The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-13

him, did not approve of consolidation.
Thereuron they decided to overthrow
him. The fight began over his home
post office. He was known to favor an
old soldier named Eph Prescott who
had been badly wounded in the Will
derness and whom he had helped in
his uphill fight as he had helped many
another person. The railroad party de-
cided to defeat Jethro's candidate in
order to weaken his prestige in the
state, and it had the support of many
men who had formerly done his bid
ding and of the Congressman from
the district" the usual autocrat in the
distribution of Offices of that class.
Jethro went to Washington and con-
trived to have an apparently chance
meeting between President Grant and
Eph. Grant was attracted by Eph's
simplicity. They talked over the bat
tie they had fought together with a
modesty which furnished another in
stance that the noisiest patriots are
not always the greatest. Grant ap-
pointed Eph. When the news of the
victory reached home, Jethro's pres
tige was much increased.
He placed Cynthia In a finishing
school In Boston. Being a young wom-
an Of high spirit she was not happy
there. The fact that she came from
q remote country place and Of an IN
known family, very likely had some
thing to do with the treatment she re
ceived in those primitive days before
schools had been made who'll
~ safe for democracy. One day pa
per controlled by Isaac Worthington,
the head Of the corporation party,
made a savage attack upon Jethro as
a lobbyist and BOSS" The paper
found its way into Cynthia's hands
and gave her the greatest distress.
She went to Jethro and asked him If
the story was true. He said: "They
hain't put it just as they'd ought to
perhaps, but that's the way / done
It in the MAN." His manly confess
sion caused her to love him even more
than before. She withdrew from the
school and went to teach in
Brampton, the town in which Worth
lngtOn lived. JethrO, shaken by the
effect on Cynthia, determined to with
draw from politics.
The state was in a ferment. Would
the corporations be able to down Jeth-
ro9 For the first time in nearly 40
years Jethro did not appear at the
Coniston town meeting. The enemy
won by default. The news heartened
the corporations everywhere Worth
lngton had always been an enemy of
Jethro's, although he had accepted his
help more than once, and while in
1ulging in very virtuous speeches, had
practiced essentially the same meth
DDS. His son, Bob, was madly in love
with Cynthia, but she subordinated
her own love for Bob completely to
her fidelity to Jethro. Bob proposed
70 her and she refused. He declared
hat he would leave his father and
earn his own living and then claim
Ter on account Of what he had him.
self done. He wrote his father tell
ng him his purpose. When the latter
received the letter he flew into q rage.
learning that Cynthia was teacher
n his own town, he called the commit.
zee together, the majority of whom he
and had them pass vote
ANONYMOUSLY dismissing her from the
school. This action aroused Jethro
md he straightway took up the battle
again against the corporation magnate
responsible for the outrage. He
'wooped down upon the capitol like
IN eagle. His genius for political gen.
flashed out with it's old-time
brightness. Messages went to the val
ey towns and to the nortS country.
The throne room" was open again,
md although the battle had been ap-
'arently lost through Jethro's with.
travail, it became evident that the
corporations were destined to defeat
finally Worthington was willing to
and asked Jethro's terms
|ethro said, Consent to the marriage
It Cynthia and Bob" Worthington COM
'lied in some high flown letters and
ne marriage took place. Jethro with.
rev from the fight and from politics
nd passed his old age near Cynthia,
'lessed by her love and that of her
hildren. with apologies to Mr.. Win.
ton ChurchilD.
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