One was into the Socialist Party; the other was into the Republican Party.

Then it was that we socialists reaped the fruit of Hearst's pseudo-socialistic preaching; for the great Majority of his followers came over to us.
The expropriation of the farmers that took place at this time would also have swelled our vote had it not been for the brief and futile rise of the Grange Party.

Ernest and the socialist leaders fought fiercely to capture the farmers; but the destruction of the socialist press and publishing houses constituted too great a handicap, while the mouth-to-mouth propaganda had not yet been perfected.

So it was that politicians like Mr.Calvin, who were themselves farmers long since expropriated, captured the farmers and threw their political strength away in a vain campaign.
"The poor farmers," Ernest once laughed savagely; "the trusts have them both coming and going." And that was really the situation.

The seven great trusts, working together, had pooled their enormous surpluses and made a farm trust.
The railroads, controlling rates, and the bankers and stock exchange gamesters, controlling prices, had long since bled the farmers into indebtedness.