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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN".
Cffl By STUDY
HE WAVED KNIFE
y 0U ng Russian Issued Chal
lenge to Passers on
Fraser Street.
Standing In his front yard at 27
frtter street Thursday morning, with
, knife In hla hand, 8am Iranovltch, a
man* Russian, challenged nil coiners
to enter th# yard. He accompanied
y, threats with wild ravings on relig
ion »nd terrorised the neighborhood
nntll officer Borochoff. who Is also a
Bueslan. slipped up and arrested him.
Iranovltch, who la hardly more than
twentv yeara old, was taken to the
notice' station and locked up until his
unltv could be determined. At the
Solon he raved of his religion, de
daring that he had been saved and
could save others. He was In a frensy
c ; excitement until the door of the
cell closed behind him.
Officer Borochoff, who has known the
roung man for some time, states that
Iranovltch has been rendered Insane
through overstudy. The young Russian
la a graduate of a medlcnl collego In
hla native country and wna preparing
to take a course In a medical college
to Atlanta. He has a brother In Co-
limbus, Ga, who has been notified of
the young man’s troubles.
SYNOD IN SESSION
AT CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
f^lul to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., July 19.—Tho
Bast Tennessee conference of tho MIs-
aourl synod of the Lutheran church la
l„ session In this city. .Paper* were
presented yesterday by ReV. P. O.
Keckel, of this city, nnd Professor Wil
liam Kammrath. of Knoxville. Last
night a German service was conducted
by Rev. Ed Koehler, of Knoxville.
The members visited Lookout moun
tain today.
TAKEN FOR A HACK fiRIVER,
SEN. DOLLIVER IS LECTURED
By Private Lasted Wire.
Fort Dodge, Iowa, July It.—Because
Ke wore a big slouch hat, Uqjted States
Senator J. P. Dolllrer 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 ne did not>
know more than to let his horses stand
In a flower bed lie ought to.have a
guardian appol
Dolllver replied, without vlo-
the pi
dnted.
Senator Dolllver r
Ibt# agitation, that the point seemed I
to be v.ell taken nnd that he would be
more careful In the future.
By this time A crowd had gathered
and Forayth was given a chorus of
hoarse hcots, 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 a*
a joke and aald that the rebuke served
him right for wearing his borther's old
hat.
WILLIAM TRA VERS JEROME
ADDRESSES GEORGIA BAR
RETURNTO FATHER
Two Bovs Who Told Pitiful |
Story Sent Bnck to
Mississippi.
Continued from Opposite Page.'
for decisions which they could not
avoid making If they obeyed the law.
A Shot at Roosevelt.
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 not, I believe, commended
Itself to our profession.
The laws are our laws. Public opin
ion made them and can change them.
Every cltlsen has a right to criticise
them and aeek their amendment or re
peal, but while they are our laws we
want our Judges to obey them and not
substitute for them something they
deem In accord with a thing so unsta
ble and so difficult to ascertain os 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
pose the Judge himself to criticism.
The thousand and one complex forces
which go to create and modify public
opinion; the press, the magaslnee, tho
lecture platform, the stump, the clubs,
labor unions, conversations, gossip and
so on, form a fascinating and Inex
haustible Held for discussion and re
flection. Like most potent social forces
It la simple and complex at the same
time.
The difficulty In Its discussion I* not
so much In making a qualitative anal
ysis of the forces entering Into It. nnd
of which It Is the resultant, ns In de
termining the relative quantitative
value of each.
The quantatlve value of each force
going to form public opinion will be es
timated differently In accordance with
the education, ability. Interests and
prejudices of Individuals. But It Is be
cause so many nnd 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
nnd duty toward It.
There are few ways In which the av
erage man can so well serve. In his
time, his 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
seems almost needless, because so ob
vious. to point out how of all classes of
men the lawyer especially can Influence
it and la under duty to do so.
Public opinion ao far as It deals with
nubile questions seeks ever to smbody
ts will In statutes. We regret their
multiplication, but with our life already
so complex, anil Its growing complexity,
there Is little reason to anticipate any
thing other than an Increase In their
number.
