CALEB CONOVER RAILROADER I-A £>TORY ©/* LOVE,POLITICS jNTRIGUt; "-LAOF A RICH POWERFUL BOSS i AND AN INTREPID YOUNG REFORMER- S' - ' BY ALBERT PAYSON TERMUNE- RI6HT P907 BY ALBERT PAVSON TERKUN^ CHAPTER V. In Two Camps. JLIT t ' le headquarters of the *1 1 Civic League sat Cllve SjflS Standish. With him were the committee chosen to con duct his campaign. Karl Ansel, a lean, hard-headed New Kngland giant, their chairman, and incidentally, cam paign manager, was going laboriously over a list of counties, towns and vil lages, corroborating certain notes he made from time to time, by referring to a big colored map of the Mountain State. "I've checked off the places that are directly under the thumb of the C. G. & X.," Ansel was explaining as the rest of the group leaned over to watch the course of his pencil along the map. "I'm afraid they are as hopelessly in Conover's grip as Gran ite Itself. It's in the rural districts, and in the towns that aren't depend ent on the main line, that we must find our strength. It's in uphill light at best, with—" "With a million-and-a-half people who are paying enormous taxes for which they receive scant value, who have thrust on them a legislature and other officials they are forced to elect at the Boss's order!" linlshed Stand ish. "Surely, It's an uphill light that's well worth while, if we can wake men to a sense of their own slavery, and the frauds they are forced to connlvo at And that's what we're going to do." The more experienced, if less en thusiastic, Ansel scratched his chin doubtfully. "The people, as a mass, are slow to wake," he observed. "Oftener they Just open one eye and growl at being bothered, and then roll over and go happily to sleep again while the Boss goes through their pockets. Don't start this campaign too optimistically, Mr. Standish. And don't get the idea the people are begging to be waked. If you wake them you've got to do It agalnßt their will. Not with any help of theirs. Maybe you can. Maybe you can't. As you say. It's perhaps worth a try. Even if —" "But they've been waked before," insisted Standish. "And when they do awaken, there are no half-meas ures about it Look how Jerome, on an Independent fight, won out against the Machine in 1905. Why should the Mountain State- -" "The people are sleepy by nature," laughed Ansel. "They wake up with a roar, chase the Boss out of their bouse, smash the Machine and then go back to bed again with the idea they're heroes. As soon as their eyes are shut, back strolls the Boss, mends his machine and reopens business at the old stand. And that's what you have to look forward to. But we've been all over this sort of thing be fore. I'll have your 'speech-route' made out in an hour, and start a man over It this afternoon to arrange about the halls and the 'papering' and the press work. Speaking of press work, 1 had your candidature telegraphed to New York to the Associated Press early this morning. There'll be a per fect cloud of reporters up here before night. We must arrange to see them before the Conover crowd can get hold of them. Sympathy from out-of- State papers won't do us any harm. The country at large has a pretty fair Idea of the way Conover runs the Mountain Btate. And the country likes to watch a good fight against long odds. There's lots of sympathy for the under dog—as long as the sympa thizer has no money on the upper one." "How about the sketch of the situ ation that you were having Craig write out, telling about the stolen franchises, the arbitrary tax-rate, the machine-made candidates, the railroad rule and all that? It ought to prove a good campaign document If he han dles the subject well." "Oh, he's handled it all right. I've read the rough draft Takes Conover from the very start. Tells of his boy hood In the yards of the C. G. & X., and how he bullied and schemed until he got into the management's offices, the string of saloons he ran along the route and the drink-checks he made the men on hlB section cash In for liquor at his saloons, and all that Then hi* career as Alderman, when ha found out beforehand where the aew reservoir lands and City Hall site were to be, and his buying them up, on mortgage, and clearing his first big pile. And that deal he worked in 'bearing' the C. G. & X.' stock to sl.lO, and scaring everyone out and scoop ing the pot; that's brought in, too. And he's got the Btory of Conover's gradually working the railroad against the State and the State against the road, till he had a throat grip on both, and —" "Walt a moment!" Interrupted Standish. "Is all the sketch made up of that sort of thing?" "Most of it Good, red-hot —" "It must be done all over, then. We are not digging up Conover's personal past, but his Influence on the State and on the Democratic Party. I'm not swinging the muckrake Or fling lng dirt at my opponent That sort of vituperation—" | "But It's' hot stuff, I toll you, that sort of literature! It helps-a lot. You can't hope to win if you wear kid gloves In a game like this." "What's the use arguing?" said Standish