Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-08-04

secause rne corrections from our ra7 s
In the doubtful states far ouft Z
anced GOodrich's extensive purchA. s
there with the huge campaign-fund Of
the interests. The wheel-horse, Par H.
sanship, had broken down. and the
leader, Plutocracy. could not draw the
chariot to victory alone.
As soon as the election was over,
our people began to cable me to come
home and take charge But | waited
until Woodruff and my other faithful
lieutenants had thoroughly convinced
all the officers of the machine how
desperate its plight was, and that |
alone could repair and restore, and
that ! could do 1t only If absolute
control were given me. When the
ship reached quarantine Woodruff
came aboard; and, not having seen
him In many months, I was able TO
see, and was startled by, the contrast
between the Doc Woodruff | had met
on the train more years before than |
cared to cast up and the United
states Senator Woodruff, high in the
councils of the party and high in the
esteem of its partisans among tie
people, He was saying: You can
have anything you want, senator"
and so on. But | was thinking Of
him, Of the vicisstudes of politics.
of the amending struggle of the foul
stream to purify itself, to sink or to
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to forget that If the clear water IS
saturated with mud, also the mud is
saturated with clear water.
A week or so after | resumed the
craftsmanship, Scarborough invited
me to lunch alone with him at TIE
White House When | had seen him,
four years before, Just after his d.
feat, he was in high spirits and looked
youth. Now it depressed me, but
gave ME no surprise, to find him worn.
and overcast by that tragic sadness
which canopies every one of the seats
of the mighty. Il fear, Mr.. President"
said |, you are finding the men who
will help you to carry out your ideas
as rare as | once warned you they
were"
Not rare" was his answer. but
hard to get at through the throngs Of
Baal-worshipers that have descended
upon me and are trying TO hedge me
in"
Fortunately. you are free from
political and social entanglements,"
said | with irnpin in
He laughed with only a slightly con-
cealed bitterness. From political en-
tanglements-yes," said he. But not
from social tolls Ever since | have
been in national life, my wife and l
have held ourselves socially aloof, be-
cause those with whom we would
naturally and even inevitably asso-
ciate would be precisely those who
would some day beset me for immun-
tiles and favors. And how can one
hold to course of any sort of justice,
If doing so means assailing all ones
friends and their friends and rela-
tives? For who are the offenders?
They are of lie rich, of the successful,
of the clever, Of the socially agreeable
and charming. And how can one en-
force justice against ones dinner com
panions-and in favor of whom? OF
the people, vOiceless, distant, I'M
known to one. Personal friendship on
the one side; on the other an alb
straction,"
Il should not class you among those
likely to yield many inches to the 80
cial bribe" said l.
THAT is pleasant put not candid"
replied he with his simple directness.
NO man of your experience could fail
to know that the social bride Is the
arch-corrupter, the one briber whom it
is not in human nature to resist But,
as | was saying, to my amazement, in
spite of my wife's precautions and