``We ought to get that out on wall-bills and dodgers,'' suggested
Selma, ``and deluge the town with it once or twice a week until
election.''

``Splendid!'' exclaimed Victor. ``I'll make a practical
politician of you yet.''

Colman and Harbinger and Jocelyn and several others of the League
leaders came in one at a time, and the plan of campaign was
developed in detail. But the force they chiefly relied upon was
the influence of their twelve hundred men, their four or five
thousand women and young men and girls, talking every day and
evening, each man or woman or youth with those with whom he came
into contact. This ``army of education'' was disciplined, was
educated, knew just what arguments to use, had been cautioned
against disputes, against arousing foolish antagonisms. The
League had nothing to conceal, no object to gain but the
government of Remsen City by and for its citizens--well paved,
well lighted, clean streets, sanitary houses, good and clean
street car service, honest gas, pure water, plenty of good
schools--that first of all. The ``reform crowd''--the Citizens'
Alliance--like every reform party of the past, proposed to do
practically the same things. But the League met this with:
``Why should we elect an upper class government to do for us what
we ought to do for ourselves? And how can they redeem their
promises when they are tied up in a hundred ways to the very
people who have been robbing and cheating us?''

There were to be issues of the New Day; there were to be posters
and dodgers, public meetings in halls, in squares, on street