Connecticut western news., 1921-05-12

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 After a time the railroad corpora tions decided to consolidate. Jethro, whether he feared that they would be come too large for the state, or for him. did not approve of consolidation. Thereupon they decided to overthrow him. The fight began over his home post office. He was known to favor an old soldier named Eph Prescott who had been badly wounded in the Will dernesS and whom he had helped in his uphill fight as he had helped many another person. The railroad party de cided to defeat Jethro's candidate in order to weaken his prestige in the state, and it had the support of many men who had formerly done his bid ding and of the congressman from the district" the usual autocrat in the distribution of offices of that class.
 Jethro went to Washington and con- trived to have an apparently chance meeting between President Grant and Eph. Grant was attracted by Eph's simplicity. They talked over the bat tie they had fought together with a modesty which furnished another in- stance that the noisiest patriots are not always the greatest. Grant ap- pointed Eph. When the news of the victory reached home, Jethro's pres tige was much increased.
 He placed Cynthia in a finishing school in Boston. Being young wom- an of high spirit she was not happy there. The fact that she. came from remote country place and of an un- known family, very likely had some thing to do with the treatment she re- ceived in those primitive days before finishing schools had been made who'll ly safe for democracy. One day a pa- per controlled by Isaac Worthington, the head of the corporation party, made savage attack upon Jethro as a lobbyist and a boss" The paper found it's way into Cynthia's hands and gave her the greatest distress. She went to Jethro and asked him if the story was true. He said: "They hain't put it just as they'd ought to perhaps. but that's the way done 1t in the main." His manly confes- sion caused her to love him even more than before. She withdrew from the finishing school and went to teach in Brampton, the town in which Worth ington lived. Jethro, shaken by the effect on Cynthia, determined to with draw from politics.
 The state was in a ferment. Would the corporations be able to down Jeth- TO? For the first time in nearly 40 years Jethro did not appear at the Coniston town meeting. The enemy won by default. The news heartened the corporations everywhere. Worth ington had always been an enemy of Jethro's, although he had accepted his help more than once, and while in- dulging in very virtuous speeches, had practiced essentially the same meth ods. His son, Bob, was madly in love with Cynthia, but she subordinated her own love for Bob completely to her fidelity to Jethro. Bob proposed to her and she refused. He declared that he would leave his father and earn his own living and then claim her on account of what he had him. self done. He wrote his father tell ing him his purpose. When the latter received the letter he flew into a rage Learning that Cynthia was a teacher in his own town, he called the commit tee together, the majority of whom he controlled, and had them pass a vote ignominiously dismissing her from the school. This action aroused Jethro and he straightway took up the battle again against the corporation magnate responsible for the outrage. He swOoped down upon the capitol like an eagle. His genius for political gen. eralship flashed out with its old-time brightness. Messages went to the val ley towns and to the north country The "thrOne room" was open again and although the battle had been ap- parently lost through Jethro's with drawal, it became evident that the corporations were destined to defeat Finally WOrthingtOn was willing to surrender and asked Jethros terms JethrO said, "Consent to the marriage of Cynthia and Bob.7 Wofthington com. piled in some high flown letters and the marriage took place. Jethro with. drew from the fight and from politics and passed his old age near Cynthia blessed by her love and that of her children. (With apologies to Mr. Win. stOn ChurchilD. Copyright. 1919, by the Post Publishing
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