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HE LOSES OWN GAME.
Cocreharn's Error Allows Run Which
Beats Kaws.

Des Moines, May 24.-Cocreham
threw away his OWN game in the ninth
inning yesterday and Des Moines made
1t two out of three for the series by a
score of 6 to 5. With the score five
apiece and one out in Des Moines' half
of the last session, Claire singled
through short. Thomas was walked,
forcing Claire TO second. Kores bunt-
ed to Cocreham, who threw wild in an
effort to cut off Claire at third and the
latter scored che deciding run.
The game was another batting duel
with honors about even. Topeka had
its customary batting rally in the sec
ond, and aided by a pair of rank err
rors, counted three runs. Gardner
singled. Dulin hit just over second
base and Curtis failed to stop the
grounder. Gardner scoring and Dulin
going to third on the play. Emory
was hit by a pitched ball. Walsh
grounded to Colligan, who threw
Emory out at second while Dulin
counted. Walsh went to second on
Chapman's fly-out and scored the
third run on Curtis wild heave to the
plate on Wainwright's single.
Two more errors, with a hit andpass
enabled the Kaws to score a pair in
the third. King singled and went to
passed In attempting to catch King
off the bag, HueSton threw to Kores,
who muffed the ball. In trying to back
him up, Curtis made his third error
OF the day by allowing the ball to go
through his legs and King and Gard
ner scored on the mixup.
DeS Moines started her counting at
the tap of the gong. Hahn singled,
was advanced by Curtis hit and scor-
ed on Wainright's wild heave, Kores
walk, Ulatewskfs triple to the left
field fence, single by Curtis and pass
ball enabled three to tally in the fifth.
A single by Claire, sacrifice by Thomas
and one Dagger by Kores gave Des
Moines a tie score in the fifth. AL
though Issuing walks freely, air tight
support enabled Cocrehan, who sue
ceeded wainwright at the beginning of
the third, to hold the Boosters count
less until his fatal wild throw in the
ninth.
Topeka's one chance to jump into the
lead came in the eighth. Lee took first
on Colligan's error Gardner beat out a
bun along the first base line. With two
on and no outs, Dulin popped out 10
Hahn, Emory to Claire, and Walsh died
on first.
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American Association.
central kansas League.

again this year. But he has a hotter
fight on his hands than he had in
1911 and the Drummers are going
to stand in his way if present indica-
tinos count for anything. Hollands
gang of sluggers are batting their way
to the front; the pitchers are going
good; the club is running bases like
a cyclone and the machine as whole
is working smoothly. 1t looks like
the Drummers are the ones who will
fight it out with the Champs of 1911
for the bunting this year. At any
rate, the prophets around the league
are picking them for a one, two posi-
ton at the windup.
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CENTRAL KANSAS LEAGUE,


Salina, Kan, May 24.-Salina won
the third game from Manhattan here
by the score of 4 to 3. Hard, Ions
hitting by Salina and Manhattan'S
critical errors featured. Fisher of TO-
peka got three hits and Krepps and
Burns, all from Gears team. home
runs. Score: r IA 70
Salina ..O12O OO1OsI4
Manhattan 30 o 01O1O-3 8 5
manifestations and Harlow: Cum
mings and Smith.
junction City IL; Lyons II.
Lyons, May 24.-Junction City beat
Lyons In the last game of the series.
NO pitcher was effective. Morris and
Hanna knocked home runs. The game
was called at o'clock SO the visitors
could catch train.
Score: R HI
Junction City ..2oo253 Ollie 0
Lyons Il Ill IT I
Batteries-Bartlett, Owens. Cox ana
Richardson; Swenson and Hanna.
Newton 8; Great Bend 4.
Great Bend, Kan. May 24.-New-
ton won in easy fashion, 8 to 1, beat
ing the Millers two out of three for
the series. Reynolds pitched a great
game and allowed only four hits.
Score: r II ID
Newton ....2o1o11s o-sii
Great Bend 90 o 0 o o 0 Ell
Batteries-Reynolds and smith;
Davidson and Herman. Umpire Mil
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swedes Swamp WESLEYAN.

