The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-08-29

Cop5righ, by A. C. acClurx q Co, 19ra

! cut giving property owners or the city
adequate compensation for running or
conflscatiug their property. I call that
| pretty raw"
Well it's our best and certainly
our cheapest way il Kerr will put
through a franchise for U.S." Kendall
maintained stubbornly. 'I'll come back
next week and take the matter up
| again. In the meantime you can talk
II over thoroughly with Kerr. He may
have something to say by that time"
1T hardly seems likely. He seldom
/ changes his mind
He may this time. I've got to get
away now and go By the hotel before
I go to the train. Let's go back TO
the drawing room, where / can have
a few more words with Wright. We
mag be able to win him over
That's what I'm. going to try to
do" replied Judge Gilbert. as they
rose to rejoin Mrs. Gilbert and her
guests.
The attorneys entered the drawing
room to find q discussion regarding
newspapers just drawing to a close
with victory still uncertain on which
standard to perch.
| You just missed hearing DR.. Hayes
| pay his respects to newspapers, Judge
| Gilbert" said Joe Wright with smile
| The laymans opinions always inter
est and usually amuse journalist.
| What's the matter? Have you told
him you won't publish the box scores
OF the ball games this year,"
I'll do that for him, and gladly"
Then there's no occasion to kick.
That's the only thing that can trouble
a fat man
This time was speaking general
| ly," explained Hayes. Il don't like
some of the ways reporters have"
That's only small part of the
business" laughed Wright. III you
complain only about that I shall have
you for a staunch adherent."
Mrs Hayes saw that Kendall was
at loss to understand the drift of
the conversation, and accordingly
said, CDR. Hayes is coroner. Mr.. Ken
dali, and the Banner man calls us up
/ at most unearLnly nCurS.
The Belmont Banner was the morn
ing paper, and It's editor, Deacon
Jerry Withrow, was always at the
beck and call OF the boss. Kerr let
him think that he had something to
| do with directing the affairs Of the
city. This was harmless deIusion,
since it's plant attitude always made
him consider suggestion let fall by
the boss as a scheme which ne him
| self had Matched.
81 think it is dreadful for nice men
| to be mixed up in politics." said Mrs.
| Gilbert
| Perhaps Ii was no more dreadful
than was the lack OF knowledge Of
politics displayed by the nice women
OF Belmont This would have been
difficult TO impress upon Mrs. Gilber.
She knew well enough that her hus-
band was consulted by that odious
| David Kerr. but that was in a legal
way and Kerr paid Well for the ad-
vice he received. Even the tone in
which she spoke showed how thank
| full she was her husband was not in
| politics. Mrs. Hayes was quick to say
what she thought along the same line
| by adding:
And DR. Hayes doesn't have to at
ALL you know. He says he does it For
the good Of the party"
This would have been all very in
teresting to Kendall If he had had the
entire evening to spend in such pleas
ant company. Time was pressing,
however. and in the few minutes still
at his disposal he wished to sound
Wright at greater length about the
Belmont News.
| Kendall looked closely at the young
man whom he had already set down
as an opponent. Physically Wright
| seemed no shirker of a combat. 6is
| shoulders were broad and his body
| well developed Led to believe from
| his knowledge OF the reformer type
| that he would find Joe Wright long
haired theorist and Utopian dreamer,
the lawyer found instead self-pos-
sessed, well-balanced young man. The
newspaper owners manner, even In
repose, was judicial To Kendalls
| thinking he had the air Of man who
would not be swayed by prejudice or
| liking It was his part, however, as