Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-03-25

people Of this stnta Is made good, son,
Maybe we'll never be able TO do 1t
again. but this one time we shall "a II.
Gordon Il going in by the biggest ma-
jority ever given to a governor OF old
segebrush, and the legislature will be
FIVE TO one In favor OF the square deal"
The younger man eft his chair and
| walked 10 one OF the windows to stand,
looking down upon the lights OF the
busy street. when he turned again 1t
was to say, Il don't see where / am to
break In, dad"
"You have already broken In. While
the legislature is going to be anti-cor-
| poration, 1t Is also going to be fair
when # finds out that all the railroad
deals have been called of and can
celed. You're the man TO show the
lawmakers that this has actually been
done. Mey.ekar made a hard and fast
point OF that when he consented to
wipe tho slate clean and go away and
let us run our politics to suit our
selves. He made me promise to put 1t
mp to you fair and square. with a hand
somo increase In salary and an iron
clad agreement to back up every claim
you should make when you assert that
the railroad company viii Are the first
man that Is caught eyading the laws.
That's what I've been fighting for In
this campaign, Evan, and it's what you
must fight for"
i The son took the two steps necessary
to reach the fathers chair and held out
his hand.
Trm with you, dad" he said heart
lily. "In stay, and I'll make Mr.. Nc
viekar respect me and my principles
before I'm through with 1t. But I'm
still a little bit afraid that you and
your kind are a menace to civilization
and a free government. You won't
rind my saying that, will your
"Lawzee gracious, moi Say anything
you like. son, or. rather, let me say
something else first. How about this
career business Of Patrieia's? Have
you fixed that up YETI"
Evan shook his head despondently.
she's going home with her father
in October" he said, then: "Do you
know what she did today, dadf She
ran the little red car into that tree In
~tentfonally SO / couldn't get back here
In time to use those afidavits which
she and I both supposed would In
criminate you"
"God bless her loyal little SOUL" said
the senator. II hadn't told her what
1 was trying to do; but, Lord love you.
she knew-you trust q woman for
knowing, every time, son. And now
one more thing, Have you come to
know Honoria any better In these last
few daysT'
Eyes; much better within the last
hour, dad"
Good. That does my old heart a
heap Of good, son. Let's 80 and get
those two good women and take EN-
down to dinner; then wen drive back
to Wartrace and get ready TO touch of
the fireworks when the returns come
In. ! tell you. n tonorrow's cleo
ton Is going 20 be a regular old fash
Toned. heave 'em up and keep 'em
a-going Iandslidew
Evan Blount was turning to go
back to the inner sitting room, where
Patricia -was-when he suddenly re-
membered little B~Ienkinsop.
Don't let that worry you for a min
ute, son." said the man who seemed
to be ut the heart Of everything that
was happening. seHaH an hour after
You left Blenkinsop this morning that
stuff shat they had stolen from your
safe and then garbled up to suit them
selves was ali killed. When I told
NBlenkinsop over the phone that there
wouldn't be any crooked Lists used to-
morrew-that he was merely fixing to
put himself on record as the biggest
liar on two c~cntinents-he came down.