The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
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through the office. with running hTe of comment and congratulauun that was almost like applause. He hau bought a copy on the street a. he came in. and as he spread Il out there came upon him a thrlll oi realization that this ought to be the beginning of the end.
 l. was. The fact that Bobby, through the Bulletin, had forced thIs action. made him a power to be reckoned with; and straws, whole bales of them. began to show which way the wind was blowing
 One morning delegation headed by the Reverend Doctor Larl nX wait ed upon him. The Reverend Doctor was a minister of great ingenuity ant force. who sought the salvation ol souls through such vital topics a. Shall Men Co COatless in summer The Justice of fhree-Cent Car Fares, and The Billboards Must Go. All public questions, civic, state or na- tional. were thoroughly thrashed out ip the pulpit of the Rev. LarynX, anu turned adrift with the seal of his condemnation or approval duly hXeu upon them and he managed to get his name and picture in the pap rs almost as often as the man who took eighty-seyen bottles of EliNo and still survived With him were four thoroughly respectable men of busint ss. two of whom wore side whiskers and the other two of whom wore white bow-ties.
 Fine business, Mir. Burnt. said the Reverend Doctor LarynX in loud, hearty voice. advancing with three strides and clasping BObby's hand in viSe-like grip; for he was red-blooded minister, was the Rev erend Doctor Larynx. and he believ- ed in getting down among the pee pull" The Bulletin has proved mighty fine engine of reform, and the reputable citizens of this muni- cipality now see ray of hope be fore them"
 I'm afraid that the reputable cit izens," ventured Bobby. have no one but themselves to blame for their past hopeless condition. They're too selfish 10 vote"
 You have hit the nail on the head" acclaimed the Reverend La rynx with a loud. hearty laugh, but the Bulletin will rouse them to a sense of duty. Last night, MT Bur nit the Utopian Club was formed with an initial membership of over seventy, and il selected candidate for mayor of whom the Bulletin is bound 10 approve. Shake hands with Mir. Freedom. the Utopian Clubs candidate for mayor, MT Burnit"
 Bobby shook hands with Mir. Frea- dom quite nicely and studied him curiously.
 He was one of the two who wore side whiskers and a habitual Prince Albert. he displayed a ph nomenal length from lower lip to chin, which, by reason of his extremely high and narrow forehead. gave his features the appearance of being grouped in tiny spots somewhere near the center of long, yellow cylinder. MT. Free dom, he afterward asCertained was a respectable singing teacher.
 Professor Freedom" went on the Reverend Doctor Larynx, still loudly and heartily, has the time to devote to this office, as well as the ideal qualifications. He has no vices
  nor use tobacco in any form, and under his regime the saloons of this town would be turned into vacant store-rooms. if there are laws to make possible such action"
 T do not want the saloon put out of business" declared Bobby "l merely want them vacated at 12 every night, without exception"
 When Doctor Larynx and his del egation went away in wrath the leader was already preparing his sermon up The Iniquity of the Sons of Rich Fathers.
 On the following day a delegation from the business mems club waited upon him. The business mems club wanted a business administration. This crowd Bobby handled different ly. Upon his desk. tabulated in ad- vance against just such an emerg- ency, he had statistics concerning all the business mems administrations that had been tried in various cities, and he submitted this statement without argument. It needed none.
 Politics is in itself a distinct bus iness," he explained. You would not one of you take up the duties of surveyor without previous train ing. The only trouble is that there are no restrictions placed upon pol iticians. l propose to use them, but to regulate them"
 He did not convert the delegation by this one interview, but he did by cultivating these men and others of their kind separately. He ate lunch and 1ipnarc u,itb at tho Traders club, played billiards with them, smoked and talked with them; and the burden of his talk was Chal- mers. When he finally got ready for his campaign the business m were with him unanimously, at least out wardly. Inwardly, there were reser- vations, for the matter of special privileges was one to be very grave ly considered; and special privileges, at a price not entirely prohibitive, was the bulwark of Stones regime.
 But the Stone regime" Bobby ad- vised them, coming brutally to the point and telling them what he knew of their own affairs and Stones, ''is about to come to an end. The handwriting is on the wall, and you might just as we'll climb into the band wagon, for at last I have the public on my side"
 At last he had. For a solid year he had been trying to understand the peculiar apathy of the public, and he did not understand it yet They seemed to like Stone and to look upon his wholesale corruption as a joke; but by constant hammering, hv ch0uipo tho 1nrodoomoh1o c,,cc-