The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1916-03-22
THE PRESS AGENT
BY JANE OSBORN.


Timothy Bradley was running fol
congress, and IL was part OF his pc
lltical tactics. no less than a phase
OF his own good nature. never to turn
away callers.
Then Ida Lane came into Mr.. Brad.
leys office.
or course she was pretty-she hadi
been selected for her work partly be
cause OF that very fact.
She took the proffered chair at Mr..
Bradley's desk and then explained, ~
have just come to Brookburg as the
press agent OF the A. n. l.. P. E. W.,
and after studying the situation here
l have started my campaign by call.
ing on you. | want to know where
you are going to take your stand on
this great question.
Well. Just a minute" interrupted
Bradley. Just to get line on what
way can be OF assistance to you. let
me ask you what this N. p. X. Y. 2.
association is that you represent"
Ida laughed, and Timothy laughed
with her
Il thought. of course, you knew" she
explained. The A N. p. E. w. is
the American National League for the
Political Emancipation of Women"
Then they've got me down on the
lists over at your headquarters? What
did you find out?
oh, that you're a bachelor OF good
habits, and no family. That you are
he heir to the Bradley fortune. which
is reputed to be larger than 1t really
is. though 1t is quite respectable. That
you are a lawyer by profession, that
you make strong friends and strong
enemies and that you'd go to any hon
orable means you could to get into
congress. So far. no returns on the
suffrage question"
Well, you see" Bradley felt
strangely at loss for exactly what to
say. Il never had just the opportu.
nifty | wanted to come out on this mat
ter. thought-that is-if the WON
en- want IT. why shouldn't they have
it,
In the first place. a press agent
you see I've done some OF that work
myself-doesn't want to waste time
writing copy. Let the newspaper fell
lows do that. What you press agents
want to do is to start a row or some
thing. and then make the newspaper
boys think you are trying to keep IT
from them. They'll come around fast
enough Now this idea Of yours about
making political capital OF my position
here in Brookburg is good. What you
want to do now is to trot back to your
little office without taking word Of
notes about what | have to say on the
suffrage issue. But in day or so-this
afternoon If can-I'll drop around
at suffrage headquarters. Somebody's
sure to see me. The office Of the
Morning Banner is right across the
way. You must prime your people to
keep mum when the reporters ask
them about my call, and for day or
two wen keep them guessing. In the
meantime. I'll drop around every day
and have conferences with you or your
big chief and read the dope that you
hand out. They will overhear us. the
first thing you know. and there It will
be the next day all across the first
page OF the Banner"
1t was only three O'Clock that after
noon when Bradley made his first call
at suffrage headquarters. and for three
days things went on according to
schedule. The reporters did follow
him to headquarters and they did ask
questions No one at headquarters
vouchsafe to offer any information.
since the leaders hae been taken into
the secret of the scheme that Bradley
had laid down to Ida.
Suppose you let me go to dinner
with you" he said one night, after
the scheme had been progressing for
a week.
II was past twilight when they left
headquarters, and Ida, as the last
OF the organizers out. closed the door
Of the shop.
Maybe you'll have to change that
card you've got in your records about
me before long" he said as they
walked down the block toward Brad
ieys garage. The only reason I've
been bachelor is because | never
knew the girl before who was pretty
enough to love that had brains enough
to make a success OF marriage"
When Ida arrived at headquarters
later than usual in the morning her
first object was to see the Morning