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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
TIUKHDAY. Jrr.Y P. 1**
BB BY STUDY
HE WAVED KHIFE
YouHg Russian Issued Clial-
leuge to Passers on N
Fraser Street.
gttndln* In his front yard at 27
rritfT street Thu reday morning, with
in hie hand, Sam Iranovltch, a
' „ g Russian, challenged all comers
enter the yard. He accompanied
L threats with wlldiravlngs on rellg-
* terrorised Ihe neighborhood
,n,H officer Borochtflf, who le also a
Bunsian, slipped up and arrested him.
Iranovltch, who Is hardly more than
we „ t v vears old, was takon to the
Luce station and locked up until his
Unity could be determined. At the
• -i»v couia do o*wriunwu. ai ino
Union lie . raved of, hie religion, de
claring that he hadi been saved and
e ■ ' ’ Hs was In a trenxy
;£fid save others. I® was In a frenzy
.f excitement until the door of the
cell closed behind him
officer Borochoff, who has known the
man* man for some! time, etatee that
Iranovltch has been rendered Insane
through overetudy. The young Russian
i, a graduate of a nedlcal college In
M« native country rod was preparing
intake a course In a medical college
In Atlanta. He has o brother In Co
httnbus. Go., who hi
the young man s t"
TAKEN FOR A HACK DRIVER,
SEN. DOLLIVER IS LECTURED
By Private Leased Wire.
Fort Dodge. Iowa. July It.—Because
he wore a big slouch hat. United States
Senator J. P. Dolllver waa taken for a
hack driver today and given a severe
reprimand for permitting hie team to
stand In a, spot forbidden by the city
ordinances.
Station Master Forsyth administered
the tongue-lashing, and warned the
supposed hack driver that If he did not
know more than to let hie horses stand
In a flower bed he ought to have a
guardian appointed.
Senator Dolllver replied, without vis
ible agitation, that the point seemed
to be veil taken and that he would be
more careful In the future.
By this time a crowd had gathered
and Forsyth was given a chorus of
hoarse bcots. which was his first inti
mation that he had made a blunder.
Forsyth Is a new man and did not
know Dolllver.
Senator Dolllver took the matter as
a joke and said that the rebuke served
him right tor wearing hla borther's old
hat.
WILLIAM TRA VERS JEROME
ADDRESSES GEORGIA BAR
Continued from Opposite Page.
SYNOD IN SESSION •
AT CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
Ipcclnl to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn.l
jut Tennessee confer!
ourl synod of the Lut
n session In this dtj
presented yesterday
feckel, of this city, a'
lam Kammrath, of .
light a German servlet
,« Rev. Ed Koehler, ”
The members vleltei
aln today.
July 1».—The
ice of the Mia,
leran church It
■Papers were
. Rev. P. O.
Professor Wll-
loxvllle. Last
was conducted
Knoxville,
lokout moun-i
for decisions which they could not
avoid making If they obeyed the law.
A Shot at Roosevolt.
The recent spectacle of the nation's
chief executive, himself not a lawyer,
criticising In a public document a fed
eral Judge for his decision on a point
of law has riot,-I believe, commended,
itself to our profession.
The laws are our laws. Public opin
ion made them and can change them.
Every cltlxen has a right to criticise
them and seek their amendment or re
peal, but while they are our law's we
want our Judges to obey them and not
substitute for them eomethlng they
deem In accord with a thing so unsta
ble and so difficult to ascertain as pub
lic opinion.
The soundness of a judge's legal
Judgment and the wisdom of a partic
ular law may well be called In question,
but an honest decision should not ex-
poee the judge hlmeelt to critlclem. '
The thousand and one complex forces
which go to create and modify public
opinion; the press, the magaslnes, tflb
lecture platform, the stump, the clubs,
labor unions, conversations, gossip and
so on, form a fascinating and Inex
haustible field for discussion and re
flection. Like most potent social forces
It Is simple and complex at the same
time.
The difficulty In Its discussion Is not
so much In-making a qualitative anal
ysis of the forces entering Into it, and
of which It le the resultant, as In de-
terihlnlng the relative quantitative
value of each..
The quantative value of each force
going to form public opinion will be es
timated differently In accordance with
the education, ability, Interests and
mo ruuuuiuii, uuiiiii, imeresiB unu
prejudices of Individuals. But It Is be
cause so many and .such different
forces co-operate In Its formation, that
everyone can have an Influence upon
It and when once we recognise Its prac
tical omnipotence, every right-minded
man should feel a sense of obligation
and duty toward It.
