“He had been a reform member of the city council, he had been a Greenbacker, a Labor Unionist, a Populist, a Bryanite – and after thirty years of fighting, the year 1896 had served to convince him that the power of concentrated wealth could never be controlled, but could only be destroyed. He had published a pamphlet about it, and set out to organize a party of his own, when a stray Socialist leaflet had revealed to him that others had been ahead of him. Now.”