Lindsborg. KS, May 24.-''The Ter
rible Swedes'' closed their baseball
season here by treating the Salina
Wesleyans to a shut-out game. Sew
enteen hits and 20 runs did the work.
1t was just another case of too much
Nicholson. The Wesleyans made cost
ly errors, and you couldn't expect
them to win on three hits. The
Swedes hit two pitchers out of the
box and if the Wesleyans had had a
fourth pitcher, it is probable that he
would have been sent in to relieve
tosser for Salina, whe nrelieved, went
to third and later finished up behind
the bat.
In the fourth inning Bethany bat
ted hard and made 9 runs. Each man
batted around twice. Peterson for
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|. M. PEN W ELL
Undertaken and EmbaImer.
Both Phones 1872. 5Os-51O Quincy ST.

Bethany got two 2-base hits, one of
them chalked up three scores.
Nicholson was credited with a q
base hit, which brought home two
runners. Bengtson also slapped for
bags and Hultquist put a long drive
to right which landed him on third
base. The game was called in the
seventh inning.
Batteries: Hall, Corsaut, Jones and
Brown; Nicholson and Hultquist.
Score by innings:
Wesleyans E. 100000 90
Bethany .O2 30
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Chicago, 10; New York, 4.

New York, May 24.-Hoff pitched
great ball until the eighth, when Zei-
der made a triple with the bases full.
Score: r H E
Chicago. 10000 40 10 8
New York ..0OO2O 1-412 8
Batteries-Benz, Peters and Sulli-
van; Hoff, Vaughn, Mcconnell and
Sweeney.
SUMMARY nr Two has base
Bases on balls-off Hoff. 2; Neon
nell, 8 Benz, L; Peters. 2. Struck
out-By Hoff, Z; Vaughn, 1; Neon
nell, 1 Benz, 1; Peters, L. Passed
ball-Sweeney. Umpires-Evans and
Egan.
Philadelphia, 9; st. Louis, 8.
Philadelphia, May 24.-Both Lake
and Brown were hit hard. Murphy
led in the smuggling.
Score: R H e
St. Louis ....oO1O010 Is o
Philadelphia 2 DOL o 0 80 IA 2
Batteries-Lake, Brown and Steph-
ems, Ketter; Bender and Thomas.
Summary: Two base hits-Hogan,
strunk 2 Murphy stoa Barr Esse Three
ker, Strunk, Murphy, Bender. Struck
out-By Bender, 4. Double play
Barry and McInnes. Bases on balls
Off Lake, 1; off Brown, 3; off Ben
der, 1. Umpires- Perrine and Di-
neen.
Washington, 5; Detroit, 2.
washington, May 24.-Hughes
pitched Wen with poor support. Noel
lers two Dagger was a feature.
Score: r H e
Detroit. 10000 1oo-2 1
washington .0014 O %-5 10 8
Batteries-Burns, Dubuc and STAN
age; Hughes and Henry, Ainsmith.
Summary: Two base hits-Craw-
ford, Moeller. Three base hit-Fos-
ter. Double play-Foster, knight
and Schaefer. Bases on balls-Off
Burns, 2; Hughes, 5. Umpires-Hart
and Connolly.
Boston, 6; Cleveland, 5.
Boston, May 24.-Boston defeated
Cleveland in a ten-inning game.
Score: R H e
Cleveland ..ooooO1o1s o-51s 2
Boston. 100 O o 4 0 0 1 o IL 9 8
Batteries-George and Easterly,
Adams; Cicotte, Wood and Nuna-
maker.
Summary: Two base hits-Jack-
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son, Wagner 2, Ryan, Griggs. Home
run-Speaker. Stolen bases-Ryan,
Wagner. Double plays"Cicotte,
Wagner and Bradley. First on balls
off Cicotte, 2; off George, 8. Struck
out-By Cicotte, 2; by George, 5; by
Wood, L. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and
O'Laughlin.
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Double plays-Smith to Tenant. Left on
bases-Sioux City, q Wichita, 9. Hits-On
Hersche. in 2-3 innings; Jackson. in
1-3 innings. Bases on balls-Om Sage, q;
Hersche, 3; Jackson, 3. Struck out-By
Sage 8: Hersche 1; ackson 1. Wild pitch
Sage. Passed ball-Orendorff. Time-2:05.
Umpire-Knapp.
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Omaha 4: Denver o.