There are few waye In which the av
erage vnan can so well serve, In hie
time, hie country, as by the Influence
he can exert on public opinion.
The Lawyer's Part.
If the power of public opinion be so
great, and If each of us has a not In
considerable capacity to influence It, It
seema almost needless, because so ob
vious, to point out how of all classes of
men the lawyer especially can Influence
It and is under duty to do eo.
Public opinion so far aa It deals with
public questions seeks ever to embody
its will In statute*. We regret their
Thorie
Bell
4927,
Main.
WE TAKE
YOUR WANT
ADS.
1
RETURN TO FATHER!
COMING!
Two Bovs Who Told Pitiful
* •
Story Scut Back to
Mississippi.
Though young Lalek Moses ran repost
the Lord's Prayer lu Syrian, this does hot
pwvo that be It careful to stick hi th*
truth, lie told Probation Officer Gloer sev
eral dave ago that he bod come from New
York sml waa an orphan. Ills father wrote
Wednesday that Mnlek snd his brother SI
multiplication, but with our life already
eo complex, and Its growing complexity,
there is little reason to anticipate any
thing other than an Increase In their
number.
Our duly and Influence In this direc
tion because of our technlcul knowledge
Is plain.
We know, ae few outside the profes
sion do, the weaknesses and limitations
of statute law In dealing with many of
the important questions of the day with
which public opinion Is concerned.
To the public nt large, It often seems
necessary only to get a law enacted to
effect the reform desired. And when
the law has been passed and the results
are little or nothing, nnd not Infre
quently tho Incidental evils an greater
thnn the good sought to be accomplish
ed, the public Is educated Into a con
tempt anil distrust of laws and courts
that Is not wholesome, and which
makes for the growth of an extreme
democracy—a democracy without self-
control through constitutions and laws
the two Imye roafeeeed.
O.T.- B
Imys, nnd after one of them repeated
the Lord's prayer without a slip, George
offered to give them s home.
An advertlosmeat Inserted In a kyrlau pa
— I.llllt ■ atl.ut I.. V . : I.. .. *
Wednesday. It,was from Ilia l<«ys'
father, who lire* lu llattleabnnr. Miss.,
aeylng that the two youngsters bid mn
sway from Hint ntaee. Tho llttlo fellows.
ojgjMsket of lunch prepared by the klud~
ly Syrian* who Usd adapted them.
—not cpnduclve to our progress, pros
perity 'and happiness.
Our profession Is responsible, or will
be held so, to the community at large,
anil It Is shlutary and well for us that
It la so.
Gatherings such as this develop a
professional spirit and feeling of unity
which more and more enables us to
hold our professional brethren respon-
Saturday, July 21st,
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—STOCK SALE 3 —
See Friday Afternoon’s Papers.
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LABORERS PER DAY
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slble to us. And this, too. Is of the
highest Importance.
The feeling of professional pride, and
of responsibility to the profession, enn
do much to check evil practices In the
law and much also to Increase our pub
lic usefulness. .
Knowledge that he must at last reck
on with hi* brother lawyers will do
much to prevent the lawyer In public
life from becoming a demagogue and
force him toward real leadership.
Our Influence on public opinion at
tributable to our technical knowledge
le email, however, compared to that
which ns a class we exert heeauee we
—politics, If you
Tht Lawyer and the Stale.
Causes, not necessary here to ex
amine, have made us largely the
spokesmen of parties nnd the actlvs
advocates or opponent* of measure* In
teresting th* public. Our legislative
bodies are largely composed of lawyers
nnd many of our chief executive and
administrative officers ere lawyer*. For
wsal or for woe. In proportion to our
numbers we are. or can be, th* moat
Influential body of men In the country.
This power bring* responsibilities
which cannot honorably be avoided.
With the almost unlimited and ex
tending power of public opinion, our
duty grows greater and moro clearly
defined.
Easy aa It la to bon- to public opinion
nnd go with It, It Is our duty not to ex
cept where It la clearly right.
If right-minded men do not form and
direct It others will.
All public welfare depends upon Its
being wise and progreealve am
revolutionary.
