No dark scenes were ever enacted there.

But just the same, when the time came, the Schryhart-Simms-MacDonald editorial combination did not win.
Mr.McKenty's party had the votes.

A number of the most flagrantly debauched aldermen, it is true, were defeated; but what is an alderman here and there?
The newly elected ones, even in the face of pre-election promises and vows, could be easily suborned or convinced.
So the anti-Cowperwood element was just where it was before; but the feeling against him was much stronger, and considerable sentiment generated in the public at large that there was something wrong with the Cowperwood method of street-railway control..