Fredericksburg Standard (Fredericksburg, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 7, 1922 Page: 2 of 12
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where reputation
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against you.”
Also a nice assortment of Visiting and Calling
Cards, Wedding Stationery, Program Cards,
Correspondence Cards etc.
The Secor Sanitarium-Hospital
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is fixed; and
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was proof of his friendship! In-
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And my mother’s
man still thrall
public side
foreground,
paign my
him good night. I said:
“I believe the man and the
orrortunity have met. Mr. Presi-
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round out our work, we
We carry a complete line of envelopes to match the paper.
FREDP RICKSBURG STANDARD, OCTOBER 7, 1922.
were drawn
erookedness.
bank telephoned for the first
bank s, said I, comes just in time in nearly three weeks, in-
at the agequiring about my condition. I
Ki • ill pcholi. W
all, > ielde d to
howed himself on
perspective; I
attempt to
Burbank the presidency; and as lize that 1 could bear bad news,
we must have a second term to he said . “Goodrich and Bur-
have won in
this world of
shouting, blowing horns, singing,
sending up rockets and Roman
candles, burning red fire, light-
ing bonfires in and near the
grounde l had come down from
Fredonia to be in instant touch
with Burbank and the whole na
“How do you know?” said I,
And I recalled the pledge I had “Wait a minute.” I interrupt-
made there, in the boyish be-ed. And I began to think. It
ginnings of my manhood and my was on Christmas day that Bur-
career. “My chance and Bur-
arms and legs
in sickening
people were
the crucial
my years of
At last the
of my career in the blund ring
side my fathers and among the the slate to do me up, too. But
graves ot my sisters and my —the day after Christmas—Bur-
grandparents, rose before me. bank sent for me—”
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- and in twenty-four years our
majority there in presidential
campaigns had never before been
less than forty-thousand
By half-past one, the whole
capital city knew that Burbank
had won. And they flocked and
swarmed out the road to his mo-
my power. The
servants, hisses
minute his questionings were.
It was after midnight of elec-
tion day before we knew the re-
sult, so close were the two most
important doubtful states.
Scarborough had swept the ru-
ral districts and small tow is
time. We are now
other purchasable organizations
were powerful. His state gave
him forty-two thousand plurali
ty. Burbank carried his own
story ; and it was blown
hugely and told everywhere.
I had intended to make some I organs retold it, giving the
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compromises. We must still deal
with non on the terms which showing no surprise, and feeling stead, he had been inquiring to
human nature creates. But in then one. make sure about the reports in
main we can and we will do “Because”—he laughed — “I the papers that I was certain to
what is just and right, what was in it. At least, they thought recover, in order that he might
helps to realize the dreams ofso until they’ had let me be safe shift the factors in his plot ac-
the men and women who founded ly elected. As nearly as I can
our country—the men and wo- make it out, they began to plot
like my father and mother, about ten days after you fell
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so I was thinking “my Presi-
dent, with my help, will be a
man.”
conditions of affairs, and they
to bed in the most cheerful l
hopeful humor I had known
perhaps since the day Scarborough was M
nominated. “At any rate i
will ba! For under the teach-
ings of experience I have sown
not starlight and moonshine, but
seeds.
The next morning I could not
the rive The face was istorted
was not to men.
my daughtei and I went for an
early walk \t the turn »f the
main drive just beyond view
from the lodge, she exclaimed,
<d at last to swell until the pre-
sidential pose he had so long
tefephone the police to
after him they reported
’ he had disappeared.
Th? next morning but
Burbank sent for you?” I asked.
“On Christmas day,” Wood-
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ruff post-haste to the widow. He
gave her convincing assurances
that she and her children were
to be lifted from the slough of
poverty into which Granby’s
drunkenness had thrust them.
And in return she wrote at his
dictation and issued an appa-
rently uninspired public state-
ment, exonerating me from all
blame for her husband’s revers-
es, and saying that he had been
acting strangely for over a year
and had been insane for several
months. In brief, I did every-
thing suggested by sincere re-
gret and such skill at influenc-
ing public opinion as I had and
to the brute, I have had to use
the code of the jungle. In
clim ing I have had to stoop, at
times to crawl. But, now that
! have reached the top, I shall
stand erect. I shall show that
th, sordidness of the struggle
has not unfitted me to use the
victory. True, there are the
many ami heavy political debts
and in this cam | ublicity had put me in too bad
enforced prominence a light
that you’ve got a future.”
