"Did n't you even tell your best friend, when they "Any one rather than the present Governor " "Why did this happen to me?" CALIFORNIA THE POLITICIAN T CHAPTER I AFTER FOUR YEARS HE first warm days of June held the city in traitorously absent from the streets. Yet in spite of the heat, the doors of the great structure where the Republican National Convention was being held continued to engulf their thousands. For blocks on both sides of Sixteenth Street, cars and carriages and automobiles were bringing more guests of the convention to add to the crowd that already seemed to fill Wabash Avenue from side to side. A fluctuating mass, the people ebbed and flowed against the front of the Coliseum, animated by but one purpose, to get within its four walls. In such a concourse the arrival of this and that unit by carriage or automobile was unremarked, and the limousine which contained the party of Mrs. Horace Cumloch paused in its turn before the high-arched entrance, deposited its passengers, and then pursued its difficult way onward through the crowd without attracting particular attention. Of the few spectators |