pleasantly. "If the league was rash enough to choose me to represent it, then the League must put up with my peculiarities. And I don't Intend to rise to the Capitol on any mud piles. If you cun show me how Conover's early frauds and his general crookedness affect the Issues of the campaign, then I'll give you leave to publish his "/hole biography. But till then let's run clean, shan't we?" , s ___> "But it's hot stuff, I tell you, that sort of literature!" "'Clean!'" echoed Ansel aghast "I've been in this business a matter of twenty-live years, and I never yet heard of a victory won by drawing room methods. But have your own way. I suppose you know, though, that they'll rake up every lie and slur against you they can get their hands on?" "I suppose so. Hut that won't affect the general issue either. You don't seem to realize, Ansel, that this isn't the ordinary routine campaign. It's an effort to throw off Boss rule and to free a State. Politics and person alities don't enter into it at all. I'd as soon have run on the Republican as the Democratic ticket if it weren't that the Republican Party in this State is virtually dead. The Demo cratic nominee for governor in the Mountain State is practically the gov ernor-elect. That Is why I —" "Excuse me, Mr. Standish," said a clerk, entering from the outer office, "Mr. Conover would like a word with you." The committee stared at one an other, unbelieving. "H'm!" remarked .Ansel, breaking the silence of surprise, "I guess the campaign's on in earnest, all right. Shall you see him?" "Yes. Show him in, please, Gard ner." "He says, sir, he wants to speak with you alone," added the clerk. "Tell him the League's committeo are in session, and that he must say whatever he has to say in their pres ence." The clerk latlred and reappeared a few moments later, ushering in— Gerald Conover. A grunt of disappointment from Ansel was the first sound that greeted the long youth as he paused irreso lute Just inside the committee-room door. "Good-morning, Gerald," said Standish, rising to <?reet the unex pected visitor; "we thought it was your father who —" "No. And he didn't send me here, either," blurted out Gerald. His pasty face was still twitching, and his usual ly Immaculate collar awry from the recent paternal interview. "I came here on my own account," he went on, with the peevish wrath of a child. "I came here to tell you I swing over a hundred votes. Maybe a hundred more. My father says so himself. And I've come to join your League." A gasp of amazement ran around the table. Then, with a crow of de light, Ansel sprang up. "Great!" he shouted. "His son! It's good for more votes than you know, Standish! Why, man, it's a bonanza! When even a man's own son can't —" Standish cut him short. "Are you drunk, Gerald?" he asked. "No, I'm not!" vociferated the lad. "I'm dead cold sober, rtnd I'm doing this with my eyes open. I want to Join your League, and I'll work like a dog for your election." "But why? You and I have never been especially good friends. You've never shown any Interest in politics or ret —" "Well, I will now, you bet! I'll make the old man wish he'd packed me oft to New York by the first train. He'll Bweat for the way he treated me before he's done. I suppose I've got to work secretly for you, so he won't suspect. But I'll do none the less work for that: and I can keep you posted on the other Side's moves, too. If Pm to be tied to this damned one-horse town by Father's orders till after election, Pll make him sorry he ever-—" "Good for you!" cried Ansel. • "You've got the spirit of a man, after all. Here's a bunch of our member ; ship blanks. Fill this one out, and i give the rest to your club friends. We ! —why, Standish!" he broke off, furi ' ous and dumfounded; for Clive had calmly stepped between the two, taken the, membership blank from Gerald's shaky hand and torn it across. "We don't care for members of your sort, Gerald," he said, with a cold contempt that was worse than a kick. "This League was formed to help our City and State, not to gratify private grudges; for white men, not for curs who want to betray their own flesh and blood. Get out of here!" "Standish!" protested the horrified Ansel, "you're crazy! You're throw ing away our best chance. You are—" "If this apology for a human being is our 'best chance,' I'll throw him out bodily, unless he goes at once," re torted Clive, advancing on the cower ing and utterly astonished boy. "Why!" sputtered) Gerald, as he backed doorward, before the menacing approach of the Leaguer, "I thought you'd want me —I —- Oh, I'll go, then, if you've no more sense than that! But I'll find a way of downing the old man in spite of you! Maybe you'll be glad enough to got my help when the time comes! I—" His heels hit against the threshold in his retrograde inarch. Still de claiming, he stepped over the sill into the outer office, and Clive Standish slammed the door upon him, break ing off his threats in the middle of their fretful outpouring. "There," said Clive, returning to the gaping, frowning