The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-28
The Honorable
Senator
Sagebrush
By FRANCIS LYNDE
Copyright 1870. by Street Q Smith
SYNOPSIS.
By FRANCIS LYNDE
Copyright 1870. by Street Q Smith

CHAPTER EVAN Blount, son Of
Boss David Blount Ex-senator Sage
brush'), has been rejected by Patricia
Anners. Dick Gantry offers him po-
sition with the Trans-continental rail-
way, which is fighting his father. Nc
Vfckar, head of the railroad. AMI
BOSS" Blount quarrel 1.-THE boss
demands that the railroad stop the use
Of crooked methods. Going west 10
meet his father Evan meets a man
who takes hIm for forestry employe.
m-Evan is kidnapped by a band OF
men, evidently land corporation agents,
and Is taken at night to mansion
seemingly presided over by a woman
TV-The house is Wartrace Hall, Sen
ator Blount's home. and the woman is
Evans's stepmother. whom he had
never met. V-The senator purposes
running Evan for attorney general de-
spite the young mans recent arrival
IN the state. Evan objects. He hears
his father called political trickster.
VI-McVicl1er defies Senator Blount TO
nominate Evan. Patricia and her ge-
ologist father arrive at the Sagebrush
capital. VII-At McVicker's request
Evan joins the railroads forces as di-
vision counsel and political worker.
He favors clean politics, but finds that
his Office is made a rallying point by
small political hangers on of the road.
VIII-Evan has a disagreement with
Gantry about the roads mixing In poll
tics. His father pulls wires unknown
to him to have him invited to speak
in a distant mining town. Hathaway,
who has been trying to do business
with the road and with Senator Blount,
is to have a talk with Mrs. Blount.
Chapter IX-Hathaway wants rebate
from the road in consideration Of po-
utical favors. He is referred to Evan
and is advised by Mrs. Blount to put
Professor Anners' name on his list of
stockholders. X-Evan's interview with
Hathaway reveals the roads misdo-
1ngs. In a rage he resigns. Gantry
holds up the resignation. Evan insists
that it go through to McVickar. XI-
Patricia refuses Evan again. She adj
vises him to stick to the road and work
for clean politics. He withdraws his
resignation and is sent into the field on
a. speaking tour. XII-Exposure of the
railroad is threatened by Evan to
Gantry unless rebating and other un-
lawful practices are stopped. Evan
suspects his secretary, Collins, of tam
RCl Ills Will Ills QtSh. A1ll-Ine Q0Sk
is blown up by a burglar, evidently af-
ter Evans papers. Gantry tells Nc
Vickar that Evan is getting to be too
n1uch for him to handle. XIV-Gan-
try has hard work to keep Evan from
publicly pledging the railroad to the
suppression of rebates. Sunday before
election Evan takes Patricia for an
auto ride, XV-On Monday Gryson,
ward boss, brings to Evan what he
calls proof Of crooked dealings on the
part Of the machine, headed by the
senator. Editor Blenkinsop is to print
evidence of the machines crookedness.
xVI-Evan's duty to expose his father
seems clear to him. At Patricia's in
sistence, however, he tells his father
what he is about to do and is told to
go ahead. XVII-The auto, with Pa
tricia and Evan, is held up by Barto,
acting under orders of McVicker The
two are rescued by the senator, who
tells Evan all the crookedness was the
work of McVickar. XVIII-Clean poll
tics wins. Evan is to be left free to
attend to the strictly legal business of
the road, which is to keep out of poll
tics He wins Patricia's hand.