Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-07-28
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got to waltz
Mr.. Norcross said something that
sounded like ''d-n," scrubbed men,
orandum Of the thousand dollar pay
ment on sheet Of the scratch-pad
and handed 1t over, saying: "The or
der for the car includes my cook and
porter. and something to eat; Wen
throw these III with the transporta-
ton. and II the car is ditched and
you sue for damages, we'll file cross-
bill for hotel accommodations. Now
go away and work Off your little at
tack Of lunacy. Tn busy"
The G. S. & w. strike-as our wires
told us-went into effect promptly on
the stroke Of noon, and train from
the west, arriving late in the after
noon, brought Ripley.
"The conditions all along the line
are almost revolutionary" was Rip
ley's summing-up of the situation.
Generally speaking, the public is not
holding us responsible as yet, though
Of course there are croakers who are
saying that it is entirely a railroad
move, and predicting that we won't
do anything to interfere with the new
graft"
"Cantrell says the public sentiment.
is altogether on the side of the G. 8.
& w. strikers the boss put in.
ut is; angrily so. There Is hot
talk of a boycott to be extended to
everything sold or handled by the
Hatch syndicate. hope there won't
be any effort made to introduce strike
breakers. In the present state of af-
fairs that would mean arson and riot
ing and bloody murder"
II wired you because wanted to
consult you once more about those
ground leases, Ripley. Do you still
think you can made them hold?"
IF Hatch breaks the conditions,
we'll give him the fight Of his life"
was the confident rejoinder.
"But that will mean long contest
in the courts. The Supreme court is
full year behind its docket, and the
delay will inevitably multiply your
few 'croakers' bY many thousands.
But that isn't the worst Of 1t. Hatch
has better hold on us than the laws
delay" And to this third member OF
his staff Mr.. Norcross told the story
of the political trap into which Col
lingwood and the. New York stock
Johbers had betrayed the railroad man
agement. ....s s-.
Ripley comment was little like
Hornack's; less profane, perhaps, but
also less hopeful.
"Good Lord" he calculated. $50
that is what Hatch has had up his
sleeve? I don't know how you feel
about it. but should say that it Is
all over but the shouting. If the Dun
ton crowd had been deliberately try
ing to wreck the property, they couldn't
have gone about 1t in any surer way"
'"That is the way it looked to me,
Ripley. at first; but I've had chance
to sleep on it-as you haven't. The
gun that can't be spiked in some way
has never yet been built. ! have the
names of the eleven men who were
bribed. Hatch was daring enough. to
give them to me. Holding the aff1-
davits which they were foolish enough
to give him, Hatch can make them
swear to anything he pleases. But If
1 could get those affidavits I'd go to
these men separately and make each
one tell me how much he had been,
paid by Bullock for his vote"
"Well, what then?'
'Then should make every mothers
son Of them come across with the full
amount of the bribe, on pain of an
exposure which the dirtiest politician
in this state couldn't afford to face.
That would settle it. Hatch couldn't
work the same game second time"
We were closing our desks to go to
dinner when Fred May came in to say
that delegation of The payroll men
was outside and wanting to have a
word with the "Big Boss" Mr.. Nor
cross stopped with his desk curtain
half drawn down.
"What is it, Fred?" he asked. !
II don't know" said the Pitts
burgher. II should call it grievance
committee, If it wasn't so big. And
they don't seem to be mad about any
thing. Bart Hoskins is doing the talk
ing for Them"
"Send them In" was the curt COM
mand, and minute later the inner
Office was about three-fourths filled
up with shufrling crowd Of P. s. L..
men. S.
The chief looked the crowd over.
There was bunch Of train and engine
men. squad from the shops. and a
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