Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-07-25


mas?" He appealed to Harlan inge-
nuously.
June for me. I'll run down to Wash
ington for Christmas at the sena-
tors"
Wiley slowly considered. Senator
Fairchild, cousin Of Mrs. Van Hart,
one time cabinet officer, intimate OF
the president, most powerful figure
from the west at Washington. Surely,
for a country judges son, the mere
relating of dinner at Fairchild's be-
spoke a fiattering future. Harlan was
indeed, the son Of fortune.
But again Arne growled. Fairchild
was the red rag in the faces Of the
states political rebels; he was one
with the gigantic financial interests
that dominated his party. Already his
reelection was bitterly opposed.
Eat that dinner, son." roared the
farmer student. It'll be the last one
for that old cuss as a senator! The
governors crowdTl get him! I tell you
you fellows ought to get an ear to the
ground. Here Wiley sits in his old
shop kicking off a four-dollar job for
the Gem Restaurant when he ought to
be out among the people. Here's Har-
Ian getting through law and then
hanging out for some picayune case
old Thad Tanner throws him to keep
III. ,,,if fhn al
a few years he'll be fat and married,
driving a car around town, never a
hair sweated and-respectable! oh,
lord!"-Arne smote his hard fists to-
gether-"never a rough and tumble
fight in your life, was there, Harlan? p
Harlan smiled. That sort Of thing
was not for the Van Harts.
"You ought to come up to Wiscon-
sin instead Of going east. That Harv-
ard graft is all right for law, but you
want to catch the new spirit Of the
new times. Sometime up there in the
north, I'd like you to climb the hill
with me and see the fellows from the
cow college fight to get into Carmack's
lectures on political science. say,
fight to get in! Carmack's the faculty
chap the regents would fire II they
dared. But tell you every man who
comes out Of the class room Is a po-
litical missionary against the old or
der. You ought to hear those young
professors talk-that's the stuff for
the west"
Wiley's eyes were on the two. Both
native sons of the Midlands, one bronz-
ed with the soil, lean with his ardors;
the other healthy pink, the beauty Of
Galahad, the pure nurture Of his
fathers Victorian standards-of the
two he loved Harlan better. There
was about him a completion, he was a
product Of an American era done; the
other was in the travail of the max
ing. But he could visualize all Of
Arne's outcry. He himself, in the
wandering years, had seen the epic Of
the old west close; he had mingled the
wine of his life with 1t. But now the
new land was here, the stately cities
rising, the ordered nobleness Of form.
That was the meaning of the cry and
tumult, the fuller democracy; the west
had seen and caught the vision; and
Curran, the Celtic romanticist, could
feel the splendor.
You sl.all seek the truth, and the
truth shall make you free;' that Is
what they tell us up there" went on
Arne. i've lain in bed after bucking
all night on soil-tests and economic
history, and listened to the young men
going up the hill to Carmack's lectures
the young men up the hill in the
snow at seven o'clock! And when he
declared that the spirit Of socialism
was the spirit Of every good thing the
world was fighting for; when he told
them t. 20 out and preach the recall,
and the state control Of wealth-Pve
heard them shout, and others going up
the hill took up the shout. That's what
we're getting, along with soil culture
and forest preservation and law and
engineering-I tell you it sounds like
the march of a new civilization-the
tramp of the young men going up the
hill"
Harlan listened with his detached
and friendly smile. He remembered
last week stopping Arne in the post
office with a forecast of the Yale
Harvard football season. but the west
ern student had not seemed to hear
perhaps he was filled with his vision
Of the young men going up the hill
seeking the vision of the New Ameri-
ca, the truth that should make men
free.
"All those young fellows going back
to their states jump into politics"
went on Arne. $50 am I, Harlan.
We're going to stump this county
talking pigs and politics, and we'll
ditch Jim Hall for congress and Fair
child later And where will you be
you, 1 sayi"
"Arne," drawled Harlan with aggra-
waiting calm, II shall probably be ar
guing a line-fence case in the justice
court"
Arne snorted. wiley, here. Is 60
ing to get in the primaries against
Jim Hail."
Wiley" put in Janet slowly, last
week the governor was asking about
Curran of the News"
(To be Continued.)
FOR THE COMMON GOOD
Purpose of the Statewide Conference
fo he AeId in Columbia