I was able to pay back their kindness some years later when C.M.Greenlee aspired to be judge of the Superior Court of Madison County.

I went to the convention as a delegate and worked hard for Judge Greenlee until he was nominated, and elected.
The city administration of which I was a member let many contracts.

As I said before, a cross-roads town had become a city and there were miles of paving and sewer to put in, and scores of public buildings to go up.
Old Francis Harbit was the Democratic mayor, and he didn't intend that the contractors should graft on the city nor give boodle to the officials.

I remember one stirring occasion.

There was a big contract for sewers to be let, and if a certain bid should go through, the contractor would profit greatly.