PAGE TWO
THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1913.
HIS RISE
TO
POWER
By Henry Russell Miller,
Author of
"The Man Higher Up"
Copyrl(ht, 1911, by the Bobbs-McrriU
Company
SYNOPSIS
Senator Murchell, leader of the etate
iBMhlne, and Shoehan, local boss of New
CiMlsea, offer the nomination for district
attorney to John Dunmeade. Dunmeade
la independent In his political Ideas.
Dunmeade will accept the nomination.
Hlg father, a partisan Judce, concratu
' tetes him. Ills Aunt Roberta urges John
to call on Katherlno Hampden, dauehter
of a capitalist.
Katherlno Hampden Is a worshiper of
Boocess. She and John are friends. Jere
my Applesate, a political dependent, cam
Potass for John ad the state ticket.
Iti'Ne Cfielsca lives "Warren Blake, a
BMdel young- bank cashier, connected with
Hampden In "high finance." They try
without success for John's aid.
Tho rottenness of polities In his state
and party as revealed la his campaign dls
i Jci- F calls upon Katherlae.
Katherlne's peril In a runaway re
veals to her and John their unspoken
olve. John publicly "turns down"
the machine of his party.
John will not compromise with his
conscience even for the sake of win
ning Katherlno, and the two part.
The course of his son Is disapproved by
Judgo Dunmeade. John is elected and
puts Sheehan on trial for political corrup
tion. Shoehan Is convicted and flees. John
meets Haiff, a novelist, who is Introduced
to him by Warren Blake.
Hale and John visit the Hampdens.
Blako proposes to Katherlne and Is re
jected. Ho praises John to her. Murchell
has a visitor.
The visitor is Sackett, head of tho
Atlantic .railroad, trying to keep the
Michigan out of tho Steel City. He
wants Murchell to retire. The lat
ter cannot induce John to stop his
attacks on the machine. John and
Katherlno meet.
Bho still thinks John a follower of Im
possible ideals. He loses In his light for
cleanliness In state politics and falls III.
Murchell offers financial aid to the Dun
meades. John recovers and continues his fight,
aided by Hats. In the Steel City he meets
Katherlne, who Is courted by Gregg, a
'financially successful man.
Murchell loses control of the machlno to
Sherrod and retires nominally from poli
tics. Sherrod gets drunk, and a messen
ger Is sent to Murchell for aid.
Sherrod has embezzled JOOO.OOO of state
money. Murchell resumes control after
aiding his foe to conceal the crime and
make restitution.
"jonn Dunmeade," she criea, "1
'flon't know yet how much of what you
have snld Is true. And I don't know
"whether you havo been weak or strong.
But there nre finer things than the
strength of heartless Justice. One of
them Is must be to be merciful, to
want to show mercy where you owe
none, where you believe you can gain
nothing, ns you have done. I can't I
shan't try to thank you. But I shall
always be praying for you all the good
things you havo earned as you go
and you will go onward."
He merely repeated an old saying.
"I haven't thought as far ahead as to
morrow. And now you'd better go bo
fore church lets out. If people saw
you here It might set them thinking."
Warren Blako's body was buried and
his tragedy with It. The luck had held
to tho last. No suspicion of a lurking
mystery had been breathed. And Wil
liam Murchell returned from tho fu
neral to n birth.
Ills enemies have enlliM him inhuman,
lacking In moral sensibility. There
nre episodes in his career which sup
rjort the charge. But deep down with
m nim had always laid something that,
long pregnating, now fought to win to
the light. lie was suddenly arraigned
before himself, become by the tragedy
most pitiless of Judges. The vigorous
mentnllty that had hungered and
thirsted for action, lusted for sharp
combat, sought insatiably for power
and over more power, now turned upon
himself, with precise, merciless strokes
dissected his lifo for him, revealed its
essential ugliness, disclosed overlooked
potentialities.
It was tho evening after the funeral.
IIo was alone In his library. But he
was not reading. Ho was angrily
watching tho gathering of a belated
force In his existence.
IIo frowned when from tho hall came
tho sounds of ultcrcatlon, heated on
ono side and coolly confident on tho
other. Then the door was thrown
open, and Hnlg, followed by tho prot
estant man servant, entered. Tho nov
elist briskly crossed the room and
planted himself In a chair before Mur
chell. Tho Involuntary host greeted him
Inhospitably, "I told Jim I would seo
nobody tonight. What do you want?"
