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"
Mr.
Cowperwood
,
there
is
n't
anything
you
can
do
for
me
.
You
do
not
understand
me
,
and
I
do
not
understand
you
.
You
can
not
understand
me
because
I
am
an
honest
man
.
"
"
Ye
gods
!
"
replied
Cowperwood
.
"
This
is
certainly
a
case
of
self-esteem
and
great
knowledge
.
Good
afternoon
.
"
Shortly
thereafter
the
mayor
was
approached
by
one
Mr.
Carker
,
who
was
the
shrewd
,
cold
,
and
yet
magnetic
leader
of
Democracy
in
the
state
of
New
York
.
Said
Carker
:
"
You
see
,
Mr.
Lucas
,
the
great
money
houses
of
the
East
are
interested
in
this
local
contest
here
in
Chicago
.
For
example
,
Haeckelheimer
,
Gotloeb
&
Co.
would
like
to
see
a
consolidation
of
all
the
lines
on
a
basis
that
will
make
them
an
attractive
investment
for
buyers
generally
and
will
at
the
same
time
be
fair
and
right
to
the
city
.
A
twenty-year
contract
is
much
too
short
a
term
in
their
eyes
.
Fifty
is
the
least
they
could
comfortably
contemplate
,
and
they
would
prefer
a
hundred
.
It
is
little
enough
for
so
great
an
outlay
.
The
policy
now
being
pursued
here
can
lead
only
to
the
public
ownership
of
public
utilities
,
and
that
is
something
which
the
national
Democratic
party
at
large
can
certainly
not
afford
to
advocate
at
present
.
It
would
antagonize
the
money
element
from
coast
to
coast
.
Any
man
whose
political
record
was
definitely
identified
with
such
a
movement
would
have
no
possible
chance
at
even
a
state
nomination
,
let
alone
a
national
one
.
He
could
never
be
elected
.
I
make
myself
clear
,
do
I
not
?
"
"
You
do
.
"
"
A
man
can
just
as
easily
be
taken
from
the
mayor
's
office
in
Chicago
as
from
the
governor
's
office
at
Springfield
,
"
pursued
Mr.
Carker
.
"
Mr.
Haeckelheimer
and
Mr.
Fishel
have
personally
asked
me
to
call
on
you
.
If
you
want
to
be
mayor
of
Chicago
again
for
two
years
or
governor
next
year
,
until
the
time
for
picking
a
candidate
for
the
Presidency
arrives
,
suit
yourself
.
In
the
mean
time
you
will
be
unwise
,
in
my
judgment
,
to
saddle
yourself
with
this
public-ownership
idea
.
The
newspapers
in
fighting
Mr.
Cowperwood
have
raised
an
issue
which
never
should
have
been
raised
.
"
After
Mr.
Carker
's
departure
,
arrived
Mr.
Edward
Arneel
,
of
local
renown
,
and
then
Mr.
Jacob
Bethal
,
the
Democratic
leader
in
San
Francisco
,
both
offering
suggestions
which
if
followed
might
result
in
mutual
support
.
There
were
in
addition
delegations
of
powerful
Republicans
from
Minneapolis
and
from
Philadelphia
.
Even
the
president
of
the
Lake
City
Bank
and
the
president
of
the
Prairie
National
--
once
anti-Cowperwood
--
arrived
to
say
what
had
already
been
said
.
So
it
went
.
Mr.
Lucas
was
greatly
nonplussed
.
A
political
career
was
surely
a
difficult
thing
to
effect
.
Would
it
pay
to
harry
Mr.
Cowperwood
as
he
had
set
out
to
do
?
Would
a
steadfast
policy
advocating
the
cause
of
the
people
get
him
anywhere
?
Would
they
be
grateful
?
Would
they
remember
?
Suppose
the
current
policy
of
the
newspapers
should
be
modified
,
as
Mr.
Carker
had
suggested
that
it
might
be
What
a
mess
and
tangle
politics
really
were
!
