Evening journal., 1914-11-25
More trouble over
JOB FACES SAg!gBgRY
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ervauons break up the Illicit sale OF
Intoxicating liquors 90 the Indians.
and ferret cut and arrest the boot
legpers and others engaged in that
laWloss business. His newspaper
friends here presented him with
handsome revolver hade him a sad
farewell and he went TO The wild and
woolly West There he was inform
ed by q superior officer who was an
crippled up by hoOtlcggcrs' hullcia,
that most Of tho men who had pre-
ceded him as'special agent had been
killed or crippled mp by tho SNUG
glcrs of FIRE water.
Killcn studied the mortality record
long and seriously. Tie went out ca
duty and soon found that he had been
spotted by the bootloerers. They
iostlod him. followed him, oiarod al
him and made life-so burdensomc that
be resigned his Job and returned
home. declaring that he would rather
be a live newspaper man in Delaware
than q dead special agent on the
{ reservation. He never foreave Sauls-
/ bury for obtaining the appointment
I for him, and Salisbury never ioreafe
him for having resigned. I'm feeling,
/ it was an even break.
Well. Killcn left vacancy. IT was
/ saulsbury's for the filling Tie looked
around for another Democratic lamb
10 lead to the sacrifice Finally he
decided TO offer the hazardous job
TO his old and faithful friend Hutch
I ison. Anyh, by who knows Hutchi-
son and his physical charactorlatics
rs fully aware that while he might
I make a fair-sizcd watch charm for a
husky Western bootlogeer, he would
be handicapped in a physical oncoun-
ter. unless the bootlegger failed 70
overlook his presence In the imme-
diato vicinity. Hutchinson knows his
limitations He also is an ardent
conservationist when it comes 10 his
own life and limb. it would have
been a violation of principle for him
to have accepted the job, and he
refused It.
That made Salisbury so mad that
in spite he gave the Job TO former
Mayor Evan G.. Boyd of New Castle.
Boyd accepted It and since he went
out on the reservations it has been
such a nip-and-uck race between the
bootleggers. the Indians and Boyd
as TO who should have the Illicit
Il LIQUOR that no one has had any time
to think about shooting.
Hutchison let things drift for
awhile and then intimated to Saula-
bury that he would not be averse to
having the Federal job here held by
Daniel Burton. Salisbury received
the intimation with a frlgidity that
would have done credit TO the peak
of one of Grecnlands icy mountains.
Hutchison shivored. turned up his
coat collar. nut his hands in his poe
kets and proceeded to emphasize inc
intimation.
81 offered YOU one job, and you
refused a." salisbury exclaimed will
n wave OF the hand that indicatec
nnality, and Hutchison slid out OF
the ice that had formed during the
interview.
"Would YOU advise me to SCI
: Joshua w. Miles, the Collector o
Internal Revonue?" Hutchison In
i ouirod licking the frost rime fror
his closcly-cronpod black moustach'
"I won't advise you to go, and
won't advise you not 70 co. was IN
Senatorial retort
Friends of Ifutchison went 70 Mile
; In baltimore He said frankly tina
he would not appoint any man wh'
. did not bear the stamp of Saulsbur'
approval. and that IL seemed to p'
altogether likely that Boyer, o
Smyrna. would be the man.
! And there the matter stands ina
Is the treatment that has been accor
ded 10 Hutchison i'm return Tor Ire
. long devotion to the political TOT
: tunes of the Saulsburys.
Another Democrat on the mourn
j.. ers' bonchi Another candidate TO
the Come Ye Disconsolate Club! An
other man who now believes, Wit
many others. that "man's inhumanit
10 man makes countless thousand