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to recall the convention. It was to nominate Lindsey, of course, but this matter of course was so insisted upon by the System s organ, the Republican, that Lindsey became suspicious. He inquired, and he heard the night before the convention that all this talk was part of the game to keep the young Republicans away from the convention; another man was to be nominated in the Judge’s place.

Lindsey called up his friends among the dele- gates, and the young men wanted to give up. The caucus had been held; the slate was fixed; it was too late to make a fight. The Judge wouldn’t hear of quitting, however, so, in their desperation, one of them suggested seeing David H. Moffatt. Mr. Moffatt is the leading banker and financier of Colorado, and to go to him was to appeal over the heads of all the political bosses and the apparent business bosses to the very head of the System. Moffatt was the man to go to, but Lindsey didn’t know Moffatt.

“Well, you know Walter Cheesman; go to him.”

Walter Cheesman was a religious man, very rich and benevolent and an active supporter of the Humane Society and of Lindsey’s Juvenile Improvement Society. So the Judge knew Mr. Cheesman, but it was not because of his