Our duty and Influence In this direc
tion because of our technical knowledge
Is plain.
W# know, ns few outside the profes
sion do, the weaknesses nnd limitations
of statute law In dealing with mnny of
the Important questions of the day with
which publlo opinion Is concerned.
To the public nt large. It often seems
necessary only to get a law enacted to
efTect the reform desired. And when
the lew has been passed and th* results
aro little or nothing, nnd not Infre
quently the Incidental evils are greater
than the g l -■ • i,k111 to be accomplish
ed. the public Is educated Into a con
tempt and distrust of lows and courts
that Is not wholesome, nnd which
makes for the growth of on extreme
without self-
control through constitutions nnd laws
—not conducive to our progress, pros
perity and hnpplness.
Our profession Is responsible, or will
be held so, to tho community nt large,
"to
Gatherings such as this develop a
professional aplrit and feeling of unity
which more nnd more enables us to
hold our professional brethren respon-
Thotub young Vnlsk Hoses can repeat
the lord's Prayer In Syrian, this doe# not
prove that he Is careful to stick to the
troth. II* told Probation Officer Ulocr sev
eral days ago that he had com* from Ksiv
York an.) was in orphan. Ilia father wrote
Wednesday that Halek and hla brother Si
mon had run away from Uattlralmrs. Mini,
and he wnnted them to eome borne. Then
the two boy a eoufeaafd.
The young Syrlnua were taken In tksrge
by officer tlloer a abort time ago, when
they told a story of la-tug left alone la
,\ew York. Mike George, the head of the
«u colour la Atlanta, was Interested lu
bora anil after one of them repealed
I-ord'a prayer without a slip. George
ed to give them a home,
l advertisement Intoned In a Syrian pa
per published In New York brought a re
■pone* Wedoeaday. It waa frooi the 1-o>i*
father, who tire* la llattleabarg- ille* .
aaylng that the two yoaogetera hnd run
away from thnt ptneo. The little fellowa,
nbo are IS and ft rears old, reepeetlrely,
eOBfeaeed, and «nld they wanted to go
home. They left Wednesday nliht with a
big baflket of lunch prepared by the kind
ly Syrians who had adapted them.
COMING!
Saturday, July 21st,
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•Ible to ua. And this, I too, la of the
highest Importance.
The feeling of professional pride, and
of responsibility to the profession, can
do much to check cell practices In th#
law nnd much also to Increase our pub
lic usefulness.
Knowledkc that ha must at laat reck
on with hla brother lawyers will do
much to prevent the lawyer In publlo
life from becoming a demagogue and
force him toward real leadership.
Our Influence on public opinion at
tributable to our technical knowledge
Is small, however, compared to that
which as a class we sgsrt because ws
are so actively engaged In public affairs
—politic*, If you will. •
Th* Lawyer and th* 8tat*.
Causes, not necessary here to ex
amine, have mode us largely the
Himkrsntcn of parties and the netlre
advocates or opponents of measures In
teresting the public. Our legislative
bodies are largely composed of lawyers
and many of our chief executive and
administrative officers are lawyers. For
weal or for woa, In proportion to our
numbers wa are, or can be, the moat
Influential body or men In th* country.
This power brings responsibilities
which cannot honorably be avoided.
With the almost unlimited and ex
tending power of publlo opinion, our
duty grows greater and more clearly
defined.
Easy aa It Is to bow to public opinion
and go with It, It la our duty not to ex*
cept where It Is clearly right.
If right-minded men do not form and
direct It other* will.
All publlo welfare depends upon Its
revolutionary.
To make It such wn must often Incur
Its wrath, hard oa It Is to bear, but
when w* are breve, right ami honest
w* may count confidently on Its com
ing to us. If sometimes It should r...t
nr should delay too long to concern tbs
Individual, wn have but another ease
of an action In which w* rravo the
sympathy of our fellows, but
chief merit It
elves
Is that It outruns
pathy, and we can console nut
with another saying of Emerson:
"Hour* of sanity nnd consideration
are always arriving to communities, ua
to Individuals, when ths truth Is seen,
and ths martyrs are Justified."