He drew in his breath hard
nd leaned back into the corneri
where the shadow hid him. At J
he aid in a quiet earnest I
voice “You’ve given me self-
state by less than ten thousand respect. Senator. I can only say r
I'll see that you never regret !
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I was hissed roundly at theji
hotel entrance, between cheersa
tor Croffut and Berwick. and
even for Woodruff. But I wenti
ruff replied.
I laughed; he looked at me in-
quiringly. ‘Nothing,” said I.
“Only an old joke—as old as
human nature. Go on.”
“Christmas day,” he continu-
ed; “I didn’t get to him until
next morning. I can’t figure out
just why they invited me into
their combine.”
(To be continued.)
reports began to show the good
effects of the million dollars
Woodruff put into the last week
of the campaign, did I begin to
hope again.
Another hope brightened to-
ward confidence when, on the St-
turday before election, I sprung
them in the doubtful states, we
for stiffening those of our parti-
zans who were wavering. The
Scarborough speakers had, with
powerful effect, been taunting
us with our huge campaign
fund, daring us to disclose its
sources. On that Sunday morn-
ing, when it was too late for the
cpposition to discount me, I
boldly threw open a set of cam-
paign ledgers which showed that
our fund was just under a mil-
lion dollars, with the only large
subscription, the hundred thou-
sand which I myself had given.
Tens of thousands of our parti-
zans. longing for an excuse for
staying with us, returned cheer-
ing to the ranks — enough of
them in thedoubtful states, we
believed, to restore the floating
vote to its usual balance of
power.
Each horse of my team had
taken a turn at doing dangerous,
even menacing, threshing about;
but both were now quietly pul-
ling in the harness. Partizanship
as docile as Plutocracy. The
betting odds were six to five
against us. but we of the "‘in-
side” began to plunge on Bur-
bank and Howard
worn prematurely was filled to
a perfit fit And in what he
said as well as in the way he
said it there was an unexpected
dignity and breadth and force.
“I have made him President,”
I thought, “and it looks as if
cordingly. “When did you say
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On the tram going home, I
was nearer to castlebuilding
I. blow of pi a et.nl life.
My paths have not always
it straight and open, said I
myself; like all others who
dest “retreat.”
thirty thousand
to pay us a visit and inspect our splendid
selection of HAMMERMILL BOND
PAPERf in white, pink, blue, orange, etc.
man.
A ff» r he finished, (‘roffut
spoke, and Senator Berwick of
Illinois Then rose a few calls
for in. They were drowned in
a chorus of hoots, toots and
hisses Burbank cast a cuiek
glance of apprehension at me—
again that hidden conviction of
my vanity, this time shown in
dread lest it should goad me in-
to hating him I smiled reassur-
ingly at him— and I can say
will soon begin to judge us and
be judged from us.” j"h
Years of patient sowing
thought I, and at last the har-
vest! And what a harvest it
rise; it was six weeks before I
was able to leave my bed. Dur-
ing that savage illness I met,
each and every one of the reck-,
less drafts I had been drawing
against my reserve vitality. Four
times the doctors gave me up;
once even Frances lost hope.
When I was getting well she
confessed to me how she had
warned God that He need never
expect to hear from her again if;
her prayer for me were not an-
swered—and I saw’ she rather
Before I saw. I
him. I for the
servedly admired
But we had beaten him in the
cities where the machines and
not in Fredonia Such of the
big opposition papers as were
I hot inder our control sent re-
parters and raked out the whole
Perhaps it was the unusual-
’ ess of my speaking with feeling
that caused the tears to start in
his eyes. “Thank you, Harvey.”
he replied, clasping my hand in
both his. “I realize now the
grave responsibility. I need the
help of every friend—the true
’.t ip of every true friend. And
I know what I owe to you just
as clearly as if she were here to
remind me.”
