Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1911-11-23
GLOUCESTER COUNTY

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legislative district. wncn carrfut %
ganization and judicious besrowai u
the patronage made his By virtue or
that deaf had converted into verI
table despotism All candidates tor.
councilmanic and Legislative nonors
from that district had come to look
TO MIN for nomination and election
When the second mayor under the
MACPHERSON regime was elected Bob
was one OF the four men who finally
selected the fortunate candidate I'm
der this administration ne accepted
the office be now held. His signature
at the bottom OF d check was now ia
miliar 10 the hanks OF the city and
passed without question. since he was
rapidly becoming rich man
A street railway franchise was en-
gineered through councils. largely by
means OF the votes of Bob's group Of
councilmeD. BOb's share OF the spoils
was d large block OF stock. which he
afterward sold for almost twice its
par value. 1t was at the time of this
franchise affair that he was first car
TONED under the sobriauet KNOCKOUT
Bob. as mig. burly prizehghter with
the ugly, brutal features and partic-
uiariy the heavy, understood iowl sup
posed to be characteristic OF men of
that profession. Kathleen. with iron
bled smile. showed ii TO Bob
He gave vent to one of his very rare
laughs Why. this is tame. Kathleen
Get a scrap book and save ali the car
toons of me. will YOUR
All this success was not accomplish
ed easily bur by dint of hard unre-
mitting work and lnceasing watchfuI-
ness upon MACPHERSON. for. althoreh
they had so far stood together. Bob
knew that it was only an armed truce
that the boss hated him 1t was large
~ for this reason that he had made
haste TO accumulate large bank ac
count
But TO what end. all this? Lately he
had begun 70 ponder this question
Bob had cast all hut self out of his
law of nature. and he was beginning
to reap the punishment In strong
discomfort He was NOT given to senti-s
ment. but as he looked out on the
passersby. all wearing the Christmas
air. he realized that they had some
thing he. with all he had won and all
he would win. had not.
But. after ALL he unused half
aloud. for man of my sort power is
the only thing worth living for The
trouble with me Is that God-if there
is God-made me too big to be con-
tented with ordinary people and their
ordinary emotions. Come in oh.
hello. Tomr'
Fine Chris mus weather we're hay-
in. Mr.. McAdoo.'' said Haggin. who
was the intruder. Like the other
boys" he always called Bob Mr."
nowadays.
Fine enough. | guess. Can do
something for your
"Oh. no" Haggin answered. with
rmderous bashfulness. Il only drop
ped in to say Merry Chris'm mus to We.
Very good of you. I'm sure. Tom"
Bob's tone was anything but enthusi-
astic. Yet he was surprised by faint
glow of pleasure at the ex-pugilist's
greeting.
There was an awkward silence. at
length broken by Haggin: Smiths
been raisin' a big howl about not get
tin back to the legislator Says he
oughter git another term. Coin
round among the boys an kickin' like
mule.
Can't help that. promised Slough
ton, and he goes.
"Of course. You say SO, and he goes.
'Tain't him that's raisin' the trouble.
but young Teller named Remington.
An he amt no SLOUGH. you hear me.
He's the Teller | told you about came
down to the Liberty hall meetin' last
campaign. The boys was waitin' an
CROWN impatient. until long about .
o'clock in comes d tall young Teller.
regular kid Good locker. with long
curly hair an dashin' kind of way
An swell? He made me feel like a
glass fact'ry, an | had on me hunderd
dollar suit too. He steps up to me
an says. Mr. Chairman. my names
Remington. an I'm here to make a
speech. At that the boys sets up a
yell, hootin' an guyin' him like four
of kind Swell chap doesn't say a
word but offs with his overcoat an
sits on the table with his hands in his
pockets. laughin as if he had a good
joke on somebody else Fin'ly the
boys lets up fer lack of wind. Then
he starts in an tells a story fit to make
you bust. The boys laughs hard until
they begun TO see the point was on
them. Then he gives 'em the worst
tongue lashin' you ever heard.
thought there would be trouble an was
gittin' ready to keep the peace when
one of the boys sings out. You're all
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