their backs, call them by their first names, and profess to each
individual he met that of all the men in the world this was the man whom
he most yearned to see. Perhaps he was too sincere for that; perhaps by
nature too reserved; but I am convinced that he who reads this book will
feel that he has met a man whose public career was governed not merely by
a great brain, but also by a great heart. I did not invent this character.
I observed him for eleven years.




CONTENTS


PREFACE

CHAPTER
I. THE POLITICAL LABORATORY
II. DOING THE POLITICAL CHORES
III. MY FIRST MEETING WITH THE POLITICAL BOSS
IV. COLONEL HARVEY ON THE SCENE
V. THE NEW JERSEY SALIENT
VI. SOMETHING NEW IN POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS
VII. THE CRISIS OP THE CAMPAIGN
VIII. THE END OP THE CAMPAIGN
IX. A PARTY SPLIT
X. EXIT THE OLD GUARD
XI. EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
XII. COLONEL HARVEY
XIII. THE "COCKED HAT" INCIDENT