Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-05-13

l." tiE next HFe odJe "lthcssoo
/ i practical repetitions of the
| }S5FSWsSNI foregoing experiences. In
- almost every town the local.
4 newspaper not only refused to re-
port line of Standish's speeches,
/ but would not accept his advertise
ments. Nor, in most places, could he
/ find job office willing to print hand
bills for him. His agent had nearly
everywhere been able to engage q
4 hall; but as no adequate preliminary
notice of the meeting had been pub.
/ lished, audiences were pitiably slim.
In one or two towns where the papers
did not belong to the Machine" it
4 was discovered that every hall. lodge
/ room or other available meeting-place
had been engaged in advance by some
/ mysterious competitor. Give, at such
! settlements, was forced to speak In
! open air. Even then the police at
one town dispersed the gathering
under excuse Of fearing riot; at two
others the mayor refused a license to
hold an outdoor meeting, and at
! fourth, gang of toughs, at long
range, pelted the audience with stones
and elderly eggs, the police refusing
to interfere.
At length Gives advance agent re-
turned to the candidate In abject des-
pair.
GIVE been doing this sort of work
eight years." the man reported, "but
this time I'm cleaned stumped. I
can't make any Roadway. The papers,
the city authorities the opera'house-
and-hall- proprietors and the police are
all under Conover's thumb. It's got
so that as soon az | reach town
can find out right away who is and
who isn't in the Machines pay.
Where the papers aren't muzzled-
and there are precious few such places
the halls are closed to us, and either
the mayor or the police will stop the
meeting Where the papers are work
ing for Conover, we can get all the
halls we want, because the Boss
knows the news of your speech cant
circulate except by word of mouth.
/
grand shape, I'm wondering what'll
! happen at Grafton Monday night
That's the biggest city next to Gran
tie, and there's always been more or
less of kick there against Conover
rule. They've got square man for
mayor, and one Of their three news
papers is strong for you. I was able
big chance of the campaign, and your
last chance on this tour. The rest
of the towns on your route | can't do
anything with. I'm waiting to see
what dirty game Conove" will play at
Grafton. now that he can't work his
usual tricks there. He'll be sure to
try something,
Billy SheVlin who had also acted
unexpectedly as unofticially) as adj
vance agent of Give Standish's tour,
had in three respects excelled the au-
thorized agent: In the first place, he
had been as successful as the other
had been failure. In the second, he
had not turned back. Third, and last,
he was not in the very least discour-
a&GU. NOI Hdu hCCu w Nc
Yet even to him Grafton presented
the first serious problem. And to it
he devoted much of his time and
more of his cleyerness. A. last ne
formed a plan and saw that his plan
was good.
Give reached Grafton at noon of
the day he was scheduled to speak
This was the second largest city in
the Mountain State. Here, next to
Granite. must the chief battle of the
campaign be waged On the effect or
his speech here hung great per-
centage of Gives hopes for the COM
ing State convention as Grafton
went, so would Matawan County,
whose centre it was. And Grafton,
wavering in fealty TO Conover, might
yet be won to the Standish ranks by
the right sort of ST eech. So with the
glow of approaching struggle upon
him Give awaited the night. All he
asked was fair hearing This, pre-
sumably was for once to be accorded
him.
At the hotel on his arrival he found
Karl Ansel waiting. The big, lean
New Englander was in state OF
white-hot wrath.
"You got my telegram and the no
tice of the caucuses, l SUPPOSED" he
growled as Give met him.
mo. l ordered all mail forwarded
here, and kilograms. too. broke
away from my route Saturday, when
l found couldn't get hall at Smith
field | cancelled my date there and
went over to Deene, leaving word for
everything to be sent on to Grafton.
Then, yesterday"
Never mind that. We're done!
Beat. Tricked!'
What do you mean?"
"The county conventions-the eau
cuses! In every-nearly every one
of the eight counties Conover worked
some blackguardism. To some ne
sent kilograms that you backed OUT
In others his chairman tried the back
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