To make It such ws must often
Its wrath, hard as It le to beat
when we are brave, right nnd h
we may count confldently on its
Ing to ua. If sometimes It shout
or should delay toe long to mm *r
Individual, we have but another
of an action In which wo cravi
sympathy of our fellows, but
chief merit ft Is that It outruns sym
pathy. and we can console ourselves
with another saying of Emsrson:
"Hours of sanity and consideration
are always arriving to communities, ■■
to Individuals, when the truth is f-n,
and the martyrs are justified."
TRY A WANT AD
IN THE GEORGIAN
JURGIS AGAIN A PACKER—VICTIM RETURNS AS POLITICAL GRAFTERS’ SPY
He Wearies of Risks^nd Quits Criminal Life
to Become Election Agent in
His Old Haunts.
CHAPTER XXV—(CONTINUED)
Then he went again nnd gave tl
name of "Johann Schmidt,” and a thli
time, and gave the name of "Seri
Kemlnlteky." Hallorari had quite a lft
of Imaginary workingmen, and Juri
got an envelope for each one. For tl»
work he received five dollars, and
told that he might have it every wi
so long ns he kept fjulet. Ae Jui
wt« excellent at keeping quiet, he */>n
won the trust of “Buck’’ Halloran,
ws, Introduced to others os a man
could be depended upon.
This acquaintance was useful toilm
In another way, also; before long Ur*
gli made hla discovery of the mea: ng
of "pull," and Just why his boss, < n-
nor, and also the pugilist barter
had been able to send him to jail,
night there was given a ball, the "t ii
efit” of "One-eyed Larry.” * lent®
who played the violin and waa r
ind a popular character on
Levee.” Thle ball wag held In
dance hall, and was one of the
lions when the city's powers c
bauchery gave themselves up to
the saloon before he could shout more
than once.
The bartender, to whom they had
tipped the wink had the cellar door
open way by a secret entrance to a
reeort next door. From the roof of
this there woe access to three similar
places beyond. By means of these pas
sages the customers of any one place
could be gotten out of the way In cose
a falling out with the police chanced
to lead to a raid.
For his help In this little Job the bar
tender received twenty out of the one
hundred and thirty-odd dollars that the
pair eecured; and, naturally, thle put
them on friendly terms with him, and
a few days later he Introduced them to
a little "sheeny'' npmed Gotdberger, one
nt thm "ptinnflpfl" nt th* M «nnrtlnir
of the "runners" of the “sporting
house” where they had been hidden.
After a few drinks Ooldberger began,
with some hesitation, to narrate how he
had had a quarrel with a professional
ahnrn** whn hnrl hit him In thfl
Jurgls attended and got half
with drink, and ibegan quarrelllnipver
t girl—hla arm was pretty etrog by
then—end he set to work to clea out
the place, and ended In a cell A the
police station.
The police station being
the doors, stinking with “buma Jur-
(l> did not relish staying there (sleep
oft hla liquor, nnd sent for Iflloran,
who called up the district leaH and
had Jurgls balled out by telepljie at 4
o'clock In the morning. Wheife was
arraigned that same morolngh® dis
trict leader had already seen le clerk
of the court and explained tli Jurgls
Rudkua was a decent fellow,Vho had
been Indiscreet, and eo Jurglsra* fined
111 and the fine waa “auipnded
which meant that he did nf have to
My It, and never would hav*o pay It,
unban somebody chose to Wig >» up
•gainst him In the future,
Among the people Jurglslved with
sow money was valued nccAHng to an
entirely different standard pm that of
the people of Packlngtownye*strange
** It may seem, he did a gr tdeal I***
drinking than he had as a/orktngman.
He had not the same prfocatlon* or
exhaustion and hopeleea/ss; he had
bow something to work th to struggle
f°r. He soon found tlx H He kept
his wits about him he wqd come upon
hew opportunities; and [Ing naturally
aa active man, he not pJf **!>* sober
himself, but helped 11 steady
friend. . 7
line thing led to anper. tea sa
loon where Jurgls met Buck Hallo_
Jan he was sitting latpoe night with
puane when a "counf customer^ (a
buyer for an out-ofpwn merchant)
Mfe in, a little morfhan half "plp-
*1. There waa nopn* else > n the
place hut the barter, and as the
man went out againNrifi® and Duane
followed him. Hejrent around the
corner, and In a da/ Place made by a
Combination of th/»lovated railroad
end an unrented hyulng Jurgls leaped
forward and ehov/a r * T ?'» e L. un i! e T
w * none, while rfute, with hie hat
Pulled over his ey. went through the
man'a pockets up lightning Angers.
