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I ' fcr ? < ? ZShe f"fe\u> Mayor lm< oaC.1. Broadhwrt's Succtulvl fl*y The Man The Hour j \ ? 1 By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. Copyright, 19U7, by George H. Broadhui>t. The bill paid your election expenses. It-" - a "I paid my own election expenses. You know that." 'Tour personal expenses, perhaps. But who paid for parades, balls, banners. fireworks, speakers, advertisements. workers and watchers and nil j the other million things that elected you? The men behind that Ilorough bill paid them. And they did it on the understanding you'd sign the bill." "In other words," remarked Bennett, "you made a bargain for me. Well. I can't keep it." "Oh, I'll keep it all right You'll sign that bill or you'll"? ""31 r. 1 lorngan. iwciaiiiivu oeuucn, controlling bis temper with more and more difficulty, "you said something Just now about our coming to a showdown. This is the time for it. I want you to remember henceforth that I wear no man's collar?yours or any one else's?and that you can't deliver y any goods you've bargained for in my name. If I sigu that bill it won't be under your orders, but because I think it right." "Oh," laughed Ilorrigan, who thought he began to see the drift of the other's mind, "I don't hold out for that. I don't care why you sign it as long as you do sign it." "What do you think about the bill yourself?" inquired Alwyn. "Do you consider it honest?" "What do I care? It's got to be signed, and"? "I care. And I think the bill is rraaaui'ent." "Getting tender in the conseienee, ren't you? Well"? "If you put it that way, yes. I think thii^ Borough bill is crooked from first to last. But"? "What's the matter with it? Ain't"? "Let me explain." pursued Alwyn. "This bill gives the Borough Street Railway company the right to use whatever motive power they choose to. It gives them the right to charge five cent fares without auy transfers. In one paragraph there's a clause permitting them to build a subway if they want one. By another paragraph's concessions they can build a conduit and lease it out for telephone or telegraph wires. By another they cau do an express business. But all these provisions are as nothing compared to the fact that the bill gives the streets above and below ground to the Borough company forever and over?not i for a term of years, but until the end of the world. It delivers that route to the company not only for our time, but for always, and binds us and our descendants to its terms. That is the chief outrage of the whole thing. To think that the"? "Oh. we've got a howling reformer [ in the mayor's seat, have we?" scoffed ! Horrigan. "If I'd known that"? "The people have got a man who is trying to protect their rights and property. Here's a letter I received today. You'll recognize the name of the capitalist who wrote it. You know be N is honest as well as wise. This is his proposition: He will pay $2,000,000 for that same franchise, give the city 10 per cent of the gross receipts and turu over the whole plant to It at the end of fifty years. What do you think of that?" "It's a fake." "It is a bona fide offer. He volunteers to deposit $1,000,000 to bind the ^ bargain. Now, what I want to ask yon. Mr. Horrigan. is this: If the franchise is worth $2,000,000. why are you and jour faction in the board of aldermen so anxious to give it away for nothing?" - ? "Look here!" blustered the boas. T"I am looking." returned Bennett Tt# tieen lookine deeper into it than yon realise. I asked you a question just now. I'll answer it myself in one word?'Graft!' Tbat is why you want to (ire away a franchise that is worth 12,000.000." "Graft!" snorted Horrigan contemptuously. "The same old reformer howl! Whafs your idea of graft anyway?" "Graft is unearned increment Money to which the recipient has no legal or moral right That is"? "So! Then show me the man who ain't a grafter! A lawyer shows bis dJent how to evade the law, and he takes a fee for doing It What's that hut graft? A magazine takes pay for printing an advertisement its editors know is a fake. What's that? Graft! When a congressman votes for an appropriation because another congress* Ana A# man oas ajreeu iu tuie wi vuc v> hie, what's that? Graft! When a Ova thousand a year senator retires at the sod of ten years worth a million, what's that? Graft! A police captain on |2,750 a year buys yachts and country estates. Grart! now about the railroad president who gets stock free in a corporation that ships over his road, or the insurance man or banker who fires or takes fat loans on fancy securities and clears 1,000 per cent? Grafters, all of 'em! Grafters! Every one grafts who can or who isn't too k stupid. Show me a man who doesn't graft and I'll show you a fool. Present company not excepted." "That's where you're wronf," returned Alywn, Ignoring the slur and speak trast with the boss' vehemence. "The man who said 'Honesty is the best policy* knew what he was talking