"You remember, Saturday night I
said you and I would haro to discuss
tho matter of payment? 'Tho time
has come, tho walrus said.' "
"Well?"
"Senator Murchell, havo you a con
science V
"Aro you trying to bo Impertinent,
young man?"
"How impertinent? I'm merely try
ing to verify an impression. Tho oth
er night, whllo you wero watching
Warren Blako die. I cot the notion
tHaryou had one: "Now Warren Blako
Is out of the wny. Hampden wod't
bo disgraced. There's to be no scandal.
Your plans to savo tho bank are un
der way. Other plans of yours aro no
longer in jeopardy. So It's time to
think of payment. I have Just come
from Dunmeade. IIo Isn't a very
happy ninn, Senator Murchell. ne's
oppressed by the knowlcdgo that ho
has boon weak. Ho has lost his pride,
his belief In himself, his sense of ab
solute honosty call It soul for short
The poor fool even thinks he Is to
blame for Warren Blake's shooting
himself. You and I know better. We
know who killed Cock Hobln." Hnlg
laughed Insinuatingly.
"You have a strange sense of hu-.
mor. Just what are you trying to In
sinuate?" "I mean that wo know that tho man
who killed Warren Blake was tho
man who killed Crelghton, Hawkins,
Delehanty, Burns, Schneider, Lnrkln
and Blnke. And he's the fellow that
created nn atmosphere of dishonesty
In political banks and public treas
uries, mnde opportunities for thievery,
encouraged and profited by peculation
In short, tho man who devised and
built the machine whose creatures and
victims have paid the penalty of their
crimes with suicide. Do I mnko my
self clear?"
Murchell sat up angrily. "That Isn't
true. I'm not responsible If a few
weaklings aren't able to resist tempta
tion and take the cnslcst wny nut."
"It was Cain, I believe." naig pur
red, "who first pleaded that excuse."
"See here. Halg! If you have any
thing important to say, soy It Other
wise" Hnlg leaned over, interrupting men
acingly, tapping tho senntor's knee to
emphasize his words: "I'd advise you
to listen. Will you?"
"Go on."
"That's sensible." nnlg resumed his
easy attitude. "Lot's take up Dun
meade's ense. nis mouth is closed by
his love for Katherlno Hampden. The
question now Is, who profits most by
his silence and hence will have to pay?
It isn't Ilnmpden. I think 1 under
stand the political situation pretty well.
Just now, when you're trying to scram
ble back Into power and Jerry Brent
has taken their convention out of the
hands of your friends of the opposi
tion for another bank in which you
politicians have hnd your dirty fingers
to fall, with nnother cashier putting a
mussy little hole in his head, would
be most Inopportune. Also, you've put
up money to cover Hampden's short
age. I've never heard you accused of
doing anything for anybody without
return. And since you've put up a lot
of money without security, it must be
because silence Just now is particularly
valuable to you. Now do you get the
point? Are you ready to pay?"
"Haven't I paid enough?"
"Can you ever pay enough to balance
what Warren Blako and John Dun
meade hove paid?"
"What do you want then?"
"Well, you're trying to get back into
power through the convention. The
general impression Is that you can't
beat Sherrod. But I guess differently.
You're not the kind of man to go back
into the scramble unless the chances
for a win nre pretty good. Well nom
inate John Dunmeade."
"The thing," exclnlmed Murchell, and
extreme irritation was speaking "Is
preposterous!"
"You hnve thought of it as much as
that, then? But why preposterous to
nominate a fine, big, honest man?
Measure him against Wash Jenkins or
any one of your kind you choose; his
character is something you haven't
been able to go to the people with for
many n year in this state. And his
nomination would pull the teeth of
dangerous Jerry Brent."
"Power," said the senator virtuous
ly, "isn't to be taken lightly. Even it
I could do It, which isn't probable, I
certainly don't propose to make a Joke
or a fool of myself before the political
public by helping n narrow, pig headed,
unpractical romancer to a powerful of
fice."
" 'Unpractical' nnd 'romancer' you
need a new point of vlow, senator.
John Dunmeado Is the most practical
man I know, because he sees true, sees
evil ns evil and good as good. II this
state were to follow his ideal of sim
ple, .straightforward common sense
honosty, political corruption would
cease to exist, a vast amount of Injus
tice would bo corrected and popular
government Justified. You'll have to
find another excuse, Senator Murchell."
