Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-04-07

'Niu reminder from Burbank of the
slavery of ambition-ambition the
vice of vices. For 1t takes its victims
an-moral, mental, physical. And
while other vices rarely wreck any but
small men or injure more thanwhat Is
within their small circles of influence
ambition seizes only the superior and
sets them on to use their superior
powers to blast communities. yates
nations continents Yet Il is called
virtue. And men who have sold
themselves to it and for It to the last
shred Of manhood are esteemed and.
mystery of mysteries, esteem them.
selves
| had come to Burbank to manufac-
ture him into a president His wife
and | had together produced an ex.
cellent raw material Now, to make
1t up into the finished product!
He pointed to the filing-cases that
covered the west wall of his library
from floor to ceiling, from north win
dow to south Il base my hope on
| those-next to you, of course" said
he. Then with his "woeful widower'
pose, he added: They were her sug
gestions."
looked at the filing-cases and wait
ed for him to explain.
when we first married." he went
on presently, "she said, 1t seems to
| me, If | were a public man, | should
keep everything relating to myself
every speech all that the newspapers
said, every meeting and the lists OF
the important people who were there,
notes of all the people l ever met any
where, every letter or telegram or note
! received. If you do, you may fnd
after few years that you have an
enormous list Of acquaintances. You've
forgotten them because you meet so
many, but they will not have forgot
| ten you, who were one of the primer.
pal figures at the meeting or recep-
ton That's in substance what she
said. And so. we began and kept 1t
up'-he paused in his deliberate man,
ner compressed his lips, then added
together"
opened one of the fling-cases,
| glanced at him for permission, took
out slip Of paper under the Ms. It
was covered with notes, in Mrs. Bur
! banks writing, of reception given
| to him at the Manufacturers Club In
! St Louis three years before A lot
| of names, after each sum reminders
| of the standing and personal appear
| ance of the man. Another slip, taken
at random from the same box con.
tanned similar notes of trip through
Montana eight years before.
WONDERFUL" | exclaimed as the
! full value of these accumulations
doomed in my mind Il knew that she
was an extraordinary woman Now |
see that she had genius for politics.
His eXpression-a peering through
| that eternal pose of Eis-made me re-
wise my first judgment Of his mourn,
ing For I caught a glimpse Of real
human being, one who loved and lost,
! looking grief and pride and gratitude.
| ''If she had left me two or three years
earlier" he said in that solemn, pos
| ing tone, Il doubt If should have got
one step further. As 1t is | may be
| able to go on, thought have lost
my staff"
What fantastic envelopes does man,
after he has been finished by nature,
wrap about himself in his efforts to
| improve her handiwork! Physically,
| even when most dressed, we are
naked in comparison with the en-
swathings that hide our real mental
|
and from ourselves.
My campaign was based on the
contents of those hling-cases, !
learned all the places throughout the
| west-cities, towns, centrallylocated
yillages-where he had been and had
made an lmpression and by simple
and obvious means we were able to
convert them into centers of the Bur
bank boom" | could afterward trace
to the use we made Of those memo
randa the direct getting of no less
than 1O7 delegates to the national CON
vention-and that takes no account
of the vaster Indirect value of so
much easily worked-up genuine, I'M
purchased and unpurchasable Bur
bank sentiment The man Of only
local prominence whom Burbank re-
membered perfectly after a chance
meeting years before, could have no
doubt who ought to be the party's
nominee for president
The national machine of our party
was then in the custody, and sup
posedly in the control, of Senator
Goodrich of New Jersey. He had
reputation for MachiaYellian deXterity,
but | found that he was an accident
rather than an actually.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.