Lincoln Steffens' "The Gentleman
from Essex" itif^ McClures» Magazine
makes fits appeal especially to' 'Honest
but careless voters. Steffens shows to
these men-that asseiablymeny-senators,
state officfers, whom they have elected,
in the hurry of their bartering there
fight always for corporate interests. He
draws aside the veil Irom the committee
room he takes the reader into the cau
cus where the programme is mapped
out before the legislature officially
knows anything about it. He discloses
a state of affairs which shocks all the
more because he has gone inside §nd
dragged out the hard coid facts which
hit a powerful sight harder than gener
al suspicions. 'vr
"The Gentleman from' Essex" is
Everett Colby a rich young man who
turned to politics as a sort of post-grad
uate footballs Boss Lentz of Newark,
saw, the possibilities of hlis youth, his
the directories and by the aid of. the
electric cars we finally located a former money, and his supposed carelessness
merchant of Austin, Mr. S. -B. Wood- 'as to the moral side of situation. So
som. Mr. and Mrs. .Woodsom have he pushed him ahead wanting to make
changed but little and, I am glad to him a State Senator but Co^by realized
say, success has smiled upon them.
He has achieved a wonderful fortune
and is now classed as one of the west
ern millionaires. Their daughter, Anna
Belle, is living here, the wife o£ Dr.
Custer, he being a near relative to the
famous Captain Custer of Indian fame.
Anna Belle has grown into lovely
womanhood of striking personality.