"Well, then," said tho senator grim
ly, "you may put It that I, a seeker
after the valueless, don't propose to
help a practical man who has rejected
my honest offer of friendship and
spent six years vilifying me before tho
people of this stnte."
"So that's why It's preposterous?
That's tho measure of your sort, is it?
Fighting you, telling the truth about
you, aro what disqualify a man for
public office. You grind everybody,
everything life, death, tragedy, love
in the mills of your greedy ambition
and you are willing to pay only tho
least penny you must. Blako the sui
cide, Hampden tho emnczzter, uuw
meado the lover, aro but so many
pawns in tho gamo of. Murchell the
can you give mo tho word?"
"Tour vivid Imagination ought to bo
equal to that." But tho senator began
to feel that ho was nearing tho point
where patience ceased to bo a virtue.
"For once It balks. Dunmcadc's
mouth Is closed. But, Senator Mur
chell, I know as much as he." Ho
sprang to his feet. "What's to hinder
mo from publishing tho scandal, from
telling the people that another bank
has'been looted by the politicians, an
other added to the list of Crelghton,
Hawkins, Delehanty"
"I thought we'd come to that .I'm
won't do It." f
Halg seated himself on the table, tho
homely, cadaverous, features lighting
up in a sardonic grin. -"Now the funny
part of It is,, you aren'jrN fm're whether
I'm bluffing or not. Let me assure
you, I nm not. We'ro a pretty tri
angle, each with the ?rop,i'qn the, man
in front of him. You hold over 'Dun
meade's bend the fact of Hampden's
disgrace, he gets me with his friend
ship nnd I can bring you down with
my knowledge of this bank business.
I'd hate to lore Dunmeade'B regard
by confronting him with tho necessity
of prosecuting his lady love's father.
But, by the Lord! I'm not afraid to fire
first. And I think you believe that."
Murchell did not answer. Ho was
making a strong effort to control his
rising lrrltntlon. But be listened in
tently because he did not know nnlg
well enough to decide whether tho lnt
ter was really dangerous.
"You think my motive Is lacking per
haps?" Halg Inquired coolly. "Do you
remember Wrenn George Wrenn of
Clarion or have there been so many
Wrenns that you can't keep track of
them? Let me tell you his story. He
was a preacher not a very strong
man, but n fine, big, clean hearted' fel
low something like John Dunmeade
who believed In his fellowmen ,nnd
loved them, the kind that would sit up
all night with any pool, suffering!
wretch or share his last dollar with
those who needed it less than he did.
Everybody loved him. He mnrrled n
widow who had one son. He was a
good husband nnd a perfect father to
that boy. I know, because I was the
boy. They hnd a reform wavelet in
Clarion nnd sent Wrenn to the legisla
ture. That was the year you almost
failed of re-election to the senate. It
cost you a million and a quarter to
win. you rany remember. There was a
point where you needed Just one vote,
nnd your decoys got after Wrenn. ne
held out for awhile, but Oh. you
know how It works, ne was poor,
there was more money in sight than
he had over heard of, and they found
his price at $17,000. And he was cheap,
too. fompnratively. I think he must
have bien temporarily out of his mind,
for he didn't really care for money.
He went "home u shame broken man.
They couldn't prove it on him but
everybody knew he bad taken money.
They turned against him, his wife died
broken hearted, nnd he had to leave
Clarion. Tho money was soon spent;
that kind never lasts. He went down
hill fast nnd finally, a miserable,
drunken wretch, he put a bullet
through his head. I saw him do it
Just as Warrea Blake did It So you
can cut still nnother notch in your gun
eight on the list now Crelghton"
"Quit that!"
'Good God." Halg jeered, "I believe
he has n conscience, utter all! Cau
you sleep o' nights. Senator Murchell?"
Murchell got slowly to his feet. In
his eyes a light so terrible thnt even
Hnlg for a moment was startled.
White heat consumes quickly. The
dumb passion soon burned itself out
The rigid pose melted Into one of
utter weariness.
"He wouldn't take It at my hands."
