The  Republican  National  Committee,  the  Republican
National  Convention  were  allowed  to  squabble  to  their
hearts'  content  as  to  whether  Smith,  Jones  or  Brown  should
be  nominated,  but  it  was  clearly  understood  that  if  Robin-
son or  White  were  chosen  there  would  be  no  corporation
campaign  funds.  This  applied  also  to  the  Democratic  party,
on  the  rare  occasions  when  it  seemed  to  have  an  opportunity
of  winning.  Now,  however,  through  an  unpardonable
blunder,  there  had  got  into  the  White  House  a  President
who  was  inclined  to  ignore  advice,  who  appealed  over  the
heads  of  the  "advisers"  to  the  populace;  who  went  about
tilting  at  the  industrial  structures  we  had  so  painfully
wrought,  and  in  frequent  blasts  of  presidential  messages
enunciated  new  and  heretical  doctrines;  who  attacked  the
railroads,  encouraged  the  brazen  treason  of  labour  unions,
inspired  an  army  of  "muck-rakers"  to  fill  the  magazines  with
the  wildest  and  most  violent  of  language.  State  legislatures
were  emboldened  to  pass  mischievous  and  restrictive  laws,
and  much  of  my  time  began  to  be  occupied  in  inducing,  by
various  means,  our  courts  to  declare  these  unconstitutional.
