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He told his wife that this woman was a lobbyist, whom he had to tolerate and use in getting through his claims, and that he should pay her and have done with her, when he succeeded. Henry Brierly was at the Dilworthy's constantly and on such terms of intimacy that he came and went without question.
The statement of faith adhered to by modern climbers on the ladder of fame such as I have been, and you aspire to be is that 'Pull' wins. Our creed is 'Graft. By 'Influence' we stand, by 'Influence' we fall. It pleases Mrs. Taine to be, in the world of art, a lobbyist.
On the following Monday the Rockharrts went to town. Mr. Rockharrt met and compared notes with some of the lobbyists. One veteran lobbyist gave him what he called the key to the riddle of success. "You appealed to reason and conscience!" said he. "My dear sir, you should have appealed to their stomachs and pockets.
And below well, below they were passing the Kelley Bill! He rattled the grating of the elevator shaft. He made strange, loud noises, knowing all the while he could not make himself heard. And then at last, alone in the State-house attic, Henry Ludlow, eminent lobbyist, sat down on a box and nursed his fury.
Up in Sacramento where the State legislature was considering the extermination of Joaquin Murieta some weeks later the Stockton incident was used by a lean and wind-browned lobbyist as an argument for a company of rangers, and this argument by Captain Harry Love had much to do with the passage of the bill authorizing such a body under his leadership.
The substance of it was that his murderess is a Miss Laura Hawkins, whom he had known at Washington as a lobbyist and had some business with her. She had followed him with her attentions and solicitations, and had endeavored to make him desert his wife and go to Europe with her. When he resisted and avoided her she had threatened him.
He had not gone three steps before he perfectly recalled this eternal lobbyist, always bending before him and clinging to the armchairs of the antechambers, like an oyster to a rock, and whom the messengers, accustomed to his soliciting, bowing and scraping for years past, called Monsieur Eugène out of courtesy. It was too much! And, in truth, this strange fellow's impoliteness was ill-timed.
Then, seven male lobbyists, at $3,000 each $21,000; one female lobbyist, $10,000; a high moral Congressman or Senator here and there the high moral ones cost more, because they. give tone to a measure say ten of these at $3,000 each, is $30,000; then a lot of small-fry country members who won't vote for anything whatever without pay say twenty at $500 apiece, is $10,000; a lot of dinners to members say $10,000 altogether; lot of jimcracks for Congressmen's wives and children those go a long way you can't sped too much money in that line well, those things cost in a lump, say $10,000 along there somewhere; and then comes your printed documents your maps, your tinted engravings, your pamphlets, your illuminated show cards, your advertisements in a hundred and fifty papers at ever so much a line because you've got to keep the papers all light or you are gone up, you know.
When the vote was to be taken three men, Merrill Shurtleff of Lancaster, alleged to be the personal representative of U. S. Senator John W. Weeks of Massachusetts, and the best lobbyist in the State, assisted by Burns P. Hodgman, clerk of the District Court, and John Brown of Governor Bartlett's Council, appeared to confer with the legislators.
That he must educate himself over again, for objects quite new, in an air altogether hostile to his old educations, was the only certainty; but how he was to do it how he was to convert the idler in Rotten Row into the lobbyist of the Capital he had not an idea, and no one to teach him.
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