Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-02-21


things to astonish the public"
"Eh? Eh?" Queried the senator as
he sat up"
II think we shall be able TO con.
vict one or two senator's"
do, Ell? Well, you won't and I
don't want you fooling with such
things. All this talk about graft 10
pure moonshine. Who has been toll
ing you lot II stuff?"
"Mr. Rayburn. He's young man
on the Examiner you know"
What, you are acquainted with
any one on that dish-rag OF sheet!"
almost howled the father.
"Just Mr.. Rayburn, and he's awful
nice"
"Nice! Nice! why the whole pack
of them on that paper are liars and
scoundrels! Don't you know that
they are pitching into me In almost
every issue?'
Eyes, but rye heard you say that
your record was SO pure that they
couldn't tarnish it,
"Of course they can't" replied the
senator AZ he hitched uneasily. "but
one doesn't want the ours q yawying
at his heels all the time. You just
drop that young Rayburn like hot
potato!"
Il think he is thinking Of calling
on you"
.Tf he does I'll throw him through
window!"
thinking of calling on you to ask
for my hand!" ..
The senator gave three jumps. The
first carried him ten feet from his
chair. The second turned him around.
The third jumped him back to where
he started from. Then he shouted:
Never! Never! Never! Warn
him not to come! Tell him he'll
walk into his own grave II he does.
I believe it was his hand that penned
the article slandering me last Sun
day. If you read 1t 1t should nave
made your blood boil"
ooh. I don't know" replied the low
ing daughter. "You see, we. as
sufrragettes, get used to such things.
Then George can't come and ask for
my hand?"
mo! Mo-"
"All right, father He'll naturally
be disappointed, but he must put up
with It." -,
"Then you are not going to elope"
ooh, no. l shall not marry with
out your consent .... ..t-
"And you'll never get 1t to marry
Rayburn or any one else that mas
ever worked on the Examiner
That closed the interview for three
days. Then Miss Dorothy made op-
portunity to say: ,s...-
"Father, dear. think 1t Is my
duty az an affectionate daughter to
say that Mr.. Rayburn has got hoid
of document that seems to concern
you" .r
Concerns me, howe"
"It seems that he knows-or knew
a man named Tim Donahue. He
went to the house the other night to
smoke pipe with him, and found
him dying"
"What, Tim Donahue dying!' ex-
claimed the senator.
"And poor Tim had something on
| his mind to confess. 1t seems that
he was connected with some sena.
torial graft a year or two ago, and
he felt it his dying duty to expose It.
He made q written confession and
Mr.. Rayburn has it in his pocket. |
think your name is mentioned, but
Of course your record has been whittier
than SNOW .....
ct hast has, but hang Tim if he
gave me away! That Is. If he lied
about me. I want you to get that
document for me-"
81 will try butt don't know. l
told Mr.. Rayburn how you felt
toward him, and naturally he was
hurt
Three or four days passed, with
the senator trying hard to appear IN.
different. but really anxious, and
then he felt compelled to ask:
"Well, Dorothy what about that
, wonderful death-bed confession?"
81 am sorry to tell you, daddy,
that there IS still worse news. Mr..
Rayburn happened to be on the spot
the other day when a man named
Shane was run down by street car.
Mr.. Rayburn is tender-hearted ana
generous, and he consoled the IN
iured man and sent his wife $50. He
couldn't be saved, however, but be-
fore he died he made confession.
He was a member Of the legislature
when the good roads scandal came
out. Perhaps you knew him.
"The Internal rascal! Did he men,
ton my name?'
81 think he did, daddy. think ne
confessed that he and you divided up
on something"
ITS a lie, of course, but I want
that document as well as the other
There'll be some fools that Will be-
lieve what dying man says Of an
honest politician. Perhaps that Mr..
Rayburn---'
II don't think he would come to
see you, daddy. You know you
threatened him.
'Then he can stay away. | can
get half dozen good men to swear
that Shane was liar
The senator walked around with
his chest thrown out and self.satis-
fed air, but he was worried. He was
being written I'D in his party organs
as the snow-white candidate. He
wanted to seem defiant, even to his
daughter, and it wasn't many days
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