The Mena weekly star., 1913-09-11

A ' them, from the bar What brings you to Washington? Whats up?"
 That's what I'm trying to find out" answered Van Dyke, shaking hands With Blake and instinctively leading the way to the adjacent amen corner. What is up? You're supposed to be managing this fight, Jim. And here we find ourselves in the very worst hole we've been in since ninety-seven. If you and hadn't fought shoulder to shoulder for years and years, I'd be tempted to say you were lying down."
 The crowd down on Broadway." answered Blake, have handed us a raw proposition in this Mullins bill. The bill smells so rank that even the dear, dear public have got whiff of 1t. And when the public gets it's sense of smell into good working order-Oh. what's the use, Van Dyke? You can see what we're up against. You know the temper of the country. We can't even defend that bill of yours. And this is no time to put over such a raw one. It's like"
 Still" argued Van Dyke. "you said you'd be able to put the deal through. And there's surely enough in it for us all."
 q said I could put it through. And l could-when we started. But Stand ish wasn't fighting it then. This isn't the Bill versus the People. It's Mat Standish versus the Organization. And Standish has the people-the waked-up people-behind him. He's their idol He's the parsons pet. They look on him as the Worthy Young Man who couldn't do wrong if he tried and who isn't wicked enough to try. In other words, he's never been found out There's only two classes of men that I ever met-the sort that have been found out and the sort that haven't. If we can damage Standish in the eyes of the peopl6-if We can make the clergy repudiate him"
 That's just the point cried Van Dyke. "Why haven't you been able to do that, instead of sitting peacefully to one side and waiting for him to wreck himself?"
 "We've had detectives on him" put in Nelgan. q told you all that, Van | Dyke"
 ''Detectives?" snorted the lawyer. | What good is that? Your detectives will charge you seven dollars a day and expenses-mostly eXpenses-for | giving you a full report of the way | Standish spends the day and what he has to eat and the number of cigars he smokes and the addresses of some of the letters he writes You'll never get Standish that way. If ever he's broken a law-and most men have"
 "Oh, not so many" gently contra dicted Blake. Two jails would be plenty large to hold all the folks who have broken any law. And the two | jails could be built real easy-just by running a high wall around the equa- tor. But you're right in one thing, Van Dyke. We'll never get Standish In the way these boys have been go | ing about it. So, it's lucky happened to put a man of my own on the job
 "Yes. While I've been lying down, as you call it.
 'I didn't say you had been"
 No. But you thought it. Just be cause I don't run around in circles, barking. and now and then biting a piece out of the ceiling, you folks think I'm doing nothing. And I'll never teach you any better"
 But"
 "Oh, yes put a man of Hg swn m to Sla" '.:H'- gcscrl told him not jo Lotl -t about anything q at had | happened 5.V.as tle last three or four years. Iom men would be busy on that; and tA5re'd be nothing to find, l anyhow l act my man to scratching up ancient history. I told him to go back and back and back, in Standishs record; and to keep on going back till he found something"
 | "Well?" chorused the others as Blake paused and searched his clothes with maddening slowness for match
 Well" drawled Blake, he's found 1t"
 "No?" chuckled Neligan, wildly elated.
 "The story is long" said Blake; but l can shorten it up considerably for you, Along about five years ago friend Standish fell in love with girl Right sort of a girl you know. Good family. Father rich and all that. Standish wasn't very well Off-he was always