Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-07-29

the fool notion into your head that 1t
was your duty to try"
This time Blount's smile was rather
sorrowful. and he shook his head.
Come and hear mo speak tonight
II you're staying over that long
Then youll know why must have the
solid rock of good faith under my feet
Gantry. You spoke of my father Just
now. bear the name. too. Dick. Don't
you see that I've got TO make good?"
Ii was during this Woodworking in.
tercal that Blount saw. with keen re-
greet. the gradual widening of the
breach between him and his father
That the long arm Of the machine OF
which his father was the ucknowl.
edged head was reaching out into all
corners OF the state there was ample
evidence. and that the machine cam.
paign was thing to be reckoned with
and fought against was cardinal
principle with the young reformer.
But 1t is hard to fight In the dark.
The organization was so perfect that
Its very existence seemed mythical at
timcs-a mere bugbear set up TO be
knocked down by the honest voter ut
,ho no,,s n, ol,ction dov
yat p,on,t .now thot n v,s no
mr,h some,imes no r,ncied that II
u,os Tho uncbinn which was intorpos.
,n,, tho ,nr,si,,Io b,r,i,r hevond which
he was not permitted to pass. With
,h,t thought came the old doubts and
roors thot his father and Ncyickor
had consulted together TO make him
tho fence hebipd which all the trickery
NJ n vapol c,mnojpn cou,d no safely
.croe,od I'm, whIle this Thought Wis.
Iblv w,dened the growing breach II
made him only more determined TO
firht TO the bitter end. what one man
coulJ do TO herald the dawn of new
noIiticnI epocb for his native state
sbould no done.
II was on one of his short stopoyers
himself seated opposite his father at n
table for two in the Inter. Mountain
cofe rho meeting was pureiy accI.
dental. rs most OF their meetings had
come TO be. Inouirinr for his father
ut the desk. Blount had been told that
the senator was out Of town. But an
hour later. when he had taken his seat
ut the dinner table the supposed nd
sentee had walked IN 10 take the op-
pos''e ciiair'
TOT ,,ihe 'heir ,aiA was VI 'ne uo'
'hss u. "u,uae M % .ne poie
49, 80. usss ~ re ms, A.,
,hn go ana ,n,s nn, u.,,h nau,,a
nas,,o,ian nn ,,a a., -, tho 80
hr,nnar~n, Ms IIon,-,o,s ,ron,,n,
love for tho vouny woman whose am.
bitions reached out toward n career"
"Working YOU pretty hard these DAYS,
aren't they. son p was the friendly re-
mark that opened the way for more
to follow. IF you belonged to my
generation instead Of your own you
wouldn't be cold shouldering that
young woman out at Wartrace the way
you do-not FOR all the politics that
was ever natched
nave my WORK 70 do' said tne
son grhVeiy' ana fatricia Ahhers
wonid DC the INST person III the wor'o
!" put obstacles I'D the way OF IT, !
wish | could say as much for other
people"
The boss looked up quickly. Some
body been trying to block your"
Evan Blount met the gaze Of the
shrewd gray eyes without fiinching.
II don't know of any good reason
why we shouldn't be frank with each
other, dad" he said. using for the
first time since his return the old boy
hood father name. "You know better
than any one else. ! think. what the
stumbling blocks are and who is put
ting them In my way"
Instantly the faraway look came
into the gray eyes.
II know q heap of things that !
can't tell-not Just yet, son. Has Nc.
yickar been calling Won downy"
mo one has called me down. but
some one or something is keeping me
out Of the real fight There isn't any
fight that I can get into. Everywhere
I go there is the same cut and dried
welcome, the same predetermined en-
thusiasm. Sometimes IL seems ma 1,
all the people meet had been in
structed to make things pleasant and
easy for me-"