The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
Observation-Disclosures
Dorothy's Campaign

By JOHN PHILIP ORTIZ

'sociated Literary PCsssJ \
his mind to confess. It seems that
he was connected with some senate
rial graft a year or two ago. and he
felt it his dying duty to expose it. He
made written confession, and Mr.
Raybur1 has it in his pocket l think
your name is mentioned. but Of course
as your record has been whittier than
SNOW"
1T hast has, but hang Tim II he
gave me away! That IL, II he lied
about me! l want you to get that
document for me-"
II will try, butt don't know.
told Mr.. Rayburn how you felt toward
him, and naturally he was hurt"
Three or four days passed, with the
senator trying hard to appear indif'
ferent, but really anxious, and then he
felt compelled to ask.
well, Dorothy, what about that
wonderful death-bed confession?"
II am sorry 70 tell you, daddy, that
there is still worse news. Mr.. Ray.
|
other day when a man named Shane
was run down by street car. Mr..
Rayburn is tender-hearted and gen.
erous, and he consoled the injured
man and sent his wife $50. He couldn't
be saved, however, but before he died
he made confession. He was a mem
Der of the legislature when the good
roads scandal came out Perhaps you
knew him."
THE Internal rascal! Did he men.
ton my name?"
Il think he did, daddy. I think he
confessed that he and you divvied up
on something"
Its lie, of course. but want that
| document as well as the other.
| Therell be some fools that will be-
lieve what a dying man says Of an
honest politician. Perhaps that Mr..
Rayburn-"
Il don't think he would come to
| see you, daddy. You know you threat
ened him."
Then he can stay away. l can get
half dozen good men to swear that
| Shane was a liar"
The Senator walked around with his
chest thrown out and self-satisfied
air, but he was worried. He was be-
ing written up in his party organs az
the snowwhite candidate. He wanted
to seem defiant, even to his daughter.
and it wasn't many days before he
lo1 in uyho h4
lar tone:
well. suhragette, any further
| alarms?"
why, yes, daddy. That is, you may
not think it worth minding, owing to
| your snowwhite record. but Mr.. Ray
burn considers it great find"
| Dang Mr.. Rayburn!"
so l say, but you see he has got
another death-bed confession He
drove out the other day to see Farmer
Bramble. 1t seems that the farmer
owned land where the aqueduct is to
run, and by the aid of a certain poll
tician and state senator he was en-
abled to get $4,000 for land worth
about $4,000. Of course, there was a
divvy in it,
They can't prove it," shouted the
senator.
perhaps not, but you see the far
mer had been kicked by mule and
lay dying. He couldn't die in peace
until he had confessed that the SEN
ator got two-thirds of the graft. Mr..
Rayburn has the document
! And it says I'm the senator. does
it,"
| II think it does, daddy think so.
Is there such an expression as dead
to-rights?"
II believe so"
well. think that Mr.. Rayburn
thinks that that document gets you
dead-to-rights. Don't they sometimes
say that a man is caught with the
goods on?"
yves"
And there is something about a
mans goose being cooked?"
UNI"
And with the three death-bed con.
fessions IL Mr.. Rayburn's pocket, and
with the suffragettes investigating, and
with the Examiner" hot on the trail,
I think, daddy, dear-I think that you
will be showed under ten feet deep at
the coming election!"
| But he wasn't What does a poor,
innocent girl know about the tricks
of snow-white politicians? The sen.
ator fixed that thing in day. When
Mr.. Rayburn came calling again he
seemed to. feel perfectly at home, but
he did sigh as he observed:
you are worth it ten times over.
but really l almost hated to do It,"
And Dorothys answer was:
But if you were a suffragette you
would understand that graft must be
met with graft. Daddy gratis the pub
lie and We graft him."
For Law and Order.
Stricken Pugilist-Hi, police, stop
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