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The Conscientious Candidate By JAMES J. MONTAGUE Sitting by himself in a hotel room I found an old friend of earlier da. 9, chewing a toothpick, and gloomily regarding a cheering crowd outside the open window where a man was standing in an liutoinoblle and ad dressing an obviously approving crowd. "Id that your candidate?" I in quired. "Not any more, ' was the surly reply. "I thought you \/ere one of his pianagevs." "Listen. That lad hasn't got any managers. I wus one, but I ain't any more, and moreover, I won't be. I'm waiting for the next train that will take me buck home." "What was the trouble?" "It would take more than between now and train time to tell you. That fellow hasn't got any political brains. I was up all night last week, writing him a speech? the regular speech that used to po big In all the cam paigns I've been in. When I showed It to him, he read it, believe it or not, read every line of it, and then he said: 44 'But you've made a lot of prom ?ou NEED A TONIC? 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You'll have a secretary to keep them from bother Ing you. "'What you've got to do is to let us old hands tell you what kind of promises will get votes, and then go and make them, and take the bows. You just attend to the talking? you're good ut that ? and we'll get somebody up from headquarters to hand you the speeches. The ones you've been writing ain't sound. You keep talking about not being able to perform Impossibilities. That won't make you any votes. Now, don't worry, it will be all right ; you Just leave that speech with me and I'll | leave in it anything that ought to be i there, and let one of the bright lads I've brought along fix the rest of It for you.' " 'lint,' he says, 'I wouldn't make a speech tlint somebody else wrote for 1110/ " 'You wouldn't, hey,' I says. 'Well, smarter guys than you has made 'em and grabbed off big Jobs by makin' 'em, and after they was elected they managed to squirm out of 'em, like they all do.' "'Hut that wouldn't be honesr,' he ! says. " 'It wouldn't be stoalin', or bur ! glarin', would it?' I "'Pretty much the same thing, ' yes.' "Now, what could you do with a bird like that?" "Well, what did you do with hiui?" "There wasn't nothing to do, of coarse, but just let him take the bit in h 1 8 mouth. And a terrible mess he's made of it. "Why, do you know the very next day lie told a crowd out in front of the hotel tlint when he was elected he wanted 'em to come down to the Capitol and tell him if there was anything wrong with the way things was going, and if they had any com plaints, and so forth. What do you think of that? After he was elected mind you. Ile'd listen to 'em after he had the Job and didn't need to listen to 'em. "I sat down then and tried to have a serious talk with him, and explain that nobody ever took campaigns se riously, and that he was to leave , what happened after he was elected to older and wiser heads that had grown gray In politics. "lie was a little huffy at that, but I thought he could take his medicine, even if it didn't tasto good, and set to work tellin' him, as I would tell a little child, what It was all about. And what does ho do but turn on his heel nnd walk off! "The next morning 'I went up to his room, where he was makin' a lot of party leaders ? poor old boys past fifty ? chuck one of them medicine balls ut each other just because he liked to get exercise that way. "He was all smiles when he see me, and.. chucked the ball at me, mennin' to be playful, and it hit me on the oar and hurt. Hut I was so pleased to think he'd enmo around to my way of thinking that I didn't say anything till the other boys had gone. I hen I said : 'Well, I see you nln t mad any more, so I suppose It's all right.' "'You suppose what's all right?' says he. "'Why, the quarrel between you and me. I knew you wouldn't take that serious.' " 'No,' he says, 'I didn't take it se rious. Here's another speech I wrote this morning.' lie handed it to me, and I put on my spectacles to read It, and found he'd said again that when he was e tooted ho was going to ho the people's man, and that the first professional politician who came to him to Rive advice or offer Instructions would be chucked out of the window. "Well, I Just turned on my heel and walked away. Here am I, nn\ out there Is he, glvln' n talk to the people about the danger of trick jk>I Itlclnns cornln' Into the oflices an' try In' to Influence elected officials, nnd how, If he was elected, the first thing he'd do would be to try to pet to ask for a law makin' attempts to Influence an offjclal a felony. A felony I Think of that!" "Whnt nre you going to do about It?" I Inquired, as ho paused to catch his breath. "Well, the trouble Is, we can't do nothing at^ut It. We ain't got noth ing on him like we have with a good many of the men we nominate. He ain't made us no promises, wnlch mebbe was our fault, for we thought he'd, be so glad to havo us tell him what to do that he'd come In askln* for advice every day. "It's too late to head him off now, and the worst thing about It Is, he's makln' headway, and maybe will get elected In spite of all we can do to stop him, an' that'll be a lot, believe me. "Look at him, out there, tellln' 'em he won't make no promises unless he knows he can carry them out, he won't have no boss dlrectln' hlni in the discharge of his duty to the peo ple, an' ho thinks the mandate of the_4)eople is more important than thp/orders of all the political bosses fnat ever put their heads together In a back r^m, "I suppose we got It comin' to us. We nominated him, because we took It for granted that he'd be a good boy and do what was right. But w? have learned our lesson. He'll j>rob ably be elected, for he goes good with the crowd, an' he may get re nominated ? such fellers do, some times. Hut when he quits, an' we put In another man, that man Is goln' to be our man, an' he's goin' to admit It In wrltln' before he gets' his name so much as mentioned In the convention hall." A Bound of loud cheers came through the open window. The old politician grinned. "He's bad busi ness for us,* he said. "But I can't help admlrlu' his nerve, at that." ?. Hell Syndlcato. ? WN'U Service. Eloquent Silence Men's silences are more speaking i than their smiles. | Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong. No alcohol. Sold by druggists in tablets or liquid. ? Adv. In Retrospect Many of one's "?nrv'' are only so In remembrance. Airship to Bring About Closer Bond of Union? Beginning next July nil of the United States and all of Europe will be connected l>v a maximum air service of 72 hours. That la less time than It now takt's the best steamers to go from New York to Liverpool. I'lans ara being laid for extending air transportation from our Pacific coast to Hawaii and Aus tralia and soon to Asia. Not long thereafter regular air lines will traverse Asia, .lust as has heen shown to be possible from England to Australia by the recent race, and regular round-the-world mall and passenger service will be In full swing. How soon this will be con summated Is uncertain, but ns air development Is now progressing It Is safe to predict a maximum limit I of five years, with three and even two years as a possibility. What effect such a close union of the world by transportation and transmission of Intelligence will have upon universal peace must await developments. Theoretically It should be a strong bond of union between the nations and tend to ren der them common-minded. That has been the effect of Improved trans portation and more general distribu tion of news nnd greater personal contacts between residents of differ ent sections of the United States. Personal acquaintance Is the great I est antidote for belligerency. It Is fair to assume, that bettor acquaint ance among the nations and a clear er knowledge by the peoples of all countries oi those of all other coun tries will make for less hostility and suspicion, and thus remove the great est fundamental cnuse>*>f war. Hut it is possible this Irftluence will not develop rapidly enough to avert an other great struggle. So far from promoting the psy chology of peace, expansion of air navigation has until now produced the opposite effect. Kvery nation in Europe has had its fears and sus picions magnified by the Increased possibilities of hostile invasion hy air. This is inevitable so long us mankind continues to cling to the theory that force is the right and dominant influence in settling inter national differences, nnd nlso domes tic differences, as we see in Russia, Germany, Italy and Spain. 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