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V TUESDAV, FEBRUARY, 1, fl10, ', ' T
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The Fourth
Estate
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I. Judith Bartelmy,
society woman, goes to the office of
the Dally Advance to protest against
m story which had severely criticised
Irar father, a judge of the United
(Rates court. She discovers that the
author of the article was Wheeler
Brand, a brilliant young writer
whom she had promised to marry.
Ha refuses to cease attacking her
father. II Judith discards her en
gagement ring. Dupuy, a lawyer,
representing big advertisers, calls
and demands Brand's discharge, as
Ilia clients are friends of Judge Bar
telmy. Ill Brand Is dicharged by
the managing editor, for the paper,
longed owned by an Insurance com
pany, had been friendly to corpora
tions. Michael Nolan, who buys the
paper, comes in the office and finds
Dupuy to be an old enemy of his IV
ffolna calls for Brand and makes
him managing editor. V Brand
tolls Nolan and his socially ambit
loos family that the dishonest judge,
Bartelmy, and his unsuspecting
daughter have taken them up social
ly so as to try to Induce Nolan not to
attack the judge In his newspaptr.
VI. Dupuy aids Bartelmy In en
deavoring to have Brand and the
"lid vance avoid attacking the judge
regarding a tricky opinion be has
rendered in the Lansing Iron case.
"Every man has his price, even
Brand." says Dupuy. VII Nolan
says If Brand will trap Bartelmy In
the act of offering him a bribe to
keep silent that the Advance will
print the story In full. VIII Bar
telmy agrees to pay Brand $10,000
to keep quiet about the Lansing
Iron case. IX Brand lays the trap
tor Bartelmy. X Bartelmy arrives
at the Advance office to pay Brand
the 110,000.
"Let os get to business." ht said.
The Judge went oa talking about bis
daughter.
-She displays sn unusual. I should
say an eitraordlnary, curtasityas to
my mission here," be said. "My daugh
ter would have made a great cross ex
aminer If she bad been a man."
"We're wasting time. Judge." Now
It was Brand who was becoming im
patient. "Am I to understand that the pay
ment of this sum" Bartelmy began.
Brand raised his voice to a high
pitch.
"Ten thousand dollars." be said.
"Yes," agreed Bartelmy cautiously.
"Am I to understand that It an
wipes out of your recollection not only
the incident of which you were speak
ing, but also as to" He paused.
Brand helped the would be briber to
complete his sentence.
"You mean your secret interview last
night with Dupuy and the attorney for
the Lanslng"-
Tbe visitor raised his band warnlng-
ly at Brand's loud tones, as though to
counsel caution,
"Yes. yes."
"Lansing Iron corporation T" contin
ued Brand, bending close to the tele
phone. "Yea. Will this sum. paid in bend.
Induce you to forget ah not only that
incident, but also
CHAPTER XI.
lARTELMY. now that he had
takeu the deal and extremely
distasteful plunge and bad
come to the office of the Ad-
"Vance, waited for Braud to make the
Opening remarks about the particular
abject of bis visit.
Brand was waiting for the judge to
do the same, it was the newspaper
man who spoke first, after the two
had seated themselves. He was anx
ious to get the matter over wltb as
quickly as possible, for be well knew
that, in spite of all his precautions, af
fairs in a newspaper office are so un
certain that an interruption of an un
expected nature might occur to ruin
the entire plan.
"Mr. Dupuy was here a short time
ago," he ventured.
Judge Bartelmy proceeded to ex
plain the appearance of the lawyer lob
byist in the affair. While it was plain
to Brand that the Judge bad sent Du
puy as a go-between so that it would
be impossible to connect Bartelmy
with the payment of any money as a
bribe, the jurist did not propose to ac
knowledge that such bad been his laud
able purpose. He gave an entirely dif
ferent reason.
"Yes, 1 know." he said. "He found
xne at the opera with my daughter. I
hoped, Mr. Brand, that by allowing me
to act through talru you would spare
xne this last humiliation."
"Would It not be safer for you if no
third party knew of your transaction
.With me?" suggested Brand.
The Judge pitied the colossal igno
rance of this amateur In trickery. Did
not he know tuat in the superior
spheres of crooked practices It became
necessary to employ third persons on
many occasions to put through mat
ters of this sort? And he was a news
paper man of years of experience too.
