The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1929, Page 10

By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Feb, 16—Late one afternoon, in a small corridor of the Senate Office Building which had been barred off as a temporary of- fice, your correspondent discovered a white-haired old man, alone and bent over a desk, who was not recog- nizable as a member of the present Senate. He turned out to be William B. Wilson of Pennsylvania, who is con- testing Boss William S. Vare of Philadelphia for a seat involved in the senatorial election of 1926. Wil- son had been given this improvised office to facilitate his fight, and here he was with some miscellaneous furniture, surrounded by great heaps of files and catalogues containing the evidence of fraud as practiced in Pennsylvania elections, For more than two years Wilson has devoted all his time, an im- mense amount of effort and a great deal of money to the task of obtain- ing the Senate seat of which he be- lieves he was at least temporarily cheated by the notorious methods of the Vare machines and allied organ- izations in his basa a He has been forced to employ two lawyers in Philadelphia and two in Washington and for a time two oth- ers in Pittsburgh. Sometimes he has required an office force of eight or 10 persons to do the. work required to protect his interests. At the outset he had to advance the money needed to go into court and bring out the ballot boxes con- taining the evidence of fraud, al- though that money has been reim- bursed. Ballot boxes had to be inves- tigated in 1,500 election districts in Philadelphia alone, 674 in Pitts- burgh and additional boxes from four other counties. Each ballot box had to be opened and its ballots counted and the dif- ference between that count and the official returns set down. During the Harry Blaine abandoned his threat- attack upon Cherry, ran across the waiting room, and seized the turse’s white linen arm. “I'm Blaine: She's better? She's going to get well?” ‘The nurse shook her head slightly. “She's conscious now, and her fever has dropped suddenly to below nor- mal, after that pneumonia serum, we sent to New York for, but it's too soon to tell. Her heart is very weak. But she’s calling repeatedly for you, and the doctor says that since she obviously has something on her mind shat may do her harm, you'd better 2e given a minute alone with her.” “May I just stand in the door for 4 second, so that I can see her recog- nize me?” Faith begged. “It’s been so horrible, sitting there with her hour after hour and not having her os “I'm awfully sorry, Mrs, Hathaway, but the doctor's orders are that no One but Mr. Blaine is to be admitted now. Perhaps later... But we'll have to hurry please,” she added un- necessarily to the reporter, who was dragging at her arm in a frenzy of Now, as the nurse, a pleasant, mid- ile-aged, comfortable sort of person, laid her hand upon the knob of Cry- stal's door, Harry Blaine clinched his fists until his knuckles cracked. He ‘wanted desperately to see the girl, but he was possessed by the angry convic- sor agro ofl es he did so he lft burstin; into tears. i " Ulysses | States armies. He long period required for counting by the Senate committee in Washing- ton, Wilson kept his representatives on the scene with three stenogra- iphers to take down the record. This went on continually from the be- ginning of last February until some time in June. The taking of oral testimony in the contest, here and in Pennsylvania, followed. After that five stenographers were required to produce Wilson’s 533 pages of spec- ifications through which he hoped to prove his right to become a sena- tor. * ok x With submission of Vare’s reply to these specifications there will be final oral arguments before the Wa- terman subcommittee of the Senate committee on leges and elec- tions. The privileges and elections committee will then make a report to the Senate, with recommenda- tions, and the Senate might act at this session, although probably not before the special session of the next Congress. Wilson was a coal miner for 25 years, but he is now 66 years old and won political honors when he be- came secretary of labor under Wil- son, sO your correspondent asked him why he hag slaved so arduously to become a senator. “Only,” Wilson replied, “because I have wanted to break up this great corruption in Pennsylvania. I have gone through it as a matter of duty.” He has received no help from the Democratic state organization in Pennsylvania. But he has been ‘sup- ported by many personal friends, some of whom have backed him fi- nancially. xk O* Whether they eventually put him in the Senate or not, Wilson’s ef- forts have uncovered the i methods of Pennsylvania politicians: His own investigators and those of the Reed committee claim to have discovered 388 different kinds of fraud and irregularity in Philadel- phia alone. doctor's and nurse's voices in constlt- ation. Then, before he had had time to get a grip on his nerves, the door opened and the doctor and nurse appeared. “She wants to see you alone,” the doctor told him in a whisper. “Some- thing on her mind. If you can give her peace of mind, she may have a chance, but any shock or excite- ment—” The reporter nodded, his face scarlet with embarrassment. The nurse held open the door for him and he passed in, on tiptoe. The room was like a miniature florist’s shop, so crowded with flowers it was —long stemmed roses, baskets of Sweet peas, bowels of violets, a win- dow ledge crowded with pot plants. But Harry did not give the gorgeous display @ glance. He had eyes only for the girl who lay on the narrow, high white bed. Her thin face was almost as white as the bandage which swathed her wounded head. Her eyes were closed, but her ashen lips were muttering something over and over, between pitiful gasps for breath. The boy tiptoed to the bed, heard the monotonous plea: “I want—Harry. Please—must see Harry Blaine— -please—Harry—” “Here's Harry, Crystal. Everything's all right. Do you hear, honey?— Everything's all right. No one knows, and no one has been arrested.” The hazel eyes flew wide, clung wildly to his face for a minute, then tied with ineffable peace before they closed.... NEXT: Home again. ‘Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) spectacle-lovers who had counted upon seeing him in his full uniform as commanding general of the United had no taste for display of this sort and avoided it just as he declined the pomp of a triumphal entry into Richmond after its capture. So the former “tanner's There was a “terrific jam” at the inaugural ball, which was held in the new wing of the treasury building. fainted from the heat and pres- crowd and “sw THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THIS BEAUTIFUL OH. 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