They got his way and hla "wad' and
•ere around the >rner again and Into
'card sharp" who had hit him In the
Jaw. The fellow was a stranger In
Chicago, and If he was found eome
night with hie head cracked there
would be no one to care very much.
Jurgla, who by this time would
cheerfully have cracked the heads of
all the gamblers In Chicago, Inquired
what would be coming to him, at which
the Jew became still more confidential,
and said that he had some tips on the
New Orleans races, which he got direct
from the police captain of the district,
whom he had got out of a bad scrape,
and who "stood In" with a big syndi
cate of horse owner*. Duane took all
this In at once, but Jurgls had to have
the whole race track situation explain
ed to him before he realised the im
portance of auch an opportunity.
There waa the gigantic racing trust.
It owned the legislatures In every state
In which It dTd buaineea; It even
owned some of the big newspapers, and
made public opinion—there was no
power In the land that could oppose It
unless, perhaps. It were the poolroom
trust It built magnificent racing parka
all over the country, and by means of
enormous purses It lured the people to
come, and then It organised a gigantic
shell game, whereby It plundered them
of hundreds of millions of dollars ev
ery year. Horae racing had once been
a sport, "tout nowadays It was a busi
ness; a horse could be "doped . and
doctored, undertrained or overtrained;
It could be made to fall at any moment
—or Its gait could be broken by lash
ing U with the whip, which all the
spectators would take to be a draper^
.r A- la I— tl.A lae.1 - 'Niori
ate effort to keep It In the lead." There
were scores of such tricks, and some
times It wae the owners who played
them and made fortunes, sometime* It
waa outsider*, who bribed them-flrot
most of the time It waa the chiefs of
the trust.
Now, for Instance, they were having
winter racing In New Orleans, and a
syndicate was laying out each day’s
program In advance, and IM agents In
all the Northern cities were "milking'
the pool rooms. The word came by
long distance telephone In a cipher
code. Just a little while before each ra»,
and any man who could get the secret
had as good aa a fortune. If Jurgla
did not believe It, he could try It. sale
the little Jew—let them meet at a cer
tain house on the morrow and maKe a
teat. Jurats was wllMng. snd io was
Duane, and eo they went to one of
hlah class pool rooms where brokers
and merchants gambled (with society
women In a private room), and they
put up *10 each upon a horse called
Dianondi.
We are ilking Diamonds
nearly evfy day now, be
cause we live something un
usual in jock and in values
for you.
A net and magnificent
importaOn, bought abroad
at first and, is the basis of
®ur Diaiond talk.
Con* in and see these
atones.
i r & Berkele.
•Black Beldame," a six to one shot, and
won. For a secret like ‘hft they would
have done a good many slugging*—but
the next day Goldberger Informed them
that the offending gambler had got
wind of what was coming to him, and
had skipped the town.
There were ups and down* at the
bualne**, but there waa always a liv
ing Inside of a Jail If not put of It.
Eariy in April the city elections wen;
due, and that meant prpapertty for all
the cower* of graft. Jurats, hanging
round” In dlvee and gambling house*,
met with the heeler* of both parties,
Kd from their conversation he came
‘“ understand aU the Ina and outs of
and to hear of a number of
waye^n wh“ch he could make himself
Halloran wae a "Democrat, and ao
Jurgls became a Democrat ata«h but he
have a pile of money In this next cam
palgn. At the lest election the Repub
licans had paid *4 a vote to the Demo
crats' *t; and "Buck" Halloran sat one
night playing cards with Jurgls and an
other man, who told how Halloran had
been charged with the job of voting a
"bunch" of thirty-seven newly landed
Italians, and how he, the narrator, had
met the Republican worker who waa
after the very same gang, and how the
three had effected a bargain, whereby
the Italians were to vote half and half,
for a glass of beer apiece, while the
balance of the fund went to the con'
eplrators!
Not long after this Jurgls, wearying
of the riaka and vicissitudes of miscel
laneous crime, was moved to give up
the career for that of a politician. Just
at his time there was a tremendous
uproar being raised concerning the at
Dance between the criminals and the
police. For the criminal graft was one
In which the buelneee men had no di
rect part—It was what Is called a
"side-line'' carried by the police.
