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Updated: June 2, 2025
Our Pillars of Finance will topple.... No, I think Ruef is safe." "I don't quite understand," said Stanley. "Ruef, himself, is nothing; a political boss, a solicitor of bribes. But our corporation heads. The town will shake when they're accused, perhaps indicted. I know what's been going on. We're close to scandals that'll echo round the world." Frank looked at his uncle wonderingly.
But, for some unfathomed cause, she held him off. Never had she let him reach a declaration. "We're such marvelous friends!... Can't we always be that just that?" Things drifted on. Schmitz, as a Mayor, caused but small remark. He reminded Frank of a rustic, sitting at a banquet board and watching his neighbors before daring to pick up a fork or spoon. But Ruef went on building his fences.
"So His Honor's off on a lark," said the newsman, meaningly. Ruef glared at him, but made no answer. Afterward Frank heard that they had quarreled. Ruef, he learned, had charged the mayor with ingratitude; had threatened, pleaded, warned without success. Schmitz had gone; his was the dogged determination which easily-led men sometimes manifest at unexpected moments.
The man who told me this said that his share will total $30,000. Ruef and Schmitz will probably be millionaires." "But how's it to be done? They're being watched, you know. They've lots of enemies. Bribery would land them in the penitentiary." The girl leaned forward. "Ah, this isn't ordinary bribery. Anyone that wants a franchise or a license hires Ruef as his attorney.
"And, are you certain you can manage this chap?" Ruef laughed a quiet little laugh of deep content. "Oh, Gene is absolutely plastic. Just a handsome musician. And of good, plain people. His father was a German band leader; his mother is Irish Margaret Hogan. That will help. And he is a Native Son." Ruef babbled on.
No, he's not my sort...." "Does he know?" "No," Aleta answered, hastily. "No, he doesn't ... and he never will." Frank told his father something of the conversation. "Its an open secret," said Francisco, "that Ruef and his crew are out for the coin. I'll tell you something else you mustn't print, your paper is determined to expose Ruef.
"Well, I've done it," said the latter, jovially. "Open Monday, Come around and eat with me." "But how did you manage it?" "Oh, I took a tip. I made Ruef my attorney. Big retaining fee," he sighed. "But well, it's worth the price." By the end of Schmitz' second term the Democrats and Republicans were thoroughly alarmed.
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