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He
was
a
little
sallow
,
wiry
man
with
eyes
like
a
ferret
,
a
small
mustache
and
goatee
ornamenting
his
face
.
"
But
do
not
forget
that
the
Lord
has
called
us
also
to
this
work
.
"
"
Even
so
,
"
acquiesced
Greenough
.
"
We
must
not
weary
in
well
doing
.
The
harvest
is
truly
plenteous
and
the
laborers
are
few
.
"
"
Tut
,
tut
,
Pastor
.
Do
n't
overdo
it
.
You
might
make
me
larf
,
"
replied
Christian
;
and
the
twain
parted
with
knowing
and
yet
weary
smiles
.
Yet
how
little
did
the
accommodating
attitude
of
these
gentlemen
avail
in
silencing
the
newspapers
.
The
damnable
newspapers
!
They
were
here
,
there
,
and
everywhere
reporting
each
least
fragment
of
rumor
,
conversation
,
or
imaginary
programme
.
Never
did
the
citizens
of
Chicago
receive
so
keen
a
drilling
in
statecraft
--
its
subtleties
and
ramifications
.
The
president
of
the
senate
and
the
speaker
of
the
house
were
singled
out
and
warned
separately
as
to
their
duty
.
A
page
a
day
devoted
to
legislative
proceeding
in
this
quarter
was
practically
the
custom
of
the
situation
.
Cowperwood
was
here
personally
on
the
scene
,
brazen
,
defiant
,
logical
,
the
courage
of
his
convictions
in
his
eyes
,
the
power
of
his
magnetism
fairly
enslaving
men
.
Throwing
off
the
mask
of
disinterestedness
--
if
any
might
be
said
to
have
covered
him
--
he
now
frankly
came
out
in
the
open
and
,
journeying
to
Springfield
,
took
quarters
at
the
principal
hotel
.
Like
a
general
in
time
of
battle
,
he
marshaled
his
forces
about
him
.
In
the
warm
,
moonlit
atmosphere
of
June
nights
when
the
streets
of
Springfield
were
quiet
,
the
great
plain
of
Illinois
bathed
for
hundreds
of
miles
from
north
to
south
in
a
sweet
effulgence
and
the
rurals
slumbering
in
their
simple
homes
,
he
sat
conferring
with
his
lawyers
and
legislative
agents
.
Pity
in
such
a
crisis
the
poor
country-jake
legislator
torn
between
his
desire
for
a
justifiable
and
expedient
gain
and
his
fear
lest
he
should
be
assailed
as
a
betrayer
of
the
people
's
interests
.
To
some
of
these
small-town
legislators
,
who
had
never
seen
as
much
as
two
thousand
dollars
in
cash
in
all
their
days
,
the
problem
was
soul-racking
.
Men
gathered
in
private
rooms
and
hotel
parlors
to
discuss
it
.
They
stood
in
their
rooms
at
night
and
thought
about
it
alone
.
The
sight
of
big
business
compelling
its
desires
the
while
the
people
went
begging
was
destructive
.
Many
a
romantic
,
illusioned
,
idealistic
young
country
editor
,
lawyer
,
or
statesman
was
here
made
over
into
a
minor
cynic
or
bribe-taker
.
Men
were
robbed
of
every
vestige
of
faith
or
even
of
charity
;
they
came
to
feel
,
perforce
,
that
there
was
nothing
outside
the
capacity
for
taking
and
keeping
.
The
surface
might
appear
commonplace
--
ordinary
men
of
the
state
of
Illinois
going
here
and
there
--
simple
farmers
and
small-town
senators
and
representatives
conferring
and
meditating
and
wondering
what
they
could
do
--
yet
a
jungle-like
complexity
was
present
,
a
dark
,
rank
growth
of
horrific
but
avid
life
--
life
at
the
full
,
life
knife
in
hand
,
life
blazing
with
courage
and
dripping
at
the
jaws
with
hunger
.
However
,
because
of
the
terrific
uproar
the
more
cautious
legislators
were
by
degrees
becoming
fearful
.
Friends
in
their
home
towns
,
at
the
instigation
of
the
papers
,
were
beginning
to
write
them
.
Political
enemies
were
taking
heart
.
It
meant
too
much
of
a
sacrifice
on
the
part
of
everybody
.
In
spite
of
the
fact
that
the
bait
was
apparently
within
easy
reach
,
many
became
evasive
and
disturbed
.
When
a
certain
Representative
Sparks
,
cocked
and
primed
,
with
the
bill
in
his
pocket
,
arose
upon
the
floor
of
the
house
,
asking
leave
to
have
it
spread
upon
the
minutes
,
there
was
an
instant
explosion
.
The
privilege
of
the
floor
was
requested
by
a
hundred
.
Another
representative
,
Disback
,
being
in
charge
of
the
opposition
to
Cowperwood
,
had
made
a
count
of
noses
and
was
satisfied
in
spite
of
all
subtlety
on
the
part
of
the
enemy
that
he
had
at
least
one
hundred
and
two
votes
,
the
necessary
two-thirds
wherewith
to
crush
any
measure
which
might
originate
on
the
floor
.
Nevertheless
,
his
followers
,
because
of
caution
,
voted
it
to
a
second
and
a
third
reading
.
All
sorts
of
amendments
were
made
--
one
for
a
three-cent
fare
during
the
rush-hours
,
another
for
a
20
per
cent
.
tax
on
gross
receipts
.
In
amended
form
the
measure
was
sent
to
the
senate
,
where
the
changes
were
stricken
out
and
the
bill
once
more
returned
to
the
house
.
Here
,
to
Cowperwood
's
chagrin
,
signs
were
made
manifest
that
it
could
not
be
passed
.
"
It
ca
n't
be
done
,
Frank
,
"
said
Judge
Dickensheets
.
"
It
's
too
grilling
a
game
.
Their
home
papers
are
after
them
.
They
ca
n't
live
.
"
Consequently
a
second
measure
was
devised
--
more
soothing
and
lulling
to
the
newspapers
,
but
far
less
satisfactory
to
Cowperwood
.
It
conferred
upon
the
Chicago
City
Council
,
by
a
trick
of
revising
the
old
Horse
and
Dummy
Act
of
1865
,
the
right
to
grant
a
franchise
for
fifty
instead
of
for
twenty
years
.
This
meant
that
Cowperwood
would
have
to
return
to
Chicago
and
fight
out
his
battle
there
.
It
was
a
severe
blow
,
yet
better
than
nothing
.
Providing
that
he
could
win
one
more
franchise
battle
within
the
walls
of
the
city
council
in
Chicago
,
it
would
give
him
all
that
he
desired
.
But
could
he
?
Had
he
not
come
here
to
the
legislature
especially
to
evade
such
a
risk
?
His
motives
were
enduring
such
a
blistering
exposure
.
Yet
perhaps
,
after
all
,
if
the
price
were
large
enough
the
Chicago
councilmen
would
have
more
real
courage
than
these
country
legislators
--
would
dare
more
.
They
would
have
to