TRY A WANT AD
IN THE GEORGIAN
JURGIS AGAIN A PACKER—VICTIM RETURNS AS POLITICAL GRAFTERS’ SPY
He Wearies of Risks and Quits Criminal Life
to Become Election Agent in
His Old Haunts.
CHAPTER XXV—(CONTINUED)
Then he went again and gave the
name of "Johann Schmidt,” and a third
time, and gave the name of "Serge
Remlnltaky.” Halloran had quite a list
of Imaginary workingmen, and Jurgls
got an envelope for each one. For this
work he received five dollars, and was
told that he might have It every week.
to long aa he kept quiet As Jurgls
excellent at keeping quiet he soon
son the trust of "Buck" Halloran, and
was Introduced to others os a man who
could be depended upon.
This acquaintance was useful to him
In another way, also; before long Jur
ats mode hie discovery of the meaning
of "pull,” and Just why his boas, Con
nor, and also th* pugilist bartender,
had been able to send him to JalL ~
night there was gtven-a ball, the ‘1
eflt" of "One-eyed Larry,” a lame man
who played the violin and wa* a wag
md a popular character on the
Levee.” This ball was held In a big
dance hall, and was one of the occa
sions when th* city’s powera of de
bauchery gave themselves up to mad
ness.
Jurgls attended and got half Insane
with drink, and began .quarrelling over
* girl—his arm was pretty strong by
then—and he set to work to clean out
the place, and ended In a cell In the
Police station.
The police station being crowded to
the doors, stinking with "bums.” Jur
gls did not relish staying there to sleep
off his liquor, and sent for Halloran
Who colled up the district leader ant-
had Jurgls balled out by telephone at 4
o'clock in the morning. When he was
arraigned that same morning tho dis
trict leader had already seen the clerk
of tho court and explained that Jurgls
Rudkus was a decent fellow, who had
been Indiscreet, and so Jurgls waa fined
»M nnd the fin* wn* "suspended"—
which meant that he did not have to
pay It, and never would have to pay It,
unless somebody chose to bring It up
against him In. the future.
Among the people Jurgls lived with
now money was .valued according to an
entirely different standard from that of
■he people of Packlngtown; yet strange
»» It may seem, he did a great deal less
drinking than he had os a workingman.
"" bad not the same provocation* of
exhaustion and hopelessness; he had
now something to work for, to etrucgle
f"r. He noon found that If he kept
ms wits about him he would come upon
new opportunity*; and being naturally
»n active man, he not only kept sober
friend^ but help * d *° stMd T hl *
°ne thing led to another. In s —-
■oon where Jurgti met "Buck” Hallo-
fan he was sitting late one night with
•mane when a “country customer" (a
uuyer for an out-of-town merchant)
in, a little more than half "pip
'd There was no one else In the
Place but the bartender, and as the
man went out again Jurgls and Duane
followed him. He went around the
corner, nnd In a dark place made by a
combination of the elevated railroad
ant an unrented building Jurgls leaped
forward and shoved a revolver undOr
? * no »e, while Duane, with hla hat
Pulled over hla eye*, went through the
raans pockets with lightning fingers.
I"'!’ got hla watch and hla and
were around the corner again and Into
Diamonds.
We .ire talking Diamonds
nearly every day now, be
cause we have something un
gual in Btock and in values
for you.
. A new and magnificent
nnportation, bought abroad
at first hand, is the basis of
o»ir Di am ond talk.
Lome in and see these
stones.
Maier & Berkele.
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
resort next door. From tho roof of
this there was 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 case
a falling out with the police chanced
to lead to a raid.
For hla help In this little Job the bar-*
tender received twenty out of the one
hundred and thirty-odd dollars that the
pair secured; and. naturally, this put
them on friendly terms with him, and
a few days later'he Introduced them to
a little "sheeny” named Goldberger, one
of the "runnere" of tho "sporting
house” where they had been hidden.
