Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-09

mercilessness or youth, "you were stealing the franchise, weren't you, dad?"
 Yes" asserted Blake with de lightful absence of all false modesty, T sure was. And I was doing 1t neat ly. too. Not a ripple, not kick, till Standish butted in with his measly reformers and queered the whole job and cost us a half million dollars Son. every time I think of that, want to chase some one with an ax. don't lie awake nights thinking how cun- ming our friend standish would look with seaweed in his hair and sand un, der his nails. But I keep that fran chise memory and a few others fresh on the fee. And it sure doesn't break my heart to have a chance now of getting back at him"
 But" persisted Tom, "that was a public matter. It doesn't justify you in dragging his private life into the | lime-light"
 The deuce 1t doesn't? Who told you that?T
 My self-respect" ... "Oh! l thought maybe you might have got the tip from some reliable source. Co ahead, son. Doesn't iusti- fy me, hey?"
 No. dad, if you want truth, it doesn't It isn't-cleani" Clean? Say, son, this is politics Not a prsyer-meeting. You've got in the wrong pew"
 If the right pew justlfies dirty work like that" flashed the boy, I'm glad have. And want to stay there This business of making political cap itaI of a mans dead-and-buried sins ;R enough to turn the stomach of camel. A thousand times more so when one considers the Woman"
 We'll" queried Blake, in high good humor, as he always was when he could stir up a quarrel between his adored only son and himself What about herr"
 Everything. She made a fool of herself. Presumably when she was young. She has probably repented 1t bitterly. ten thousand times. She may have atoned for what she did. She may even be a wife and mother, now. Respected. loved All the world and Heaven, besides, to her husband and children. And, just to pass a rot ten railroad bill. you are going to drag her out into the glare of the newspa- per world and cruelty her! You are going to strip from her her husbands love; you are going to make her friends shun her as an outcast; you're throwing black shame on her innocent children's name. You are"
 Excuse me, son, interrupted Blake. But I'm not doing a single one of those terribly dramatic things Standish is dolug it-or, rather. he has done it. Not l. Catch the idea? If Standish committed a murder and I found the body, would you call me q murderer? Hey? We'll, that's what has happened this time. When Stand ish took the lady on that little left handed wedding trip. five years ago in March, ts rendered her liable to all that and worse. A man doesn't think of such things at the time. Neither does woman, I guess. This one sure didn't. or shed never have thrown over her one hope of safety by jilting him"
 Listen, dad" returned Tom, chok- ing back a hot answer Ever since you brought me here into the thick of the fight. you and l haven't agreed about politics But I've stood with you, through and through. I've work ed hard for the party, because I felt was working for you. But-well- this time I'd rather be working for the other side. Because I believe they're right and we are wrong"
 Well. then" blazed his father, in a dry gust of unwonted wrath, why don't you work for the other side? Go ahead! It's no great loss to us"
 You know perfectly well why don't It's because you are on this side--the wrong side just now"
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