Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-01

John why he and his Deer township
ueighbors had capitulated.
I'VE got to take what we can git. Il
takes q lot o. money to develop coal
lands. Hampden has tan we hain't.
We found he'd got all the right O.
ways. II we could find any one to
buy our coal. he couldn't "a shipped.
'ceptin' over Hampden's right o. way.
don't like to be held up, but it's my
only chance to leave anything fer my
children"
! II hope It VIII all turn out for tho
best" said John, fearing-he hardly
knew why-that It might not 10 turn
out.
Seems HIKE" said Cranshawe, '.the
Teller with money has the whip hand
over the Teller with something to sell
or develop. Trouble is, even when we
know It's wrong, we don't want to
change It. hopin' that some day tn
give Us a chanel to make money the
same way"
"Oh. nor John protested. "rd hate
to believe that. can't believe 1t.
Men aren't all of the dog-eat-dog spe-
cies."
WELL" said RI. little ashamed. II
don't know as I believe 1t myself.
Guess I'm a little peevish over bein'
outbargained by Steve Hampden. I
wish," he added thoughtfully, "you
could be lawyer fer the company. 1t
looks like us farmers won't have much
say In the business. I'd like to have
some one on the inside who could tell
us what's goin' on"
mo chance Of that, ri. Hampden
doesn't think much of me-" He did not
tell Cranshawe why he had lost the
capitalists favor.
The net result of his quixotism, he
thought with some bitterness, was TO
win Hampden's hostility and to put
himself out Of the way of protecting
his farmer friends.
And late in October occurred his par
tvs rally.
1t was necessary to marshal the
badly shaken party hosts. For into
Benton county had marched a young
man who, in single opposition speech.
broke through the defenses 80 pains
takingly reared by Jeremy Apologize
and his fellow soldiers. None other
\ than Jerry Brent. A big, rawboned,
| homely fellow, uncouth in manner and
sometimes in grammar, but with
crude, passionate eloquence that al
ways carried his audience with him.
He had been coal miner. labor
organizer, and had, after struggle
so common that description stales.
been admitted to the practice of law.
In all the thirtyf1ve years of his life
the charge Of material dishonesty had
never been raised against him; he was
still poor. And he was counted ris-
ing man In the opposition party, not
! with the connivance of his party
! bosses, however. They considered him
radical, unsafe and-cardinal crime
in an honest and manageable young
man-ambitious Respectable people
sneered at his "antics." 1t was said
that his eyes were fixed on the next
ioi SONcIuOE EVEN WIN
this suspicion ranking in their minds
the bosses dared not-so popular was
| he among labor men-refuse him op-
portunity to speak during the cam
paign.
John, an inconspicuous listener.
heard Brent's Benton county speech.
1t troubled him. It seemed to him
unanswerable. Brent, it was true,
dealt In terms of suspicion, not OF
| facts, but it was suspicion that
| found swift echo in the hearts of his
audience. He frankly said as much
1--WE don't govern this state" said
Brent. Zone man, Murchell picks out
our officers and tells 'em what to dc
while in Office. You people don't gov
ern Benton county. One man, Jim
Sheehan, Murchelrs tool. chooses your
commissioners. your treasurers, your
sheriffs, your district attorneys" John
WINGED. Sand it's wrong, my God! rs
| wrong" the orator cried passionately.
ut would be wrong. even IL these
men were honest And ! blame yon
for 1t. You haven't the right to shove
your responsibility on other mems
| shoulders, and they haven't the right
to take the power"
The mans hot. rough eloquence
found a Judgment where least expected
In Johns heart. already sensitized by
his own discoveries and Questionings.
Jerry Brent was right.
The oldest inhabitant could not re-
member when the old party had been
SO vigorously attacked. To stem the
tide of revolt-John felt 1t strongly in
his canvass-an old time rally was to
be held in the square. Sheehan in.
structed John as to the part which the
latter was to play.
You're to speak. Hit 'er up hard.
Tell 'em all about us bein' the friend Of
the farmer. It's your chance. PARROT
and Sherrod'll be there. PARROTS no
SLOUGH Of a speaker, but you can beat
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