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Afterward
I
might
be
willing
to
talk
about
it
further
.
Not
now
,
though
--
not
now
.
"
Mr.
Gilgan
went
away
quite
jauntily
and
cheerfully
.
He
was
not
at
all
downcast
.
Subsequently
Mr.
Kerrigan
called
on
Mr.
Tiernan
casually
.
Mr.
Tiernan
returned
the
call
.
A
little
later
Messrs.
Tiernan
,
Kerrigan
,
and
Gilgan
,
in
a
parlor-room
in
a
small
hotel
in
Milwaukee
(
in
order
not
to
be
seen
together
)
,
conferred
.
Finally
Messrs.
Tiernan
,
Edstrom
,
Kerrigan
,
and
Gilgan
met
and
mapped
out
a
programme
of
division
far
too
intricate
to
be
indicated
here
.
Needless
to
say
,
it
involved
the
division
of
chief
clerks
,
pro
rata
,
of
police
graft
,
of
gambling
and
bawdy-house
perquisites
,
of
returns
from
gas
,
street-railway
,
and
other
organizations
.
It
was
sealed
with
many
solemn
promises
.
If
it
could
be
made
effective
this
quadrumvirate
was
to
endure
for
years
.
Judges
,
small
magistrates
,
officers
large
and
small
,
the
shrievalty
,
the
water
office
,
the
tax
office
,
all
were
to
come
within
its
purview
.
It
was
a
fine
,
handsome
political
dream
,
and
as
such
worthy
of
every
courtesy
and
consideration
but
it
was
only
a
political
dream
in
its
ultimate
aspects
,
and
as
such
impressed
the
participants
themselves
at
times
.
The
campaign
was
now
in
full
blast
.
The
summer
and
fall
(
September
and
October
)
went
by
to
the
tune
of
Democratic
and
Republican
marching
club
bands
,
to
the
sound
of
lusty
political
voices
orating
in
parks
,
at
street-corners
,
in
wooden
"
wigwams
,
"
halls
,
tents
,
and
parlors
--
wherever
a
meager
handful
of
listeners
could
be
drummed
up
and
made
by
any
device
to
keep
still
.
The
newspapers
honked
and
bellowed
,
as
is
the
way
with
those
profit-appointed
advocates
and
guardians
of
"
right
"
and
"
justice
.
Cowperwood
and
McKenty
were
denounced
from
nearly
every
street-corner
in
Chicago
.
Wagons
and
sign-boards
on
wheels
were
hauled
about
labeled
"
Break
the
partnership
between
the
street-railway
corporations
and
the
city
council
.
"
"
Do
you
want
more
streets
stolen
?
"
"
Do
you
want
Cowperwood
to
own
Chicago
?
"
Cowperwood
himself
,
coming
down-town
of
a
morning
or
driving
home
of
an
evening
,
saw
these
things
.
He
saw
the
huge
signs
,
listened
to
speeches
denouncing
himself
,
and
smiled
.
By
now
he
was
quite
aware
as
to
whence
this
powerful
uprising
had
sprung
.
Hand
was
back
of
it
,
he
knew
--
for
so
McKenty
and
Addison
had
quickly
discovered
--
and
with
Hand
was
Schryhart
,
Arneel
,
Merrill
,
the
Douglas
Trust
Company
,
the
various
editors
,
young
Truman
Leslie
MacDonald
,
the
old
gas
crowd
,
the
Chicago
General
Company
--
all
.
He
even
suspected
that
certain
aldermen
might
possibly
be
suborned
to
desert
him
,
though
all
professed
loyalty
.
McKenty
,
Addison
,
Videra
,
and
himself
were
planning
the
details
of
their
defenses
as
carefully
and
effectively
as
possible
.
Cowperwood
was
fully
alive
to
the
fact
that
if
he
lost
this
election
--
the
first
to
be
vigorously
contested
--
it
might
involve
a
serious
chain
of
events
;
but
he
did
not
propose
to
be
unduly
disturbed
,
since
he
could
always
fight
in
the
courts
by
money
,
and
by
preferment
in
the
council
,
and
with
the
mayor
and
the
city
attorney
.
"
There
is
more
than
one
way
to
kill
a
cat
,
"
was
one
of
his
pet
expressions
,
and
it
expressed
his
logic
and
courage
exactly
.
Yet
he
did
not
wish
to
lose
.
One
of
the
amusing
features
of
the
campaign
was
that
the
McKenty
orators
had
been
instructed
to
shout
as
loudly
for
reforms
as
the
Republicans
,
only
instead
of
assailing
Cowperwood
and
McKenty
they
were
to
point
out
that
Schryhart
's
Chicago
City
Railway
was
far
more
rapacious
,
and
that
this
was
a
scheme
to
give
it
a
blanket
franchise
of
all
streets
not
yet
covered
by
either
the
Cowperwood
or
the
Schryhart
--
Hand-Arneel
lines
.
It
was
a
pretty
argument
.
The
Democrats
could
point
with
pride
to
a
uniformly
liberal
interpretation
of
some
trying
Sunday
laws
,
whereby
under
Republican
and
reform
administrations
it
had
been
occasionally
difficult
for
the
honest
working-man
to
get
his
glass
or
pail
of
beer
on
Sunday
.
On
the
other
hand
it
was
possible
for
the
Republican
orators
to
show
how
"
the
low
dives
and
gin-mills
"
were
everywhere
being
operated
in
favor
of
McKenty
,
and
that
under
the
highly
respectable
administration
of
the
Republican
candidate
for
mayor
this
partnership
between
the
city
government
and
vice
and
crime
would
be
nullified
.
"
If
I
am
elected
,
"
declared
the
Honorable
Chaffee
Thayer
Sluss
,
the
Republican
candidate
,
"
neither
Frank
Cowperwood
nor
John
McKenty
will
dare
to
show
his
face
in
the
City
Hall
unless
he
comes
with
clean
hands
and
an
honest
purpose
.
"
Hooray
!
"
yelled
the
crowd
.
"
I
know
that
ass
,
"
commented
Addison
,
when
he
read
this
in
the
Transcript
.
"
He
used
to
be
a
clerk
in
the
Douglas
Trust
Company
.
He
's
made
a
little
money
recently
in
the
paper
business
.
He
's
a
mere
tool
for
the
Arneel
--
Schryhart
interests
.
He
has
n't
the
courage
of
a
two-inch
fish-worm
.
"