committeemen, "that's off our hands. Now let's get down to business." "Mr. Standish," remarked Ansel, after a moment's battle with words he found hard to check, "you're the most Quixotic, impractical idealist that ever got hold of the foolish idea he had a ghost of a chance for success in politics. And," lie added after a pause, "I'm blest if I don't think I'd rather lose with a leader like you than win with any other man in the Mountain State." Meanwhile, at the head of the great study table in his Pompton Avenue "Mausoleum" sat Caleb Conover, Rail roader. And about him, on either side of the board, like feudal retainers of old, were grouped the pick of his lieu tenants and henchmen. A rare co terie they were, these Knights of Graft. Separated by ten thousand varying intersts, social strata and as pirations, they were as one on the main issue—their blind adherence to the Boss and to the lightest of his orders. This impelling force was difficult of defining. Love, fear, trust, desire for spoils? Perhaps a little of all four; perhaps much; perhaps an in definable something apart from these. Yet, whatever the reason of Caieb Conover's dominance, none could for a moment doubt its presence. So ever-present was it that it had 1< ng since choked down all opposition from within his own ranks. At the Boss's right into day's con clave sat Billy Shevlin, most trusted and adoring of all his followers. At his left was Guy Bourke, Alderman and the Boss's jackal. Next to Billy was Bonham, Mayor of Granite, uud next Giaconro Ilalta/.zi, who held the whole Italian section force of the C. G. & X.and the Sicilian quarter of Granite in the hollow of his un washed hand. Beyond was Nicholas Caine, proprietor of the Star, and to his right Beiser, the Democratic State Chairman. Between a second news paper editor and the President of the Board of Aldermen lounged Kerrigan, the Ghetto saloon-keeper. A sprinkl ing of railroad men, heelers and dis trict leaders made lip the remainder. Conover was speaking: "And that's the layout," said he. "And that's why I'm not content for this to be just a plain 'win.' Two years ago I thought Shearn would be our best man for governor. So 1 gave the word, and Shearn gut in with a decent majority. But it's got to be a landslide this time, and not a trick's to be overlooked in the whole ha..d. Nick, you know the line of editorial policy to start in to-morrow's Star. And be on the lookout for the first break in any of the League's speeches. It's easier to think of a fool thing than not to say it, and those Reform jays are always putting their feet in their mouths when they try to preach poli tics. And, knowing nothing about the game, they're sure to talk a heap. They never seem to realize that the man who really practices politics hasn't time to preach it." (To Be Continued.} How's This for Mudf Of all the yarns that ever came down the line regarding deep mud, the following should be entitled to the blue ribbon. It happened in the place where mud originated. A man was walking along the road side one summer day and noticed a fairly good looking hat out in the road. Reaching out with his cane, ho gave it a cut and was startled to hear a voice exclaim: "Here, what the deuce are you doing?" Then he made the astonishing dis covery that the owner of the head piece was under the hat, up to his ears in mud. "Great heavens!" exclaimed tho man who had hit the hat. "Is that mud as deep as that?" "Deep!" cried the victim. "Why, man alive, I'm standing on a load of hay!" pROPOSE» AMENDMENTS TO THE L CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMON WEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL OR REJECTION. BY THE GENERAL AS SEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. AND PUBLISH ED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OP THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PUR SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITUTION. Number One. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to section twen ty-six of article live of tho Constitution of tho Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Resolved (If the Senate concur). That tho following amendment to section twen ty-six of, article five of the Constitution of Pennsylvania be, and the same Is here by, proposed, In accordance with tho eighteenth article thereof:— That section 2G of Article V., which reads as follows: "Section 20. All laws re lating to courts shall be general and of uniform operation, and the organization. Jurisdiction, and powers of all courts of the same class or grade, so far as regu lated by law, and the force and effect of the process and Judgments of such courts, shall be uniform; and the General Assem bly Is hereby prohibited from creating other courts to exercise the powers vested by this Constitution in the Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas and Orphans' Courts," be amended so that the same shall road as follows: Section 20. All laws relating to courts shall be general and of uniform opera tion, and the