You don't mean to say they're going back on their sacred agreement to fight Cowperwood tooth and nail?
There can't be any misunderstanding on their part as to what they were elected to do.

The newspapers have been full of the fact that nothing favorable to Cowperwood was to be put through." "That's all true enough," replied Mr.Gilgan; "but I can't be held responsible for the private honesty of everybody.

Sure I selected these men.

Sure I did! But I selected them with the help of the rest of the Republicans and some of the Democrats.

I had to make the best terms I could--to pick the men that could win.