"You will have to do all this business on cotton heels, practically.

You know that old gas crowd are still down on you, in spite of the fact that you are one of their largest stockholders.

Schryhart isn't at all friendly, and he practically owns the Chronicle.

Ricketts will just about say what he wants him to say.

Hyssop, of the Mail and the Transcript, is an independent man, but he's a Presbyterian and a cold, self-righteous moralist.