Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-21

Three or four days passed, with the
ferent, but really anxious, and then he
felt compelled to ask:
"Well, Dorothy. what about that
wonderful death-bed confession2"
II am sorry TO tell you, daddy, that
there is stu worse news. Mr.. Ray.
burn happened to be on the spot the
other day when man named Shane
was run down by street car. Mr.
Rayburn 10 tendorhearted 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 a confession. He was MON.
Der OF the legislature when the good
roads scandal came out. Perhaps you
knew hin?"
"The internal rascali Did he men.
ton my manner"
81 think no did, daddy. I think hs
confessed that he and you 'divvled up
on something"
"It's a lie, OF course. but want that
document as well as the other.
There1l be some fools that will be,
lieve what a dying man says OF an
honest politician. Perhaps that Mr..
Rayburn--"
az don't think he would come 70
see you, daddy. You know you threat
ened him."
Then he can stay away. can get
half dozen good men to swear that
Shane was 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 as
the snow-white candidate. He wanted
to seem defiant, even to his daughter
and II wasn't many days before he
asked In what he thought was a jocu.
lar tone:
well. surragette, any further
alarms?"
''Why, yes, daddy. That is. you my
not think it worth minding, OWES 10
your snow-white record, but Mr. Ray.
burn considers it great and"
"Dang Mr.. Rayburni"
so / say, but you see he bas rot
another death-bed confession. lie
drove out the other day to see Farmer
Bramble. It seems that tho farmer
owned land where the aGuednct IS to
run, and by the aid of certain poll
tician and state senator l.o was en-.
abled to get $4,000 Tor lard 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?"
81 think 1t does, daddy think 80.
Is there such an expression as dead.
to-rights?''
81 believe So"
We'll, / think that Mr.. Rayburn
thinks that that document gets you
dead-to-rights. Don't they sometimes
say that man is caught with the
goods on?"
yves"
"And there is something about a
mans goose being cooked?"
"Um!"
1
"And with the three death-bed con.
fessions In Mr.. Rayburn's pocket, and
with the suffragettes investigating, and
with the Examiner" hot ON the trail,
think, daddy, dear--I think that you
| will be showed under ten feet deep at
| the coming electioni"
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 almost hated to do it."
And Dorothy's answer was:
"But IL you we're suffragette you
would understand that graft must ba
met with graft. Daddy gratis the pub
lie and we graft him!"