Commonly, as a chief Hanway manager, he lay as blandly close and noncommittal as a clam.
There was the issue of finance, Senator Gruff explained, and that was a growing source of trouble to Senator Hanway.

The latter gentleman's endeavor had always been to say nothing upon finance, but silence was becoming difficult.

Governor Obstinate was openly and offensively for gold in a sod-pawing, horn-lowering, threatening way, and just as a buffalo bull might have been for gold.

This settled the standing of Governor Obstinate in silver communities; they would have none of him.
Those same silver people, however, demanded all the more that Senator Hanway define his position in the money war.

They gave tongue to those pig-and-poke objections voiced by Senator Coot.