forward to become a stumbling
block in his way. In his angry contempt he could compare him to nothing
save a grizzly bear.

Whatever the justice of this last shaggy simile, even Senator Hanway
could not deny its formidable side. A grizzly, whether in fact or in
hyperbole, is no one good to meet. There is a supremacy of the
primitive; when the natural and the artificial have collided the latter
has more than once come limping off. Our soldiers cannot make the
Indians fight their fashion; the Indians make the soldiers fight _their_
fashion. If the soldiers were dense enough to insist upon their
formation, the Indians--fighting all over the field and each red warrior
for himself--would fill them as full of holes as a colander. When,
therefore, Senator Hanway called Governor Obstinate a grizzly, it was a
name of respect. The usual methods would not prevail in his stubborn
case. Most of all, money could not be employed to overthrow him; for his
foundations, like the foundations of any other grizzly, were original
and beyond the touch of money.

Now all this served to palsy the strength of Senator Hanway. In one
shape or another, and whether by promise or actual present production,
money was his one great tool; and where the tool has lost its power the
artisan is also powerless. It is not to Senator Hanway's discredit that
he would fail where money failed; Richelieu, wanting money, would have
been a turtle on its back. Wherefore, let it be rewritten that Senator
Hanway in the face of those clumsy, uncouth, half-seeing yet tremendous
potentialities of his enemy was seized of a helplessness never before
felt. To oppose the other with only those narrow means of money was like
trying to put down a Sioux uprising with a resolution of the Board of
Trade. Still, he must do his best; he must hold this Governor Obstinate
as much as he might in check, trusting to the chapter of accidents,
which in politics is a very lair of surprises, to suggest final ways and
means to baffle his advance.

For the business of making him President, the complaisant Senate had
become the workshop of Senator Hanway. Now, on the brink of a new
Congress, one which would be in session when the nominating convention
of his party was called to order and therefore might be supposed to own
power over its action and the Presidential ticket it would put up,
Senator Hanway resolved to add the House of Representatives to his
machine. He would elect its Speaker, an