The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-07
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| II you and | hadn't fought shoulder To
shoulder for Years and years. Id 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 a Whit OF
1t. And when the public gets its 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 cant
even defend that bill of yours. And
this is no time to put over such 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 IL for
us all"
y said ! could put it through, And
| ecnld--when we started But Stand
ish wasn't fighting 1t then. This isn't
the Bill versus the People. It's Mat
Stardish 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
ever met-the sort that have been
found out and the sort that haven't.
II We can damage Standish in the eyes
of the people-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 Neligan. 81 told you all that. Van
Dyke"
"Detectivesr" snorted the lawyer.
What good is that? Your detectives
will charge you seven dollars a day
and expenses-mostly expenses-for
giving you 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. II ever he's broken
q law--and most men have"
"Oh. not SO many" gently contra
dicted Blake. Two iails would be
plenty large to hold all the folks who
have broken any law And the two
iails could be built real easy--just by
running a high wall around the equa-
tor. But you're right In one thing,
Van Dyke. Well never get Standish
in the way these boys have been go
ing about It, So, it's lucky / happened
to put man OF my own on the job"
YES, While I've been lying down.
As you call it,"
Il didn't say you had been"
NO. But you thought it. Just be-
cause | 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"
ooh. yes. PUT a man Of my own
on to Standish's record. told him
not to bother about anything that had
happened during the last three or four
years. Your men would be busy on
that; and there'd be nothing to find.
anyhow | set my man to scratching
up ancient history. | 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 maddenins slowness for match
Well, drawled Blake, hes found
it."