So they 'lected you, Jesse.

And the Lord ha' mercy on your soul!" Now the arrival of so large a new contingent as this of the Liberty train under young Banion made some sort of post-election ratification necessary, so that Wingate felt it incumbent to call the head men of the late comers into consultation if for no better than reasons of courtesy.
He dispatched his son Jed to the Banion park to ask the attendance of Banion, Woodhull and such of his associates as he liked to bring, at any suiting hour.

Word came back that the Liberty men would join the Wingate conference around eleven of that morning, at which time the hour of the jump-off could be set..