The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-13

ga THIRD PARTY MIGHT IMAGINE THAT
YOU ARE TRYING TO BRIDE ME-"
minute Lets go back to the begin
ming and start over again. I said that
Gordon is going to be the next gov
ernor."
81 know you did, and I said he
wouldn't be, not if we can help it.,
said the railway magnate, with equal
determination.
'NThe methods you will take to de-
feat him will insure his election, Nc
Vickar. You fellows are mighty slow
to learn your lesson You don't know
anything but bribery. The times have
changed, and you have not changed
with them. say Gordon will be the
next governor"
Again there was a strained silence.
It was the vice president who broke
it.
eff we had, the safest kind of ma
jortty in the legislature we couldn't
be sure of accomplishing anything
with Gordon in the governors Office
he asserted. ''You don't need to be
told that
"Oh, 1 don't know" was the calm
retoinder. Gordon is an honest man
and a fair man If you could go to
him with clean hands, but you could
uOC 20 MIC ECkdE LOU 1S LOU
badly out of practice
you are not putting it quite fairly,
senator. We are too badly whipped
to take any chances
81 know. That is what you always
say, and you have said it so much,
you and your fellow railroad man
ayers, that you have lost the straight
forward combination. You don't know
how to make a clean fight, and it's
your own fault"
Once more the man with the square
| jaw took time to consider.
YOU'RE sparring with me, Blount,''
he said finally. tfYou are talking to
me as you might talk to a committee
OF the Good Government league. Let's
get together. You control the political
situa tfon, and we recognize that fact
Meet me halfway and tell me what
you want
'I want a square deal all around,
Hard wick; that's all. And you've got
| to make a clean fight this time If you
| want me with you. A new day has
dawned In American politics. and
my kind recognize it, and you and
your kind don't seem to recognize it.
| That is the difference between US. In
the present case it comes down to
this: You are going to fight for rail-
road majority in the legislature, and
you want Reynolds for the head of
| the ticket because you know that you
can depend upon his veto if you don't
get your majority. You are not going to
get Reynolds or the majority either
without the help of the party organ
1zatton.''
I'VE can put it simpler than that"
said the railroad man. 1--WE get moth
ing without your help as~the head OF
the party organization. That is why I
asked you here to dinner with me to-
night"
81 have been wondering for the last
half hour if you really believe that
you need me, McVickar. When gave
you fair warning two years ago you
| wouldn't take 1t, and we did you up.
Are you sure you are ready now to
boiler enough?''
Once again the vice president re-
| fused to be hurried into making an
admission. When he spoke it was as
the fighting corporation commander.
'SThere is = limit to all things, sena-
tor, and you are pushing pretty
well up to 1t. 1 suppose you can swing
the legislature, and you can have it
and be hanged! Wen have our gov
eTnor and our attorney general
''You are betting on that. are your
smiled the man in the opposite chair.
''Is that your declaration Of WARP
Go be Continuadl