Larkin decided that the state convention should
be held at Saint X because his machine was most
perfect there. The National Woolens Company,
the Consolidated Pipe and Wire Company and
the Indiana Oil and Gas Corporation—the three
principal political corporations in the state—had
their main plants there and were in complete
political control. While Larkin had no fear of
the Scarborough movement, regarding it as a
sentimental outburst in the rank and file of the
party that would die away when its fomenter had
been "read out of the party" at the convention
by the regular organization, still he had been in
the game too long to take unnecessary chances.
He felt that it would be wise to have the delegates
assemble where all the surroundings would be
favorable and where his ablest and confidential
men could do their work in peace and quiet.

The convention was to meet on the last Thurs-
day in September. On the preceding Monday
morning, Culver—Dumont's small, thin, stealthy

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