Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-19

ones privilege, ones class, ones trndi-
tion. Why right here between you and
me, hoy-in our little prosy village, IL
the whole problem which confronts the
| nation! We give to Tanner, to the
property owners-our sort-the privil-
ege of exploiting others who can't help
| themselves. And hoary tradition oi
| the courts exists to defend the privfl-
| eye. The courts''-he checked himself
but hotly-"Harlan, come on over 10
| Earlville to dinner with us Sunday
night and meet this Mcbride, the chap
who's organizing the soft coal miners
| He's a new article in this county-and
a, he's behind me in this fight against
Hall. I want you to meet him."
Mcbride, the man who defied the
supreme court last year and went to
jail for it?"
"Yes. I'm glad he did,. He made a
lot of people stop and think-and
that's what we're after t
The judges son smiled tolerantly.
"All right. I'd like to see him. I'm Gu
rious. But his friendship won't help
you. Wiley"
Wiley smiled in turn. But thus 1t
came about that Harlan and Arne
Vance came over to the seventy five
cent table d'hote dinner at the Hotel
Metropole to meet Mike Mcbride. The
dining-room of the Hotel Metropole,
all excessively new and Earlvillian,
with a tapestried wall Of stiff-necked
steeplechasers, gorgeous dogs In four
colors climbing a fence; while over
bulging and lavender hill dashed
motor car, the cloud Of dust and the
ladies' wells forming diaphanous per-
spective in five more colors, which with
the Hunt Club dogs and the riders
coats, made the picture Of General
Parsons above the Parsons House
mantel over in Rome, seem old and
faded. You would understand at once
that It belonged in a town which had
an interurban, and an Elks' club, and
pressed it's trousers, along with other
cocky modernity. But neither Arne
Vance nor Wiley T. Curran let on to
being impressed, for they had dined In
a number of the beplastered and multi
colored cafes Of ambitious western
cities. And Harlan, on his first visit
to the Metropole, looked about with a
81 ho r.
red his demi- -tasse-even the girl wait
ers said demi-tasse- in Earlville.
"This is a live-wire town." Mcbride
was saying, "and when it gets through
laying out parks and boosting factories
it's going to go after you fellows over
j- Rome who've run the country 80
H. :" He was a short, thick, red
browed man to whom one would rather
break disagreeable news over the tele-
phone. His fingers were hard and stub
by, and he dug sugar out Of the bowl
and dumped II into his demi-tasse
without so much as a glance at the
dogs done in four colors. He went af-
ter local affairs like man who could
assimilate more significant facts in "a
week than all the best people of the
county could discover in lifetime.
THAT county ring has run things ever
since the war, and long as the tax rate
wasn't too high the business people
didn't growl, and Tanner fixed every
board to suit himself-and hogged all
the county work He's a good man, this
Tanner like his method-he gets
things. But we ought to get him. "A
live grand jury would smoke him out
in no time. And a district attorney
who'd throw the gaff. The one you got
| Is a crook"
81 agree" murmured Wiley-he felt
too amiable after his seventy-flve cent
occasion, with dogs in four colors, to
be the Zealot. New blood Is needed.
But there's some good men on our side
| the creek, Also"
skunk" queried Mcbride. .s s
| "Sinsinawa."
| Call 1t Skunk. Then We'll get down
to brass tacks. l always wanted to talk
with some of you fellows from the
county seat State labor is right with
the governor in this progressive fight
That's the reason I'm down here. I'm
here until this district is organized by
the Delroy crowd. The governor wants
Fairchild's seat in the senate, and he
| wants Jim Halls scalp in congress, be-
cause he thinks Hall will get the old
| crowds support for it If Fairchild
can't win out. So he and his people
are going to put Curran over and I'm
with 'em. 1 amt no reformer, but Ia
bor is going with 'em. But first we
ought to clean up this county,
Wiley unused. Arne, his black eyes
swapping, listened as If fresh breath
had come somewhere out Of fighting
world. Harlan wondered rather satir-
ically why an outsider should come
down here and talk like man Of au-
thority.
| "The Catholic vote in them new
mines where the Poles and dagos have
come in, it'll be for Curran," went or
Mcbride. Father Doyle gives it to me
straight. All that's good. And this
new Earlville contracting company
which Is sore over Tanner gobbling al
the work, is going to unload on the ole
ring. Amt any reform going to gel
| far unless some one expects to clear
up something. Take 1t from me
We're going to elect Curran."
| (To be Continued).
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