David Lockwin rents head-quarters in the district, and shakes hands
with all the touching committees. Twelve members of the Sons of Labor
can carry their union over to him. It will require $100, as the union
is mostly democratic.

They are told they must see Mr. Lockwin's central committee. But Mr.
Lockwin must be prepared to deliver an address on the need of reform in
the government, looking to the civil service, to retrenchment and to
the complete allegiance of the officeholder to his employers, the
voters.

Mr. Lockwin must listen with attention to a plan by which the central
committee of the Sodalified Assembly can be packed with republicans at
the annual election, to take place the next Sunday. This will enable
Lockwin to carry the district in case he should get the nomination. To
show a deep interest in the party and none in himself must arouse
popular idolatry.

This popular idolatry must be kept awake, because Harpwood has opened
head-quarters and is visited by the same touching committees. He has
been up and down State street, and has drunk more red liquor than was
seen to go down Lockwin's throat. In more ways than one, Harpwood
shows the timber out of which popular idols are made.

The doctor is alarmed. He makes a personal canvass of all his
patients. They do not know when the primaries will be held. They do
not know who ought to go to Washington. All they know is that the
congressman is dead and there must be a special election, which is
going to cost them some extra money. If the boss of the machine will