Omaha, May 24.-By taking the
third game of the series from Lincoln
while st. Joseph was beating Denver,
Omaha went into second place, while
Denver was pushed down the ladder
another notch. Robinson had the best
of a pitchers duel with Wolverton.
Score:
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TOPEKA

Summary: Two base hlt-Cnapnah
Three base hit-Ulatowski Sacrifice hits
I-Belden, Chapman, Colligan, Thomas
Cocreham. Double plays-Kores to Coli
gan to Thomas. First on balls-Hueston
out-By Hueston, 3; Cocreham, 6. Struck
ou-By Hueston, 8; Cocreham, 3. Hit by
pitcher-Emory. Passed ball-Chapman.
Wild pitch-Cocrebam. Stolen bases
Kores. Left on baSeS-DeS MoineS, Ii;
Topeka, s. Hits-Of Wainwright, IN
2 % innings; off Cocreham, 4 in 1-3 in
nings. Time-2:20. Umpire-Johnson.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
st. Louis II; Cincinnati 10.

ST. Louis, May 24.-St. Louis won in
a game featured by heavy hitting ano
ragged fielding.
Score: R.H.E
St. Louis ......2oo4o Ill I
Cincinnati 40 8 0 0 o Z 90 DO 10
Batteries-Steele, WOODBURY., Sallee
and Wingo; Casper, Smith, HUMPHREYS
and Mclean.
Summary: Two base hits-Ellis
Mitchell. Three base hit-Mowrey
Home run-Bescher, Wingo. Double
plays-Severoid and Mclean. Bases or
balls-Gasper 4, Smith 3, Steele 3
WOODBURY. /. Struck out-By Casper l
Sallee 1, HUMPHREYS L. Umpires-Rig-
Ter and Finneran.
Pittsburg 8; Boston 4.
Pittsburg, May 24.-Adams pitched an
excellent game A wild throw by VoiS
was responsible for Boston's lone run
Score: R.H.E
Pittsburg ..oO0102O *-3 IL
Boston .....OO % 0 o 90 0 IL
Batteries-Adams and Kelly; Brown
and King.
Summary: Two base hits-Byrne, vii
son. Three base hits-Leach, J. Mil
Ter. Double plays-Shean and Devlini
Mcdonald and Devlin. Bases on balls
Brown 2 Struck out-By Adams 4
Brown 2 Umpires-Owen and Hren-
nan.
ONLY two games scheduled
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Milwaukee Z; ST. Paul 1.

St. Paul, May M.-By punching the
hits in the third, Milwaukee won.
score: R-H.E
ST paul 100 0100I 2
Milwaukee 100 o OIL OF IL J
Batteries-Thomas, Dauss and Muir
ray, Block; Nicholson, Cutting and
Schalk.
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Columbus 8: Louisville 3.
Indianapolis 10: Toledo 6.

indianapolis, May 24.-Indianapolis
came up from behind after Toledo had
made six runs in the first two innings
and won-
Score: R-H.E
Toledo ...24O o o 0o0 O-6 IL z
Indianapolis 20 o 0 4 0 8 3~-12 Is s
Batteries-James, Collamore and
Land; Hixon and Casey.
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LINCOLN.

