The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-19
Jim Ireadway's Price


see if I could dig up anything of his past, or
find any other possible way of getting him. He
owns a nice farm and is a lawyer Of exceptional
ability, as you all know. He was man of ex
ceptonal honesty, we'll fitted to take high place
at the bar, but he has devoted his talents toward,
aiding his friends and neighbors and consequently
has not gotten very rich at it. He IS married and
has two children, a girl and boy. The boys
education was finished at an agricultural col
lege, with the idea Of putting him in charge of the
farm. Treadway's idea, however, was to give him
would be fairly well equipped business man
when he went the farm, and could apply bust
ness methods to farm life. Before Treadway's
nomination to the Legislature the boy secured
position at station at home with the idea Of
acquiring some knowledge Of shipping and Of
railroad work l found him to be bright and
manly fellow who had been kept at home pretty
closely | was there Ostenslbly as man Of
means and l sent for man named Johnson in
employ, who was about thirty-hve years old
and who had reputation for being adebt at
cards. I instructed Johnson to make the &C
quantance Of young Treadway and to show him
good time generally, that he was not TO know me
and he was to manage an introduction as strang
ers, that if possible he to arrange to get
young Treadway to playing cards. Ny scheme
worked out in great shape. Young IreadWay
refused JOhnsOn's proposition for game Of cards
once or twice, but finally one evening when he
not quite sober he fell for 1t, and had
several games with or two other men in the
town participating and young TreadWay won. A
little more than week ago l saw to 1t that the
l.. K. l.. there
noted to another station and young Treadway
was given the job You can imagine the rest Of
the story, gentlemen. On last Saturday night we
played and young Treadway lost over a hundred
dollars and | of the principal winners
He asked me to wait until Monday and stated
that he had some money IN the building asso-
citation, which he would try to draw out then, or
that Tuesday was his monthly pay day, when he
could pay it from his wages I told him that
must have my money as I was leaving town Sun
day morning and intimated that If he did not
have the money TO lose that he did not have any
business playing cards and that it would not be
4 good thing for the company 70 know that he
had been playing Ny talk was Of such nature
that it had the effect I desired and he met me
just before train time the next morning at the
station and gave ne the money Early Monday
morning our auditor came in Unexpectedly, Of
course, 70 him, but not TO me, checked up his
accounts and found him short just the amount he
had paid The auditor who had had his in
struCtIOns, at first threatened the boy with ar
rest, although he told him that he had more than
enough IN the building association, Of his own
70 cover up the amount The matter was finally
settled by the boy agreeing to come TO the State
Capitol with the auditor and explain the matter
70 his father. When they reached here they went
direct 70 Jim Treadways room and the story
told him. Treadway offered to make good
az once, but, Of course, that wasn't what were
after, and the final result was that the auditor
agreed not TO prosecute the boy if Jim Treadway
would vote against the bill. that he said was his
only alternative It seems, however, that the
boy told his father the whole story in full and
my name was mentioned. When the boy de-
scrIbed ne 70 Treadway he saw through the
whole thing az once. At any rate he has prom
ised to vote against the bill" And Meyer beamed
on his audience, for he felt that he had landed
big thing for his road
Wells looked at him for a moment and then
said Meyers, you are contemptible cur, in
all my dealings in politics l have never con-
descended to such trick that, but want 70
tell both you and Gordon that if in the future
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