The arrogant habit of a lifetime had
ceased to protest
"Dunmeade? Oh. that's a problem
in psychology. I think he will. In
fact I know It, since I came here with
full power of attorney from him. With
men like Dunmeade tho first compro
mise is the crucial one. As to means,
you will find him more tractable, I
fancy. My own opinion is he will be
a more useful man for it He won't
bo very happy at first, though. I'll be
saying good night"
He took n few steps toward the door,
then stopped, hesitating, ne turned
back. His insolent, overbearing man
ner fell from him.
"Senator," he said quietly, "I may
have overdone it Wrenn, Blake, all
those fellows aren't worth a qualm.
Dunmeado is"
But Murchell wns not listening. Ho
had forgotten Hnlg. He was watch
ing the second birth of a young man
who once hnd been.
Not tho next day, nor the next, but
on the third, the travail ended, Wil
liam Murchell emerged from his brief,
mysterious retirement to place himself
at tho head of his clamorous troops.
It has been said that tho campaign
which followed was the most brilliant
of his career.
(Continued In Next Friday's Issue.)
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Hamlin, Feb. 2C.
Miss D. P. Hamlin is spending a
few days in Honesdale as the guest
of Mrs. C. E. Mills.
Stewart Peet, who has ibeen 111, is
able to be about again.
Tht W. C. T. U. will meet on Fri
day of this week, Feb. 28, with Mrs.
C. It. Spangenberg.
Clifford Chapman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Chapman, has been quite
sick, but is improving.
Miss Alice Brooks visited in Haw
ley over Sunday last.
Miss M. A. Hodgson Is visiting
Mrs. Birdsall in Scranton.
The L. A. S. met on Thursday,
Feb. 20, with Mrs. Flora Goodrich.
A good attendance was reported.
Mrs. W. H. Alt was a guest of Mrs.
Cobb at Bidwell Hill last week.
The W. C. T. U. social, held at
Mrs. Harriet Bortree's on Saturday
evening, was pronounced a success
by all who were present. The attend
ance, 'however, was not largo on ac
count of the bad roads and inclem
ent weather.
Harry Ehrhardt, of Newfoundland.
was a week-end guest at the home of
F. A. Peet.
Norman Jones, Scranton, paid a
flying visit to friends in town on
Washington's birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Peet spent
Sunday with Mrs. Peet's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank fWalker, at Center
vllle. Flora Goodrich, LeBoy Pelton
and Ivan Williams made a trip to
Honesdale on Monday.
Dr. W. A. Stevens was In town
last week.
WHITES VALLEY.
Miss Anna Fltze was a recent
geust of Niagara friends.
Mrs. D. E. Hacker and Miss Anna
M. Hauser spent Thursday at Hones-
aaie.
Fred W. White transacted busi
ness In Scranton Friday.
Miss Agnes Kennedy spent the
week-end as the guest of Miss Mil
dred Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. John Jennings are
making an extended visit with Car-
bondale and Dunmore friends.
H. W. White spent last week with
his son.
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Pomery visited
Seelyvllle friends last week.
Misses Clara Fisher entertained
thirty of her youngs friends on Sat
urday evening, Feb. 15, the occasion
being her tenth birthday anniver
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friends at Forest City.
Mrs. H. L. Fisher is convalescing
from an attack of the grippe.
Albert Miller entertained the
Bachelors' club Saturday evening.
Mrs. Laura Coyne passed to her
eternal rest at 11:20 p. m., Feb. 22,
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
H. W. White.
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E. M. Blgolow's appointment as
state highway commissioner, dating
from June 1, 1911, has been confirm
ed by the senate, the administration
mustering thirty-seven votes, three
more than necessary. The vote was
37 to 9. The confirmation of the
highway commissioner was the first
big fight in the senate this session
and was won by the Republican lead
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takes two-thirds or thirty-four of the
'fifty votes In the senate to confirm.
The senate cham'bors and galleries
wero jammed with 'people, who had
expected to see a fight over the nomi
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early in the session and had been in
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tor McNichols, of Lackawanna coun
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When Senator McNichols called up
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thero was no objection voiced to go
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In detail It was as follows:
For confirmation Alexander,
Boldleman, Buckman, Catlln. Clark,
Crow, Dalx, Dewltt, Endsley, Parley,
Gerberich, Hall, Herbst, Hoke, Ho ra
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Knapp, Kurtz, Martin, McNlchol, Mc
Nichols, Mills, Morgan, Nulty, Pow
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Stlneman, Thompson, Vare, Wasbee
37.
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