However, they may have thought that to sit at home and grumble would some day right the evil.
Yes, the nation was excited, but Senator Dilworthy was calm--what was left of him after the explosion of the shell.

Calm, and up and doing.
What did he do first?
What would you do first, after you had tomahawked your mother at the breakfast table for putting too much sugar in your coffee?
You would "ask for a suspension of public opinion." That is what Senator Dilworthy did.

It is the custom.

He got the usual amount of suspension.

Far and wide he was called a thief, a briber, a promoter of steamship subsidies, railway swindles, robberies of the government in all possible forms and fashions.