I want Thatcher to have his way in that convention, naming the ticket as far as he pleases, and appearing to give me a drubbing.

The party's going to be defeated in November--there's no ducking that.

We'll let Thatcher get the odium of that defeat.

About the next time we'll go in and win and there won't be any more Thatcher nonsense.

This is politics, you understand." Harwood nodded; but Bassett had not finished; it clearly was not his purpose to stand the young man in a corner and demand a choice from him.
Bassett pursued negotiations after a fashion of his own.
"Thatcher thinks he has scored heavily on me by sneaking into Fraserville and kidnaping old Ike Pettit.