Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-04-28

CHAPTER XVI.
Scarborough.

we near mucn OF many WOnOell or
combination and concentration OF in
dustrial power which railway anr tel,
egraph have wrought But noth,Lg is
said about what seems to M. the
greatest wonder of them all how
these forces have resulted in the con
centraticn of the political power uF
III W. IS Of l2000,00O of our $50 00G
woes jaw the few can impose thei'
ideas al. haiI will upon widening
circles, on, aud out until all are in
cluded. The PEOPLE are scattered,
the powers confer, man to man, day
by day. The people are divided by
parti1an and other prejudices; the
powers are bound together by the
one selfinte@ost The people must ac
cept such political organizations as
are FRO idei for them; the powers
pay for, AID tle.r agents make ald di-
rect, these @: ganizations. The people
are poor; the powers are rich. The
people have not even offices to be-
stow; the lowers have offices to give
and lucrative I'll loyment of all kinds,
and matey.a and social advancement
eve. thing lat he vanity or the ap
petite Of MAJ Graves. The peoEl"
punish but ccbly-usually the wrO12
persons and soon forget; the powers
relentessly a"d surely pursue th
who oppose them, forgive only al 'r
the offender has surrendered IN N0
ditionaly and they never forget Whoig
it is to their interest to rememD'"
The rcrr.s how both what tl'v
want and how to get 1t; the PEG
know neither.
Back in March. when Goodrich f,s
suspected tat | had outgenera'nG
him he OF ened negotiations with the
national machine of the oppositicn
party He decided that, If | shou,d
succeed in nominating Burbank, he
would save his masters and himself
by nominating as the opposition can
didate man under their and his
control, and by electing him with an
enormous camTa.gn fund.
Beckett, the subtest and most in
fuential of the managers of the ma
tional machine of the opposition
party, submitted several names to
him. He selected Henry j. Simpson,
justice of the supreme court of Ohio
slow, shy, ultra-conservatiye man.
his brain spun full In every cell
with the cObWebs of legal technicality.
He was, in his way. almost as salts
factory a candidate for the interests
as Cromwell would have been. For,
while he was honest. of what value is
honesty when combined with credulity
and lack OF knowledge of affairs? They
knew what advisers he would select,
men trained in their service and
taken from their legal STATS. They
knew he would shrink from anything
| radical or disturbing is,
would not modest the two packs of
wolves, the business and the politi-
cal, at their feast upon the public He
came of a line of bigoted adherents of
his party; he led simple, retired life
among sheep and COWS and BOOKS
asleep in the skins of sheep and COWS
! He wore old-iashioned rural whiskers
! thickest in the throat, thinning to-
ward the jawbone, scant about the
These evidences of unfitness to cope
with up-to-date corruptionists seemed
to endear him to the masses.
As soon as those big organs Of the
| opposition that were in the control of
the powers be"an to talk of Sim son as
an ideal candidate, ! suspected what
was in the wind. But | had my hands
| full; the most | could then do was to
supply my local "left-bower," Silliman,
with funds and set him to work for a
candidate for his party more to my
taste. 1t was fortunate for me that
had cured myself of the habit of wor-
rying. For it was plain that if
Goodrich and Beckett succeeded in
getting Simpson nominated by the OPP
| position ! should have a hard fight to
raise the necessary campaign money.
The large interests either would
| finance Simpson, or. should ! con
vince them that Burbank was as good
| for their purposes as Simpson, would
| be Indifferent which won.
directed Silliman to work for Run
die of Indiana, a thoroughly honest
man, in deadly earnest about half a
| dozen deadly wrong things, and cap
able of anything in furthering them
after the manner of fanatics If he
| had not been in public life, he would
| have been camp-meeting eXhorter
| Crowds liked to listen to him; the rad
icais and radically inclined through
out the west swore by him; he had
had two terms in congress, had got
a hundredodd votes for the nom.na-
| ton for president at the last national
convention of the opposition A
| splendid scare-crOw for the Wall
street crowd but difficult 10 nominate
over Goodrich's man Simrson in a
convention of practical rolIticiass
In May-it was the afternoon of
the very day my mut.neers got back
into the harness-WOodruff asked me
If | would see a man he had picked
up In delegate-hunting trip into In
diana. IAN old pal of mine, much
/ tho