us hotel on Clark street; there are details for the
work of the morrow that have to be carefully planned.

"In your speech you must dwell upon the causes which led to the
formation of the new party," Nevins explains. "This must be done
briefly; but it will pave the way for your demonstration that a new, a
young man must be called upon to make the fight against the intrenched
robbers.

"As you know, I have striven for ten years to bring about the present
propitious circumstances; it has been an almost impossible task to get a
convention of men who are susceptible of being made to nominate a young
and untried man for so exalted an office.

"But all of the political conditions of the hour indicate that the bold
proposal will be accepted."

"I have caused a most thorough canvas of the delegates to be made," says
Trueman, "and they are almost unanimous in declaring that they will
support me for the second place on the ticket. When sounded on the
proposition of voting for a young man for the head of the ticket, they
demur."

"That is just as I have planned matters should stand before the
convening of the delegates," replies Nevins, with a self-complacent
smile.

"All of the older men will have spoken before you are called upon. The
sharp contrast that will be presented in the staid and uninspiring
speeches of your predecessors, and your fervid, fluent and convincing
call to action, will lift you to the position of the logical candidate.

"No successful statesman has ever been unmindful of the practical side
of politics. A speech may create a whirlwind of enthusiasm for an
orator; yet if there is no one to guide the tempest it is soon spent. I
shall be on the watch for the moment that must see your name put in
nomination.

"When it comes, I shall put you in nomination."

"Day by day I am learning that politics is not a game of chance,"
observes Trueman, meditatively. "It is a science, with as much to master
as the science of war, which it resembles most strikingly.

"A year ago I should have scoffed at the idea that I would be engaged in
planning and in carrying out a campaign to capture a convention. Yet it
is absolutely necessary to make these preparations."

"How many hours did I spend in convincing you that politics is an exact
science?" Nevins inquires, with a faint smile, as he recalls the
struggle he has gone through with before he could get Trueman to consent
to the methods that had to be adopted to effec