"Any honest citizen of Linrock can now see what's plain--yours is a damn poor hand! "You're going to hear me call a spade a spade.

Your office is a farce.
In the two years you've been mayor you've never arrested one rustler.
Strange, when Linrock's a nest for rustlers! You've never sent a prisoner to Del Rio, let alone to Austin.

You have no jail.
"There have been nine murders since you took office, innumerable street fights and hold-ups.

_Not one arrest!_ But you have ordered arrests for trivial offenses, and have punished these out of all proportion.
"There have been law-suits in your court--suits over water rights, cattle deals, property lines.

Strange how in these law-suits, you or Wright or other men close to you were always involved! Stranger how it seems the law was stretched to favor your interests!" Steele paused in his cold, ringing speech.