The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-09-13

s.,,ders. and the long mustache,
looming like a Georgian's at the cor
of his mouth, was as white as
q. hair, save at the spot where his
L.sr had tinged it yellow.
There was not a politician of either
.rty between Dunleith and Cairo
- was not proud to bend over the
q. tsllow's chair, take his thin hand
"a saw: Hello, Colonel. what's new
. ,olitics " The colonel had an il
..riable reply: I'm out OF politics,
"a don't know anything. What do
am bear?" Sometimes, If the passing
.olitician happened to be Of the old
s.y the colonel would take him by
=. arm and they would saunter away
- the bar. If the politician came from
.oshern Illinois, the co.onel would
,ould take rye; if from southern IL
Enois the colonel would take bour-
I'm. such was his idea of etiquette.
Though never would he take a drink
hefore breakfast, for drink before
breakfast, he told Carroll, was
bach log in the fire that would burn
de livelong day.
Carroll was the staff of the colonels
aid age. The two would sit by the
hour while the old man talked OF the
Nineteenth Illinois cavalry, oil Lin
eolu and Dougias, oil David Davis and
.<siiah Hsines, of state and national
fSonventions, in the days when he had
nane and unmade congressman, gov
srpors and senators, ruling his party
In the state, Carroll shrewdly Thought,
With a discipline as rigid as that with
which he had welded the Nineteenth
Illinois into a fgnting regiment.
To those who knew the veterans
a,story, ms love Tor the boy was
toucnlng. The story is too long 10
tail now, but It's essential n.otli hust
always be the ingi atituue Oh 81 War
ran. The coioneI mad picked Warren
No In the OLD Fifteenth district, sent
kim TO congress, and finally maze a
United States senator OF him. War
rem, aeveIoplng quickly as Loliticion
had turned al Mound, defeated the col
oneI ior rejection as chairman Oh the
state executive committee, posi-
tion he had held tor sixteen years
had frozen him out OF the Arizona
deal, and somehow caused the COO
pel's only son to go wrong out there
n Tucson. The boys mother hat
died: OF a broken heart, they said
Since then a decade had passed,
decade which the colonel had spent il
the grim lonesomeness OF a clowoe'
hotel. He never mentioned warren
Z name. II he heard 1t, he cienched hi
bony fists so tightly that the kauckle
showed white. Once year, perhaps
In the springtime, when the stat
central committee met, he got out nj
white waistcoat and was invited up t
the ordinary to make a speech on tn
state OF the party, and once year, /
the summertime, he attended a n
union of his regiment, now decimate
10 a squadron OF tottering old mel
whom the colonel called boys"
Spring came, rolling up from tn
muddy Ohio, showering its apple bio
SONS in the orchards OF Egyp
sprinkling with purple flowers tn
prai-ies OF central Illinois, and firall
flooding with tardy sunshine the col
waters of Lake Michigan. 1t was th
year the legislature that chose Wa
rens successor in the senate was
be elected, and when the senate
came home from Washington he toun
his fences in sad repair. The Silf
Warren of the parlor suite in LaE
Front hotel was not the 81 Ware
whom Colonel Talbot had rescue
from the dusty little law Office dow
In Shelbyville fifteen yeas before. TT
clothes of that time were faded by II
sun in which he loafed all day on II
post Office corner, whereas the cloth'
Of this spring morning bespoke Ne
York tailor and valet.
The senator was not in a pleasal
mood. There was opposition to his r
election. and while his machine
nored 1t. and while George r. Baldwi
the lawyer who watched the interes
OF certain big corporations during Il
sessions of the legislature. said it W;
but a sporadic demonstration of sor
heads, back numbers and labor skate
IT was spreading, as the picturesql
politicians from the corn lands
s central Illinois would say, like
prairie fire. Jacksonville. where Il
( standard of revolt had first be-
raised. was in Morgan, the colone
home county. and so 1t came to pa
that the detection was laid to Il
Vaccinations of the colonel himse
And yet. as the politicians who We
always dropping into Chicago to CT
rect their reckonings, paused an
slant by the leather chair. the @
white head would slowly sway fro
side to side, and the old man Won
say:
NO, I'm out of politics"
II Carroll had not conceived t
Idea OF running for Office, perhaps t
colonel would have remained out
politics, but the boy, after a week
dreaming, dramatized himself as ms
ing speech in the state senate cha
Der at Springfield The colonel, as
mans duty is, advised him to Ike
out OF politics, and yet within an he
after Carroll shyly confessed his a
oitlon, the fever awoke in the old (
lows bones, his eyes famed with I
OLD nre, and he admitted that the
perience might help a boy who "
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