Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-22

tS2S improvements wrought. Nor
was the prosperity thus attested mere
" the crumbs from the table Of thirty
Ing Plumville. 1t was all New Chel-
seas own, and it had come by the ave
nue. OF stephen Hampden's specula-
ton. for the coal company, despite the
rules of the game, was a success for
all concerned. Already it was paying
dividends.
But great deal more than boom"
can happen in four years That num-
Der of cycles saw William Murchell's
power shaken. totter and crash to the
earth. Most people credited this TO
the craft of Mark Sherrod, state treas
urer and the new minister, and his
able lieutenant, Governor PARROT.
Murchell would have placed tie credit
or blame elsewhere. Had he had the
habit of discussing his mistakes he
would have added year to our calcu-
lation and said that the initial blow
had been struck at his power when on
n certain June day. in company with
Jim Sheehan. he had sought TO press
a bright faced young man into his
service.
II it was your good fortune to be n
resident of New Chelsea at that time
YOU will remember how John Dun
meade appeared when he was thirty
tive-a grave. quiet man. looking older
than his years. as earelessly dressed as
men are apt To be who are dreaming
Of big things His hair was beginning
to thin at the temples He walked
with slight stoop and with less
sprlng-the long. slow stride of man
who thinks much on his feet.
lie made it point. however I'M
happily his cause was progressing.
never TO seem downeast You would
leave him. probably thinking it a pity
that such All attractive man should
be so impractical aud the object of 50
many bitter and powerful enmites. II
the truth must be told. New Chelsea
was more than little disappointed
in John Dnnmeade.
His health was not always good.
He had suffered a serious Illness dur
ing one winter and, between the duties
! or office. the cares of a growing pri-
vate practice and the ineessant labors
OF politics. his body had been sadly
ovcrtaxea He was still district at
torney. last trophy OF the reform wave
that had swept over the shattered
machine. Under the leadership Of
Greene, an exgamhler and former lieu
tenant of Sheehan. less obviously the
brute aud far shrewder than the dc
posed boss. the nlumYille organization
had risen from its ashes. He had re-
captured all The county offices. except
when John. a candidate for reelection.
had won through personal popularity
and by a seant margin.
Politics is hard taskmaster John
found poor compensation in the fact
that he had become well known
throughout the state The year after
the Benton county reform he had Join
ed himself to tile cause OF Judge Gray.
an honest and capable lawyer who
dared to ask the old party nominal
non for governor against the organiza-
tons choice. With the Judge John
" ot"AiP'he N"hipaiSh
In every county of the state. He was
new. he was enthusiastic, he was dar-
ing. People listened. Parrot was nomi-
mated easily according to the SLATE"
Judge Dunmeade was not nominated
to the supreme court that year: hence
the breach Of n lifelong friendship, in
creased bitterness against his son and
many I-told you-sos from Miss Roberta
But John preached on. He did more
than attack He devised and proffered
remedies with a naive disregard of the
conservative habit of the American
mind that melted mirth in some, APP
prehension in others and bewilderEseat