After a few drinks Goldberger began,
with some hesitation, to narrate how ho
had had a quarrel with a professional
"card sharp” who hod* hit him In tho
Jaw. The fellow was a stronger In
Chicago, and If he was found some
night with his head cracked there
would be no one to cere very much.
Jurgls, 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,
hod got out of a bed scrape,
and who "stood In” with a big syndi
cate of horso owners. Duane took all
this In at once, but Jurgla had to have
the whole race track situation explain
ed to him before he realised the Im
portance of such an opportunity. .
There was the gigantic racing trust.
It owned the legislatures In every state
in which It did business; 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 magnlflcent racing parka
all over the country, and by mean* of
enormous parses It lured the people to
come, and then It organised a gigantic
shell game, whereby It plundered them
of hundred* of millions of dollars ev
ery year. Horse racing had once been
a sport, but nowadays It ws* a busi
ness; a horse could be “doped and
doctored, undertrained or overtrained;
It could be made to fell at any moment
Its gait could be broken by lash
ing It with th# whip, which all the
spectators would take to be a <lesP* r *
ate effort to keep It In the lead. There
were scores of such tricks, and some
times It was th* owner* who played
them nnd made fortunes, sometimes- It
was outsiders, who bribed them—but
most of the time It was the chiefs of
the trust.
Now, for Instance, they were having
winter racing In New Orleans, and a
syndicate wa* laying out each day’s
program In advance, and Its a**!) 1 * ®
all the Northern cltlea were "milking’
the pool rooms. The word com* by
long distance telephone In * cipher
code. Just * little while before each race,
nnd any man who could get the secret
had aa good a* a fortune. If Jurgls
did not believe It, he could try It. said
the little Jew—let them meet at a cer
tain hous# on the morrow and make a
test. Jurgls was willing, nnd » **»
Duane, and so they went to on* of the
high doss pool room* where brokers
and merchants gambled (with society
women In a private room), and they
put up 110 each upon a horse called
"Black Beldame,” a six to on* shot, aid
won. For a secret like that they would
have done a good many ■1ugtf ,1 *»—but
the next day Ooldberger Informed them
that the offending gambler hod got
wind of what was coming to him, and
had skipped the town.
There were ups and downs at the
business'but there was always a liv
ing. Insld* of a Jail If not out of It.
Early In April the city elections were
due. and that meant prosperity for *11
th* power* of graft. Jurgls. hanging
round in dive* and gambling Hon***,
met with the heelers of both partles.
and from their conversation he cam*
to understand all the Id* and outa of
the ratoe, and to hear of a number of
w.Vta Which he could moke hlmjelf
useful about election time. "Buck”
Halloran wan a "Democrat, and
Jurgls became a Democrat *1so, but be
was not a bitter one—th* Republicans
have a pile of money In this next cam
paign. At the last election the Repub
lican* had paid 24 a vote to the Demo
crats’ 20; 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 Republlcon^worker who wo*
after the very same gang, and how the
three had effected a bar
the Italians were to vote
for a glass of beer apiece, while the
Ifected a bargain, whereby
vote half and hfilf,
apiece, while the
balance of the fund went to the con
spirators!
Not low, .
of the risks and vicissitudes of mlscel
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 al
llance between the criminals and the
police. For the criminal graft was one
In which the business men had no di
rect port—It was what Is called a
"side-line” carried by the police.
"Wide-open” gambling and debauch
ery made the city pleasing to ’’trade,’
but burglaries and hold-ups did not.
One night It chanced that while J* ’
Duane was drilling a safe In a clot!
