"I helped to elect every one of these men, it's true; but that doesn't mean I'm running 'em by any means," concluded Gilgan.

"Not yet, anyhow." At the "not yet" Cowperwood smiled.
"Just the same, Mr.Gilgan," he went on, smoothly, "you're the nominal head and front of this whole movement in opposition to me at present, and you're the one I have to look to.

You have this present Republican situation almost entirely in your own fingers, and you can do about as you like if you're so minded.

If you choose you can persuade the members of council to take considerable more time than they otherwise would in passing these ordinances--of that I'm sure.

I don't know whether you know or not, Mr.Gilgan, though I suppose you do, that this whole fight against me is a strike campaign intended to drive me out of Chicago.