Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-02-15

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senator trying hard to appear indif-
1erent, but really anxious, and then he
felt compelled to ask;
well, Dorothy, what about that
wonderful death-bed 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 man named Shane
was run down by a street car. Mr..
Rayburn is tender-hearted and gem
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 a mem
Der Of the legislature when the good
roads scandal came out. Perhaps you
knew him?"
"The Internal rascali Did he men
ton my manner"
Il think he did, daddy. I think no
confessed that he and you divvied up
on something"
tits lie. OF course, but I want that
document as well as the other.
Therell be some fools that will be-
lieye what q 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. / can get
half a dozen good men to swear that
Shane was a liar"
The senator walked around with his
chest thrown out and a 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 it wasn't many days before he
asked in what he thought was a jocu-
lar tone:
swell, suffragette, any further
alarms?"
why, yes, daddy. That is, you may
not think it worth minding, owing to
your snow-white record, but Mr.. Ray
burn considers it great find"
"Dang Mr.. Rayburn!"
so | 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 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. tf4t
Perhaps not, but you sec the far
mer had been kicked by mule and
lay dying. He couldn't die in peace
until he had confessed that the sem
ator got two-thirds Of the graft. Mr..
Rayburn has the document"
"And It says I'm the senator. does
itT"
II think It does. daddy think 20.
Is there such an expression a. dead
to-rights?"
Il believe so"
well. I 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"
sand there is something about a
mans goose being cooked?"
"Um!"
"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,
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 a 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 if you were a suffragette you
would understand that graft must be
met with graft Daddy gratis the pub