Cormick. Double plays-Wolverton to
Mullen to Carney. Bases on balls-Of
Wolverton, 2. Struck out-By Robinson,
4; Wolverton, 5. Hit by pitched ball
Davidson. Stolen bases-Niehoff, Coyle
Davidson. Sacrifice hits-Wanner, Scan
lon. Left on bases-Omaha. 4; Lincoln, 2
Time-1:35. Umpire-Haskell.
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Schneider, Cassidy, Zwilling. Two base
hits-Watson. Kelly. Gossett, Beall. Sac
rifice hits-Channell Powell. Stolen bases
I-Meinke Left on bases-Denver 9; st.
Joseph 8. Struck out-By Freeman, s;
Pfeffer. g. Bases on balls-FTeeman, /;
feffer, 1. Hfts-On Schneider, in inl
nings. Time-1:35. Umpires-Kissane and
Carter.
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Denver, 2; st. Joe, 5.

ST. Joseph, May 24.-St. Joseph
punched hits on Schneider in the sec
ond and third, securing a lead which
Denver was unable to overcome.
Pfeffer pitched good ball. Freeman
pitched steadily throughout. Score:
DENVER
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made it impossible for him to continue
longer, and on the advice of physicians
he has gone back to Belle HArbor,
Long Island, to recuperate.
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Soos ~: Wichita 4

Sioux City, May 24.-Sioux City
punched hits off Hersche and Jackson
and won. George Sage, who made his
first appearance in the box, pitched
tight ball for seven innings. Score:
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A Standard of Musical vaIue.-The
Beater of the Bass Drum-Unimporrden
instrument? Himmel! Ven a violin
maigs a mistake. who knows2 But ven
de big drum maigs q nddle misdaig, efery-
body k=ows!-The Century.
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New York, May 24.-Tim Hurst has
resigned as manager and matchmaker
of the Garden City Athletic club, 1t
was announced tonight. III health
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Boston, May 24.-''Nothing to it,
James r. McAleer of the Boston Amer
leans today when shown the report
that Boston was to receive First Base
man Chase in exchange for First Base
man Bradley and Outfielder Henrik
sen.
There is no deal under considera-
tion,'' McAleer said.
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SMALL BITS OF SPORT

Hiawatha. Kan, May 24.-Min
league results:
Hiawatha 10; Humboldt 3.
Falls City IL; Nebraska City 0.
Beatrice s; Auburn 4.
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1t seems that Riffel, the Lehigh
pitcher, did not pitch a no hit game.
On the contrary, it is alleged that a
brace of as clean hits as were ever
slammed past an inf1eld were cleaned
off his delivery. On top of that he
is reported to have played a weak
team.
Now Carbonate is ready for a
fight. The ball team from there is
reported to have lost an opening
baseball game to Scranton. Carbon
dale sports say there never was such
a game and that they would like to
have a few minutes fluent talk with
the gent who sent the report to the
contrary.
Usage City, Kan, May PA baseball
league was formed at a meeting held
at Lyndon Wednesday. The following
towns will be in the league: Usage City,
Lyndon, Quenemo, Melvern, Over
brook, Burlingame, Scranton, Carbon
dale. The play days are Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Lutte Silven, of Usage City, has been
elected vice president of the league.
Joe Mussatta was elected manager for
the Usage City team. The teams will
be composed strictly of home players
All salaried players are barred.
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Lincoln News: The war CORE
spondent of the Denver Times, who is
on the firing line with the Grizzlies,
relates that Southpaw Leonard, Dem
ver's new pitcher, was handicapped
Sunday by a lack of knowledge of
the Omaha batters.'' Where was
Catcher Frambes? He has been in
this league for two seasons.
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Right Fielder's Hitting Should
Increase Teams Chances.
Walsh Starting in Like Regular
300 Hitter.
BEARS EASY FOR ST. JOE
But 1t Is Different When Griz
lilies Are Home.
Baseball Cab and Gossip on the
O'NeiH Circuit.

