Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-04-14

''''N y. WIZ iNI liidl IHdllei--tO Keep
them within the limits of decency and
discretion Hence the riot of plumber
and privilege which revolted and
alarmed me when | came to Washing
ton and saw politics in the country
wide. yes, history horizon of that
viewpoint.
Probably | should have been more
leisurely in bringing my presidential
plans to a focus, had l not seen how
great and how near was the peril to
my party. 1t seemed to me not in.
deed a perfect or even a satisfactory,
but the best available. instrument for
holding the balances of order as even
as might be between our country's two
opposing elements OF disorder-the
greedy plunderers and the rapidly in
furiating plundered Ard | saw that
no time was to be, lost, If the party
was not to be blown to fragments
The first mutterings of the storm were
in our summary election from con
| troll of the house in the midway cleo
ton. If the party were not to be
dismembered, I must GUST Goodrich,
must defeat his plans for nominating
Cromwell, must nominate Burbank in
stead If l should succeed in elect
ing him. I reasoned that I could
through him carry out my policy Of
moderation and practical patriotism
to yield to the powerful few a mini
mum of what they could compel, to
rive TO the PROSTATE but potentially
powerful many at least enough to
,eep them quiet-a stomachful The
Forld may be advanced; but patriot
SIN still remains the art of restrain
ing the arrogance Of full stomachs and
he anger of empty ones.
In Cromwell, Goodrich believed he
rad a candidate with sufficient hold
upon the rank and file of the party to
enable him to carry the election by
the usual means-a big campaign
| fund properly distributed in the
doubtful states ] said to Senator
1serborough of Indiana soon after
unveils candidacy was announced:
What do you think of Goodrich $
MANI
Scarborough, though new to the
senate then, had shown himself far
and away the ablest of the opposition
senator's He had as much intellect as
any Of them and he had what theor-
isis, such as he, usually lack, skill at
grand tactics'--the management of
men in the mass His one weakness
and that from my standpoint, a
great one-was literal belief in dem
Ocratic institutions and in the inspir-
ing but in practice pernicious princi-
pie of exact equality before the law
"CromwelFs political sponsors" was
| his reply, are two as shrewd bankers
as there are in New York. l have
heard it said that a fitting sign for
a bank would be: Here we do nothing
for nothing for nobody"
IN admirable summing up of Crom-
Wells candidacy. And | knew that
it would so appear to the country that
no matter how great corruption
! fund Goodrich might throw into the
! camraign, we should, in that time of
public evaporation, be routed if Crom-
we'll was our standard-bearer-s ut
| tes'y routed that we could not pos
sibly get ourselves together again for
s. perhaps y years. There might
even be a re-alignment of parties with
some sort Of socialism in control OF
one Of them. If control were to be
retained by the few who have the cap
tai and the intellect to make eff
Gent the nations resources and en-
er2y, my project must be put through
at once.
| had accumulated a fund of $780,
900 for my presidential flotation"-
5af Of it contributed by Roebuck in
exchange for a promise that his son.
iu-law should have an Enthusiastically
If Burbank were elected; the other
hall set aside by me from the re.
serve had formed out of the year
byyear contributions of my combine.
by the judicious investment of that
capital | purposed to get Burbank the
nomination on the first ballot-at least
4j0 Of the 900-odd delegates.
In national convention the dele
rates are, roughly speaking, about
evenly divided among the three sec
tions of the country-a third from
east of the Alleghanies; a third from
the west; third from the south. 1t
was hopeless for us to gun for dele
gates in the east; that was the espe-
cial bailiWick of Senator Goodrich.
The most we could do there would be
to keep him occupied by quietly en-
couraging any anti-Cromwell senti-
ment-and it existed a-plenty. Our
real efforts were to be in. the west
and south
l organized under Woodruff a corps
of about 30 travelling agents. Each
man knew only his own duties, knew
nothing of the general plan not even
that there was a general plan. Each
was a trained politica! worker, a per.
Sonal retainer of ours I gave them
heir Instructions; Woodruff equipped
them with the necessary cash. Dur
Ing the next five months they were in
cessantly on the go--dealing with our