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Updated: May 22, 2025
And then the caucus adjourned tumultuously. Through it all Thelismer Thornton stood with shoulders against the boarding, that quizzical half-smile on his face. He walked out of the hall past the outraged Ivus Niles without losing that smile, though the demagogue followed him to the door with frantic threats and taunts.
You can't afford to smash a man that way." "Then we'll ram him through the convention, reformers or no reformers!" "You haven't got your crowd." "Thelismer, you're right! I wouldn't have admitted it yesterday, but after seeing how they came roaring up against you, I'm scared. I'm going to pull Everett out of the fight and set up another man one of the young and liberal fellows.
"Call 'em off call 'em off, sir," pleaded Davis. "I've been trying to get these men out of your yard. I don't approve of Niles. Let's have our politics clean, Mr. Thornton. I'm willing to argue with you. But don't let's have it said outside that Fort Canibas' politics is run by plug-uglies." "He's right, Thelismer; you're letting them score a point on you," protested Presson.
"They've abolished fees," drawled Thelismer Thornton, one day in the lobby, "to get square with Constable Emerson Pike up my way. Em went down to replevin some hens, and after he'd chased each hen a dozen times around the barn he sat down and charged up mileage to the county. The rest of this legislation is on the same basis. Here's a legislature that's like Dave Darrington's hogs.
"Gad!" hissed the State chairman. "They certainly do mean you this time, Thelismer! Discrediting your pull in county politics an hour before your caucus! Some one is showing brains!" Thornton did not answer. "How in blazes have they pulled over the sheriff?" demanded Presson. But the old man merely stared at the door. High Sheriff Niles entered at that moment.
He added the last with a growl of disgust. "And he won't allow that any old man can tell him a few things that he doesn't know." "Now, Thelismer," protested the chairman, "I don't know anything about what's going on in your family, here, and I don't care. I know your grandson is a straight and square young chap, a worker, and a good business man, but he's no politician.
I would remind you, gentlemen, that the convention is waiting." Thelismer Thornton caught the secretary of the State Committee by the arm and propelled him toward the door, ordering Harlan to open it. "Signal that band! Start it to going!" he directed. "Keep those delegates easy." He turned on the chairman. "Now, Luke, you're licked. And it's your own deadfall that's caught you.
"The point to that is but no matter! It was to Luke that I was going to show the point." The old man got his hat from the window-sill and trudged toward the private door, saying, partly to Wasgatt, partly to himself: "I reckon I'll go to bed! Just at this minute the campaign doesn't seem to be needing my help." Thelismer Thornton was one of the first to stir next morning in the big hotel.
With your grandfather to set you going right and post you up, you ought to make good." "I'd like to have a little light on one point," remarked the young man, curtly. He felt again the irritating prick of resentment. "What am I to be down to that legislature myself, or Thelismer Thornton's grandson?"
"Take fifty of those men out behind there," his thumb jerked over his shoulder. "Give every man a shovel, and see that it doesn't get away from you. More smoke than fire, see!" Mr. Cobb hastened away. The duller comprehension of the chairman of the State Committee had not grasped the significance of the conversation. "I'd let business wait till politics are finished, Thelismer," he chided.
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