t his nomination.

"I know that you had an obstinate pupil. I hope that I have not been
instructed in vain."

"I have no fear on that score. You will fulfil the mission that is
manifestly set for you. Keep the thought of the people uppermost in your
mind when you are speaking, and it will give you the needed inspiration.

"Come, we will review the bill of complaint which the people find
against the Trusts."

They rapidly name, in chronological order, the events that have been
instrumental in bringing about the degradation of labor. There is the
primal generator of universal distress--the private corporation--which
operates with all the functions of an individual, yet is free from even
the most ordinary obligations that are enforced upon the individual;
from the private corporation has sprung the Trust, a consolidation of
corporate bodies which intensifies the evils that exist under the former
institution, and as an inevitable consequence of Trusts comes private
Monopolies. These last have been the direct cause of awakening the
people to a realization of their condition. For each aggression of
corporate wealth the people have been forced from their position as free
men to that of servants. The climax is reached when the Monopolies adopt
the paternal principle of pensioning their employees, thus making of
them retainers in name, as they have long been in fact.

"I shall leave you to your thoughts," says Nevins, in parting. He walks
to the entrance of the hotel with Trueman. When his friend departs he
returns to his room.

Three of the Committee of Forty are awaiting him. They have come for a
short consultation. At the convention they are to be the trusted
lieutenants of Nevins.

There is no money to be distributed; no patronage to be pledged for the
support of delegates. The preliminary arrangements of battle are
strangely dissimilar to those of any preceding convention that has been
held in this country for half a century.

The magnitude of the cause that brought forth the Democracy in the days
of Jefferson, and the Republican party in the days of Lincoln, is again
attracting true patriots; the cry of a people which has long been
outraged is demanding to be heard; it has reached the ears of a faithful
few who put country above price. It is of such material that the new
party is composed.

A young and untried soldier was called by the sage of the Revolution of
1776 to take command of the Continental army. What