But he added that he was willing to hire the doorway to the Half-Breeds if they paid him the additional sum of money they had mentioned.

The bargain was struck, and the meeting of the hostile hosts was spirited, when the men who had rented the doorway sought to bar the path of the men who had rented the hall.

I was asking my friend Costigan about the details of the struggle, as he seemed thoroughly acquainted with them, and he smiled good-naturedly over my surprise at there having been more votes cast than there were members of the party in the whole district.

Said I, "Mr.Costigan, you seem to have a great deal of knowledge about this; how did it happen ?" To which he replied, "Come now, Mr.Roosevelt, you know it's the same gang that votes in all the primaries." So much for most of the opposition to the reform.

There was, however, some honest and at least partially justifiable opposition both to certain of the methods advocated by Civil Service Reformers and to certain of the Civil Service Reformers themselves.