The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-05-23

eanor saw a young man walk rapidly
toward the stage from his seat In the
rear of the parquet.
"who is he?" she demanded OF her
brother
"McAdoo's moufhniece." he answered
shortly. shifting unpaSily In his seat.
AS he stood on the platform. waiting
for the applause TO subside. Paul Rem.
lnCton thrilled with the knowledge
that his moment had come a moment
such as comes but once in a lifetime
and TO but few men
And before him sat the woman of his
dreams
Tre raised his hand. ana the applause
ceased There was an instants hush
~ am not here to upbraid"-
The tragedy that had come into her
young life had left Eleanor Gilbert but
one relic of her girlhood. n passionate
love of music. As the first words fell
from Paul's lips she felt thrill. For
a time giving no heed to the sense Of
his words. she listened with the musi-
| cian's trained ear TO the wonderful
voice. deep vet resonant and flexible
under perfect control. carrying faint
| " minor quality Gradually the spell
| Of the orator took hold upon her
"Whpn the American republic was
| founded the triumph Of democracy
was believed complete But eternal
vigilance Is the price Of liberty And
we almost TO our undoing-havc
slept" In simple yet vivid words Paul
went on To describe the commercial,
Industrial and political evils that have
taken root among us
"Yet these evils" he declared. per
nicious as their immediate effects,
might be endured were II not that
they threaten the existence of our vital
institution. popular government. Time
was. perhaps. when our industrial
kings were content to build within the
pale of the law. But industrial condl-
tions and methods changed The ma
chinery of the w-government-ha
| become the creature of corporate
wealth"
At this point In his speech Paul cast
aside restraint and poured forth n tor
rent of invective against corporate
greed and its servants. At the conclu-
sion of his climax not q sound could le
heard in the theater. His audience sat
wrapped in an ominous silence.
What do these things meanY Paul
continued. "Of late new word has
come into use among us, plutocracy.
Government by wealth. for wealth-by
| 80 Nl. I.,.N hot sVt,g
II birth. ever constituencies. pltiless,
ever unutterably selfish. an enemy to
the equal brotherhood of men!"
In plain. unmincing terms Paul out
lined the political history Of the state.
In II the forces of plutocracy were
most strongly ntrenched. For gen.
Grafton. until the time when John
| Dunmeade had dared to set his face
against the powers Of corruption. 1t
had lain PROSTATE. unprotestlng, under
the heel of great railway monopoly.
This monopoly. abetted by the steel in.
terests Of the city. had robbed the
greatest state of the Union of its virtue
and independence. One man, by grace
of his control of the railway system.
their official policy. Bosses might
come and bosses might go, but one and
all they owed allegiance to the one
master 400 miles away, whose wrath
was more to be feared by the political.
| ly ambitiors than the anger Of God.
| In return for their allegiance the bosses
had been permitted to pillage the city
at will.
But" cried Paul passlonately, "there
was a man in our midst, bred in their
school. who saw their power and de-
termined to break It,"
Simply. without exaggeration. Paul
! sketched the local political history.
beginning with Bob's open break with
Macpherson and leading up to his VIC
tory in the recent primaries, when
Hemenway had been nominated. 80
this man of steel. standing alone
against the corporate wealth of
whole state, has put your enemy to
rout. To william Hemenway he gave
the opportunity to do great work In
the cause of the people. That oppor-
tunity William Hemenway declines
lOI ODNlOus TtuSOuSs w nat uIt NOu
going to do about It? Whom will you
choose In his stead?
"My friends" Paul cried. with
sweeping gesture that included the
galleries In his question. II ask you
who Of all our city is the one man tit
ted to stand at your head and lead
your ight;''
He paused an instant as a murmur
Of unbelleving wonderment passed
over the audience. Eleanor. following
the eyes of thousand others, looked
toward the opposite box. But Bob
was gone.
In a voice sunk almost to a whisper
and tremulous with suppressed feeling
Paul spoke again.
"In your faces / read the answer.
There can be but one answer. You
may think that | perhaps exaggerate
his strength because he is my friend.
| He Is nv friend and therefore l. who