about. It pays best not only hereafter, but here as well. Why did Missouri choose Folk for governor? Because in sptte of his faults he is honest. Why was La Follette sent to the senate from Wisconsin? Because, faults and all. he was honest. Why did the people of this country make Itoosevelt their president? Were they blind to his faults and foibles? No. but they knew he was honest! I am honest. This hill isn't. That is why I won't sign it." "You won't, eh?" roared Horrigan. "Then veto it! Veto it if you dare! I'll not only smash your poiiiieal career, hut I'll pass the bill over vour veto. That'll show you prel'.t well how you j and me stand as to powr in the city. I'll make you tin* laughingstock of the j administration by taking the whole thing out of your hands and passing it i in spite of'you." "I doubt it." answered Bennett, jailing. but meeting coolly the tiery wrath iu Ilorrigan's little red eyes. "I intend to fight your Borough bill in the alderman ic chamber and outside that council. To pass a bill over my veto you'll have to get a two-thirds majority. That means fourteen votes. You have only your 'solid thirteen.' And I'll make it my business to see you don't get a fourteenth vote." "I'll look out {or. that, all right, all right." "One thing more. Mr. Ilorrigau. I have reason to believe there is bribery in this matter. I'll ferret out the name of every man who gives or takes a bribe in connection with the Borough franchise bill, and I'll send every one of them to jail?uot only the aldermen, but the capitalists who are behind the measure. Receiver and thief shall go to jail together." "Is that so?" chuckled Ilorrigan. "Then, Mr. Reformer, let me tell you who is really behind this whole affair, the man you'll have to jail first of all. Mr. Charles Wainwright, uncle of the girl you're trying to marry." lie leaned back to note the effect of his revelation, but Beunett's face moved no muscle, gave no hint of what lay beneath. "Besides." went ou Ilorrigan. eager to press his advantage, "every cent' ? of Miss Wainwright's fortune tv? ail(* of her brother s has been put jj/ \ into franchise Is beat/ with and her ' young brother if "Now go ahead and y0U veto that bill. ao as you iikc, >?owgoaheadaud mUl Uorrlaan. d0 os j.on llke ~ It was llorrigan's trump card, and he had played it well. White, silent, Bennett walked back to bis desk. The fight seemed all knocked out of him. Heavily he moved, like a man overexhausted. Picking up a pen. i he wrote rapidly, then cast aside the ' pen. crossed to the window and looked out into the snowy, crowded park. "You've signed the bill?" cried Ilorrigan in delight "I've vetoed it." replied Bennett. CHAPTER VII. ?r * iliE boss is turned down!" [ This startling news flew I lightning fast to every quarter A of the organization and in its I wake spread a trail of incredulous amaze. t.very memuer. irum aiuciumn to "heeler." knew why Horrigun had | made Bennett mayor. That the latter should turu against his benefactor seemed not only black ingratitude, but something akin to insanity, for it apparently spelled i>olitieal suicide for the young man. While neither of the disputants had repeated the details of the quarrel, yet those details with many another were already passing from mouth to mouth in tho mvstprimifi fashion whereby the I closest kept secrets are divulged and enlarged on. In the financial world, too. tbe veto came as a bombshell. Borough Street railway stock fell with a thud that shook more than one colossal fortune. Bennett?central point of the whole upheaval?was tbe calmest man of all who were Involved. He bad chosen his course, and be was following it with a dogged quiet far more dangerous than any loud mouthed bluster. He had laid out a campaign, and that campaign he rigidly followed. His first step was to send for Perry Wainwrigbt early in the morning following the clash with Horrlgan and. under strict pledge of secrecy, to explain the whole complicated affair to that very bewildered young man. "You're all right, Alwyn! You're all mnnAmV ofnwod PoTTT In ffMinlne admiration. "But wby didn't you backheel Horrigan and throw him downstairs?" "I think I did," aaid Bennett dryly. "I think I'm still doing it. Thafs wby I Bent for you today." "Want me to lick him for you?" asked Perry in delight "He's a bit oyer my weight, but I wouldn't mind pasting? "No," Interrupted Bennett, amused at the lad's vehemence. "I want yoa to play the melodramatic brother and protect your sister." | "Say," snorted Perry, all the lightness gone out of his manner and his young frame stiffening ominously, "d'you mean to say the cur is framing up any game on Dallas? I"? "git down," ordered Alwyn, "and try to use what little human intelligence you may have. I've got to have your help, and what use are you when all you can think of is getting thrashed by somebody? Sit down now and listen to me." Perry meekly olieved (lie new note of command in his friend's voice, and j Bennett resununl: "Your uncle has tried to hamper tne t?y putting all your fortune and Dallas' into Borough Street railway stock. [ The news of my veto will reach the exchange almost at once. That will cause a slump in Borough stock. If Il'd igun fails to carry (he hill through over my head?and he will fail if I can possibly block him?that will mean the practical collapse of the stock. It will mean that you and Dallas will he almost iHtnuiless." "Well," suggested Perry cheerfully, "then you can marry Dallas, and little ! brother l'crry can come and live with you. Don't worry, old chap. I"? "Shut up. you voting idiot, and sit : [ down and listen! Here's a check; also , a note of introduction to my broker, j He's a close mouthed fellow, and he'll | keep the secret. 