He had made no effort to correct some of the evils of government about which he had raged just before the election.
Lawler smiled with grim amusement as he walked toward the Willets Hotel--where he meant to stay overnight.

For he was convinced that the car shortage could not exist if the state officials--especially the railroad commissioner--would exert authority to end it.

It seemed to Lawler that there must exist a secret understanding between the railroad commissioner and the invisible power represented by Gary Warden.

And he wondered at the temerity of the governor--the sheer, brazen disregard for the public welfare that permitted him to become leagued with the invisible power in an effort to rob the cattle owners of the state.

He must certainly know that he had been elected by the cattle owners--that their votes and the votes of their employees had made it possible for him to gain the office he had sought.
But perhaps--and Lawler's lips curved with bitterness--the governor wanted only one term.