Ing store he was caught red-handed
by the night watchman, and turned
over to a policemen who chanced to
know him well, and who took th* re
sponsibility of letting him make bl»
escape. Such a howl from the news
papers followed thla that Duane woa
slated for a sacrifice, and barely got
out of town In time. J
And Just at this juncture It happened
that Jurgls was Introduced to a man
named Harper, whom he recognised ss
the night watchman at Brown's, who
had been Instrumental In making him
an American cltlsen tbs first year of
his arrival at th* yards. The other
was Interested In the coincidence, but
did not remember Jurgls—he hod
handled too many "green one*" In his
time, he sold. He sat In a dance hall
with Jurgls and Halloran until on* or
two In th* morning, exchanging expe
riences. He had a long story to tell of
his quarrel with the superintendent of
his department, and how he,was now *
plain workingman, and a good union
man as well. It was not until some
months afterwards that Jurgls under
stood that the quarrel with the super
intendent had been prearranged, end
that Harper was In reality drawing a
salary of 210 a w*#k from the packers
for an Inside report of his union's se
cret proceedings. The yards were
seething with agitation Just then, said
the man, speaking as a unionist. The
people of Packlngtown had borne about
all that they would bear, and It looked
as If a strike might begin any week.
After this talk the man made In
qulrles concerning Jurgla, dnd a couple
of days later he came to him with an
Interesting proposition. He was not
absolutely certain, he said,' but he
thought that he could get him a regu
lar salary If he would com* to Pack
lngtown and do aa he was told, and
keep his mouth shut. Harper—"Bush”
>r, he woa called—was a right
man of Mike Scully, the Demo
cratic boss of the stockyards, and In
the coming election there wo* a pecu
liar situation. There hod come to
Scully a proposition to nominate a cer
tain rich brewer who lived upon *
swell boulevard that skirted the dis
trict, and who coveted the big badge
and the "honorable” of an alderman.
The brewer wa* a Jew, and Tiad
not
brains, but he was harmless, and would
put up a rare campaign fund. Scully
tad accepted the offer and then gone
to the Republican* with a proposition.
He was not sure that he could manage
the "sheeny,” and he did not mean to
take any chance* with his district; let
the Republicans . nominate a certain
obscure but amiable friend of Scully's,
who was now setting up ten-pins In
the cellar of an Ashland avenue sa
loon, and he (Scully) would elect him
with th* "aheeny’s” money, and the
Republicans might' have the glory,
which waa more than they would get
otherwise.
In return for this the Republican*
would agree to put up no candidate the
following year, when Scully hlms*|f
came up for re-election aa the other
alderman from the ward. To this the
Republicans hqd assented at once, but
the trouble of it waa—eo Harper ex
plained—that the Republicans wet* all
of them fools—a men had to be a fool
to be a Republican In the stock yards,
where Scully waa king. And they'
didn’t know how to work, and of course
It would not do for the Democratic
workers, the noble redskins of th* War
Whoop League, to support the Repub
licans openly. Th* difficulty would not
have been so great except for another
were good fellow*, too, anl were to fact—there bad been a curious devel
opment In stock yards politics In the
last year or two, e, new party having
leuped Into being. They were the So
clallsts, and It waa a devil of
said "Bush’’ Harper.
The one Image which the word “So
cialist” brought to Jurgla was of poor
Uttle Tamosslus Kuszlelke, who had
called himself one, nnd would go out
with a couple of other men and a soap
box, and shout himself hoarse on <
street corner Saturday nights. Tamos
xlua had tried to explain to Jurgls
what It was all about, but Jurgls, who
was not of an Imaginative turn, had
never quite got It straight; at present
he was content with hla companion's
explanation that the Socialists were the
enemies of American Institutions—
could not be boughL and would not
combine or make nny sort of a "dicker."
Mike Scully wn* very much worried
over the opportunity which hla lost deni
gave to them—the atock yards Demo
crats were furious at the Idea of a rich
capitalist for their candidate, nnd 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
Jural* ta make himself a place In th*
world, explained "Buah” Harper; he
had been, a union man, and he was
known In the yards as a workingman
he must have hundred* of acquaint
ances, and oa ha had never talked poli
tic* with them he might came out aa a
Republican now without exciting the
least suspicion.
