And, now, he's reelected, and I've yet to see the first man who's the better for it." "You don't mean to say," asked Philip, "that he went in without paying anything ?" "Not a cent, not a dash cent, as I can hear," repeated Mr.Bigler, indignantly.

"I call it a swindle on the state.

How it was done gets me.

I never saw such a tight time for money in Harrisburg." "Were there no combinations, no railroad jobs, no mining schemes put through in connection with the election?
"Not that I knew," said Bigler, shaking his head in disgust.

"In fact it was openly said, that there was no money in the election.