Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-08-31
SYNOPSIS.

IVdl biOuIC, son OF BOSS David
Blount c"Senator Sagebrush'), has been
rejected by Patricia Anners. Dick Gam
try offers him a position with the Trans
continental railway. which is fighting his
father. McVickar, head of the railroad.
and BOSS" Blount quarrel.
The boss demands that the railroad stop
the use Of crooked methods. Going west
to meet his father, Evan meets a man
who takes him for a forestry employee.
Evan is kidnapped by a band of men, evil
IDENTIFY land corporation agents, and is
taken at night to a mansion seemingly
Erasidnd ouar hv "a n.ornar
The house is Wartrace Hall, Senator
Blount's home. and the woman is Evans
stepmother, whom he had never met.
The senator running Evan for
attorney general despite the young mans
recent arrival in the state. Evan OBJ
jects. He hears his father called a DO
1itical trickster.
McVlckar defies Senat Bloun to nom
anate Evan. Patricia and her geologist
father arrive at the sagebrush capital.
AT McVickar's request Evan joins the
railroads forces as division counsel and
political worker. He favors clean poll
tics, but finds that his office is made a
rallying point by small political hangers
on Of the road.
Evan has a disagreement with Gantry
about the roads mixing in politics. His
father pulls wires unknown to him to
have him invited to speak in a distant
mining town. Hathaway, who has been
trying to do business with the road and
with Senator Blount, Is to lave a talk
with Mrs. RIount
[~CoNTINUED.1
After Gryson had gone, muttering
threats and curses, the young cam
5paign manager had an attack Of moral
nausea. 1t seemed such a huge waste
OF time n energy to traffic and chat
fer with these petty scoundrels. Thus
far every phase of the actual political
problem seemed to be meanly deprad-
ing, and he was beginning to long
keenly for an opportunity to do some
really worthy thing.
Notwithstanding his ideals We're still
mistaken. He still chung to the belief
that the corporation, which was Great
ed by b law and could exist only
under the protection Of the law, must
of necessity be a law abiding entity.
1t was unfair to hold it responsible for
the disreputable political methods of
those whom it could never completely
control.
1t was on the day Of Gryson's visit,
aas it CHANGED, that Blount was given
his first opportunity of entering the
wider field. A letter from n of the
party chairmen in a distant mining
town brought an invitation of the
kind he had been waiting for. He was
asked to participate in a joint debate
at the campaign opening in the town
In question, and he was so glad of the
chance that he instantly wired his ac-
sceptance.
That evening at the cafe dinner at
she Inter-Mountain he found his father
waiting for him and in a burst Of
confidence told him of the invitation.
That's good" was the senator's
even toned comment. Gives you a lit
tie chance to shine the way you can
shine best, doesn't itY' Then, .That
was one Of the things Mcvickar want
ed you for, wasn't it?"
"Why, yes. He intimated that there
might be some public speaking" adj
mitted the younger man.
We'll, what all are you going to tell
these Ophir fellows when you get over
there. son?' asked the veteran quiz
ideally. "Going to offer EN- all free
passes anywhere they want to go II
they'll promise to vote for1the railroad
candidates."
Not this year." was the laughing
reply. "As I told you a week or, so
ago we've stopped all that"
"Mcvickar.has told you It was stop.
.ped?'
.Theinswly stiedeed Dolitica, amaze