Observe Sycamore Ridge in the eighties, with Hendricks its moving spirit, controlling its politics, dominating its business,--for John Barclay's business has moved to the City and Bob Hendricks has become the material embodiment of the town.

And the town there on the canvas is a busy town of twenty thousand people.

Just back of that scene we find a convention spread on the canvas, a political convention wherein Robert Hendricks is struggling for good government and clean politics.

Observe him a taciturn, forceful man, with his hands on the machinery of his party in the state, shaping its destinies, directing its politics, seeking no office, keeping himself in the background, desiring only to serve, and not to advertise his power.

So more and more power comes to him, greater and wider opportunities to serve his state.