The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-11-06
Continued from Page Three)
ARCHBOLD AND FORAKER

theatre by the Bankslde, Mol Cutpurse
turns highwayman and cries Stand
and deliver" on Bagshot Heath and
Shooters Hill.
For all that-like Brother Watterson
i exclaim in wonder at Mr.. Arch
bold being out of Jail. Time was in
his village of Tarrytown when three
men were found so honestly patriotic
that they arrested Major Andre. And
Washington hanged Major Andre as a
spy, albeit the latter could point to a
flag instead of a pocketbook as the
cause of his transgressions. However,
we'll let Major Andre go. Spy, though
he were, and swung up to gibbet for
it, he shall not here be disgraced by
comparison with any Archbold.
Arnold?
How Arnold would have rejoiced in
Mr.. Archbold! His biographies tell US
that in the later London years of this
betrayer of his country, no Englishman
would return his bow or take his hand.
He languished, it would seem, for
good society. Had Mr.. Archbold hap
pened along at that time, the isolated
one in his black lonesomeness would
have found in him every congenial
grace his traitorous heart could wish,
and the pair-so evenly, so equally
mate and match for one another
would have fallen together like a shock
of oats. But hold! The gales of our
Archbold excitement are carrying US
out to sea. Let us 60 about, and beat
back to Mr.. Foraker.
Mr.. Foraker, like Mr.. Archbold, was
Buckeye born and bred, and took his
first meal at what Mr.. Micawber would
call natures fount," on his father S
Highland county farm. This was in
July, 1916, and he just missed the
celebration, making his advent on the
5th. His people were neither rich nor
poor, and his sixteenth year discovered
him blowing the paternal fields. Win
tiers, he attended district school, and
being boy of brains and hungry to
read, he found out deal about books.
Unlike Mr.. Archbold over in Titus
vile, the war engaged Mr.. Foraker
heart and soul, and in 1862-which
was as soon as Uncle Sam would take
him-he enlisted in the 8oth Ohio.
Remaining until Lee met Grant at APP
pomattox, he went in private to come
out captain. His promotions were
fighting promotions, too, and won as
knights aforetime won their spurs on
stricken fields OF battle.
The war over, Mr.. Foraker went to
Cornell. Then he became a lawyer in
Cincinnati. Then the hunger of office
seized him and into politics he took
his way. Until the recent Archbold
letter disclosures he had fame as an
honest man.
Foraker possesses force, resource,
wisdom. His courage is proof. For
thirty years he has stood tower of po-
litical strength in his state. Judge,
legislator, governor twice, he held high
and responsible Office before ever he
came to the senate. He was a Buck
eye power; even the mighty Mark
Hanna was compelled to make terms
with him. In the conventions of 1896
and 1900 it was he who named Mr..
Mckinley.
Fly Foraker, tall, handsome, COM
handing, clear Of eye, firm Of jaw, if
stood side by side with spider Arch
bold, would overpower the latter little
stub of evil-the criminal thumb as it
were of Standard Oil for its bribe-
giving-in any impression of manhood.
In but one respect did spider Arch
bold have the better of fly Foraker.
That, however, was in the important
element Of gold. Fly Foraker spent
money like water, as men of fancy, in
tellect, imagination, ever do. While
not poor, he, like his father before him,
was not rich; and, since his needs
were constantly outrunning his re-
sources, he was perennially hard up"
With the gold of Peru, and the con-
science of shark, spider Archbold
was able-for the criminal purposes OF
Standard Oil-to have advantage of fly
Foraker's money needs. And SO an
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