There were barrels of money :
.us* of those who could deliver the
S oods; and Jurgls might count upon
like Scully, who had never yet gone
bock on a friend. Just what could lie
do? Jurats asked. In some peri
and th* other explained In deta
begin with, he would hare to go to
th* yards and work, and he mightn't
relish that; but he would have what
he earned, as well as the rest that came
to him. He would get active In the
union agala and perhaps try to get an
office, aa he, Harper, had; he would
tell all hi* friends the good points of
Doyle, the Republleen nominee, and the
bad ones of the "sheeny;" and then
Soully would furnish a meeting place,
and he would start ths “Toung Men's
Republican As*oclatlon.”*or eomethlnt
of that sort, and have tne rich brewer 1 !
beet beer by the hogshead, and fire
works and speeches, just Ilk* th* War-
Whoop League, Surely Jurgls must
know hundreds of men who would Ilk*
that eort of fun; and there would be
the regular Republican leaders and
wofkera to help him out, and they
would deliver a big enough majority
' tlon day.
t he hod heard all this explana
tion to the end Jurats demanded; "But
how can I get a Job In Packlngtown?
I’m blacklisted."
At which "Bush” Harper laughed.
Til attend to that -all right," he said.
And the other replied, "It’s
then; I’m your, man.”
So Jurgls went out to th* stock-
yard* again, and was Introduced to
the political lord of th# district, the
boes of Chicago’* mayor. It was Scully
who owned the brickyards and th*
did not know It It
Scully
i to Marne for the unpaved street In
which Jurgls* child had been drowned;
It was Scully who hod put Into office
•he magistrate who had first sent Jur
gls to Jail; It was Scully who waa
principal stockholder In the company
which had sold him the ramshackle
tenement and then robbed him of It
But Jurgl* knew non* of thee* things
—any more than he kffew that Scully
was but a tool and puppet of th* peck
ers. To him Scully was a mighty
power, the "blggeet" man he had ever
met. /
He was a tittle, dried-up Irishman,
whose hands shook. He had a brief
talk with his visitor, watching him with
rat-llke -eyes, and making up
.find about him: and then he gave
him a note to Mr. Harmon, <me of th*
bead managers of Durham*:
"The bearer, Jurgla Rudkus, Is a
particular friend of mine, and 1 would
Ike you to And him a good place, for
Important reason*. He waa once Indis
creet. but you will perhaps be so good
—i to overlook that.
Mr. Harmon looked up Inquiringly
when he reed this, "what does he
mean by indiscreet?*” he naked.
"I was blacklisted, sir,” said Jurgls.
At which the other frowned. "Black-
listed?" he said. "How do yon mean?”
And Jurgls turned red with ember-
.jament. He had forgotten that a
blacklist did not exist. ”1—that Is—I
had difficulty In getting a piece,” he
stammered.
’What waa the matter?”
i got Into a quarrel with a fore
man—not my own boss, sir—and struck
him.”
”1 see,” said the other, and medi
tated for a few moments. "What do
you wish to do?" he asked.
"Anything, sir,” said Jurgls—"only I
had a broken arm this winter, and so
I have to be careful."
"How would It suit you to be a night
watchman?”
“That wouldn't do, air. I have to be
among the men at night.”
"I see—polities. Well, would It suit
you to trim hogs?"
"Tea, sir," said Jurgla
And Mr. Harmon called a time
keeper and said: "Take this man to
Pat Murphy and tell him to find room
for him eomehow.”
And so Jurgls marched Into the hog.
killing room, a pine* where. In tho days
gone by, he hnd come begging for a
Job. Now he walked Jauntily, nnd
smiled to himself, seeing tho frown
that came to the boss' fAce a* the time
keeper said; "Mr. Harmon says to put
this man on." It would overcrowd his
department and epoll the record he was
trying to make—but he said not a word
except "All right.”
And so Jurgls became a workingman
one* more; and straightway he sought
out his old fritnda, nnd Joined th*
union, and began to "root" for "Bco
Doyle. Doyle had don# him a good
turn once, he explained, nnd wo* realty
a bully ebap; Doyle was a workingman
himself, and would represent the work
ingmen—why did they want to vote for
a millionaire "sheeny,” and what had
they should back his candidates all th*
time? And meantime Scully had given
Jurat* a not* to the Republican leader
of the ward, and he had gone there nnd
met the crowd he waa to work with.