JNo, this peculiar young man would
never nuish supplying the judge with
surprises; of that Bartelmy was posi
tive. Perhaps it might be In order to
observe at this point that, while Brand
of course could not know that these
thoughts were passing through his
Visitors mind, he at the same time
would have been ready to confess that
he was going to provide several more
surprises for the Jurist. But there are
different varieties of surprises.
"Dupuy is in my confidence." the
Judge pronounced with an air of fiixri-
ity.
"He's not in mine," responded the
managing editor.
"You're mistaken In hira. I know
him intimately."
"Oh. the pity of It." exclaimed Brand,
that you should be Intimately ac
quainted with such a man as Dupuy!"
Bartelmy could not restraia a sarcas
tic smile at the editor's sneer at Dupuy.
Mr. Brand." he said quickly, "your
xnoral reflections at this juueture im
; part a certain quaint humor to the sit
uation." am afraid that is tu trouble with
me. My humor is nearly always unin
tentional." Brand sighed as though
sorry for himself.
The Judge began to show signs of
nervousness.
: "Well, shall we get on with Itr the
editor asked him.
Tea. I must rejoin my daughter.
She's waiting for me at the opera. She
was very anxious that I should not'
come here tonight It was curious
her persistency In the matter."
Brand drew his chair closer to the
4esk closer to the telephone.
various other
matters to which
the Advance
seems to hare
taken exception
in the pastf
Brand bank
back In his chair.
"You mean you
want us to let
up on you all
around T"
"Precisely."
"Then that's
understood."
"Dupuy t in my con- "You will make
Udencc a memorandum
for me in writing to that effect a re
ceipt, so to speak?"
He pushed a pad toward the man
aging editor.
"All right certainly," agreed Brand,
taking up a pen.
The judge began to congratulate
himself on the ease wltb which be was
handling the young man.
"This is ah more businesslike," he
said.
But Brand gave him another shock
when be said:
"Yes: I'll draw it up in duplicate.
Each of os will keep a copy signed."
"Jflnt thoaaand dollars." said Brand.
"Ten thousand dollars,", the Judge
counted, v :.. x
"Is that correct T" be Queried of the
editor. ' i, ; y;'"', , . i ,, r: t- .
Tea thousand dollars, correct was
the reply. , "That will wipe the slate
clean between us." :v. ,," .h- .
Brand held out bis hand te take the
money. ";,: r? , . .::;
The Jsdge picked up the pile of bills.
compressed them wltb bis hands and
extended the money a crow the desk.
i I a it ib urano. ne earn.
As the fa le Judge said these words
snd stood wltb the money in his bands
and held It out to the editor s loud ex
plosion thrilled every nerve fiber In
bis body. A blinding glare of light
filled the room, and the sir was filled
with the choking gaseous fumes of
the smoke of the powder used by pho
tographers in making flashlights. .
A pang of terror shot through the
craven heart of the would be briber.
He started back In bis alarm, bis eyes
almost blinded by the unexpected flood
of light that bad subsided as quickly
as it bad come.
"My Uod! What Is tbatT be cried,
rubbing the back of one of bis bauds
across his eyes.
Wheeler Brand, wbo bad risen In bis
place at his desk when the judge had
finished counting the mouey. set his
face Into hard, unyielding lines as the
judge besought him to speak, to ex
plain. He had won. He bad com
pletely at bis mercy this cold, crafty
betrayer of the public trust be bad
Worn to bold sacred. And It was
With unmistakable triumph - In bis
Tolce that be gave the reply that was
to be imprinted on the brain of the
false judge as long as be was to live
s reply, that would bauut him: while
awake and awake him when he slept
"It is a picture of you Is stripes.
Judge Bartelmy." be announced.
The judge, realizing that be had
been tricked that be bad been photo
graphed in the very act of banding
bribe money to the mauaging editor of
the Advance displayed rare presence
of mind for a man whose complete
social and professional ruin bad be
come suddenly Imminent. He rushed
across the room at the point where
the flash occurred, hoping to obtain
hold of the camera and destroy the
plate. Owing to the pall of smoke be
had been unable to see just In what
manner the camera bad been arranged.
But when be reached the side of the
room there was no camera to be seen,
only a round hole extending through
the partition into the next room and
from which the camera bad been re-
a band to band struggle with the
young stbletlc editor for possession of
tbt money. Besides, be must see No
lanmust see him at once. That was
the most Important matter to wblcb
he should now sttend. f.1
Us walked deliberately to the closet
and Secured J his hat " snd coat. C He
turned the key and went out of the
door leading to the outer ball.