."Wide-open" gambling nnd debauch
ery made the city pleasing to "trade,"
but burglaries and hold-ups did not.
One night It chanced that while Jack
Duane was drilling a safe In a cloth
ing (tore he wae caught red-handed
by the night watchman, nnd turned
over to a policeman who chanced to
know him well, and who took the re
sponsibility of letting him make his
escape. Such a howl from the news
papers followed this Jhat Duane was
slated for a sacrifice, and barely got
out of town In time.
And Just at this Juncture It happened
that Jurgla was Introduced to a man
named Harper, whom he recognised as
the night watchman at Brown'*, who
had been Instrumental In making him
an American citizen the first year of
his arrival at the yards. The other
wae Interested In the coincidence, but
did not remember Jurgls—he hod
handled too many "green ones" In hi*
time, he said. He eat In a dance hall
with Jurgle and Halloran until one or
two In the morning, exchanging expe
riences. He had a long etbry to tell of
his quarrel with the superintendent of
hla dejhrtment, and how he was now a
plain workingman, and a good union
man ae well. It waa not until some
months afterwards that Jurgls under'
stood that the quarrel with the super'
Intendent had been prearranged, and
that Harper was In reality drawing a
salary of $20 a week from the packers
for an Inside report of his union's se
cret proceedings. The yards were
seething with agitation Just then, said
the men, speaking as a unionist. The
people of Packlngtown hod borne about
alt that they would bear, and It looked
a* If a strike might begin any week.
After thla talk the man made In
quiries concerning Jurgfe, and a couple
of days later he came to him with an
Interesting proposition. He waa not
absolutely certain, he said, but he
thought that he could get him a regu
lar salary If he would come to Pack
tngtown ano do aa he waa told, and
keep hla mouth shut. Harper—“Buah"
Harper, he wae called—wo* a right-
hand man of Mike Scully, the Demo
cratic boss of the stockyards, and In
the coming election there wee a pecu
liar. situation. There had come to
Scully a proposition to nominate a cer
tain rich, braver who lived upon ■
swell boulevard that Skirted the dle>
trict, and who coveted the btg badge
and the •"honorable" of an alderman.
The brewer was a Jew, and had not
brain*, but he was harmless, and would
put up a rare campaign fund. Scully
had accepted the offer and then gone
to the Republicans with a proposition.
He was not sure that he could manage
the “eheeny,” end he did not mean to
take any chances with hir district; let
the Republicans nominate a certain
obscure but amiable friend of Scully's,
who was now setting up ten-pine In
the cellar of an Ashland avenue sa
loon, and he (Scully) would elect him
with the "sheeny's” money, and the
Republicans might have the glory,
which was more than they would get
otherwise.
In return for this the Republican*
would agree to put up no candidate the
following year, when Scully himself
came up for re-election as the other
alderman from the ward. To this the
Republicans had assented at once, but
the trouble of It was—so Harper ex
plained—that the Republicans were all
of them fool*—a man had to be a fool
to be a Republican In the stock yerda,
where Scully waa king. And they
didn’t know how to work, and of course
It would not do for the Democratic
workers, tht noble redskins of the War
Whoop League, to support the Repub
licans openly. The difficulty would not
have been so great except for another
opment In stock yards politics In the
last year or two, a new party having
leaped Into being. They were the So
cialist*, and It waa a devil of a mess,
said "Bueh” Harper. ,
The one Image which the word "So-
clallst" brought to Jurgls was of poor
little Tamoszlue Kuzzlelka, who had
called hlmeelt one, and would go out
with a couple of other men and a soap
box, and ehout himself hoarse on a
street corner Saturday nights. Tamos-
zlus had tried to explain to Jurgts
what It was nil about, but Jurgls, who
was not of an Imaginative turn, hod
never quite got It straight; at present
he was content with hla companion's
explanation that tho Soclallita were the
enemies of American Institutions—
could not be bought, nnd would not
combine or make any sort of a "dicker."
Mike Scully wa* very much worried
over the opportunity which his last deal
gaveto them—the stock yards Demo
crats were furious at the Idea of a rich
capitalist for their candidate, and while
they were changing they might possi
bly conclude that a Socialist firebrand
were preferable to a Republican bum.
And so right here was a chance for
Jurgle to make himself a place In the
world, explained "Bush” Harper; he
had been a union man, and ha waa
known In tha yards ae a workingman;
he must have hundreds of acquaint
ances, and as he had never talked poli
tics with them he might come out aa a
Republican now without axclttng the
least suspicion.
