He was not a party man, but he was a partisan; that is, he would get interested sometimes in a campaign, and when he did, each workman in his big manufactory must vote as indicated or go.

And Gunderson did not like Harlson.

The ways of the big employer were not what Harlson admired, and he had never tried much to conciliate him.

So it came that in more than one legislative and local contest we had lost the Ninth Ward.

And now Harlson was a candidate for Congress.
We were puzzled.