The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-05

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in the yards.
Then Frank Gooding began to say
things. He did not think the train
had been handled according to sche-
dule as announced. He moved pretty
fast and was fast and furious in find
ing out when the next train pulled
out Would there be any chance to
overtake it? What, no train allowed
to approach within fifteen minutes
Of it? There would be the d
to pay"
A train followed westward across
Idaho, with Frank Cooling, Fred T..
Dubois and some other belated fell
lows riding it. Gooding told Du-
bois Of his bad luck. and he talked
in language too strong to print.
That tickled Dubois, and he went
into the next coach and got one of
the other fellows and presented him
to Gooding. who, in turn, asked all
Gooding responded and told 1t all
over, putting in the details. He had
wanted to talk things over with the
President during the trip. There
were matters of the tariff on wool,
and freight rates and he had ex-
pected to lay. them before the Presi-
dent. He had also engaged to pre-
sent the President to the gathering
of people from Gooding county at
his home town Of Gooding, and he
would be unable to do 1t now that
he had missed his train.
Dubois had such an appreciation
of the humor of the situation that
he went out and got another man
and presented him to Gooding, and
he in turn gave most interested
hearing to the Governors recital of
his bad luck in missing his train.
Gooding in turn, went into greater
detail and recited his disappoint- !
ment in not being able to present the /,
President to the people of Gooding,
and besides, there was Brady, his |
opponent, right on the job, and it !
would be just like him to get the
assignment to present the President |
at that place. AS he talked, he
up in his characteristic way
and was again the man of the range,
Keeling it on in the language of the
range, and Fred Dubois sat enj6y-
ing it hugely. He went out and
brought in another man who was
duly coached so he would pump the
ject, and pump him he did. Taking
advantage of Gooding's temper he
got 1t all out of him, with all the
of what might be ex-
pected at Gooding.
AS the day wore on they con-
suited the train schedule, and now
the Presidents train must be ap-
preaching Gooding. Now Somebody
was introducing the President, and
t was probably some handy man
seated close to the chief executive
Trust Brady to grasp the situation
md FIX" it. In the course of time
heir own train steamed into Good
ng, and the Governor got off. He
vas thoroughly whipped. He walked
Up the line and met his wife and as
lie did so, he said, "Well-what did
lie say?" And then everybody
aughed and patted him on the back
more or less, and said it had been
! very good day, but it did not seem
o be a Gooding day. Every dog has
lis day and this one seemed to have
'een cut out for Mr.. Brady. There :
voulds be other days ahead, and it
would be Gooding's turn sometime.
lie took his whipping, made the best
Il it, laughed at the humor of it,
nd went on playing the political :,
anne. Mr.. Brady won out and went
o the United States senate, lived,
worked, served, wore himself out !
apidly, died and was buried but not
orgotten. Eight or nine years af- ;
erward, Gooding became senator, is
hard, and when a President
anne thru Idaho it was a Gooding
ay from the Utah line to the summit
f the Bitter Root range And when '
ecretary Christian said, Senator |
the President invites you l
0 have lunch with him." the Black
DOT man across the table got more :
abstraction out of the invitation than
he others did, because of the flood
memories of one fine day eleven G
ears before. @