Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-03-31

clamorous, and were limiting AT all
sorts OF dire doings if they were not
treated better Roebuck was question.
ing, in the most Indignantly friendly
manner, whether, after all. Harvey.
me combine isn't a mistake, and the
ola way wasn't the best" On the
other hand Burbank was becoming
restless. He had so cleverl, taken
advantage of the chances to do popu-
lar things, which | had either made
Tor MIN or pointed out to him. that
ne had become something of a ma.
llohal figure. When he got 81 votes
Tor the presidential nomination in ou
partys national convention his brain
was dizzied. Now he was in trcOo.
lest my clients should demand of him
things that would diminish or DESTROY
this sapling popularity which. in his
dreams, he already saw grown into
mighty tree obscuring the national
heavens.
| gave many and many an anxious
hour to anxious thought and careful
planning that summer and fall. II
was only few days before Doc Wood
run appeared at Fredonia with the
winters legislative programme that |
saw my way straight to what | hoped
was broad day The programme he
brought was so outrageous that it was
funny. There was nothing in it for
the Ramsay interests, but each of the
other ten had apparently exhausted
The ingenuity of its lawyers in con
cocting demands that would have
wrecked forever the party granting
them"
Our friends are modest" said I.
They've gone clean crazy" replied
Woodruff And if you could have
heard them talk, It's impossible to
make them see that anybody has any
rights but themselves"
We'll, let me have the details" said
l. Explain every item on this list;
tell me just what it means, and just
how the lawyers propose to disguise it
so the people won't catch on"
When he had finished I divided the
demands into three classes-the i'm
possible, the possible, and the prac
t,cable. Strike out all the impossi
bic" | directed Cut down the pos
sible to the ten that are least out
rageous. Those ten and the practica
bic must be passed
lie read off the ten which were be
Eond the limits of prudence, but not
mob-and-hanging matters 1--WE car
BASS them. of course" was his com
nenl. I'VE could pass a law orderiue
he state house burned, but"
'Precisely." said I. u think the
consequences will be interesting" !
aross-marked the five worst of the
ten possibilities. Save those until
the last weeks Of the session"
Early in the session Woodruff began
to nnsh the five least bad of the bad
measures on to the calendar of the
legislature. one by one. When the
third was introduced Burbank took
he limited for Washington. He ar
rived in time to join my wife and my
HHle daughter Frances and me at
breakfast. He was so white and sunk.
en-eycd and his hands were so un.
steady that Frances tried in vain to
takc her solemn, wondering, plying
eaze from his face AS soon as my
study door closed behind rs, he burst
ont, stridine up and down.
4 don't know what to think, Say
Ter he cried, q don't know what to
dIin&, The demands of these corpor-
atoms nave been growing, growing,
growing And now-You have seen
he calendar?'
Yes, said I. Some of the bills
aan pretty stiff, aren't they? But the
o.ys tell me they're for our best
+cnds. and that they're all neces-
sqay.'
40 doubt, no doubt" he replied.
but it will be impossible to reconcile
Tie people Suddenly he turned on
me. his eyes full of fear and suspicion.
"Iaqe you laid plot to ruin me, Say
Ter? 1t certainly looks that way. Have