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I A G FROM By i Novelized Fi v c Here is a story of art epoch making bottle of right against wrong, of honesty against corrnn/i/in nf eimn/i'/,>7u rrnrt .<cift_ ceriiy against deceit bribery and intrigue. It is the story of today in this Country. It vitally concerns every man, woman and child in the United States, so farreaching is its influence. The warfare is now going on? the warfare of honest men against corrupt political machines. The story tells the 'inside" of the political maneuvers in Washington and of the workings of bosses there and elsewhere ? how they shape men and women to their ends, how their cunning intrigues ertend into the uerv social life of the nation's capital. You will find inspiration in the career of the honest old southern planter elected to the United States senate and the young newspaper reporter who becomes his private secretary and political pilot. \ Your heart will beat in sympathy with the love of the secretary and the senator's youngest daughter. I You will read of the lobbyists and find that not all of them are men. You will see how avarice I causes a daughter to conspire against her J other. You will hear the note of a gripping national tragedy in the words of Peabody, the "boss of the senate." But cause for laughter as well will ( not be found lacking in this truly ! many sided narrative. I CHAPTER I. PRACTICAL POLITICS. That bids him flout lb? law he makes; That bids him make the law he flouts. ?Kipling, j IN buoyant spirit the Hon. Charles Norton rode up the bridle path leading through the Langdon plan-j tatlon to the old antebellum home- i stead which, on a shaded knoll, over- j looked the winding waters of the Pearl j river. No finer prospect was to be had < in all Mississippi than greeted the eye ' from the wide southwest porch, where j on warm evenings the L&ngdons and their frequent guests gathered to dine or to watch the golden splendor of the dying sun. The Langdon family had long been a power in the south. Its sons fought under Andrew Jackson at New Orleans, under Zachary Taylor in the war with Mexico, and in the civil war men of that name left their blood ou the fields of Antietam, Shiloh, the Wilderness and Gettysburg. But this family of fighting men, of unselfish patriots, had also marked Influence In the ways of peace, ss real patriots should. Generations of L&ngdons bad taken deepest pride in developing the hundreds of acres of cotton land, whose thousands of four foot rows planted each Apiil spread open tbe Hon. Charles Norton, M. C. silvery lined bolls in Jtily and August, and tbe ripened cotton fiber, pure white beneath tbe sun, gave from a distance the picture of an expanse of driven snow. The Hod. Charles Norton had reason for feeling well pleased with the world as he fastened his bay Virginia hunter to a convenient post and strode up the steps of the mansion, which was a characteristic Burvlvor of the "old south," the south of glided romance and of gripping tragedy. Now in this second year of his first term as congressman and a promising member of the younger set of southern lawyers, he had just taken active part In securing the election of Colonel William EL Langdon, present head of the family, to the United States senate, though ' the ultimate action of the legislature j had been really brought about by a > lifelong Mend of Colonel Langdon, the | senior senator from the state, James Stevens, who had not hesitated to flatter Norton and use him as a cafs paw. This use the Hon, Charles Norton seemed to consider an honor of large ENTLE> [ MISSI THOMAS A. W rom the* Play by Frederick OPYRICHT. 1800. BY THOMAS A. Wl! propositions. Not every first term concTessmau can hope for intimacy with a senator. Norton believed that his work for Langdon wonld win him the family's gratitude and thus further bis ambition to marry Carolina, the planter's oldest daughter, whose l>enu; ty made her the recipient of many at* , tentions. A complacent gleam shone In Norton's eyes as they swept over the fer! tile acres of the plantation. He : thought of the material interest he might one day have in them if his suit : for the hand of Carolina progressed favorably. Suddenly his reverie was interrupted by the voice of young Rani dolph Langdon, a spirited lad in his early twenties, who had just been made plantation manager by his father. ! "Weil, how is the honorable today?" said Randolph, approaching from the doorway. "I didn't think a congressman could be spared from Washington but rarely, especially when the ? pcrs say the country needs such a of saving." "Oh. this "saving your country* talk goes all right in the 6tory books." re plied Norton, who . exercised considerable influence over the youth /ms\ through a long ^ fit* 4 acquaintanceship ? ?' - At \f) b* frequent. *V / Wjliyy ly taking him lV into his confli jjC^ ijjt dence, "but this 'Ip\0\jpfV?4ly country can take W /MPlvA\ pretty good care I /ii ivt ot *t8elf- ln con|]jm Ww gresa we repre/ Ttf M sentatives put the ?' it over on the sen^ ate, and the sen ate hands back fi the job to us. So "The senate hamls what's everyback the job." body's business isn't anybody's, a fine scheme so long as we have a president who keeps his hands off and doesn't"? "But bow about the speeches and the bills ?" broke in Randolph. "I thought"? "Yes, yes; to be sure," the congressman quickly added. "Nearly all of us introduce these so called reform bills. When they're printed at government expense we send copies, carried free by the postoffice department, to our constituents, and when we allow the bills to die in some committee we can always blame the committee. But If there's a big fight by our constituents kill l/\f 44 *kA u?ci iuc uui wc in ik i-'aoa uic uvuoc, but arrange to kill It in the senate. Then we do the same thing for the senators. Like in every other business, my boy," continued Norton as ' Jed the way into the house, "it's ? gf 'you tickle me and I'll tickh politics. And don't let amy you about the speeches eltbei are pretty things to mail to the \ but all the wise boys in Washin know they aren't meant seriously. all play acting, and there are better actors in the senate than Henry Irving or Edwin Booth ever were." "I don't think my father looks at things the way you do, Charlie." "No? Well, maybe he doesn't now. but he will later on when he takes his