Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-07-17

tice holding her sword and scales, 1t
was rotten with corruption. And Hard
ing and his party were believed to
have profited by its construction.
Now the denomination was at hand
and the governor. bereft of the assist
ance of his former sponsors, faced
hostile public almost alone. In his
desperation he had announced his In
tention of addressing great mass
meeting In the large square that the
new capitol faces. speaking from the
steps the day before the nomination,
in appeal for public support.
In spite Of the detectives with whom
he surrounded himself, the governor
was totally unaware that Haynes had
been for two months In Cheynesboro
Under an alias Haynes had flown in
the local aviation meet, whose course
was around the capitol dome. Haynes
came in third and won no prize-but
he had left his gyroscope at home!
Even in the swiftness of that aerial
journey he could perceive the rotten
ness of the structure, the badly laid
blocks of marble, the cracks that
spread from pediment to Intel and
from abacus to cornice; and 1t was
then that the plan came to him to util-
ize this scandal for Harding's down
fall.
He did not wish his death, for he
had achieved vengeance many times
over. He wished rather to be quits
with this man, to pay off his score and
have done with the last item in those
plans which. once a fixed idea of ven.
/ geance, had grown, through accom-
plishment, to be but debt and duty.
There had been something of dig
nifty in Harding's public life. The man
was no common trickster; literate, cul-
tured, he was in high standing with
the better clements in the community.
The men who had backed him had
been swindlers on the grand scale;
there was none of the chicanery of the
cheap politician about any of them.
Even now, when alone, many believed
Harding to be the victim of circum-
stances. And Haynes realized that
only ridicule could upset the Harding
myth and that this would strike home
to the public Imagination where mere
denunciation failed.
He went to Paulding, the governors
most implacable adversary, and out
lined his plans. Paulding was uncon.
yinced
How are we going to do it?" he
asked. How could any man do such
thing?"
Il only ask" said Haynes calmly,
that at eight in the morning on which
he is due to make his speech, you have
the reporters and photographers ready
in the square, in advantageous posi-.
TONS Say as much or as little as you
like-but don't let Harding get wind of
it."
Then shall say nothing at all"
Paulding replied. MY dear man, sup.
pose you could do such a crazy thing,
what have you to get out of it,"
"Only the settlement of a little pri.
!vate grudge," Haynes answered: and
thus he dismissed himself. Pauldine
did not reveal the proposition; he
thought It too wild and impossible;
but he did drop hints to the editors oil
the antt-Harding press.
Harding lived in nett ssburb, fash
ionable and occupied. so far as 1t had
been developed, by costly edifices. Il
was some little way out of Cheynes
boro. and through it passed the uneom
pleted trolley line which ran into the
desolate sandhills of the surrounding
country and was destined to link VI
Cheynesboro with Benderville, ffteer
! miles away. Haynes had studied tht