Whey They Play Today.
Denver at ST. Joe.
Lincoln at Omaha.
Wichita at Sioux City.
Topeka at DeS MOineS.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
kansas CITY 8: Minneapolis o.

Kansas City 3; minneapolis o.
Minneapolis, May 24.-Only two Min
neapoIis batters reached first base off
Altrock and neither got as far as
second.
Score: R.H.E
Minneapolis 30 o 0 00 o 900 I
Kansas City 30 o 2 L o o o % 4 0
Batteries-Comstock and Owens; Alt
rock and OiConnor.
Columbus g.; Louisville 3.
Louisville, May 24.-Columbus swung
back into a winning stride and defeat
ed Louisville.
Score: R.H.E
Louisville ......o 5000 1908 2
Columbus 3 90 1 o 2 0-8 Is l
Batteries-Rowan, Snyder and Spen-
Ger; Bruck and Smith.
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Lincoln News: The Topeka Jour
nal insists that the umpiring this year
is the poorest ever. The Topeka
scribe has been forced to look at Kis-
sane for the past several days and his
disgust is easy to fathom.
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Lincoln News: Last winter Jack
Holland sold the release of Pitcher
Dick Kaufman to the Victoria club
of the Northwestern League and now
Victoria wants to peddle him back to
some mogul in the Tip O'Nei1l circuit.
Sir Richard looked like a fairly nifty
pitcher in this league for three years,
but the wise heads of the Topeka
and st. Joe clubs decided that he
was a good pitcher only on a losing
team.
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That is one reason Tommy Thoma-
son of Omaha hits the ball for such a
goodly average. Tommy has every
advantage. There is a world of speed
in those short legs he wears. He hits
from the left side and is quick at get
ting away. Add to this that nearly
every ball he hits is a hard drive ana
you have the explanation except that
he hits regularly.
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Lincoln News: If the Denver
scribe really wishes to know why it
is that the Grizzlies are having their
troubles, the soundest explanation is
that there are seven other clubs on
the O'Neil1 loop and not one of them
is disposed to let the Bears get away
with anything except after a battle.
Meantime, that Denver losing streak
is no puzzle. In the first place, the
Grizzlies are not SO formidable as last
year. Healey, Kinsella and Schneider
are in trim and pitching high grade
ball but there are other pitchers in the
league besides this trio and none OF
Denver's top-liners has a cinch to
win. Healey, for instance, has lost
two games out of three on the pres
ent Grizzly trip, while Kinsella has
similar record. The other Denver
pitchers are not in form just now
and the hurting staff. as whole. is 50
wobbly that it does not rank with at
least three other clubs in the league.
Injuries to players have added to the
woes of the Grizzlies and two such
and Larry Spahr are on the hos
pital list. And there's something else
the matter with the Denver aggrega-
ton. Three or four of the Grizzlies
are shy of courage and have a rae
ulty of quitting whenever the battle
wakes warm. This was demonstrated
two years ago, when the Sioux City
Indians invaded Denver and copped
the pennant by baSg1nS FOUR games
in a series of six. Unprecedented crit
les who saw these games declare that
the Grizzlies quit cold in that mem
orable series. The Bears lost the lead
ership when they drew shutout in
Joetown and now the Hollanders are
setting the pace. The Hendricks clan
must play three more in st. Joe and
finish their trip with four in Des
Moines.
Chicago, May 24.-Ty Cobb, the sus-
pended Detroit star, will be back in
the game by Saturday, according to
President Comiskey, of the Chicago
American club. who returned from the
special meeting of the American league
held at Philadelphia as a result of the
strike of Jennings players. Comiskey
also said that a new infield would be
ready to lineup against Detroit on Sat
urday.
Sioux City. May 24.-George Barrett,
the star pitcher for the Morningside
college, Sioux City baseball squad for
the past two years, has been signed by
the Sioux City Western league club.
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That's Enough.

