By this he grew both popular and powerful; as a finale no man oftener had his Senate way.
Senator Hanway, modestly and unobtrusively, did sundry Senate things that stamped him a leader of men.

He bore the labor of a staggering filibuster, and more than any other prevented a measure that was meant for his party's destruction.

In the lists of that filibuster he met the champion of the opposition--a Senator of pouter-pigeon characteristics, more formidable to look upon than to face--and, forensically speaking, beat him like a carpet.
On another day when one of his party associates was to be unseated by so close a vote that a single member of the Committee on Privileges and Elections would determine the business either way, it was Senator Hanway, no one knew how, who in manner secret captured that member from the enemy.

The captured one voted sheepishly in committee and continued thus sheepish on the open Senate floor, although a beautiful woman smiled and beamed upon him from the gallery as women smile and beam when granted favors.
It was during Senator Hanway's second term, however, that he accomplished the work which placed him at his party's fore and confirmed him as its chief.

The Senate, following a certain national election, fell to be a tie.