Already they had hired a big hall, with
some of th* brewer’s money, and every
night Jurale brought In a dozen new
members of the "Doyle Republican As
sociation."
Pretty soon thsy had a grand open
ing night, and there wa* a brass band,
which marched through th* street*, and
firework* and bombs and red light!
In front of the hall; and there was an
enormous crowd, with two overflow
meetings—eo that the pale and trem
bling candidate had to recite three
times over the little speech which on#
of Scully’s henchmen had written, and
which he had been a month learning
by hsari. Best ot all, the famous and
eloquent Senator Spareshanks, presi
dential candidate, rode out In an auto
mobile to discuss th* sacred privilege*,
of American citizenship, and protection
and prosperity for th* American work
ingman. Ills Inspiriting address was
quoted to th* extrnt of half a column
In all the morning newspapers, which
also said that It could he stated upon
excellent authority that the unexpected
larlty developed by Doyle, tho Re
can candidate for alderman, was
giving great anxiety to Mr. Scully, the
chairman of the Democratic city com
mittee.
The chairman was still,more worried
when th* monster torchlight procession
come off, with the members of the
Doyle Republican Association, all In
red rape* and hats, and fre* beer for
every voter In the ward—the best beer
ever given away In a political ram-
islgn, as the whole electorate teetlfled.
hiring this parade, and at Innumerable
seringa as well, Jurats Isbor-
Wf' ,
speeches—there were lawyers and other
experts for that—but ha helped to man
ege things; dlatrlbuting notices and
posting placards and bringing out th*
crowds; and when the show was on he
attended to the fireworks and th* beer.
Thus. In the course of th* campaign, he
handled many hundreds of dollar* of
the Hebrew brewer’s money, adminis
tering It with naive and touching fidel
ity. Toward the end, however, he
wee regarded with hatred by the rest
of th* "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 eztre bunghole* of the cam
paign barrel.
He pleased Mike Scully also. On
election morning he wa* out at 4
o’clock, “getting out th* vote;" he had
a two-horse carriage to ride In. and he
went from house to hous* for hla
friends and escorted them In triumph
to th* polls. He voted half a dozen
time* himself, and voted soma of hi*
friends ss 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
plict.
When Jurgl* first set out the captain of
the precinct gave him a hundred dol
lars, nnd three times In the course of
the day be came for another hundred,
and not more than twenty-flv* out ot
each lot got stuck In his own pocket.
The balance all went for actual votes,
and on a day of Democratic landslides
they elected "Scotty” Doyle, the ex-
tenpln setter, by nearly a thousand plu
rality—and beginning nt 4 o’clock In
the afternoon and ending at I the next
morning Jurats treated hlmeelf to a
most holy and horrible "Jag." Nearly
every one else In Packlngtown did ths
same, however.
■ CHAPTER XXVI.
After th* election* Jurgls stayed on
In Pnrklngtown end kept hla Job. Th*
agitation to break up the police pro
tection of 1 criminals was continuing,
and It seemed to him best to "lay low’*
for th* present, lie had nearly three
hundred dollars In the bunk, and might
have considered himself entitled to a
vacation; but he had an easy job, and
fore* of habit kept him at Jl. Resides,
Mlks Scully, whom h* consulted, ad
vised him that something might "turn
up" before long.
Jurgla got himself a place In a board
Ing house with some congenial friend*.
He learned that Elsbleta and her fam
ily had gone downtown, and so hs gar*
no further thought to them. He went
with a new set, now, young unmarried
fellows, who were "sporty." Jurgls
hnd long ago cast off hi* fertiliser
clothing, and sines going Into politic*
he had donned a linen collar nnd i
greasy rtd necktie. lie hod some res
son for thinking of his dross, for he
was making about eleven dollars a
week and two-thirds of It he might
spend upon hi* pleasures without ever
touohlng Ills savings,
Sometimes'he would rid* downtown
with a party of friends to ths cheap
theaters and tha music halls and othtr
haunts with which they were familiar.
