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"I don't blame you for wanting to be shown, Mr. Steuchfield. But I can assure you that the new policy has come to stay. I have the management behind me in this thing, and any day you'll come down to the capital I'll put my time against yours and try to show you that we are out for open publicity and a square deal for every man including the railroad man." "All right," was the cordial reply.
After the red tail-lights of the train had disappeared around the first curve, Steuchfield turned to the others with a broad grin. "Well, boys," he said, "there goes a mighty nice young fellow, and I guess we did it up all right for him and accordin' to orders.
"Want to send something, senator?" he asked, whipping a note-book from his hip-pocket. "No, not just this minute. Anything new coming over the wires?" "Nothing startling. Steuchfield reports from Ophir that we swing the miners' vote almost to a man unless something unforeseen breaks loose.
A committee of citizens, headed by Jasper Steuchfield, the "Paramounter" chairman for Carnadine County, met him at the train, escorted him to the hotel, and, during the afternoon which was at his disposal, gave him joyously and hilariously the freedom of the camp.
Indeed, at the end of his argument he was given what the local paper of the following day was pleased to call "a spontaneous and pandemonious ovation." After the cheering and hand-shaking, Steuchfield and his fellow-committeemen went to the train with the visiting speaker, and no one in the throng of congratulators was more enthusiastic than the opposition chairman.
The senator met the two late travellers in the vestibule, and while the three were waiting for an elevator a rapid fire of low-toned question and answer passed between husband and wife. "You got Evan out of the way?" whispered the wife. The husband nodded. "That was easy. I passed the word to Steuchfield, and he helped out on that invited Evan to come to Ophir to speak in a joint debate.
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