The aristocrats felt the attack upon their caste; they came forth for that issue and the war wagged.
But the war was unequal.

The aristocrats, who, like the Bourbons, had learned nothing, forgotten nothing, plodded with horseback saddle-bag politics.

Patrick Henry Hanway met them with modern methods of telegraph and steam.

Right and left he sowed his gold among the peasantry.

In the end he went over his noble enemies like a train of cars and his legislature sent him into Washington by a vote of three to one.