The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-23
TEE EVENING STORY
Dorothy's Campaign.
(By John Philip Orth.)


over, with a daughter Dorothy, had
heard things, but had been too busy
I starting his campaign for reelection
| TO investigate them. Those things
had been about his daughter, and
what they were he finally got around
to say:
Look here, they tell me you have
gone into this nonsensical suffragette
business
Yes. father" was the quiet reply
I want you to drop iti
tee reports
| COMMITTEE %
Yes We have committee on
legislative graft, and I am the chair
things to astonish the public
Eth? Eh?" queried the senator as
he sat up.
Il think we shall be able to con-
Wet one or two senator's"
Do, Ell? Well, you won't, and 1
don't want you fooling with such
| things All this talk about graft is
pure moonshine. Who has been tell
ing you lot of stuff?'
/ Mr.. Rayburn. He's a young man
on the Examiner you know
What, you are acquainted with
any one on that dish-rag of a sheetl''
almost howled the father
Just Mr.. Rayburn, and he's awful
nice"
Nice. Nice! Why the whole pack
| of them on that paper are liars and
scoundrelsi Don't you know that they
are pitching into me in almost every
issue ~
yes. but I've heard you say that
your record was so pure that they
couldn't tarnish it."
of course they can't replied the
senator as he hitched uneasiIy, but
one doesn't want the ours a yawping
at his hells all the time. You Just
drop that young Rayburn like a hot
potato!''
If he does I'll throw him through
Window
Thinking of calling on you to ask
for my handi"
The senator gave three jumps. The
first carried him ten feet from his
chair. The second turned him around.
The third jumped him back to where
he started from. Then he shouted:
Never Never! NeverI Warn him
not to come. Tell him he'll walk into
his own grave if he doesi I believe it
was his hand that penned the article
slandering me last Sunday If you rea d
it it should have made your blood
boil"
"Oh. I don't know replied the low
ing daughter. you see, we, as suf-
fragettes, get used to such things.
Then George can't come and ask for
my manu-
mo! Mo-"
'All right, father He'll naturally
be disappointed, but he must put up
with it,
Then you are not going to eIope ?"
"Oh, no. I shall not marry with
out your consent"
And you'll never get it to marry
Rayburn or any one else that has ever
worked on the Examiner"
That closed the interview for three
days. Then Miss Dorothy made op-
portunity to say:
Father, dear I think it is my duty
as an affectionate daughter to say that
Mr. Reyburn has got hold of a docu-
ment that seems to concern YOU
Concerns me, how -
1T seems that he knows=or knew
went to the house the other night to
smoke a pipe with him, and found
him dying
What! Tim Donahue dying,' ex-
claimed the senator.
'And poor Tim had something on
his mind to confess. 1t seems that
he was connected with some senatorial
graft year or two ago, and he felt
it his dying duty to expose it. He
made a written confession, and Mr..
Rayburn has it in his pocket I think
your name is mentioned, but of course,
as your record has been whittier than
snow
1T hast has, but hang Tim if he
gave me away! That is. if he lied
about me. want you to get that
document for mel"
L will try. butt don't know. I
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 fndif-
ferent. but really anxious. and then
ht. felt compelled 10 ask:
We'll. Dorothy, what about that
wonderful deathbed confession?''
Il am sorry to tell you, daddy. that
there is still worse news. Mr. Ray
burn happened to be on the spot the
other day when g man named Shane
was run down by street car Mr.
Rayburn is tender-hearted ard gener-
Gus, and he conscled the injured man
and sent his wife $50. He couldn't be
saved, however. but before he died he
made a confession. He was a member
of the legisla ture when the good roads
scandal canue out. Perhaps you knew
hin2'
THE internal rascal Did he mem
ton my name2"
I think he did. daddy. I think he
confessed that he and you divided UP
on something
ITS a lie. of course. but I want
that document as well as the other
There'I be some fools that Will be-
lieve what a dying man says Of an