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Perhaps the business interests would gain by a change, the other crowd might be less expensive. Certainly the demands of our party's machine have become intolerable." "It astonishes me, Mr. Sayler, to hear you say that, you, who have been in politics," he protested, taken aback by my hardly disguised attack upon him, for he was in reality "party" and "machine."
"To rescue it from the combination of demagoguery and plutagoguery that is wrecking it," said I without heat, "and make it again an instrument of at least sanity, perhaps of patriotism." "We control the platform committee," he went on, "and I can tell you now, Senator Sayler, that that there platform, nor nothing like it, will never be reported."
I sent for him now, and outlined my plan to bring suits, both civil and criminal, in the Federal courts in the name of the state, against Roebuck and his associates of the Power Trust. When he had heard, he said: "Yes, Mr. Sayler, we can break up the Power Trust, can cause the indictment and conviction of Mr. Roebuck.
Kensington people, generally, knew them both. "It's William Zane and his business partner, Sayler Rainey! They own one of the marine railways at Kensington. Come to think of it, I haven't seen them around for nearly a week, neighbor!" exclaimed an old man. "It's a case of drowning, no doubt," spoke up a little fellow who did a river business in old chains and junk.
"Why, Senator Sayler, this is a surprise," she said, advancing to greet me. But there was no suggestion of surprise in her tone or her look, only a friendly welcome to an acquaintance. She led the way into the drawing-room to the left. The furniture and pictures were in ghostly draperies; everything was in confusion. We went on to a side veranda, seated ourselves. She looked inquiringly at me.
He must not be dismissed as a personal favor to me. The favor is to you. I do not permit any man to thimblerig his debts to me into my debts to him." Burbank seemed deeply moved. He came up to me and took my hand. "It is not like my friend Sayler to use the word indifference in connection with me," he said. And then I realized how completely the nomination had turned his head.
But Roebuck was both astonished and chagrined when we shook hands and greeted each other like old friends. "How do you do, Mr. Sayler?" said Woodruff. "Glad to see you, Doctor Woodruff," I replied. "Then you knew me all the time? Why didn't you speak out? We might have had an hour's business talk in the train."
Sayler, that I would continue in public life if it were not for what I conceive to be my duty to my party? I have toiled too long for it " "Your record speaks for itself, Senator," I put in, politely but pointedly. "You are very discouraging, Sayler," he said forlornly. "But I refuse to be discouraged. The party needs you, and I have come to do my duty, and I won't leave without doing it."
Still, I was snob or Pharisee or Puritan enough to feel and to act upon the imaginary distinction. And so, I had left the city bosses locally independent for, without the revenues and other aids from vice and crime, what city political machine could be kept up? "Dominick!" I exclaimed. "Exactly!" said Woodruff. "Now, Mr. Sayler, the point is just here. I don't blame you for wanting to get out.
I took from Carlotta's work-basket an unfinished bit of baby clothing. I went to him and held it up and pointed to the monogram she had embroidered on it. "E. R. S.," he read aloud. Then he looked at me with a queer expression beginning to form in his eyes. "Edward Ramsay Sayler, if it's a boy," said I. "Edwina Ramsay Sayler, if it's a girl."
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