As the Judge disappeared . Wheeler
Brand sank besvily Into bis chair. 'He
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"IT IS A PICTURE OF YOU IN STRIPES. JDDGE BARTELMY."
"Kon count the money. Judge."
spread bis arms on bis desk and bow
ed his bead between them, until his
cheek rested on the cool polished sur
face. "Judith. Judith!" he sobbed, and his
body shook uncentrolledly as be wept
for the girl be loved.
To Be Continued.
THE TRANS-COXTIXENTAL.
Col. S. A. Jones Recounts Some of
the Benefits That Will Accrue to
North Carolina from the Proposed
New Railroad With a Seaport
Outlet at Southport Rates Would
be Properly Adjusted.
To the Editor of The Gazette:
Kindly allow me space in your
valuable paper for a little communi
cation about the South Atlantic
Trans-Continental Railroad, aa the
time is approaching for the people
to vote on the Toad.
Many people are asking what dif
ference there will be when it is con
structed, from it and other roads In
the State.
First. Its purpose is to stop dis
crimination in freight rates against
Western North Carolina, excessive
rates, known of all men to be charg
ed by the one road monopolizing the
commerce of Western Carolina; and
we are sometimes made to feel our
friends in Eastern Carolina hardly
realize that these remote mountain
counties are an integral part of the
State.
Second. Its purpose is to estab
lish a rate 'basing port at Southpori,
C, that will meet the require-
Carollna, and they will bund this
road If these easterns counties will
join Tennessee and the western, coun
ties when K has, been clearly shown
to them, that Itidoesnt cost a coun
ty through which the line will pass,
one penny of , increased tax,;.-but
brings a surplus, Into "the county
treasury every year f above , every
penny that the county Is asked to
vote to rid this State of unjust dis
crimination and free the Stats from
transportation monopoly by land and
by sea.
-" Sixth. Every ' western county
through which It is to pass has vo
ted solid for the bonds. , None of the
eastern counties have yet voted, and
the call for these ten counties were
signed by nearly one thousand of the
leading business men of those coun
ties, and the calls will be made and
the elections held, beginning In Feb
ruary or March. And we. have a
standing offer of one hundred and
fifty dollars for any man that will
publish a Just, a right and a sound
public reason why any county should
not vote for the bonds, that reason
to be determined as sound by three
men that have served this State as
state omcers. we will name one,
the other party one, and those two
the third. We have furnished books
to every voter, and hope they are
reading them, and will name their
opposition if they have any, and
name a committee to pass on it
The Raleigh Observer has labored,
perhaps, as no other paper In this
Stats has labored, to stop dlscrimin
ation and the unjust monopoly of
our commerce. A thing that Is
known to have been going on every
since Interstate Commerce Law was
put in practice.
A discrimination of a character so
open and publically evident that the
law machinery of this State and its
Legislatures have been in a turmoil
and still in a turmoil over this un
Just discrimination, maintained un
der the discrimination of the Inter
state Commerce Law, which has
been fought in the lower courts of
the State and in the higher courts,
and before the Interstate Commerce
Commission itself, and before the
United States Supreme court, and
the State has lost in every count.
Every State paper knows that this
Injustice that is being done to North
Carolina is not being done against
any other State in this Southland,
and that it Is being done under the
legal provisions of the Interstate
Commerce Law,, because this State
"Ah-ha-ha!" The Jurist leaned
back and laughed. "You're a clever
lad. Brand. Well, well; youth will be
served."' He punned the pad away.
Brand glanced at the clock fixed in
the wall opposite him.
"It's getting late, judge," he warned.
Bartelmy reached into the inside
pocket of his evening dress coat and
extracted an oblong package. Slipping
off a rubber band that encircled It. he
unwrapped the yellow paper and laid
before him on the managing editor's
desk a neat stack of crisp new bank
tills, all of the $500 denomination.
Bartelmy started to count the money,
but he desisted and pushed the bills
over toward ISrand.
"Count It." he said.' ,
"You couut it." .
The judge leaned forward and began
the task. Ills head was within four
or five inches of the mouthpiece of
the telephone. He picked up the bills,
one at a time, and as he counted them
he laid them in another vile.
