It was as much as one's political life was worth to be on terms of friendship with him.
Speaker Frost called, and explained to Senator Hanway that he could no longer hold the delegation from his State in his, Senator Hanway's, interest; it would vote solidly against him in the coming convention.
Senator Gruff came under cloud of night, as though to hold conference with a felon, and said that he had received advices from the Anaconda President to the effect that nothing, not even the mighty Anaconda, could stem the tide then setting and raging in Anaconda regions against Senator Hanway.

It was the Anaconda President's suggestion that Senator Hanway withdraw himself from present thoughts of a White House.

The several States whose conventions had instructed for Senator Hanway, through special meetings of their central committees, rescinded those instructions.

Throughout the country every vestige of a Hanway enthusiasm was smothered, every scrap of Hanway hope was made to disappear; that statesman was left in no more generous peril of becoming President than of becoming Pope.

And all through the gorgeous proposition of a Georgian Bay-Ontario Canal, and the adroit use which the malevolent Mr.Hawke had made of it! The passing of Senator Hanway was the wonder of politics! And yet that indomitable publicist bore these reverses grandly, for he was capable of stoicism.