"The hall couldn't be any fuller of smoke than it is now." "If they would all put on their coats the room would be more beautiful," said Marian.

"They always say the Republicans are much more gentlemanly than the Democrats." "Hush, Marian; some one might hear you," Mrs.Bassett cautioned.
She did not understand her husband's absence; he rarely or never took her into his confidence in political matters.

She had not known until that morning that he was not to be present at the convention.

She did not relish the idea that he had been defeated in the primaries; in her mind defeat was inseparable from dishonor.

The "War Eagle of the Wabash" was in excellent voice and he spoke for thirty minutes; his speech would have aroused greater enthusiasm if it had not been heard in many previous state conventions and on the hustings through many campaigns.
Dan Voorhees had once expressed his admiration of that speech; and it was said that Tom Hendricks had revised the original manuscript the year he was chosen Vice-President.