He and the whole city council could hold a caucus in the car, and all have seats, and in the evenings he could take a stool out on his front or back porch and smoke a pipe in peace.

His car stood side by side with the round topped wagon of the traveling photographer, who had not traveled since his felloes gave out on that very lot six years before.
The city officers of the Citizens' Party, being of an independent part, were so independent that they were worried and chafed by their independence.

No one but a man in office knows the real blessedness of having the set beliefs and an traditions of a regular party to fall back upon.

The independence of the independents made their work more difficult; it compelled them to decide things for themselves, and then everybody complained of what they did.

No independent is ever satisfied with what another independent does, and they lost even the satisfaction of knowing that they were pleasing their own part, which a properly service Democrat or Republican is rather apt to be sure of.