Many of th* saloons In Packlngtown
had pool tables, and some of them
bowling alleys, by means fit which he
could spend his evening* In petty
gambling. Aleo, there were card* and
dice. On* time Jurgls got Into a game
on a Saturday night and won prodigi
ously, and because he was a man of
spirit he stayed with the rest and the
gam* continued until late Sunday af
ternoon, and by that time he was "out”
over twenty dollar*. On Saturday
nights, also, a number at bolts warn
generally given In Packlngtown; each
tnan paying half a dollar for a ticket
und\ several dollars additional for
drinks In th* courts of th* festivities,
which continued until 2 or 4 o'clock In
the morning unlees broken up by
lighting.
Before long Jurgla discovered what
Scully had meant by something "turn
ing up.” In May the agreement between
the packer* and the unions expired, and
a new agreement hod to be signed. Ne
gotiations were going on, and th* yard*
were full of talk of a strike. The old
scale had dealt with ths wages of the
skilled men only; and of the members
’ the Meat Workers’ Hhlon about two-
Irds were unskilled men. In Chicago
es* latter were receiving, for the
most part, 121-2 cents an hour, and
the unions wished to make this th*
general wage for the next year. It was
not nearly so large a wag* ss |t seem
ed—In th* course of the negotiations
the union officers examined time checks
to the amount of 210,000, and they
found that the highest wages paid had
been 214 a week, th* lowest 22.00, and
the average of th* whole 2«42.
And 20*0 woe hardly too much
for a man to keep a family on
Considering the fact that th* price of
drased- meat had Increased nearly M
per cent In the lest live years, while
the price of "beef on the hoof bed
decreased as much, It would have
b^H
were un
pay It—they rejected the
union demand, and, to show what their
purpose ws*, a week or two after th*
agreement expired they put down th*
wages of about a thousand men to
141-2 cents, and It was said that old
man Jones bad rowed he would put
a reconsideration were made; but tbs
packers were obdurate; and all the
while they were reducing wages, mi l
heading off ehlpmenta of nettle, and
rushing wagon loads of mattresses and
cot*. So tha men boiled over, and
night telegrams went out from ths
union headquarters to all th* big pack
ing canters, to St. Paul, South Omaha,
Hloux City, Ht. Joseph, Kansas City,
East St. Louis end New York—and tlii
next day at noon between fifty and six
ty thousand men drew off their work
ing clothes and marched out of the fno-
torte% and the great beef strike waa on.
Jurgls went to his dinner and after
ward lie walked over to ace Mike Scul
ly, who lived in a line house, upon a
street which hnd been decently paved
nnd lighted for his esperlal benefit.
Hrully had gone Into seml-retlrement,
and looked nervoux and worried. "What
do you want?” he demanded, when he
saw Jurgls.
”1 came to see If maybe you could
get me a piece during the strike,” tha
other replied.
And Scully knit Ms brows nnd eyed
him narrowly. In thnt mornlng*a pa
pers Jurats had read a fierce denuncia
tion of the peckers by Scully, who bad
deolsred thnt If they did not treat their
people better th* elty authorities would
end the matter by tearing down their
plant*. Now. tberetnrn, Jurgls was not
a little token aback when th* other de
manded suddenly. "See, here, Rudkus.
why don’t you stick by your Job?”
Jurgls started. "Work as a scab!’*
he cried.
"Why not?" demanded Scully.
"What's that to you?”
(Continued In Tomorrow** Georgia
to pay It; but th* pack
willing to pajf lt-;-4hey_
them to 10 before he
There were a million
through,
and a half
of men In the country locking
for work, a hundred thousand of them
right In Chicago; and were th* packers
to let the union stewards march Into
their place* aad Mod them to a con
tract that would lose them several
thousand dollar* a day for a year? Not
much!
All thl* waa In June; and before long
the question was submitted to a refer
endum In th* unions, and the decision
was for a strike. It woe tha same In
all th* packinghouse cities; end sud
denly th* newspapers and puMic wok*
up tor face th* grewsom* spectacle of
a meat famine. AU sorts of pleas tor