Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 9, 1912, Page 6

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THE EVENING TELEGEM, LAK GRL AND “BOSS’ When the Wave of Reform Start- ed to Move. BY GRACE KERRIGAN, It had taken Jake Kelly five years to become the political boss of the young city of Gratton, but he had reached the pinnacle at last. He had his newspaper; he owned most of the saloons; he owned a majority of the aldermen; his ward-heelers were num- bered by the score, From the outset, the respectable element had fought the boss, but Mr. Kelly's ways were too sly for them. \Vith every promise of reform on his part, he drew the chains tighter. He did not go too fast, but made every- thing solid and lasting, and prepared an heritage for his old age, | The chief reason w Boss Kelly | got his start and continued to flourisi was that the better class did not siz. | him up right. Because he scareely write his n and had o social standing wi Y to any, he was regurded until too lut as an ignoramus who could W squelched whenever the wave of re- form got ready to move. In due time it was ready, and then it was discov- r, or aspir-! | |becn those who defied him, and they | | could 1‘ j LLAND, FLA, OCT. v, 1912 cpocd tiat there should be only one -the one he dominated. There had | had come to grief. When he was told i that young Campbell was going to ‘ry it he sent for him and said: “A new daily on the carpet, eh?” “Yes.” | “Drop 1o | “Why 30?" | “Because I run this town.” “Perhaps £0.” “I'll chase you out in a month!” His threat would probably have been carried out but for a circum- | stance beyond the control of any boss. Miss Kitty Doland and Mr. Chlrlel‘ (‘ampbell met, and it was a case of love at first sight. The new daily had ' becn started and was struggling to | live when the girl came to know Boss Kelly's program to Kill it. For the first time since she had held her place sho raised her voice in protest. She was answered sneeringly and brutally, | Cumpbell should learn what it meant | to dety the boss of Gratton. If there | had not already been admiration and ! love, the attitude of the politician ! would have awakened them, ! Miss Doland quit her place within hour, laughing at the threat that 4 her mother should be made nonicless within ¢ week, That evening the Hon. J. Kelly, as his newspaper organ always reterred to him, receiv- ed three callers in a bunch. There | was no need of introductions. He was ' known to Miss Doland, Mr. (_'umpb(-llg v 7, Ameri erican Labor % o dmoke.... A.H.T. CIGARS A.H T. CIGAR CO Lakeland, Fiesida m— ————_— o o, ered that Boss Kelly owned the town.;and Lawyer Stratton. The lawyer did | ~————— 77"~ For the first two years of his reign | Mr, Kelly could not sce the need of u private sccretary. When a “divvy” came his way the cash was shoved | into his pocket, and the amount was recorded in his memory alone. When he had made up Lis mind as to who | should be the next mayor of the townl there was a back-room pow-wow in- stead of letter-writing. When it look- ed as if an election might be close the boss didn't send out his instruction: in writing. He took little walks und: i i cover of darkness, and as he loanvdl over the bar of this or that saloon L« | whispered to the proprigtor: i “We shall want about 100 majorit: | 1 | | | | 1 Sce that we got it reform They always got it. The raised a howl about ballothox stuf ’l!:md intimidation, but the howl died taway after a fow days to begin o zain next time. The time came when the boss felt the need ol a private socre- tary, who should also he his tpist. He was recciving letters from other great men that must be answercd by letters. A score of young mcn ap- plied for the position. Nixey. Half a score of old political whecl-lorses would take it. Nixey some more. Boss Kelly wasn't trusting his polit- ical secrets even to his gang. To whom, then? He thought the matter over for a week, and then installed Miss Kate Doland, seventeen years old, and the daughter of a widow. There was craft and there was graft in the movement. The boss had a mortgage on the widow's home. Th® daughter was to receive a salary of $5 per week, and two of the sum was to be credited on [ the mortgage. | “And if you play me any tricks the mortgage is to be forecloged at once, jand the old woman landed in the street,” was the threat that hung over the girl's head as she went to work. The boss chuckled. He bad made himselt safe. The girl must catch on to more or less, but she would not {dare to betray him: And right there Boss Kelly made the same mistake that the reformers had made. When the private secretary had held her position for a year she