organization. Jurisdiction, Mid powers of all courts of the same class Dr grade, so far as regulated by law, and the force and effect of the process and judgments of such courts, shall bo uni form; but, notwithstanding any provi sions of this Constitution, the General Assembly shall have full power to estab lish new courts, fi-om time to time, as tho same may be needed in any city or coun ty, and to prescribe the powers and Ju vlsdiction thereof, and to increase the number of Judges In any courts now ex isting or hereafter created, or to reorgan ize the same, or to vest in other courts the Jurisdiction theretofore exercised by Bourts not of record, nnd to abolish tha same wherever it may be deemed neces sary for the orderly and efficient adminis tration of Justice. A true copy of Resolution No. 1. ROBERT McAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Two. RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Consti tution of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania, so as to eliminate the require ment of payment of taxes as a qualifi cation of the right to vote. Resolved (If the House of Representa tives concur), That the following amend ment to the Constitution of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania ite, and the same Is hereby, proposed, in accordance with the eighteenth article thereof: That section one of article eight be amended, by striking out the fourth numbered paragraph thereof, so that the said section shall read as follows: Section 1. Every male citizen twenty mo years of age, possessing the follow ing qualifications, shall be entitled to voto at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the General Assembly may enact. First. He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. Second. He shall have resided In the State ono year (or if, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he shall have re moved therefrom and returned, then sir months), Immediately preceding tho elec tion Third. He shall have resided in the "lection district where ho shall offer to vote at least two months Immediately preceding the election. A true copy of Resolution No. 2. ROBERT McAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Three. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constl. tutlon of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania, so as to consolidate the courts of common pleas of Allegheny County. Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate nnd House of Representatives of tho Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen eral Assembly met, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Penn sylvania bo, and tho same Is hereby, pro posed. in accordance with the eighteenth article thereof:— That section six of article five be amended, by striking out the said sec tion. and inserting in place thereof the following: Section t). In the county of Philadel phia all the jurisdiction and powers now vested in tho district courts and courts of common pleas, subject to such changes ris may be made by this Constitution or by law. shall be In Philadelphia vested In five distinct and separate courts of equal nnd co-ordinate jurisdiction, composed of three judges each. Tho said courts in Philadelphia shall ho designated respect ively as the court of common pleas num ber one, number two, number three, number four, and number five, but the number of said courts may be by law Increased, from time to time, nnd shall be In like manner designated by successive numbers. The number of Judges In any of said courts, or In any county where the establishment of an additional court may be authorized by law, may be In creased. from time to time, and when ever such increase shall amount In tho whole to three, such three Judges shall compose a distinct and separate court as aforesaid, which shall bo numl>erod as aforesaid. In Philadelphia all suits shall be Instituted In tho said courts of com mon plens without designating the num ber of the said couft, and the several courts shall distribute and apportion tho business among them in such manner as shall be provided by rules of court, nnd each court, to which any suit shall be thus assigned, shall have exclusive Juris diction thereof, subject to chango of venue, as shall he provided by law. In the county of Allegheny all tho Jurisdiction nnd powers now vested In the several numbered courts of common pleas shall be vested In one court of com mon pleas, composed of all the Judges in commission In said courts. Such Juris diction nnd powers shall extend to all proceedings at law and In equity which shall have been Instituted In tho several numbered courts, and shall be subject to such changes as may be made by law. and subject to change of venuo as pro vided by law. The president Judge of said court shall be selected as provided by law. The number of Judges In said court mny be by law Increased from time to time. This amendment shall take effect on the first day of January suc ceeding Its ndoption. A true copy of Resolution No. 3. ROBERT McAFEE, Secretary of tho Commonwealth. Number Four. