Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-26
is closed. and dad is off to the st. Law.

Thursday. Dig up a squib about that"
Harlan lazily wrote out the copy; it
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 worse!"
Il know. But still bic 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 if his Retail Merchants as
ISOLATION is doing its best to head 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."
Harlan stirred: Still you praised
my argument before the BOARD
"That was you, son.! But as to the
creek diversion, every one of those poor
devils in the pocket will be drowned
out"
"They haven't a sign of title. And
every property owner on the north side
will benefit"
Sure"
You're hurting your political
chances, Wiley"
Il know, But I can't help that. The
hhuCl Jug SSLS me, I1dIldIl. L DeeH
one, myself. I nave to fight for 'em.
Mine own people! 1 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
and 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
f~ondly-'it's alway fought that way,
somehow! It's never right-it's always
wrong. Ask any of the law abiding.
respectable people in town and they'll
tell you so"
Harlan smiled. Here on the start
of you primary campaign, you're MAX
ing enemies of your home people. And
/ want you to succeed, Wiley. In spite
of HEI being a friend of fathers
1esrything: l hate greed and OPP
press "a as badly as you do. Only"
"Tl4G's it-only! It's hard to go
agaiIkt ones class, isn't it? Hate OPP
presston, hate wrong-only except ones
privilege, ones class. ones tradition.
Why right here between you and me,
boy-in our little prosy village, is the
whole problem which confronts the ma
ton! We give to Tanner, to the prop
erty ewners-our. sort-the privilege of
exploiting others who ant help them
selves. And q hoary tradition of the
courts exists to defend the privilege.
The courts''-he checked himself, but
hotly--'Harlan, come on over to Earl
vile to dinner with us Sunday night
and meet this Mcbride, the chap who's
organizing the soft coal miners. He's
q new article in his courtyard he's
behind ME in this fight against Hall.
I want. you to meet him"
Mcbride, the man who defied the
supreme court last year and went to
Jail for it"
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 %tolerantly.
"All right. I'd like to see him. I'm
curious, But his friendship won't help
you, Wiley"
Wiley. smiled in turn. But thus it
came about thai Harlan and Arne
Vance game over to the 75-cent table
d'hote dinner at the Hotel Metropole
to meet Mike Mcbride. Tie dining
room p the Hotel Metropole, all ex-
cessiveiy new and Ear1vfllian, with a
tapestried wall Of stiff necked steeple-
chasers. gorgeous dogs In four colors
1 climbing a fence; while over a. bulg-
ing and lavender hill dashed a motor
car, the CLOUD of dust and the ladies'
wells forming a diaphanous perspective
in five more colors, which, with the
Hunt club dogs and the riders coats,
made the picture of General Parsons
above the Parsons house mantel over in
Rome, seem old and faded. You would
understand at nee that it belonged in
a town which had an interurban, ane
an Eli club, and pressed it's trousers
along with other cocky m%odernity. Bu
neither Arne Vance nor Wiley T.. Cur
ran let on to being impressed, for they
had dined in a number of the beplase-
cred and multi-colored cafes of am.
bilious western cities. And Harlan, OF
his first visit to the Metropole, looked
about with q smile and Their at Me
Bride as he stirred his deni-tasse-evei
the girl walters said demi-tasse-now ii
Earlville.
This Is a live wire town. McBrid,
!, was saying, ''and when it gets through
, laying out parks n boosting factor
les it's going to go after you fellow;
over in Rome who've run the count,
so long" He was a short thick, re,
browed maj to whom n would rathe
break disagreeable news over the tele
stubby, and he dug sugar out of TIL
e bowl and dumped it into his demi
f tasse without so much as a glance a
the dogs done in four colors. He wen
after local affairs like a man who coul
.assimilate more significant facts in
: week than all the best people of tn
county could discover in a lifetime
THAT county ring has run things eve
since the war, long as the ia:
q rate wasn't too high the business peopl
didn't grOwl, and Tanner fixed ever
board to suit hilnself-and hogged al
. the county work. He's a good mar
8 this Tanner-I like his method-he get
9 things. But we ought to get him.
live grand jury would smoke him out j
Z no time And a district attorney who
throw b gait. The n you got Is
crook"
II agree murmuIed Wiley-he fe1
i too amiable after his 75-cent occasion
; with dogs in four colors, to be til
q. zealot. New blood Is needed. Br
Z there's some good men on our sid
4 the creek, ALSO"
r Skunk ~ queried Mcbride.
q s~sSinsinawa."
u .Cail it Skunk. Then wen get dow
I to brass tacks. I always wanted I
talk with soMe of you fellows froi
the county seat. State labor is rigl
ID With the governor In this progressiy
fight. That's the reason Tn dow
"a here, I'm here until this district
"a ~orEanized by the Delrov crowd. II
81 governor wants Fairehild's seat in I'll
Senate. and he wants Jim Halls sea
In congress. because he thinks Hall wi
M get Iii old crowds support for 1T
atd Fairchild cant win out. So he aad ii
4. people are going to put Curran sov,
and TN with EN-. I amt no reforme
but labor is going with EN-. hut fir
we ought to clean up this county,.
Wiley mused. Arne. his black eys
IS snapping, listened IS II a fresh breai