Evening journal., 1914-01-21
SALISBURY AND kILLEN.


= LAitENCE c. KILLEN, one OF Wilmington's most
- popular newspaper men and Salisbury
with political aspirations, has demonstrated by lea,-
ins the wild wooy West hitting the baclk-trail
and returning to safe and congenal environment,
that ne is sensible young He rather would
be live newspaper in the East than a dead
Salisbury Federal ofHce-holder in the West We con-
gr~tuate him. heartily and sincerely remember
ing that discretion is the better part OF No
Of his and attachments should be expected to run
deliberately after music flowers and other symbols OF
mourning on an Indian, reservation when he may en-
Joy. life, health and happiness in the enete East
In the campaign Of 1912 Mr.. Kinen did earnest and
effective for Willard Salisbury At that time Mr..
saulsblry was not United States Senator. He mere
ly vas an untitled Democratic boss. Early in 1913, the
Democratic Legislature elected Mr.. Salisbury to the
Senate Those who had worked for bim and who had
been led to believe that he would stand close to
the Wilson administration that he could get anything
he wished in the way # patronage fayors, naturally
perIed up and began looking for rewards for effective
service loyalty performed. Mr. Killen was one Of
them He had right to be- He had done his work
and. according to the generay-accepted Democratic
lights he was entitled to his pay. Nor the
validity of his claim disputed by Senator Salisbury
II merely was question IT the reward that should be
given by him TO who lad served him loyalty.
After Senator Salisbury haG established himself in
Washington he began casting about for something
that It would him nothing to give to Mr. TNllen
He decided that job special agent for the In
terror Department, at a salary considerably below
$1,000 year. would be a suitable reward With a
great show Of magnanimty, he made the tender
Mr.. Kien who, weary Of the grind of newspaper
work eagerly accepted it,
Following that Mr. Killen quite naturally proceeded
TO seek information relative the duties of thu Office
which Senator Salisbury had obtained for him with
such show OF friendly interest He discovered that
he must travel from Indian reservation to Indian
reservation in the West and hunt for find an bring
to punishment those engaged I'm the Illicit sale of in
toxcatng liquors to Indians. In other words as re-
ward for all ne had done for Senator Salisbury, the
Senator had obtained FOR linn job detective with
an extra-hazardous field in which to operate
Mr. Kien. however. did not look at it in that light
al first He decided to accept the reward solcitous
and practical Wilmington friends gave him formal
farewell The parting gift took the form o. hand
some olt. aut mate pistol that world shoot eight
steel iackcted bullets in two and ono-half seconds.
Mr. Nllcn went West There he learned that it
was unusual thing for spccia agents such
he he killed by the men engaged in the Illicit
sale Gre-watcr TO the Indians. In when ne be-
came better acquainted friend tola him tiat two
special agents WHO had preceded him into the terri
tory which he had been etailcd TO investigate had been
hy The whskcy vendors their gunmen
That sinister Information was confirmed by further i'm
quiry.
Mr. Kilcn became thourh.fu He was not tired
OF life. He not prepared for DEATH TO die out
there SO fas from home aa. friends would be both
unpleasant and nconyenien Ho decided that if Sen
aor Salisbury had higher regard for the life Of a
political friend than to get him such Job that friend
should have setter sense than to keep II after he had
received IT, AS Mr. llillcn viewed the matter was a
job that should not have been gycn to him but to j.
Irving Handy. Richard Z. Keuney James II Hughes
james L. Wolcott, Jr~ soSta other enemy Of Sen
aor Salisbury. He decided to open the door OF op-
portunity to them and resigned forthwith Not long
aftorward he returned to the East and is once more
with us. So far be ascertancd he is not maxi
ing any further demand To- Salisbury patronage He
may fear that the next offerings would inspector Of
ubonic plague germs at the New York quarantnc
chief fumigator Of smallpox-infectod garments a.
the Delaware capes superintendent of lcper col
ony h the Philippines. In common With former state
Senator Thomas NJ. Monaghan, president OF the Della
ware Democratic Decnation Club he knows there is
nothing Senator salisbury will not do for faithful
friend Now that Mr.. Ilillen is back home among
friends who seek to conserve his happiness perhaps
the only thing that worries him is what to do with
the big revolver which presented to him lust
prior to his departure for the West 1t constitutes a
painful remiader Of what he junior Senator did Tor
him.