He rallied sharply at times from the skeptical attitude which he felt journalism was establishing in him, and assured himself that his old ideals were safe in the citadel his boyhood imagination had built for them.

Dan's father was a veteran of the Civil War and he had been taught to believe that the Democratic Party had sought to destroy the Union and that the Republican Party alone had saved it.

Throughout his boyhood on the Harrison County farm, he had been conscious of the recrudescence of the wartime feeling in every political campaign.

His admiration for the heroes of the war was in no wise shaken at New Haven, but he first realized there that new issues demanded attention.

He grew impatient of all attempts to obscure these by harking back to questions that the war had finally determined, if it had served any purpose whatever.