1 want yon to sell Rorough stock short to the amount j 0 r"To sjieculate? Gee! I never thought"? *i ilon't believe in speculation as a : rule, but this time it's the only way j out. Sell short. Then if the bill is de- , feated you and Gladys will still be as ! well off as you are now, even after j | pr me back this sum I've advance< bill is passed over my head, t " in. and you'll both l?e ru 'nderstand the Idea? 1 d it 80.j:ou and sh' use." "i ''tea at 1 "yo "1 tiou "t tha | sha I " las I'd to I off) Ion Pe vil tin | c ii? n idfirst c y "1 ou re . mkI Horrigai, ilin'. He s o(" ?ium. I'm wis years and elos ocrapin' togotL vice system ' Perry ll'alnwriyht. for nothiu*. 'You've signed tlie bill T squeals Horrigan. 'So, you big stiff!* says you, 'I've vetoed It. Now go chase yourself before I knock you from under your hat!' says you. Them was the very words, so I'm told." "I congratulate you on your secret ? - - *??u?i service raeu, isugucu ocuunu ?- ?.j seem to have a wonderful faculty for quoting one's cemarks literally, but"? "But did I come here to ladle out hot air to you?" supplemented Pbelan. "No, I didn't I come to tip you off to a meetln' that's held last night at Walnwrigbfs house?him an' Horrigan an' Gibbs an' some others, incloodin' Hen Williams, who's Horrigan's mouthpiece an' bandy man in the board of aldermen. Didn't happen to hear of that meetln', did you?" "No. I am unfortunate in having no secret service corps." "Never mind," returned Phelan, on whom the satire of the reply was quite lost "You can get the benefit of mine. Now, at this meetln' they did a lot of jabberin' an' they cnssed you up hill an' down dale. Says Horri gan, 'If that young cub' "? "Thanks," interposed Alwyn, "but I don't care to hear what was said about me. I"? "All right then, but there's something you do want to hear. They got busy at last an' framed up a new wordIn' for the Borough bill that'll maybe * ? 11 ain't nut inrow uuhi iu juui cjcd ? . r~. on to It in advance. They've cut out the subway paragraph an' the express business clause, an' they allow transfers at all cross lines. That's the way they'll put the bill up to the aldermen next tlcM. A nice, harmless lookin' document it'll be, an' perhaps the board '11 swaller It if"? "But do the alterations in the bill also eliminate the 'perpetual franchise' clause?" "Ah, there's the point! They don't All the other things you kicked against have been wiped out, but the *perpetual franchise' clause, stands." f ? \ "And trie ?!M?>.iu.n cash offer stands, too." added Hennett "I still fail to aoe why I should prevent Mr. Wainwright's company with :? francliho* fi>r which another mail is willing to pay the elty $i!.Ono.OOO. and 1 shall tight (lie hill to the very end." ? "Good hoy, your honor! An" .liminy Phelan's with you. We'll make Ilorrl- IS gnn look like"? I "He needs fourteen vjtes to carry 'J the liill past my veto. He has his thi%>*l teen aldermen, under Williams' lead Rut only those thirteen voted for jg hill in Its original state. Unless Horn. I, pan and Williams can find a fourteenth ( alderman to"? "Unless one of the men who voted . against it before can l>e brought to vote for It next time Ilorrigan loses," answered I'helan. "He'll make it his4 business to buy a fourteenth man. an! I'll make it my business who ho tries to get an' to n honor keep that same futirteei straight. That's how it adds 11 Well. I'll l?e joggin'. I'll keep y <d. an' lK'tween us we'll make gai< give a Ii\ in* picture imitation of a g man without a scalp Itefore we're 1 through with him." ^ n I.itlle of Plu'lnn's exultation was re- jj fleeted in the new mayor's f^?ce as the ^ alderman bustled out. His hty lav j clear before him. and that luty he ^ would follow. Rut he a' . realized the cost. lie had so co .ted on the promised talk with I'all Wainwrijrht the preceding evening. ns** hopes ->f that interview he hat, iked his all. a it he was to have reee.ved the half Xlged reward for his months of toil * ..achievement. * in view of his pre ent relations .d Wainwright he >u!d not. of rse. visit the tinanci home. The >rs of the house tb- ntained the uan hP Ioved ha \ barred to Arid Dallas?whu st she have 'lit of his failure dall? 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