Wichita Eagle: "Parson" Frantz
pitched the one game Topeka won
from Jack Hollands Drummers
Maybe the former star is going to
prove a real comeback after all,
though we predict he won't hit more
than 500 when the pitchers all get
acquainted with him.
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Indian Smith made a great slide at
third when he stretched his hit into
a triple. 1t was Ty Cobb's fall away
slide and worked to Professionalism
haitian Mercury.
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ST. Louis, May A.-St. Louis Won IN
a game featured by heavy hitting ano
ragged fielding.
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Sioux City, May 24.-George Barrett
the star pitcher for the Morningsid'
college, Sioux City baseball squad fol
the past two years, has been signed b!
the Sioux City Western league club.
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We shall have:

we shall have:
TT IL q dream Of folly" she protest.
ed "You would expend all this enOr
nous amount Of money II you. had 1t 10
promoting only q new reign Of terror"
by no means" be declared and
laughed. my 100000 men would
need but to show their teeth and u
would all be over. There need not BE- q
blow struck"
The voice Of Mrs. Rensselaer, broke
in upon them. peremptorily calling
upon Lillian for. some music.
Coming" replied Lillian. She turn
ed to Blagg Il must 60 In now" she
said to him. ''Your talk il perfectly
silly. but It Ia amusing. too. flnd II
quite-curi0us-and interesting"
She buried into the house. leaving
Blagg alone on the porch. As soon as
she had gone Blagg stepped down into
the grounds and disappeared Rollins
sat quite still and thought for a long.
long time.
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''But they will the minute It comes
to a vote" said Kelvin. Come up to
my rooms and let me show you dia-
gram, MIR. Rollins"
In his office Phillip displayed a Gu
rious sheet of cardboard almost as
large as the top Of his desk upon
which the name Of every senator and
every United States representative was
SET down. A few were marked In red
as men who were not for sale. but the
rest. the vast majority. were divided
into groups. one owned by Hopper
don. another by Raymer. another by
Valentine. ETC.. and the names were
In some places cross grouped showing
that certain OF the senators and GER
tain of the representatives served sew
eral nonconilicting interests. The dia,
gram told ut glance precisely how
every man would vote on this bill.
This thing il Incredible" declared
Rollins. "Such a state Of affairs can
not exist
such a state of affairs does exist"
asserted Kelvin. You may close your
eyes and touch a pencil point in sue
cession upon any half dozen names
there not ringed with red. Wire
those gentlemen and ask them to tell
you by tomorrow how they intend to
vote on this BILL
.'I'll do it, said Rollins.
By afternoon Rollins had answers
to all his wires. Four declared with
out reserve that they were for the
billion principle. Two answered eva
sively.
1T looks bad. but we mustn't allow
this state of AFFAIRS" protested Rol-
Inns. I'VE must use counter strategy
There Is only one that l know Of"
stated Kelvin quietly. Concessions.
II will resign from my management
before | make solitary concession
declared Rollins.
Would you pay 5000 for building
lot II you knew that you could imme-
diately sell it for S1O.OOO?" demanded
Kelvin.
Certainly" replied Rollins But
don't see where the illustration ap-
plies
I'm just this way" explained Kel-
VAu. Win CONCESSIONS guy ieR1SlA-
tors from enough of these men to Sc
cure legislative control and 20 after
! the balance. This gives your fat rate
pretty wide scope. Rollins. and 1t pro-
tects us until we can control our own
legislation. We have. Mr.. Breed and
myself. as you must have appreciated
by now. certain large ideas of reform.
There never was more just and
equitable contrivance than your fat
freight rate. but you can see at once
what powerful interests are arrayed
against 1t. We must conciliate those
interests in order to cripple them. We
win rent Hepperdon's and Raymer's
senators until we can buy them or
supplant them with some Of our own"
Rollins was silent for a long time.
1T is a very simple proposition. Rol.
lins." urged Breed. You are only
granting these concessions In order to
be able later on to refuse them"
Doing evil that good may come.
ehr' laughed Rollins a little uneasily.
Put 1t that way II you like" re-