I was too moved to venture
; reply. Woodruff and I drove
to the hotel together—the crowd
hissing me wherever it recogniz-
id me. Woodruff looked first on
one side then on the other, mut-
I, ring at them. “The fools!”
he said to me, with his abrupt,
cool laugh. “Just like them,
isn’t it? Cheering the puppet,
hissing its proprietor.”
I made no answer—what did
it matter? Not for Burbank’s
I osition and opportunity, as in
that hour of emotion they ap-
peared even to us who knew po-
litics from behind the scenes, not
for the reality of what the
sounding title of President seems
to mean, would I have changed
ith him. would I have paid the
degrading price he had paid. I
preferred my own position—if T
had bowed the knee, at least it
B. Graham Dav d
Up to date and complete equippment in charge of specia-
lists who know how. A physician in the building day and
. night. Five of our nurses speak German fluently. The best is
I the cheapest in the end. 51tf
pr sidency had made him a I've had to contract in getting
as director of the machine was it was the irony of fate my
causing the public to dwell to power thus ludicrously thwarted
much on the real nature of my by a triviality. Within twenty-
political activity. But I could tour hours I realized the danger
not bring myself to it. Instead, to our campaign I sent Wood-
commanded. But not until my dent. God bless you.”
speeches I had always kept the color ami
I set out for home to spend the
time with my children and to do
by telephone, as I easily could,
such directing of Woodruff as
might be necessary.
My daughter Frances was
driving me from the Fredonia
station. A man darted in front
of the horses, flung up his arms
and began to shriek curses at
me. If she had not been a skil-
ful driver, we should both have
been trown from the cart. As it
was, the horses ran several miles
before she got them under con-
trol, I sitting inactive, because
I knew how it would hurt her
pride if I should interfere.
When the horses were quiet,
she gave me an impetuous kiss
that more than repaid me for
the strain on my nerves. “You
are the dearest papa that ever
was!” she said. Then “Who
was he? He looked like a
crazy man!”
“No doubt he is,” was my
reply. And I began complimen-
ting her on her skill with hors-
es, chiefly to prevent her pres-
sing me about the man I had
heard, and had done. so much
lying that I had a horror of it,
and tried to maki my children
absolutely truthful my boy Ed
used to think up ami do mischief
just for the pleasure of pleasing
me by confessing. To make my
example effective, I was always
strictly truthful with them. T
did not wish to tell her who the
man was; but I instantly recog-
nized, through the drunken dis-
hevelment, my mutineer, Granby
- less than a year before one of
the magnates of the state. My
orders about him had been swift-
iy and literally obeyed. Desert-
nd by his associates, blacklisted
at the banks, beset by his cre-
ditors. harassed by the attorney
general, his assets chained with
injunctions, his liabilities given
triple fangs, he went bankrupt,
took to drink, became a sot and
a barroom lounger. His domi-
nant passion was hatred of me;
he discharged the rambling and
franaic story of his wrongs up-
on whoever would listen Ami
here he was in Fredonia!
I had one of my secretaries
harvest, indeed, and I was reap
ing what I had sown.
In the second week of January
I revolted against the doctors
and nurses and had my political
secretary, Wheelock, telephone
for Woodruff the legislature!
had elected him to the Senate
three days before. When he had
sat with me long enough to rea-
INPeetec that
ut unassoeiated
knew it was Granby.
I took Frances home When re-
turned, passing the swaying hor-
ror far on the other side of the
road. I got the lodge keeper,
end he and I went hack together
I had them telephone from the
lodge for the coroner and per-
sonally saw* to it that the corpse
should be reported as found in
the open woods a long distance
from my place. But Granby had
left a message “to the public”
in his room at ihe hotel: "Sen-
ator Sayler ruined me ami drove
its master.
“Doc.” said I. “do you want
to go to the Senate instead of
< ‘roffut ?”
By the flames on the torches
on either side I saw his amaze-
ment. “Me?” he exclaimed.
“Why, you forgot I’ve got a
past.”
“I do”’ said I. “ami so does
every one else. All we know is
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