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"All dear friends of Noonan's," Penny quietly reminded him. "They probably have the same tip about what is on as you and Uncle Martin have! Calm down, George! First, let me go out and learn when Noonan and Doolittle are coming home! When we know that, we can " "Penny, I can't wait. I must act now. I must denounce the whole damnable plot to the people of this country.
The poor people grumbled, and, to remedy the injustice, made private bargains with each other. He had information of this, and seized the corn that was selling above the price he had fixed. Young Riley, Noonan's son-in-law, came to me to complain, that his little oats were seized and detained. I remonstrated. Hardcastle resented the appeal to me, and bid him wait and be damned.
Then stepping up closer to me, he said, in a lower voice, "I'm Jimmy Riley, that married ould Noonan's daughter; and now that it is all over I may tell you a bit of a secret, which made me so eager to get to the speech of your honour, that I might tell it to your own ear alone no offence to this gentleman, before whom I'd as soon say it as yourself, becaase I see he is all as one as another yourself.
As the lifeboat was straining on the top of a swell, Mulhatton attempted to leap in, but was viciously punched back by Dan, who then sprang out five feet and sprawled in the stern sheets. "Damn!" cried the disappointed mate as he sprang to Noonan's side and seized the line, which was already paying out. Into the riot went Dan.
It was their final demonstration, their last chance to assert the demands of good citizenship and it had attracted hundreds of curious men, vote-owners, belonging to what, in such periods of political struggle, are referred to on platforms as "our better element." Also drifting into Main Street were groups of voters of less prepossessing aspect Noonan's men, George recognized them to be.
There, standing in the frame of jagged plate-glass, upon what was equivalent to a platform raised above the crowd, he sent forth a speech which had a voice. "Ladies and gentlemen!" he called, raising an imperative hand. The uproar subsided to numerous exclamations, then to surprised silence; even Noonan's men checked their disorder at this appearance of their party's candidate.
Herrington continued rapidly. "We bought ten thousand copies of that extra for ourselves your uncle paid for them and we're going to distribute them in every home in town. When the best element in Whitewater read how the women were trampled down by Noonan's mob well, they'll know how to vote! Mr. Noonan will never guess how much he has helped us."
But what they saw without was far more stirring and important. Noonan's men in the crowd, their hoodlumism now unleashed, were bowling over the people about them; but these really constituted Noonan's outposts and advance guards. From out of two side streets, though George and Mrs.
Penfield Evans and George Remington, standing in the hall, listened to these words with terror in their hearts. "Get Noonan first," said George. "I'll talk to him." In five seconds Evans had Noonan's residence. Remington listened to Penny's voice. "Gone," he was saying. "Gone where?" And then: "Why, he was at the dinner last -What's Doolittle's number?" On the midnight train?"
A number of papers published by men who were active in the movement, such as Buchanan's Indianapolis Star, Noonan's Industrial Age of Chicago, and Donnelly's Anti-Monopolist of St. Paul, labored not without avail to spread the gospel among their readers. The most effective means of propaganda, however, was probably the Greenback Club.
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