Wherefore, let it be rewritten that Senator Hanway in the face of those clumsy, uncouth, half-seeing yet tremendous potentialities of his enemy was seized of a helplessness never before felt.

To oppose the other with only those narrow means of money was like trying to put down a Sioux uprising with a resolution of the Board of Trade.

Still, he must do his best; he must hold this Governor Obstinate as much as he might in check, trusting to the chapter of accidents, which in politics is a very lair of surprises, to suggest final ways and means to baffle his advance.
For the business of making him President, the complaisant Senate had become the workshop of Senator Hanway.

Now, on the brink of a new Congress, one which would be in session when the nominating convention of his party was called to order and therefore might be supposed to own power over its action and the Presidential ticket it would put up, Senator Hanway resolved to add the House of Representatives to his machine.

He would elect its Speaker, and make the House an annex to his workshop of a Senate.