There were barrels of money for the
uee of those who could deliver the
gooda; and Jurgls might oount upon
Mike Scully, who had never yet gone
back on a friend. Just what could he
man—not my own boss, sir—and struck
him."
"I see," said the other, and medi
tated for a few moments. "What do
you wl»h to do?" he asked.
"Anything, *fr," said Jurgls—"only I
had a broken arm thle winter, and so
I have to be careful."
"How would It suit you to be a night
watchman?"
"That wouldn't do, sir. I have to be
among the men at night.”
"I see—politics. Well, would It suit
you to trim hogs?"
"Yes, sir,” said Jurgls.
And Mr. Harmon called a time
keeper and aald: "Take this man to
Pat Murphy nnd tell him to find room
do? Jurgls asked, In some perplexity,
" In detail. To
and the other explained
begin with, he would have to go to
the yards and work, and he mlghtng
relish that; but he would have what
he earned, ae well aa the rest that came
to him. lie would get active In the
union again, and perhaps try to get an
offlee, aa he, Harper, had; ha would
tell nil his friends th* good points of.
Doyle, the Republican nominee, and the
bad ones of the "eheeny;" nnd then
Scully would furnish a meeting place,
and he would start the "Young Men’s
Republican Association,” or something
of that sort, and have th* rich brewer’s
beat beer by th* hogshead, and fire
works and spaeches. Just like Ihe War-
Whoop League. Surely Jurgls must
know hundreds of men who would like
that sort of fun; and there would be
the regular Republican leaders and
workers to help him out, and they
would deliver a big enough majority
on election day.
When he had heard all thla explana
tion to th* end Jurgls demanded: "But
how can I get s Job In Packlngtown?
I’m blacklisted."
At which "Bueh” Harper laughed.
"I'll attend to that all right," he said.
And the other replied, "It'a a go,
then; I'm your man."
8a Jurgls went out to the stock-
yards again, and was Introduced to
the political lord of the district, the
boss of Chicago’s mayor. It was Scully
who owned the brickyards and the
dump and the Ire pond—though Jurgls
did not know It, It waa Scully who
was to blame for tha unpaved street In
which Jurgla' child had been drowned;
It waa Scully who had put Into offlee
the magistrate who had drat sent Jur
gts to Jail; It was Scully who waa
principal stockholder In the company
which had sold him th* ramshackle
tenement and then robbed him of It.
But Jurgls knew non* of these things
—any more than he knew that Scully
was but a tool and puppat of th* pack
er*. To him Scully wa* a mighty
power, the ."biggest" man h* had ever
met.
He was a little, dried-up Irishman,
whose hands shook. He had a brief
talk with hla visitor, watching him with
hM rat-llke eyes, and making up
his mind about him; and then he gave
him a note to Mr. Harmon, on* of the
head managers of Durham*:
"The bearer, Jurgts Rudkua. Is a
K rtlcular friend of mine, and I would
e you to find him a good place, for
Important reason*. He ws* once Indis
creet, but you will perhaps be so good
not* bitter one-the Republican*
were “good fellow*, too, and were to fact—there had been a curious devcl-
to overlook that.'
Mr. Hannon looked up Inquiringly
when he read this. "What does he
mean by 'Indiscreet7*" he asked.
eev Kl.cLrllafAjt air ” Ulfl
“I waa blacklisted, sir,” said Jurgls.
At which the other frowned. "Black
listed r* he said. “How do you mean?"
And Jurgls turned red with embar
rassment. II* had forgotten that a
blacklist did not exist. "I—that fa—I
had difficulty In getting a place," he
stammered.
"What was the matter?"
"I got Into a quarrel with a fore-
for him somehow.
And so Jurgls marched Into the hng-
kllllng room, a place where, In the days
J one by, he had come begging for a
ob. Now he walked jauntily, and
smiled to himself, seeing the frown
that came to the boss' face as the time
keeper said: "Mr. Harmon say* to put
this man on.” It would overcrowd his
department and spoil the record he was
trying to make—but ho said not a word
except "All right."
