The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1920-09-23
CHAPTER xIV.-continued.


than held his own I'm the three-cor-
nered melee. Having bought a paper,
he was publishing the sort of yellow
Journalism the masses wanted.
Very naturally his enemies attacked
first what seemed to them his most
vulnerable spot. "Why did he change
his name" "Why did he need an
alias| what foul deed had he done
and essayed to cover up?" These were
the questions hurled broadcast; these
the ones they fain would answer. "In-
vestgators" were dispatched to Mary
land. All went well--or i'll for them,
because nothing but good could be
found Of him-until his nineteenth
year. Then they encountered a blank
wall. There were five years unacCount-
ed for. His family was unimpeachable.
The Daniels Of Roanoke county were
OF the South's first people. The Fitz-
randolphs of England and Virginia had
distinguished themselves on more than
several occasions. Plainly, there was
nothing here for their purpose. But
those five years
When they had given up all hope of
ever sounding 1t and were searching
In despair for a successful plummet,
Daniel very deliberately laid bare on
the first page Of his newspaper every
thing 1t contained. with genial can
dor, and not without relish, he mar
rated his five years in trampdom. In
justice to himself, in justice to his
party, he felt he could do no less. Be
tween the ages of nineteen and twen-
ty-four his had been an eventful life,
ana the story thereof was not dull.
The bomb exploded with a deafen-
Ing crash, and with a howl and
shrlek his foes were upon him Rend-
ing the disclosure rs a pack of wolves,
they clawed it, gnashed it, made it
ugly and held 1t up greedlly to the
public gaze.
And then when the rumble and bonn
bast had died away, when the blood
and smoke had passed, Hugh Daniel
tltzrandOlph stood before the populace
"a hero. The city which reveres the
memory of man who, starting as
clerk, later saddled with debts, hewed
his way through adversely and became
the Merchant Prince" Of the world
of another who struggled from
butchers apprenticeship at two dollars
week to the pinnacle Of the Union
Stock Yards, of scores Of others
of ignoble beginnings and vast
achievements-suCh a city was not
slow to erect a pedestal for one who
had once been n vagabond and was
now become multl-milliOnaire CandI-
date for the highest honor the city Of
his adoption could pay him. Thus,
for the hour, Daniel had become an
idol of the people.
Daniel rushed his campaign onward
with a tireless zeal that Outdistanced
his rivals and lost them to view. Here,
as in the wheat pit, his endurance and
energy were a marvel to all who knew
him. He snatched only five hours from
the twenty-four for sleep, and less
than one hour for meals. Every min
ute of the remaining eighteen was
busy minute.
The campaign came to whirlwInd
finish. Daniel rose at daybreak on
election eve and was on the go cease
lessly for twenty hours.
While smoking n goodnight cigar
with Hunt at two o'clock next morning
he remarked:
Altogether, Harry, II has cost me n
warm million dollars. But 1t has been
worth it-every cent. I've had a mill
lion dollars worth Of fun"
Yet an hour later, had one looked in
the front room of Daniels apartment
one would have doubted 1t. The room
was quite dark, and before the front
windows overlooking Grant park he
was sitting very silent and motiOnless. |
A gray fog was rolling dampIy in from
the lake, thiCkening the night with It's |
clGmIny embrace.
From the avenue below came sounds |
OF az irresponsible quartette. They
were rendering "The Heart Bowed |
Down" and even their untutored |
throats. cultural with libations could |
not wholly mar the tragic sweetness |
of Balfe's sad melody
The melancholy strains, something |
softened by the distance, fiOated dole
fully up TO him. Muslc-even the |
wOrst-always had a singular effect |
upon Daniel. Good or bad, he could |
never listen to 1t without feeling with |
In him n responsiveness transcending |
the composers note. 1t was as though, |
sounding the keynote. he scared on In |