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he would not be in such company at all, and would 

 have no quality that would recommend him to them. 

 But on the whole his sympathies must lie with the 

 man who saves money rather than with the man 

 who proposes to take away the money when it has 

 been saved, and with the policeman who arrests a 

 violent criminal rather than with the criminal. Such 

 sympathy puts him at a disadvantage in the Popu- 

 list camp. He is loud in his professions of be- 

 lief in the remarkable series of principles for which 

 he is supposed to stand, but his protestations ring 

 rather hollow. The average supporter of Bryan 

 doubtless intends to support Sewall, for he thinks 

 him an unimportant tail to the Bryan kite. But, 

 though unimportant, he regards him with a slight 

 feeling of irritation, as being at the best a rather 

 ludicrous contrast to the rest of the kite. He con- 

 tributes no element of strength to the Bryan ticket, 

 for other men who work hard and wish to enjoy 

 the fruits of their toil simply regard him as a rene- 

 gade, and the average Populist, or Populistic Dem- 

 ocrat, does not like him, and accepts him simply 

 because he fears not doing so may jeopardize 

 Bryan's chances. He is in the uncomfortable posi- 

 tion always held by the respectable theorist who 

 gets caught in a revolutionary movement and has 

 to wedge nervously up into the front rank with 

 the gentlemen who are not troubled by any of his 

 scruples, and who really do think that it is all very 

 fine and glorious. In fact Mr. Sewall is much the 

 least picturesque and the least appropriate figure on 



