Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-08-05
yed men armed WIN cameras.

baHlel SIeeleu rHem warmly, SnO0k
hands, gave them cigars, and waxed so
jovially humorous about his mal!eable
patronymic that he was voted shin.
ing member of the Good Fellows club
and Landed 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 fanfare of
trumpets, sounding of cymbals a
beating of tom-toms, Hugh Daniel Fir.
randolph inaugurated his campaign for
the Chicago mayoralty.
In tie 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
tank and patron of vice, and Ivan
Skimkus, skinny and erratic and
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
views. They suddenly realized many
things; realized he had been working
hours to their minutes; that his enor-
nous volume Of advertising was not
unproductiye of results: that he had
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 NAL.
contents were not casting their har-
poems at each other, they took time to
shy concerted volley at the nterlo-
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 up?" These were
the questions hurled broadcast; these
the ones they fain would answer. I'm
vestigators" We're 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 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 successful plummet,
Daniel very deliberately laid bare on
the first page of his newspaper eyery-
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,
and the story thereof was not dull.
The bomb exploded with deafen-
ing crash, and with howl and
Shrek his foes were upon him. Rend-
ing the disclosure as pack of wolves,
they clawed it, CRASHED it, made it
ugly and held it up greedily to the
public gaze.
And then when the rumble and hon.
bast had died away, when the blood
and smoke had passed, Hugh Daniel
FitZrandolph 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
week to the pinnacle of the Union
Stock Yards, of scores of others
OF ignoble beginnings and vast
achievements ~such city was not
SLOW to erect pedestal for one who
had once been a vagabond and was
now become mulu- 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 tireleSs zeal that outdistanced
his rivals and lost them to view. Here,
as in the wheat pit, his endurance ard
energy were marvel to all who knew
10 L.