Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-12-26
.ay long Colonel Tai

cane, smoking his cigar,
and talking politics. I'm.
der the broad brim of
SLOUGH hat his hair
sr wisps almost to his
i'd the long muBtache,
Nike a Georgian's at the cor
mouth, was as white as
i've at the spot where his
"a tinged it yellow.
eWas not a politician of either
tween Dunleith and Cairo
not proud to bend over the
yts chair, take his thin hand
"Hello, Colonel, what's new
ca The colonel had an in
NfDply. "I'm out of politics,
Now anything. What do
n, Sometimes, If the passing
"a happened to be Of the old
Colonel would take him by
and they would saunter away
par If the politician came from
u Illinois, the colonel would
take ryeS If. from southern Il
va the colonel would take bour-
such was his idea of etiquette.
lever would he take a drink
breakfast, for a drink before
Ast, he told Carroll, was a
log in the fire that would. burn
~elong day,
was the staff Of the colonel's
f8e. The two would sit by the
while the old man talked of the
.entR Illinois cavalry, of Lin
a. 0uElas, Of David Davis and
hines, of state and national
ms, in the days when he had
Id unmade congressman, gov
= hd senators, ruling his party
Ute, Carroll shrewdly thought,
discipline as rigid az that with
h, had welded the Nineteenth
q4is into fighting regiment.
hose who knew the veterans
Dry, his love for the boy was
1.Ehing. The story is too long to
! low. but its essential motif must
ftys be the ingratitude Of 81 War
The colonel had picked Warren
.n the old Fifteenth district, sent
81 to congress, and finally made a
|''1d States senator Of him. War
- developing quickly as a politician,
si turneh around, defeated the col
pei for reelection as chairman of the
ate executive committee, a posi-
On he had held for sixteen years,
"a frozen him out of the Arizona
cal, and somehow caused the colo
el's only son to go wrong out there
! Tucson. The boys mother had
led; OF a broken heart, they said.
ince then a decade had passed. a
ecade which the colonel had spent in
be grim lonesomeness Of q crowded
otel. He never mentioned Warren's
anne. II he heard 1t, he clenched his
ony fists so tightly that the ,l1nuckles
bowed white. Once year, perhaps,
a the springtime, when the state
entral committee met, he got out his
'hite waistcoat and was invited up to
be ordinary to make speech on the
tate of the party, and once a year, in
be summertime, he attended a re-
MON OF his regiment, now declmated
D a squadron of lettering old men,
Ihom the colonel called boys"
Spring came, rolling up from the
muddy Ohio, showering It's apple bios
oms In the orchards Of Egypt,
prinkling with purple flowers the
rairies of central Illinois, and finally
ooding with tardy sunshine the cold
Eaters OF Lake Michigan. 1t was the
ear the legislature that chose War
ems successor in the senate was to
70 elected, and when the senator
anne home from Washington he found
" fences In sad repair.
The senator was not in a pleasant
aood. There was opposition to his re-
|ction, and while his machine Is.
n It, and while George r. Baldwin,
'awyer who watched the interests
|ftain big corporations during the
Ions of the legislature, said II was
|1t q sporadic demonstration of sore.
leads, back numbers and labor skates,
/ was spreading, as the picturesque
politicians from the corn lands OF
entral Illinois would say, like a
'rairie fire. Jacksonville, where the
tandard Of revolt had first been
aised, was in Morgan, the coloners
Iome county. and so II came TO pass
hat the detection was laid to the
of the colonel himself.
Ind yet. as the politicians who were
.lways dropping into Chicago to cor
ect their reckonings, paused an In
tant by the leather chair, the old
White head would slowly sway from
ide to side, and the old man would
ay:
mo, I'm out of politics"
II Carroll had not conceived the
dea OF running for Office, perhaps the
colonel would have remained out OF
,olitics. but the boy, after a week Of
dramatlzed himself as max
ng a speech in the state senate cham
,er at Springfield. The colonel, as q
mans duty is, advised him to keer
nut OF politics, and yet within an hour
Ifter Carroll shyly confessed his am
,ition, the fever awoke in the old fell
owls bones, his eyes famed with the
I'D FIRE, and he admitted that the ex
,erience might help boy who was
In a pitlless city for a law
practice.
when Warren learned of the colo
iel's new interest in the campaign, he
decided to utilize II by
hrowing his strength to Carroll in
he First, provided the colonel would
withdraw his opposition. He prided
himself on being a man who harbored
10 resentments. So he sent Dar
lord, MS private secretary, to open
Negotiations for peace.
The colonel had recognized the
coming of the heat by donning his
iuit Of linen. with a red tie at his