was an “insider” on facts enough to make cold chills creep up and down the spines of the gang as they thought of being given away, but she was loyal. There were no leaks from headquar- ters. She had come to hate Bess Kelly, but she was no traitor. At the end of two years she could have sent a dozen others to prison, but she was {still loyal. In a few months more the . mortgage on the house would be paid ‘oft and she would look for another _place. The girl started in befogged as to politics. She finally came to discover the trickery and knavery of it all. The dishonesty was mnot all on one side. If ehe hated the side she work- ed for, she came to detest the insin- serity of the other. Graft was the un- derlying desire for rule. Boss Kelly did not comsider that the girl mizht fall in love, and that her love for some one else might overbalance her fear of him. The city of Gralton could have sup- ported two daily papers. Boss Keily - ———— ———————————————————————————————————————————— ——————————— e et ettt e ettt et e——eeet e e e not belong to “the gang.” On lhe. centrary, iie had been hot on the trail | of the boss for mwany months, ' “What gruffly asked the boss as all got\yu scated, ! P “Mr. Kelly," replied Miss Doland, “I!1* am not exactly engaged to Mr, Camp- | bell, but—but—" | “Teli your mother that I shall turn ! her out!” ! “But we are going into partnership '’ in the newspaper business,” | “Humph!" it “You will do your best to kill the ' enterprise?” | “As dead as a door nail!” “I wanted to be sure of it, Kelly, when the new courth erected two ) wranda to prove it a lie!” wen the ] ' ad for the new pork was acquired it was bought thro.sh' the real estate ring, of which you are! ! the head. The price was fixed and | | rushed through, and your share of the | { graft was over $14,000. 1 have proofs | t g before the jury.” “Another lie!™ was muttered. i i : (s “When the old juil was repaired ! your divvy was about $7,000,” M VIt wasn't seven ceats!” | “On the paving done last year your ring made a clean stcal of over $10,000.” | “Hu!™ “Your and your friends have pur- chased 200 acres of land to unload on the city at three times its value as a reservoir.” “Giet out of my house—all of you!" shouted the boss as he sprang up. “Softly does it, Mr. Kelly,” replied the girl. “I have other things to mention.” “You are a traitor.” “A mistake, Mr, Kelly. Mr, Strat ton is here as my lawyer, and cannot take advantage of what is said unless 1 decide to prosecute and furnish him'g¥ certain documents. Those documents | g will be placed in the safe of 'The|# Daily star," to be brought out and pub-| & lished whenever the editer 'thinks the | & timo is ripe. Is it to be war or|j peace?” N “Is the new paper gein' to pitch| into me?” “Not for what has happened in the, past—not unless you force it to. 1| consider that I did not get that infor| mation fairly, but The Star will be/ on the watch in the future.” “Reform!"” he sneered. “Not at all, Mr. Kelly. It's just an experiment to see how a city can be run without a boss.” And the city of Gratton has voted the experiment a success, while the “business partnership” is a paying af- fair, and the matrimonial enterprise promises much happiness, (Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary Press.) Silence Carriages. Commenting ou the proposal to pro vide “silence carriages™ on the French state railways, the writer of the “Notes Sociales™ in the Paris Gaulois says: “The right to speak to me when 1l am in a railway carriage is, in France, awong the rights of man, and every oune makes use of it with an an-| neying persistence and want of tact. ! What is peculiar is that the same itch- | ing to talk to some one who is saying nothing to you does not exist on tram- | cars or omnibuses or the underground railway. That is because every one knows he will soon be at his destina. tion. But with a journey of five or six hours in prospect there is nct a sin- gle middle class Frenchman who, in the terror of remaining three hundred minutes without s, does not hasten to be the first to enter into conversation.” Keeping Peace at Home. How do they do it? The couples' who gain the Dunmow Flitches? Tact undoubtedly plays a part. One recalls the simple system of a Sassex couple to keep peace at home. Whrn the wite came in a little rufled she flung her shawl over her left shoulder, and the husband knew that silence was ' golden. If he came home with hat cocked forward the wife knew that something was wrong, 2°° she like wise lay low. 1It's the ¢ tost that ttat keeps the peace at you may never be at lcs (=) blamed nonsense is this?” | . 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