"Five hundred." be said "one thou
sand, fifteen two thousand, twenty
five three thousand, thirty-five four
thousand, forty-fire five thousand.
There is half of it." he remarked.
"Yes; that's $G.oiio." assented Brand.
"Six thousaud." said the judge, con--Hnulng
with his task-"seven thou
sand, seventy-five eight thousand."
"Eight thousand dollars." agreed
Brand.
"Nine thousand," counted the Judge.
moved. He stood aud gazed in dis
may. He knew now that be was at
the mercy of Brand and the Advance
t a degree that he hardly dared to :
estimate. j
He turned around and walked back
to the desk. Brand was still standing
in his place, looking fixedly at the
Judge.
Bartelmy was not beaten yet. He
knew that he would not be beaten un
til the Advance appeared in the streets
spreading forth to all the world the
story of his shame. I
Shaking from bead to foot in his
rage, he pounded the desk and cried
out:
"You have gone to all your trouble
for nothing. I am going direct to Mr.
ioiau nouse. ana in less than an
hour you will receive orders to kill
that story that dastardly pack of lies
you want to print!"
Brand smiled calmly. He gathered
the $10,000 in bills, wbleh lay scatter
ed on the desk where Bartelmy bad
thrown them when be dashed for the
camera.
"I'll keep these as evidence." be said.
"Wbea they have served their purpose
we will return them to you. or maybe
we will send them to the minority
tock holders in the Lansing Iron com
pany. That's who the mouey probably
belongs to."
Bartelmy accepted the situation with
Itoical composure for the time. He
jaw that he would have no chance in
ments of the Interstate Commerce
Law, which when done, will stop
discrimination in freight rates
against all North Carolina points in
favor of Virginia and South Caro
lina points, and give cheaper rates
on coal, and feed from the West, to
grow and manufacture our cotton,
our tobacco, our timber and mine
and market our minerals.
Third. The law is so drawn that
it will protect the State and the
counties by veto power in the hands
of the Governor, the Chairman of
the Corporation Commission and the
Auditor of the State, to prevent this
road from squandering one dollar of
its income, or creating any debt af
ter it is constructed, of any charac
ter to absorb any of its income not
approved by the State Directors.
Fourth. For It is to be built in a
way that every county through
which It passes can subscribe for its
stock, and in a way in no manner to
increase their taxes one penny, but
leave a surplus every year in the
county treasury, and not one bond
the county votes is to be delivered
until the mile of road It represents
Is completed and accepted by the
State Directors ready for taxation.
Fifth. The construction of this
road secures the State a National
harbor and U. S. Government coaling
Nation at Southport. It insures a
South American mail line from
Southport. In doing this, it frees
North Carolina from being the only
State in the Union, fronting on the
Atlantic coast, or the Gulf of Mexi
co, with no seaport open doing bus
iness with foreign countries, to es
tablish, a port under the provisions
of the Interstate Commerce Law. If
the people would carefully read tbe
forty-two page book, seventy thous
and copies of which have been sent
to the voters of the counties across
the State through which it passes,
they will find every, possible legal
protection the State could provide,
and that one of the Soundest Institu
tions on the - American enninent
stands ready to file the required evi
dence, acceptable to the Governor
and the Council of State of North
has no seaport open doing an ocean
commerce with a land commerce in
connection therewith, that meets the
requirements of a rate basing port
under the provisions of the Inter
state Commerce Law.
This is why I have been able to
command the attention and get ac
tion by our State Legislature and
that of other States to co-operate
with us in this common sense prac
tical piece of work of justice to stop
the wrong, and we cant see how any
man not ruled by these old lines of
road that hold the ironclad monopo
ly of our commerce can afford to op
pose the road.
The Transcontinental Railroad,
under the machinery of the law un
der which it is to be constructed and
the method of the State control as it
now stands, with the unanimous co
operation or the counties clear a-
cross the State will accomplish the
desired end. There are no rake offs,
no speculating scheme connected
with the work, no pets to be taken
care of, not a salary f a high officer
will be paid until the State Directors
determine and agree what his pay
sball be. Not a single thing connct
ed with It that has not had the wid
est possible publicity, and Is open to
the calcium light examination of ev
evry Intelligent man in the State.
