Arizona republican., 1911-05-05
THE BITE OF THE BOSS
BY p. c. MaefarIans.
Copyright, 1909. by the Pearson Pub
fishing Company.
BY p. c. MaefarIans.
Copyright, 1909. by the Pearson Pub

Dunno looked at Mr.. Donnelly mar
rowly and q swift suspicion entered his
mind. He had not thought of il this
morning, but now, the sudden interest,
not to say anxiety, which Mr.. Donnelly
had developed concerning the prosecu-
ton, his desire TO be recognized as
supporter, and his haste TO place Mr..
Dunno under some sort of obligs ton,
all tended to cry aloud some mystery.
And, once aroused. the suspicion found
much TO feed on. Mr.. Dunno knew that
these three men . represented the
Twentieth Century Traction Company,
controlling all the trolley lines in the
city; the Combined Gas G. Lighting
Company, comprising the gas trust and
most OF the electric lighting facilities,
and then the Bankers Trust Company
and other important financial inter
money had been corruptly used by both
the trolley companies and the lighting
combine TO influence legislation, but he
had not, up TO the present moment sup
posed 1t could have been done with the
guilty knowledge of these eminent and
highly respectable business men. Don
nelly was a member of the University
Society. Manning was president of the
Astronomical Society Macy had given
fifty thousand dollars to found lee
tureship in ethics at the Divinity
House. All were members of the Good
Government League. which was a
highly theoretical organization. but
one that stood for certain very definite
ideals II these men were not trust.
worthy. who were?
"Will you have receipt" said Mr.
Dunno.
No. Oh, no. by no means. no." said
Mr.. Donnelly, protesting somewhat toe
much by his reiterated negatives that
he wished 10 show the fullest conf.
dence in Mr. DUNES integrity.
Mr. Dunno picked up the phone and
spoke to his secretary in the next
room.
Have Mr.. Irwin. treasurer OF ouI
Committee, come over at once, pre-
pared to receive large sum Of money
in currency" he said.
4" I was wondering about Tank" sale
Mr.. Donnelly. Aren't you afraid It's
going 70 be TOO hard TO convict him:
Wouldn't it be better 10 keep on trying
just the corrupt officials, the little fel
lows. so TO speak? If you were fighting
them one al time, they'd be going II
alone and easy to pick off. but when
you have a big bunch of indictments
against Tank he makes common cause
with the little fellows and throws all
his tremendous power behind each
single defence, so that. in reality,
he's hard man 10 beat In fact he
never has been beaten yet"
He will he beaten this time" said
Mr.. Dunno, coldly. looking at Mr.. Don
nelly with such a sharp eye that that
gentleman Immediately abandoned all
notion that he could, upon any preted
whatever. influence for the present at
least, the prosecution of Tank in any
way q
After a moment, however, he picked
up courage to go at the question which
after all, interested him most.
What would be your attitude in
case your further investigation degel
ops the fact that certain large business
interests OF the city haye been practi
cally held up by the Tank machine &c
the extent that they were confronted
with The alternative of either yielding
10 their unreasonable. extortionate
and. we'll, I might say criminal de-
mands, or of going out of business?
Mr. Dunne's face again grew hard.
A bride is BRIDE" he said. in that
sharp. incisive way Of his. Mr.. DON
nelly's face fell
"Of course" Mr.. Dunno said. "I am
anxious to do nothing that
will disturb business conditions or in
fict any permanent injury on capital"
It is 10 be feared Mr.. Richard Dunno.
reformer. was not altogether guile'ess
in this remark, but Mr.. Donnelly was
so eager as to be unsuspecting.
THAT is exactly the idea" said he.
90 The very idea that Mr.. Manning. Mr..
Macy and ! were discussing today. We
were saying that you, being business
man yourself. would have proper re-
gard for that. and would consider the
business interests and doubtless be
glad TO take counsel with-with the
of-of say. the larger
business interests of the city before do
ing anything radical along that line"
Mr.. Dunno was doing some very
swift thinking Suspicion multiplied
that Manning, Donnelly and Macy were
not only corrupters OF city officials, but
90 skilled in the art that they were
preparing to corrupt him, or
unjustly influence him to their private
advantage On the other hand, he
much preferred to give them the bene-
At OF the doubt for the present.
II was ten minutes after two. At
two-thirty Tank was to be there with
the man who could convict certain
bribe-givers, and the sudden activities
Of DonneIIv and his friends suggested
that they, through breach with Tank,
expected TO be denounced 10 him and
wished to forestail such action. Allow
ing this reasoning to be correct. 1t was
clear. then, that Tank was coming with
some witness to denounce these very
men.
1--WE should be very glad TO be rep
resented in any such consideration as
that" urged the eager Mr.. Donnelly.
who. unfortunately for him, could not
read what was passing in the mind OF
the reformer.
ITO be frank with you, then" said
Mr.. Dunno. Il have one such matter
coming up this afternoon, and as my
lime is tolerably full, I should be very
glad II you could get Mr.. Macy and Mr..
Manning here right away. say in the