The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
The EVENING STORY
The Broken Deadlock.
(By Annie Hinrichsen.)

I
eddy. It's good not to hear the IMAM
ity. You haven't changed a bit in
the last five years; you're just the
| She held her slender. straight,
young figure with military rigidity.
you're not the same" he insisted.
| You're altogether different. The
young woman journalist dining with
bearing, as means of attracting
my attention in a proper manner, the
name of a girl I used to take to pic
MICS in little fresh-water town."
Middleford-dear little old town. I
haven't been back to it Bob, look
the fourth table to your right"
who are they? Oh. 1 see. One of
them is Dick Huston"
And the one at his left is Martin
Small and the baldheaded one is John
Edwards
"A distinguished party"
"a most amazing combination
three official enemies dining togeth-
er a hundred miles from where they
are supposed to be. 1t means some
thing"
"The election of a United States
SENATOR
"Can you pick the winner?"
eff I can talk to Dick an hour I'll
know the winner"
Owe are not interested in United
States senator's and legislative dead
locks and POLITICAL bosses tonight"
She spoke impatiently. "I want to
know why those three men are to-
gether. The legislature meets again
tomorrow after a weeks adjourn
ment. Something is being planned by
that party which will break the long
deadlock. They are not together for
social purposes. Dick hasn't seen US.
Wen go into the hotel lobby and you
must leave me. Go upstairs to the
parlor and wait for me-
"But, Marion
"This is business Bob. Will you do
as I say? Well talk later
For an hour and half he waited
Then she came, hurrying.
ST have it. It's done. Come into
the alcove and I'll tell you about 1t.
eff their plans don't miscarry the
next senator will be-guess-
nor Greenwood"
HE told me everything. I've put in
a long-distance call for our office. It's
a big story and our paper will have it
in time for the early edition
"Dick says the deadlock will be
broken tomorrow. For seven weeks
Judge Allerton has been within ten
votes of an election. Small controls |
the men who are supporting Allerton. |
Edwards controls fifteen votes. which
he has refused to give to Allerton or
any other man whom Small favors. |
But both want Gov. Greenwood out of
the state. The Internal Improvement
commission Is to be appointed and |
there will be a lot of graft in 1T for |
Greenwood hates both Small and Ed |
wards and won't give them or their
friends q chance at the money the |
commission will have to disburse.
bury their differences and secure for
themselves the control of the commits |
sion. They will unite their votes
elect Gov. Greenwood to the senate,
remove him from the state to federal
politics and have as governor man
whom they can control. Dick Hous-
ton, the acknowledgements. Will sue
coed Greenwood. and Small and Ed
wards will have the spending of the
commission funds.
And I've secured the story for my
paper. It's the biggest surprise in the
political history of the state"
''Dick gave you permission, I sup
pose, to use this story?''
''No. He does not know I am work.
ing on a paper. 1 have not seen him
for years. He was enthusiastically
glad to see me and a little excited
with cocktails and prospective great
ness"
"If this story is published tomor-
row morning what effect will it
have?''
There will be no election. Small
and Dick will abandon their
scheme and deny the story; public
opinion would be too strong against
them. Our paper is fighting for Judge
Allerton. He is its heaviest stockhoId-
err
IF you telephone your editor. Dick
will not be governor, will he? He will
lose. as many man has lost. because
ne trusted a woman"
But my PAPER"
What about yourself?"
This is my work-my profession ,
when you were a little girl Won ,
we're the prettiest. sweetest little girl ,
n Middleford. Dick Huston was the
worst boy in town. Do you remem- ,
Der? There was only one person who :
ever had a good influence over him,
md that was you. Little as you were, ,
you made him quit swearing and !
oeating small boys. He has not for
sotten what you were to him then. A I
through the cruelest of life's disfl-
usions, the pure, innocent child he :
irst loved She belongs to the time of !
lreams, a state of idealism we once
ived in, but from which most of US g
nave departed. Dick has a lot of SEN :
iment. He is about to attain the high
st place in the state, and he is feel-I :
ng very deeply. He talked to you i
onight because you were the dream Z
:
ical honor. He is a bride giver and a | 4
,rafter. have my fight to make-al c
lard, unfair one. Why shouldn't I F
Use this opportunity to make good?l
70 mercy and little Justice has been h
hown to me. I'm feeling things, too a
more things than Dick is. I'm feel c
ng five years of poverty and Ioneli- r
less and hurts and establishments 4
nd slavish hard work. I look success t
ul I wear the clothes and I've learn h
d the manner. But it's a bluff. Some =
ay it won't be. Some day it will be f
cal. want success intend to have t
t. I'm only an assistant society rel n