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to section eight, article nine, of the Constitution of Penn sylvania. Section 1. Be It resolved by the Senate nnd House of Representatives of tho Com monwealth of Pennsylvania In General Assembly met. That the following is pro posed as an amendment to tho Constitu tion of tho Commonwealth of Pennsylva nia, In accordance with the provisions of tho eighteenth article thereof:— Amendment to Article Nine, Section Eight. Section 2. Amend section eight, article nine, of tho Constitution of Pennsylvania, which reads as follows: "Section 8. The debt of any countv city, borough. township, school district, op other municipality or incorporated dis trict, except as herein provided, shall nev er exceed seven per centum upon the as sessed value of the taxable property there in. nor shall any such municipality or district incur any new debt, or increase its indebtedness to an amount exceeding two per centum upon such assessed val uation of property, without the assent of the electors thereof at a *• bile election in such manner as shall be piovided by law; but any city, the debt of which now ex ceeds seven per centum of such assessed valuation, may be authorized by law to Increase the same three per centum. In the aggregate, at any one time, upon such valuation," so as to read as follows: Section 8. The debt of any county, city, borough, township, school district, or oth er municipality or Incorporated district, except as herein provided, shall never ex ceed seven per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable property therein, nor shall any such municipality or district in cur any new debt, or Increase its indebt edness to an amount exceeding two per centum upon such assessed valuation of property, without the assent of the elec tors thereof at a public election in such manner as shall be provided by law; but any city, the debt of which now exceeds Steven per centum of such assessed val uation, may be authorized by law to In crease the same three per centum. In tho aggregate, at any one time, upon such valuation, except that any debt or debts hereinafter incurred by the city and coun ty of Philadelphia for the construction and development of subways for transit purposes, or for the construction of wharves and docks, or the reclamation of land to bo used in the construction of a system of wharves and docks, as public Improvements, ownQii. or to be owned by said city and county of Philadelphia, and which shall yield to the city and countv of Philadelphia current net revenue in ex cess of the interest on said debt or debts and of the annual Installments necessary for the cancellation of said debt or debts, may be excluded in ascertaining the pow er of the city and county of Philadelphia to become otherwise Indebted: Provided. That a sinking fund for their cancellation shall be established and maintained. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 4. ROHERT Me A FEE. Secretary of the Commonwealth. 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Not only will Mr. Tenei and his as sociates receive the support of this element, but they will also have the votes of thousands of Philadelphia in dependents who might under cer tain conditions back an Independent Republican for governor, but who un der no circumstnnces would support a radical Bryanlte Democrat like Berry. The losp of these two elements of the reform forces has completely de moralized the soldiers of fortune who are behind the Berry movement, fol lowing the attacks of Democratic poll tlclans upon wtiom they confidently counted to stand by Berry. The aggressive campaign waged for Senator Grim, the Democratic nomi nee for governor, has resulted in a lining up of the Democ»jtic workers In the regular Democratic organiza tion. Democratic leaders who were expected to be for Berry have come out for Orim, In order to retain their standing with the Democracy. Where they have failed to do so they have been asked to resign or been expelled from Democratic committees. Eugene C. Bonnlwell, Berry's cam paign manager, threatened with ex pulsion, has resigned from the chair manship of the Delaware county Dem ocratic committee. While the Berry Democrats and the Orlm Democrats are fighting anion'.' themselves reports from all over the state indicate harmony among the Re publicans. Chairman Henry F. Walton and Secretary W. Harry Baker*of the Republican state committee, have th< j preliminary work up to date and have their plans matured for an aggressive campaign. Gubernatorial Candidate Tener an., his colleagues, Messrs. Reynolds, Wright and Houck, will address a meeting at Charlerol on Saturday, Sept. 3, when Mr. Tener's neighbors propose to make a great demonstra tion in his honor. They will be in Pittsburg on Labor Day, Sept. 5; in Philadelphia. Sept. in at the State League of Renubli-; rlubs, Pottsville, Sept. 15, and In Le high county on Sept. 17. Boy Fisherman Caught Body of Baby. 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