Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-05-13
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saturday. The Machines men know
this. The Leagues don't. 1t will be
sprung as surprise, with two days
notice instead of the customary seven.
This will keep many of the Leagues
people from attending At the Bow
den and Jericho caucuses kilograms
will be received saying you have
withdrawn.
cat Matawan and Haldane the reg
ular delegates will be notified to meet
at the town halls. While they are
waiting outside the locked front doors,
crowd will step in the back way and
hold their caucus and elect their dele
gates. Floaters will be brought into
several counties. In Wills County the
chairman will fail to hear the names
of your delegates. Have your mana
ger arrange for the Wills men to bolt
at the right time. Force the State
Committee at once to declare the date
for the county conventions. Notify
the Leagues men at Matawan and
Haldane of the back door trick, and
have the telegraph operators at Jeri-
cho and Bowdon warned not to re.
ceive or transmit any fake message
of your withdrawal.
"On your State tour you will find
newspapers closed to your speeches
and advertisements, and number OF
the halls engaged before you get to
town Arrange for injunctions re-
straining the papers from barring your
notices, and have someone go ahead
of you to secure halls. And arrange
for police protection to break up row.
dyism at your meetings"
Give Standish read and re-read this
remarkable epistle. That it had come
from the Conoyer camp he could not
doubt He had heard, before Caleb's
hint of the previous afternoon, that
there was a certain discomfort and
vague rumor of treachery, in more
than one of the multifarious branches
of the Boss's business and political in
terests. For the unexpected strength
developed by the Civic League and
the eloquence of it's candidate had
shaken divers Of the enemy's less res
olute followers, and more than one OF
these might readily seek to curry
favor with the winning side by cast
ing Just such an anchor to windward
In any case, there was the letter.
It's authors identity for the moment,
was of no great matter.
"Anonymous!" unused Standish, eye.
ing with the missive with strong dis
taste as it a trick of Conover's or
a bit of treachery on the part of one
of the men he trusts? In either case,
there's only one course white mae
can take with a thing of this kind"
Picking up the letter, he crumpled
It into a ball and threw it into the
fireplace.
Better not say anything about II
to Ansel," he decided as he watched
the paper twist open under the neat
and break into blaze. He'd only call
me q, visionary crank again. And II
it's trap, the precautions he'd take
would play straight into Conovers
hand"
Some blocks away, in his Pompton
Avenue Mausoleum, the Railroader
was giving final orders to the bench
men to whom he had intrusted the de-
tails of watching Standish's forthcom-
ing tour. And some of these same de-
tails he had even intrusted to the un.
enthusiastic Gerald