The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-07-08

clevah Of you. l must say. getting al
that grain and freezing out the othat
chaps. :. And poor old Otis; I saw
him In Carlsbad last week. He looks
dreadfully done for. feah the poor
fellow won't last long,
Always the mention Of Otis name
spelled bad moments for Daniel Since
that Indian summer day when millions
! had hung upon the toss OF coin the
aged speculatOr, as Daniel knew. had
! been a bowed-down man. He never
visited the pit again. He never went
near 1t. The memory Of its roaring
sent a shudder through him. He was
care-worn, listless, c0mfortless. He
had lost his nerve" Grain gambling
topics We're taboo in his household,
and those who valued his good will
found 1t polite not to broaCh such In
his hearing. When In October he had
left for the German "'bad" cures he
was broken In health as well as In
spirit.
His quest was fruitless
One May morning In Florence Dan
lei read at his breakfast table Of Otis
death. He had died In mid-ocean en-
route to New York.
He put down his newspaper, beck
oned the walter. ordered some cable
gram forms. Leaving his breakfast
untouched, and Hunts questions un-
answered, he wrote q lengthy message
to a Chicago trust company that spe-
cialized In mortgages He fretted
with impatience until he received an
answer; and then. having reGd 1t, he
tore 1t up and sighed hopelessly.
Daniel heard afterward that Otis
had left nothing beyond his life insur.
ance. The house on the drive had
gone, and with 1t all the pomp Of cir
cumstances. Mrs Otis was residing
temporarily In Oconomowoc. Kathleen
was with her.
Early In June of that year two
wealthy Americans, who had made
their "piles" In July wheat, booked
frst-class transportation from Rome to
Chicago. When they boarded the liner
at Naples there embarked with them
quarter Of a million dollars worth of
European art treasures. When they
left the liner at New York the name
of the tall, istinguished-looking one,
Of the black Vandyke beard and white
ducks. was not Daniel Randolph Fitz-
hugh. 1t was his own, Hugh Daniel
Fitzrandolph.
This name Juggling had heralded
their coming, and they were surround.
ed at the pier by .phalanx Of sharp
eyed men armed with cameras.
Daniel greeted them warmly, shook
hands, gave them cigars, and waxed so
jovially humorous about his malleable
ing member of the Good Fellows club
and lauded as thoroughgoing, fine
sort. Nothing derogatory was printed
of him In the New York newspapers;
and the eccentricity Of ones using
ones family name for "komical kut-
out" was made to appear very nat
ural thing for one to do.
His arrival in Chicago received a
similar reception.
The thing he had long been plan
ming, the thing that had prompted his
trip abroad, which had necessitated
the proper rearranging of his name,
was made public. With a fanfare Of
trLmpets, sounding of cymbals, q
beating of tom-toms. Hugh Daniel Fitz-
randolph inaugurated his campaign for
the Chicago mayoralty.
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
iank 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
category with Skimkus, the Socialist.
who had no chance whatever. After
his nomination they changed their
'A~'S' AhSJ SuduSutS icaiiASu AIuiiy
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
hngton and Dinwoody. They immedi-
ately set about to crush the intruder
who presumed to enter domain al.
ways exclusively their own. Thus.
when the papers supporting the NAL.
contents were not casting their har-
poons at each other they took time to
shy a concerted volley at the interlo-
per.
I Daniel Joined In merrfly and more
than held his own In the three-coy
nered melee. Having bought paper,
he was publishing the sort Of yellow
Journalism the masses wanted.
Very naturally his enemies attacked
frf- what seemed to them his most
Vulnerable spot. "Why did he change
his manner" "Why did he need an
aliaS?n 0Whaf foul doad hod ho Ioro