The Arizona copper camp., 1920-05-29
Observation-Disclosures

In the primary election these were
nominated: Hugh Daniel Fitzran-
dolph, advocating pure politics; Sam
Burlington, fat and puffy and tool of
the trusts; John DinWoody, lean and
lank and patron of vice, and Ivan
Skimkus, skinny and erratic and a
champion of the working man.
Before the primaries, Daniels chief
rivals, Burlington and Dinwoody, took
scant notice of him, shelving him in a
category with Skimkus. the Socialist.
who had no chance whatever. After
his nomination they changed their
views. They suddenly realized many
things; realized he had been working
hours to their minutes; that his enor-
nous volume of advertising was not
unproductive of results; that he had
a happy faculty of making friends
wherever he went; that his popularity
was booming daily; and that he con-
trolled nearly as many votes as they.
This would never do, decided Buff
fington and Dinwoody. They immedi-
ately set about to crush the intruder
who presumed to enter a domain AL
ways exclusively their own. Thus,
when the papers supporting the mall
contents were not casting their har-
poons at each other, they took time to
shy a concerted volley at the interlo-
per.
Daniel joined in merrily and more
than held his own in the three-cor-
nered melee. Having bought 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 upY' These were
the questions hurled broadcast; these
the ones they fain would answer. "In-
vestigators' We're dispatched to Mary
land. All went well-or i'll for them,
because nothing but good could be
found of him-unfil hiss nineteenth
year. Then they encountered blank
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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 it 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 tramp6om. 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.
and the story thereof was not dull.
The bomb exploded with a deafen-
ing crash, and with howl and
Shrek his foes were upon him. Rend-
ing the disclosure as a pack Of wolves
they clawed it, gnashed it, made it
ugly and held it up greedily to the
public gaze.
And then when the rumble and bonn
bast had died away, when the blood
and smoke had passed, Hugh Daniel
titzrandolph stood before the populace
"a hero. The city which reveres the
memory of man who, starting as a
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
a week to the pinnacle of the Union
Stock Yards, Of scores of others
of ignoble beginnings and vast
achleyements-such a city was not
slow to erect a pedestal for one who
had once been a vagabond and was
now become a multi7millionaire 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 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 a
busy minute.
The campaign came to a whirlwind
finish. Daniel rose at daybreak on
election eve and was on the go cease
lessly for twenty hours.
While smoking a goodnight cigar
with Hunt at two O'clock next morning
he remarked:
"Altogether Harry, it has cost me a
warm million dollars. But it has been
worth it,-eyery cent. I've had mil
lion dollars worth Of fun
Yet an hour later, had one looked in
the front room of Daniels apartment,
one would have doubted it. The room
was quite dark, and before the front
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