Patch and Swinger held fast through ballot after ballot, keeping their delegations together, while the Hawke captains pleaded and begged and promised and threatened in their efforts to make them withdraw and release their followings to the main battle.
Through roll call after roll call the tally never varied.

With two hundred and ten members voting, the count stood: Frost, ninety-two; Hawke, ninety; Swinger, fifteen; Patch, thirteen.

Of the twenty-eight who voted for Messrs.

Patch and Swinger, it was understood that Mr.
Hawke would take three-fourths upon a breakaway.

For this reason the Hawke captains labored and moiled with Messrs.