e man's WORDS--his professions, always more or less dishonest, though
perhaps not always deliberately so.

In that Remsen City campaign the one party that could profit by the
full and clear truth, and therefore was eager for the truth as to
everything and everybody, was the Workingmen's League. The Kelly
crowd, the House gang, the Citizens' Alliance, all had their ugly
secrets, their secret intentions different from their public
professions. All these were seeking office and power with a view to
increasing or perpetuating or protecting various abuses, however
ardently they might attack, might perhaps honestly intend to end,
certain other and much smaller abuses. The Workingmen's League said
that it would end every abuse existing law did not securely protect,
and it meant what it said.

Its campaign fund was the dues paid in by its members and the profits
from the New Day. Its financial books were open for free inspection.
Not so the others--and that in itself was proof enough of sinister
intentions.

Under Victor Dorn's shrewd direction, the League candidates published,
each man in a sworn statement, a complete description of all the
property owned by himself and by his wife. "The character of a man's
property," said the New Day, "is an indication of how that man will act
in public affairs. Therefore, every candidate for public trust owes it
to the people to tell them just what his property interests are. The
League candidates do this--and an effective answer the schedules make
to the charge that the League's candidates are men who have 'no stake
in the community.' Now, let Mr. Sawyer, Mr. Hull, Mr. Galland and the
rest of the League's opponents do likewise. Let us read how many
shares of water and ice stock Mr. Sawyer owns. Let us hear from Mr.
Hull about his traction holdings--those of the Hull estate from which
he draws his entire income. As for Mr. Galland, it would be easier for
him to give the list of public and semi-public corporations in which he
is not largely interested. But let him be specific, since he asks the
people to trust him as judge between them and those corporations of
which he is almost as large an owner as is his father-in-law."

This line of attack--and the publication of the largest contributors to
the Republican and Democratic-Reform campaign fund--caused a great deal
of public and private discussion. Large crowds cheered Hull when he,
without doing the charges the honor of repeati