And so Jurgls became a workingman
once more; and straightway he sought
out hla old friends, and Joined The
union, and began to "root” (or "Scotty
Doyle. Doyle had done him a good
turn once, he explained, and wa* really
a bully chap; Doyls wa* a workingman
himself, and would represent tho work
ingmen—why did they want to voto for,
a millionaire "iheony,” and what had
Mike Scully ever done for them that
the prealnet gave him a hundred dol
lars, and three times In the course of
the day he cams for another hundred,
and not more than twenty-five out of
each lot got stuck In his own pocket.
The balance all went for actual votei,
and on a day of Democratic landslides
they elected "Scotty" Doyle, the ex-
(enpln setter, by nearly a thousand plu
rality—and beginning at 6 o'clock In
the afternoon and ending at t the next"
morning Jurgls treated himself to a
moat holy and horrible "jag." Nearly
every on* els* In Packlngtown did the
same, however.
Mike Scully ever done for them that
they should back his candidates all the
time? And meantime Scully had given
Jurats a not* to the Republican leader
of the ward, and he had gone there and
met the crowd he was to work with.
Already they had hired a big hall, with
some of the brewer's money, snd every
night Jurgls brought In a dozen new
members of the "Doyle Republican As
sociation."
Pretty sqpn they had a grand open
Ing night, and there was a brass band,
which marched through th# streets, snd
fireworks and bomba and red lights
In ffont of th* hall; and there was an
enormous crowd, with two bverflow
meetings—so that th* pale and trem
bling candidate had to recite three
times over the little speech which one
of Scully's hsnchmsn had written, and
Which he had been a month learning
by heart. Best of all, the famous and
eloquent Senator Spareahanks, presi
dential candidate, rod* out In an anto-
mobile to discuss ths sacred privileges
of American citizenship, and protection
and prosperity for th* American work
ingman. His Inspiriting address was
quoted to the extent of halt a column
In all tha morning newspapers, which
also said that It could be stated upon
excellent authority that the unexpected
popularity developed by Doyle, the Re
publican candidate for alderman, was
giving greet anxiety to Mr. Scully, tha
chairman of th* Democratic city eonr
mlttee.
The chairman was still more worried
when the monster torchlight procession
cam* off, with the members of the
Doyle Republican Association, all In
red cape* and hats, and free beer for
every voter In tha ward—th# beet beer
ever given away In a political com-
K lgn, as the whole electorate testified,
irlng thla parade, and at Innumerable
cart-tall meeting* as well, Jurgls labor
ed tirelessly. He did not make any
speeches—there were lawyers snd other
experts for that—but he helped to man
age things; distributing notices and
posting placards am) bringing out the
crowds; and when the show waa on he
attended to th* fireworks and the beer.
Thus, In th« course of the campaign, he
handled many hundreds of dollars of
the Hebrew brewer’s money, adminis
tering It with naive and touching fidel
ity. Toward th# end, however, he
was regarded with hatred by the rest
of the "boys,” because he compelled
them either to make a poorer showing
than he or to do without their share of
the pie. After that Jurgls did his best
to please them, and to make up for
the time he had lost before he discov
ered the extra bungholes of tho cam
paign barrel. -
He pleased Mike Scully also. On
election morning he was out at ' 4
o'clock, "getting out th* vote;’* he had
a two-horse carriage to ride In, and he
went from house to house for hla
friends and escorted them in triumph
to the polls. He voted half a dozen
times himself, snd voted some of his
friends as often; he brought bunch af
ter bunch of th* neweet foreigners—
Lithuanians, Poles, Bohemians, Slovaks
—and when he had put them through
the mill he turned them over to an
other man to take to the next polling
place.
When Jurgls first set out tb* captain of
CHAPTER XXyi.
After tha electlona Jurgla stayed on
In Packlngtown and kept hi* Job. The
agitation to break up the police pro
tection of criminals was continuing,
and It seemed to him best to "lay low 11
for the present lie had nearly three
hundred dollars In the bank, and might
have considered himself entitled to a
vacation; hut he had an easy Job, and
force of hnblt kept him at It. Braid**,
Mike Scully, whom he consulted, ad
vised hint that something might 'Turn
up" before long.
Jurgls got himself a place In a board
Ing house with eqm* congenial friends
He learned that Elsbleta and her fam
ily hod gone downtown, and so hs gave
no further thought to them. He went
with a new set, now, young unmarried
fellows, who were "sporty.” Jurglf
had long ago cast off Ills fertilizer
clothing, and since going Into politics
he had donned a linen collar and i
greasy red necktie. He had eom* re*,
son for thinking of his dress, for ha
was making about eleven dollars a
week and two-thirds of It he might
spend upon hla pleasures without ever
touching hie savings.
