Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1921-01-26

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care-worn. listless, comfortless. He
had lost his nerve" Grain gambling
topics were taboo in his household.
and those who valued his good viii
found 1t polite not to breach 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
tel read at his breakfast table of Otis
death. He had died In mid-oeean en-
route to New York.
He put down his newspaper, beck
oned the waiter, ordered some cable
gram forms. Leaving his breakfast
untouched, and Hunts questions un-
answered, he wrote lengthy message
to a Chicago trust company that spe-
cialized in mortgages. He fretted
with Impotence until he received an
answer; and then, having read 1t, he
tore II 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 it 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 "piIes" in July wheat, booked
first-cIass transportation from Rome to
Chicago. When they boarded the liner
at Naples there embarked with them a
quarter of a million dollars worth Of
European art treasures. When they
left the liner at New York the name
of the tall. MISUNDERSTANDING 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
joyially humorous about his malleable
patronymic that he was voted a shin
ing member of the Good Fellows club
and lauded as a 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 q
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 Fitz-
randolph inaugurated his campaign for
the Chicago mayoralty.
Ia 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. Daniefs chief
rivals, Burlington and Dinwoody, took
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-
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
ately set about TO crush the intruder
who presumed to enter domain al
ways exclusively theiH own. Thus.
when the papers supporting the mall
contents were not casting their har-
poems at each other, they took time to
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per.
Daniel joined IN merrily and more
than held his own In the three-cor-
nered melee. Having bought a 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
aliasT what foul deed had he done
and essayed to cover up?" These were
the questions hurled broadcast: these
the ones they fain would answer. SIN
vestigators" were dispatched TO Mary
land. All went well-or III for them
because nothing but good could be
+ found of him--until his nineteenth
/ year. Then they encountered blank
wall. There were five years unaceount-
ed for His family was unimpeaehable
! The Daniels OF Roanoke county We're
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 i've years.
When they had given up all hope OF
ever sounding it and We're searching
in despair for a successful plummet
/ Daniel very Deliberately laid bare on