist 10 be transposed into
print. There was no fear Of trlckery in
that. II did not seem to Hnrdman that
a young woman who was seeking 10
support widowed mother could prove
recrennt to her trust. Nevertheless In
the last two hours the manuscript was
left with her she sold him out for
money and turned everything over 10
the enemy The ring shouted In glec.
He was baked. Tho statistics that had
been dug up out OF the past would nev'
er see daylight. Tho senator's facts
and ngufes and denunciations had van
ished Into thin air The speech that
was TO bc the effort OF his life would
remain undelivereI. re had promised
muth. hut he would be unable 10 dc
liver the goods and his downfall would
follow
IIardman could. not 80 over tho
ground again. The ring had made tina
impossible. Without his statistics hi
speech would not amount TO more thar
general denunrlatlon No trust or cor
poration cared for that. They had beer
denounced for years and years, and We
their dividends were growing all III
time. A few hundred dollars hat
bought the honesty OF trusted cir
and drawn the sting OF Gn honest scna
tor, and the ring spoke oe it as an IN
terposltlon OF Providence.
Three days more and had all gon
well the senator would have beel
ready TO open his batteries. He sat II
his room of an evening with his hea'
on his hand and knew that he was
beaten and vanqulshel man. lie ha'
promised much. and lie could do moth
Ing. AZ the end OF his term the peopl
, would want him no longer. AS be ca
thus in his bitterness the door opened
and gifl stood before him. lie In
II, 10 look at her twice before he rccoa
nIscd her as tie typist who had sol
him out. He dd not upblaid her. Ther
WAS no scowl OH his face as he II
+ garded her ana waited FOR her TO speal
They lied to me-" she finally said.
"Yesf'
Mother was Ill, ana We were in otl
er trouble and IL didn't think
speech amounted 20 60 vcfy much
that Is. thought you could easil
q make up another
yes? Two or three hundred dollal
seemed great sum to you. II me
sell their honesty, why sbolld2't won
en-"
But mother died, ri:!' 5obEed III
girl. II wanyed 10 get lie: to the ho
pltal, but she-sEe Gied.'
II am sorry &c: that I believe hC
death leaves you a.o.e l. the Tocl1?'
"Y.ycs, sir. Ia hare brought it sooi
or only there was tac iane:al, and
thought it was only Jus: q spee:I
Was 1t to be great speech"
We'll. | hoped So"
~ but mother said It was ard that VI
70 shouldn't use penny of the none
n and that I'd done very wrong. 81
rf said must get 1t back and give
'et the money, and here Is the copy"
~ The speech e2claimed thc sena.'
i. as he reached her side. You don't tc
20 meihat you have 90. the speech back
~ This Is il. sir" a. -
NJ ".And whare-where'--
'ln the re:.t room down the hall"
"In Senator Elans's room. DleI
You, but he has been louceSe III q
e bouncing those who b?lbed VOC Al
loudest In his sympaihies over n2 los
"a YOU can't possibly mean HING