Bonjetlmee hs would ride downtown
with a party of friends to the cheap
theaters nnd the muala halls and other
haunts with which they ware familiar.
Many of the saloons In Packlngtown
had pool tables, and some of them
bowling allays, by means of which he
could spend his evening* In petty
a reconsideration were made: but the
packers wtra obdurate; and all the
while'they were reducing wages, and
hcAdlng off shipments of cattle, nnl
rushing wagon loads of mattresses nn<l
cot*. So the. mert boiled over, and one
night telegrams went out from the
union headquarter* to all th* big pack
ing canters, to St. Paul, South Umsb.i.
Hloux City, Ht. Joseph, Kansas City,
Bast St. Louis and New York—and the
next day at noon between flfty and Hx-
ty thousand men drew olt .heir work
ing clothes and marched out of the rec
tories, and the great beef strike was
Jurgls went to his dinner and after
ward he walked over to aee Mike (trol
ly, who lived In a One house, upon a
street which had been decently pnvrd
and lighted for his especial benefit.
Scully had gone Into seml-retiremrnt,
nnd looked nervou* anil worried. "What
do you want?" he demanded, when he
saw Jurgls.
"I came to see If maybe you could
get me a place during the strike,” the
other replied.
And Scully knit his brows and eyed
him narrowly. In that morning's pan
per* Jurgls had read a fierce denuncia
tion of the packers by Scully, who lind
declared that If they did not treat their
people better th# city authorities would
end the matter by tearing down their
plant#. Now, therefore, Jurgls was not
a little taken aback when the other de
manded suddenly, "See, here, Rudkus,
why don't you stick by your Job?"
Jurgls started. ‘Work os a scab!"
ho cried.
"Why not?” demanded
"XVl.ot-a
What’s that to youf
(Continued In Tomorrow'* Or
Hrully.
■rglan.)
TRY A WANT AD
IN THE GEORGIAN
on a Saturday night and won prndlgt
ously, and because he wae a man of
ilrft he stayed Ivltli th* rest snd tho
S im* continued until lata Sunday af-
rnoon, and by that time he was '‘out"
over twenty dollars. On Saturday
nights, also, a number of balls were
generally given In racklngtown; each
man paying half a dollar for a ticket
and several dollars additional fhr
drinks In Ihe course of the festivities,
which continued until 3 or 4 o'clock In
the morning unless broken up by
fighting.
Before long Jurgls discovered what
Scully hsd meant by something "turn'
Scully had meant by something "turn
ing up." In May the agreement between
the packers and ttie unions expired, and
a new agreement had to be signed. Ne
gotiation* were going on, and th* yards
were full of talk of a strike. Th# old
scale had dealt with th* wages of the
skilled men only; and of the members
of th# Meat Workers' Union about two-
thirds were unskilled men. In Chicago
these latter were receiving, for the
most part, 111-2 cents an hour, and
the unions wished to make this the
general wage for the next year. It was
not nearly so large • wage as It seem
ed—in the course of the negotiations
the union officer* examined time checks
to the amount of 110,000, and they
found that the highest wages paid had
been 114 a week, the lowest 12.05, and
th* average of the whole $0.05.
And $0.55 was hardly too much
for a man to keep a family on
Considering the fact that the price of
drased meat had Increased nearly 50
per cent In th* last five years, while
he price of "beef on the hoof” had
decreased as much, It would have seem
ed that tb* packers ought to be able
to pay It; but the packer* were un
willing to pay It—they rejected the
union demand, and, to show what their
purpose was, a week or two after the
agreement expired they put down th*
rages of about a thousand mOn to
-11*2 cents, and It was said that old
man Jones hsd vowed h* would put
them to 15 before he got through.
There were e million and a half
of men' In th* country looking
for work, e hundred thousand of them
right In Chicago; and were the packers
to let the union stewards march Into
their places and bind them to a con
tract that would lose them several
thousand dollar* a day for a year? Not
much!
All this was In June; and before long
the question was submitted to a refer
endum In the union#, and the decision
was for a strike. It was tb* same In
alt the packinghouse cities; and sud
denly the newspapers snd public woke
up to face the greweome spectacle of
meat famine. AI1 sorts of pleas for