It is known State-wide that Wil
mington employed the best legal a
bility that could be had and spent
nearly $10,000, to try to stop this
discrimination by law, it is known
that the Corporation Commission has
tried, and it Is known that the State
Legislature directed the best legal
talent possible be employed and that
thousands of dollars were spent to
try to stop it by law and that they
all failed.
And the public reason is known to
all men that read the great daily pa
pers, that they failed because North
Carolina has no seaport open, with
a great line of railroad from the
great West or from anywhere else to
It, with established relations for per
manent ocean commerce that would
entitle it to bring our State's com
merce in Interstate freight rates un
der the provisions of the Interstate
Commerce Law.
The South Atlantic Trans-Conti
nental Railroad when built as now
provided under State control will ac
complish this end without a' shadow
of a doubt as It is purely legal Jn Its
nneratlnn ,...
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. I haye been accused of being a
dreamer. I may be, but this work is
no piece of optlmissm or enthusiasm.
It Is a plain, practical, commonsense
law proposition, that is being oppos
ed, and nataraily so,- snd not illegal
ly by other lines! of road running
north and' south clear. across . iba
State. .'And by every ocean boat on;
the Boutb, Atlantic coast. with a long :
haul across the State's ocean front
iNone of them i are Violating the ,
law, they svre only ; taking the : ad
vantage of ao unjust law that ba" !
given them, and every " man In this C;
State that ' loves money better Hhaa
his State would ' do the same tbing '
with the same' kind of laws protect-.
ing him, v Some of tbe roads that ' . .
are engaged . In discriminations,
your paper knows,? are the verjr r
roads that are now in possession of'''
the monoply, 'that this State built"
wKh convict' labor: and public aid,
that cost this State many millions of w
dollars, lost because there was no '
law on the State Statute Books that
protected the State against. the ma U
Jorlty stockholders wrecking the
road If they so desired, and no veto 1
power In the hands of the executive
officers of the State to protect the '.
State and the county stockholders
against the majority stockholders
wrecking the road to get rid of the
public stock by issuing fictitious In
terest drawing securities.
' This road is absolutely protected
by public law in a chatter prepared
by some of the ablest men of the
State, from the posalbilitiy of any
such thing occurlng to this road no
matter who holds the majority of the
stock. And we hope your good pa
per will look carefully into this
work and say a good word to help,
for It is the people's road and the1
people's work. Here Is what men
holding the highest positions In the
State think about this road:
Gov. Charles B. Aycock, who was
governor when the fh-st steps were
taken for this work says: "I be
lieve it a great enterprise and will
be of great benefit to the State, and
I hope It will succeed."
His successor, Gov. R. B. Glenn,
says in his letter of Oct. 23, on page
twelve in the book sent to every vo
ter in tbe counties: "I have given
my unqualified approval to your Tall-
road and authorize you to use it."
And your State Auditor, that good
and noble man, Dr. Dixon, says in
his letter on page 33 in the book:
It is the best proposition that has
ever been laid before the Legislature
of North Carolina, and this State
should secure every share of stock
possible in the road. And I will do
all in my power to aid you In this
great laudable and public enter
prise."
On September 9, 1909, our pres
ent, efficient and able governor, W.
W. Kltchln, says: "In reply to your
letter of September 6, 1909, I beg to
say that I approve your purpose to
make Southport the terminus of the
South Atlantic Trans-Continental
Railroad Company, believing that it
will vastly magnify the importance
of that port, and greatly benefit the
people of North Carolina. 1 also
approve your purpose of building
this- road from Waynesville, or some
point in Tennessee by way of Waynes
ville to Southport, and while the
task before you is an arduous one, I
trust that your efforts will prove
successful."
I wired several of the members of
the Council of State of North' Caro
lina on November 23, 1909, asking
them, "What will the Trans-Conti
nental Railroad under State control,
completed to Southport be worth to
North Carolina?"
In reply I received the following
telegram from State Treasurer Hon.
B. R. Lacy: "A United States coal
ing station at Southport with South
Atlantic Trans-Continental Railroad
complete will be of inestimable val
ue to North Carolina." '
From the Hon. Secy, of State, J.
Bryan Grimes, "Impossible to esti
mate the great industrial and com
mercial advantage of this railroad
and coaling station."
From the Hon. Attorney General
Bickett. "Wire just received. There
would be millions in it for the '
State."
Respectfully,
S. A. JONES.
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