The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-26

renee for vacation"
MAX q note Of II. Farmer caught q
big catfish-70 pounds--at Elliok's ford
Thursday. Dig UP a squib about that!
Harlan lazily wrote out the copy: II
was the old high school habit to help
Wiley get out the News personals. Also
to jibe the editor about his paper
Worst country sheet in Iowa. Wiley
worse and worsei"
II know, But still able to squawk
occasionally" Wiley was distributing
type as Jim Minis was fishing. He
kicked the job press half an hour, and
then did the printers work under the
impression that he was getting both
tasks farther advanced somehow or
other. Still able to make Old Thad
cuss. Even II his Retail Merchants a
ISOLATION Is doing its best to had Off
all my advertising. Thad can round up
the county to put through his Sin creek
steal, but still the News can call at
tention to It,"
my argument before the board"
That was YOU, son! But as TO the
creek diversion. every n Of those poor
devils In h pocket will be drowned
out"
'They haven't a sign Of title. And
every property owner on the north side
will benefit" ~
Sure" !. 7 # hI
You're hurting your political
chances, Wiley"
II know. But I can't help that The
under dog gets me-, Harlan. / been
one, myself. I have to fight for 'em!
Mine own people! / can't stop to con-
slider whose land Is benefited, or who
has the title at law. I'm only think
Ing Of those people who fought floods
n droughts and stumps to make
themselves their little corn patches and
keep their children alive on them
down there. The News" his hand
patted the splintered old type case
fondly-"its Away fought that way,
It's W right--it's always
wrong. Ask any OF the law abiding.
respectable people In town and they'll
tell you So"
or your primary campaign, you're MAX
Ing enemies of your home people. And
1 want o to succeed, Wiley. In spite
OF Hall being a friend of fathers
and everything. I hate greed and OPP
preston as badly as you do. Only"
That's it-only! It's hard to go
against ones class. isn't 1t? Hate OPP
preston, hate wrong-only except ones
ones class. ones tradition.
Why, right here between You and me,
boy--in our little tprosy village, is the
problem which confronts the ma
ton! We give to Tanner, to the prop
erty owners-our sort-the privilege of
exploiting others who can't help them
selves. And a hoary tradition of the
courts exists to defend tho privilege.
m c~ourtS"-he checked himself, but
hotly-"Harlan, come on Owe to Earl
VILE to dlpner with US Sunday night
and meet this Mcbride, the chap who's
organizing the soft coal miners. He's
q new article in this county-and he's,
behind me in this fight against Hall.
l want you to meet him"
Mcbride, the man who defied the
supreme court last Wear and went to
Yes. I'm glad he did. He made a
lot OF people stop and think-and that's
what we're after"
The judges son smiled t%olerantly. 1
AN right, ia like to see him. I'm
curious. But his friendship won't help
you, Wiley"
Wiley smiled in turn. But thus It
came about that Harlan and Arne
Vance came over to the 75-cent table
i'hote dinner at the Hotel Metropole
70 meet Mike Mcbride. The dining
room OF the Hotel Metropole, all ex-
sesstvely new and EarIvIllian, with q
wall OF stiff necked steeple-
:hasers. gorgeous dogs in four colors
10 an - ~ AAAlA NA01Oo a LLOIOT II
sar, the cloud Of dust and the ladies'
1eils forming a diaphanous perspective |
n ] v more colors, which, with the
Hunt club dogs and the riders coats,
the picture OF General Parsons
Lbove the Parsons house mantel over In
Rome, seem old and faded. You would
at once that Ii belonged in
! town which had an i~nterurban, and
n Elks' club. and pressed it's trousers,
long with other acocky modernity. Buy
Arne Vance nor Wiley 7. Cur
let on to being impressed, for they
lad dined In O. number Of the beplast-
red and multi-colored cafes of am
western cities, And Harlan, on
ifs first visit to the Metropole, looked
bout with a smile and then at Nc
Bride as he stirred his demi-tasse-even
he girl walters said demi-tasse-now in
EarlyilIe. 4 .&E ... Il
This is a live wire town." Mcbride
saying, land when 1t gets through
aging out parks and boosting factor
es it's going to- go after you fellows
yer in Rome who've run the county
o long" He was a short thick red
man to whom one would rather
freak d~isagreeable Jews oVer the tele-
hone. His fingers were hard and
tubby, and he dug sugar out of the
owl and dumped 1t into his demi-
asse without so much as a glance at
he dogs done IN four colors. He went
local affairs like a man who could
more significant facts In a
week than all the best people OF the |
could discover In q lifetime. |
That county ring has run things ever
ince the war. and long as the tax
ate wasn't too high h business people
lidn't growl. and Tanner fixed every |
TO suit himself-and hogged all
no county work. He's a good man.
his Tanner-I like his method-he. gets
Kings. But we ought to get him. A
i've grand jury would smoke him out in
10 time. And q district attorney who'd
brow the gait. The one you got Is a.
4
at agree" murmured wiley-he felt
amtable after his 75-cent occasion,
With dogs in four colors, to be the
New blood Is needed. But
here's some good men on our side
he creek. also" a 4
skunk" queried Mcbride.
''Sinsinawa." .aI
Call 1t Skunk. Then wen get down
brass lacks. ! always wanted to-
ak with some Of you fellows from
he county seat. State labor Is right
the governor in this progressive
light. That's the reaso I'm down
I'm here until this district is
organized by the Delroy crowd. The
governor wants Fairchild's seat In the
and he wants Jim Halls scalp
n congress, because he thinks Hall will
get the old crowds support for It III
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