. Pace 6. EE EE Ss i An Enemy of the People Fourth of July Story HOWARD FIELDING A By rig 1004. Charles W. Hooke TS TRS TT TTS hhh hkihd hihi hthii oe oe oe oo oe eo ee oo ee he ok oo ok the been twent 3 Stoughton and m both parties in county, for prospered except } The city always held elaborate cele brations of patriotic chief address was Stoughton | livered es a m na He was a political | called the boss d the over ght fairly Southborough an noe man or measure with hl 8 consent festivals, an merely echo the Fourth important, by our | tive NHeWwWs less to be to address i fello that f Amer i OR ’ v cit n such ZEUS an occasion which comu rated the bi ence ns t} «Imo can independ “YOU OUGHT TO BE UNDER SOME FORM OF \ RESTRAINT.” mained unsigned. Hearings were held, and the mayor listened publicly to many honest men and privately to Joshua B. Stoughton It was expected that the mayor would sign on July 2, but he did not do 80, and on the morning of the next day came the announcement that Stoughton bad been attacked by tonsilitis and could not deliver the oration on the Fourth. Our correspondent sent word imme diately to the city editor, “1 wrote the article which first pro tested agalust Stoughton's speaking on the Fourth,” he sald, “but I'm no svorker of miracles, I'm only a prophet. 1 wrote the article after consultation with Mr. Dunbar, oggner of the paper, but neither of us thdfight that it would amount to anything. The fact is that neither the article nor the public feel ing has produced this result. I've got it straight that Stoughton was bluffed out by one man. Who this man was | haven't yet learned, but I'll know to morrow, and it will be a great story, for the one man must have the inside facts about this franchise steal” 80 1 was sent to Southborough early on the morning of July 4 to find the one man and get the great story, \ 1 was to meet our local correspond: ent in master's office, but instead 1 received a note saying: the station nag Gone off wa at the office at 10:30 DI K a A rumor LON ation master himself ind his by n wise smile gave me countenance was il Nitaddon mas great collectors of news, 1 re said 1, oftly, “what do you th inst, a id LT) De ‘ pater wl d h around he doesn now wou the world three times and tie In a dou ble bowknot if 1 had to bluff Stoughton out of speaking today I'd have stopped that ordinance before the board of aldermen Why didn't that occur to Porter's alleged mind 7 And he proceeded to show me In about five minutes that I was on the wrong trall absolutely “If you want to get at the bottom of this,” sald he, “I'll tell you how to do It. 1 can’t, because I'm tied up with the man in a business way.” With what man? “With Lawyer Sam Danforth. He's the man who called Stoughton off Danforth was counsel for the trolley company at one time, and they had a row. He knows enough about the In side of this Infamous business to play this trick, for that's all It is; Just a trick to annoy the raliroad crew. Dan. forth doesn't dare use his Influence against the franchise, because he's been in the same business himself. You go to see him, but don't tell him I sent you." I. went to see Danforth and found him in his office pacing the floor. A wheezy old rascal he was and one that was too near the grave to be so busy with igiquity. When | told him what I knew he nearly choked, “You ought to be under some form of restraint, young man” he gasped, | “You're too weakminded to be at large. What? I? 1 pulled the string that | choked off old Josh Stoughton today? | Ha, bal Not if the court knows itself. rea been able I'd blamed sight rather he had talked about the ‘best interests of Southibor- ough’ and the glorious benefits of gly ing all our streets to a pany for thing. Yes, sir, that would have suifed me first rate.” The man 1 consed to weed nll thi rallway com- n¢ wus obviously slucere, and Instead 1 of flattery and all of humble d« intagonize him POWErs Terence fool” YOu ot altogether n sald raight Corts hton L an ind I'll give only one man th with Josh Ii this thh Hous y Of Know addre today aud Blodgett Mippen of dn ivered the Pus it 1 § Con and I had half y wit right down In Danforth's ncing write my and make story iawn party bu us “Where Can wi eh 5 I find him ?™" tha oF 1 asked W the bribery In the franchise busily "Yeu sald 1 "there's no doubt of It “It was he whe did this thing.' she, “in the Interest of the publie Olmstead says so “This Is a Joke! “Not at all, my friend. 1 have seen MM: Goodwin. 1 called upon him. 1 told him that I had learned that it was he who persuaded Mr. Stoughton not to speak.” I half rose from my chalr and stared at her "What 4d he do 7" 1 gasped “He was terribly excited. He looked ar if he was going to faint or have a At. He offered me 80 If I'd tell him where | got the Informmtion, and then he offered me a hundred If 1 wouldn't print It. You ses he thought 1 was a reporter.” “My blessed grandmother.” 1 exclaimed “this beats anything that ever happened! We have landed the story.” “Of course we have.’ “But I's all an accident. Mr. Olmstead was Joking with you, Curtis Goodwin I» the chief of the raliroad syndicate and the crooldest old rascal that ever breathed the breath of Ife. Mr. Ome stead had no Mea that It was he whe called Stoughton off. But It was We've caught him. He was so amased that be gave himself away. He called Btoughton off because he was afraid he might say something Injudiclous. In fact, Stoughton was In a place where he couldn't either of the franchise or not speak of It y didn't 1 see this before? Nina, you're the orly reporter In the state.” Well, that's the way 1 got my story, and I had a clean beat on it. Put 1 didn’t get to the lawn party. I worked all | day and all night, and with the ald of the | knowledge that it was Goodwin who had | coerced Stoughton I dug up orookedness | right and left. The upshot of It was that | we wrecked Stoughton's power and foroed | “the mayor to velo the franchise * ! sala » prey A a ie a it v . PLANT LICE. 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