their fusillade of questions for about an hour, and then
went home in disgust, and the balance of the meeting was
a strictly party affair. Jurgis, who had insisted upon com-
ing, had the time of his life that night; he danced about and
waved his arms in his excitement -- and at the very climax
he broke loose from his friends, and got out into the aisle,
and proceeded to make a speech himself! The senator
had been denying that the Democratic party was corrupt;
it was always the Republicans who bought the votes, he
said, -- and here was Jurgis shouting furiously, "It's a lie!
It's a lie!" After which he went on to tell them how he
knew it -- that he knew it because he had bought them
himself! And he would have told the "pitchfork senator"
all his experiences, had not Harry Adams and a friend
grabbed him about the neck and shoved him into a seat.

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