The Library of the Governor

It was in that library that the governor of new york, coming down from albany one evening to dine and spend the night, had turned to his host and said, hang the professional politician. How archer had glowed at the praise, how eagerly he had risen up at the call. It was an echo of ned winsett's old appeal to roll his sleeves up and get down into the muck, but spoken by a man who set the example of the gesture and whose summons to follow him was irresistible. In fact, there was reason to think it did not. For after a year in the state assembly, he had not been re elected and had dropped back