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And under the influence of this impression, the percentage of sober, steady, reliable voters who "stood by the grand old party" had shrunk to about seventy, while the percentage of voters who had to be worried about had grown to about thirty. The Kelly-House problem was, what shall we do as to that annoying thirty per cent?
Union labor was almost solidly Democratic except in Presidential elections, when it usually divided on the tariff question. Although almost all the Leaguers were members of the unions, Kelly and House saw to it that they had no influence in union councils. That is, until recently Kelly-House had been able to accomplish this. But they were seeing the approaching end of their domination.
A new personality; a plausible personality, deceptive because self-deceiving yet not so thoroughly self-deceived that it was in danger of hindering its own ambition. David Hull just the kind of respectable, popular figurehead and cloak the desperate Kelly-House conspiracy needed. How far had the "army of education" prepared the people for seeing through this clever new fraud upon them?
One of the sneers of the Kelly-House gang was that "those Dorn cranks think they are aristocrats, a little better than us common, ordinary laboring men." And the sneer was not without effect.
That is why the League expels any man who shirks or is a drunkard or a crook or a bad husband and father." The great fight of the League the fight that was keeping it from power was with the trades unions, which were run by secret agents of the Kelly-House oligarchy.
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