For instance, the Republican party, at the general election, polled something like five hundred and fifty votes, and yet at the primary the two factions polled seven hundred and twenty-five all told.

The sum of the parts was thus considerably greater than the whole.

There had been other little details that made the contest worthy of note.

The hall in which the primary was held had been hired by the Stalwarts from a conscientious gentleman.

To him the Half-Breeds applied to know whether they could not hire the hall away from their opponents, and offered him a substantial money advance.
The conscientious gentleman replied that his word was as good as his bond, that he had hired the hall to the Stalwarts, and that it must be theirs.