Only Heaven knows how much longer it might have been held back, had not an assemblyman come to the mayor's help by rushing up to the capital and railroading through a law that required only a two-thirds vote.
The Democrats had remained in power for six years, and Herculaneum was essentially a Republican city.

On the Democratic side was McQuade, on the Republican side was ex-Senator Henderson.

These men were bosses of no ordinary type.

The first was from the mass, the second from the class; and both were millionaires.

The political arena was a pastime for these two men; it was a huge complex game of chess in which recently the senator had been worsted.