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A Hoosier Chronicle

CHAPTER XXVI
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It wasn't so easy pulling through House Bill Ninety-five; it was the hardest job of Mort's life; but he had to do it or take the count.

And Lord! he certainly lost his head in defeating those appropriation bills; he let his spite toward the governor get the better of him.

It wasn't the Republican governor he put in the hole; it was his own party." "That's the way with all these men of his type on both sides; they have no real loyalty; they will sacrifice their parties any time just to further personal ends, or in this case it would seem to have been out of sheer bad temper.

I didn't use to think Bassett had any temper or any kind of emotional organization.

But when he's mad it's the meanest kind of mad, blind and revengeful." "He's forced an extra session--he's brought that on us.


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