seat in the senate. If he isn't wise enough to play around with the rest of the senators he won't get any bills passed, especially any bill carrying an appropriation or of any other particular importance." "What!" ejaculated the planter's son. "Do you mean to say that if father won't do what the other senators want him to do they will combine against him and destroy#bis usefulness, make him powerle^?a failure?" The congressman sn*.ed patronizingly on the youth. "Why, of course they will. That's politics, practical politics, the only kind that's known in Washington. You see"? "But the leaders of the great par ties!" cried the young plantation manager in amazement "Why don't they prevent this?" "Because they invented the system and because political party differences don't amount to a whole lot much of the time in Washington. "\The politicians do most of their criticising of the other party away from Washington, where the voters can hear them. But when circumstances sometimes force a man to rise to assail the other side in congress he afterward apologizes in secret for his words. Or sometimes he apologizes beforehand, saying: 'I've got to hand out some hot shot to you fellows just to please a crowd of sovereign voters from my district who have come up to Washington to see me perform. So, of course, I've got to make a showing. Don't mind what I say. You know I don't mean it, but the old fogies will go back home and tell their neighbors what a rip snortln' reformer I be.'" "Is that the way you represent your district, Norton?' asked Planter Langdon, who at this juncture entered the room. "No, no, air. i>augaoa?i suuuiu ??jr senator now, 1 suppose. I was merely telling: Randolph how some legislators conduct theinselTes." The senator elect paused momentarily, gazing at the congressman, who, dark vlsaged, tall, black haired, broad shouldered and athletic, was Tlaibly uneasy at baring hja oonrersatioo, \ IAN 1 SSIPPI ISE i R. Toombs IE with Randolph overheard by the father. "No doubt it won't be all plain sailing in Washington for an old fashioned man like me. but I believe in the American people and the men they send to congress." slowly spoke the ? ??T I. .?* ?/\? CtAt<ano plainer. iuvics ocuaiui tvi Instance. He has always stood for the rights of the people. I've read all his speeches. Just why he brought about my election it is hard to tell, for I've been a planter all my life except when I fought under Beauregard. 1 feel that he did it out of friendship, and I simply can't say how much I appreciate the honor. I am indebted to you. too. congressman." Tactfully disci ^>?g any credit for his work, onlv id's congressional training in ' \abled him to refrain fr- Langdon's innocence i. evens' slnceriwond*. *r his election, ne keen*coiil and resourceforced his officeholders to yield him parts of their government salaries; Stevens, who marketed to railway companies' his influence with the department of justice; Stevens, who was a Republican in the committee room in Washington and a Democrat on the platform in Mississippi; Stevens, who had consummated the deal with Martin Sanders, boss of seven counties, to elect Langdon because f*nsf#n1nAM any) elm. vi iuo ymuia o uiwuiuucoo uuu oiuj plklty of character,' which should make him easy to influence and to handle In the all Important matter of the gulf naval base project! The entry of Carolina Langdon and her younger sister, Hope Georgia, gave Norton a welcome opportunity to shift the trend of conversation. 'Ton ladies will have a gay time In Washington," he began, after directing a particularly enthusiastic greeting to Carolina. "Ton will be In great demand at all the big affairs, and I don't think you will ever want to come back to old Mississippi, forty miles from a railroad, with few chances to wear your New York gowns."1 Carolina spoke quickly, her face flushing at the thought of the new vista of life now opening. "Yes, I have always longed to be a part of the real life of this worid, the life of fy?. constant action? *1 Wfi A meeting new peof P1? eT?7 day, 14 aW* Promlnent Hi * people. Balls, reMi \ fa \ ceptlons, teas, Vi liM |J theater parties. aL ' afternoon drives. A plenty of money and plenty of IiTa.t/1 \ gayety are what X I want I'm not L% j'l a bit like Hope ML J\ Georgia, who .,a thinks these ideas are extravagant , because she has (like not seen real life V" yet"? roast not think me i sister* now. I have set /en't I spent a week in "That's enough proof. You know all about life. I'm sure. Miss Hope Georgia," smilingly remarked Norton. Later, rising to join Planter Langtfon on the veranda, where be bad gone to smoke, the congressman gazed intently at Carolina. "You will probably forget your old friends when you enter the dizzy social race in Washington." "No, Charlie, I couldn't forget you anyhow. You will be there too. I shall depend on you a great deal to take me about, unless you are too busy making speeches and fighting your opponents." Again it was Norton's turn to be Inwardly amused at the political ignorance of the ' Langdon family. Speeches? The first term congressman doesn't make speeches in Washington because no one cares what he thinks? except the lobbyists, whose business it is to provide new members with a complete set of thoughts. Keither does be have opponents?he is not considered imDortant enoutrh bv the veterans to be opposed. Skillfully approaching the subject which next to Carolina Langdon had been uppermost In his mind during his visit. Norton asked the senator elect on joining him if he did not believe that the entire south would benefit if the plan to establish a naval base on t tie guir was suecessruiiy carried through. "Most certainly I do, and, as I said daring the senatorial fight, the whole country as well will be the gainer," responded Langdon. "Don't yon think the people who want Altacoola chosen as the site have the best arguments?" was the visitor's next question, the reply to which he anxiously awaited. "Yes, I do, from what I've already heard, but I haven't heard very much of what the folks who advocate other sites have to say. So until I've heard all sides aud made my own examination I couldn't give any one my final answer, but Altacoola seems to have the necessary qualifications." "Senator Stevens is in favor of Altacoola," eagerly suggested Norton. 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