OogglBSt It vent into th» campaign* la 190$ there came 



pretty near being a revolution. The city got ao 

 corrupt there that the nayoTf hi»«elf a Republicany 

 tiu*ned against the people who had put him in office* 

 On one occaaion citizens erowaed the CouneiX 

 Chamber and lowered a noose from the balcony as a 

 warning to the Council meinbers. The story appears 

 in Lincoln Steffens^s Shaiae of the Cities * 



011b I I>ld you loiow Iiineoln Steffena at that tisiet 



Cogginas Wot at that time* Kr* KeClure introduced me to 

 him in hia office a year or two later* Then in 

 California I met him many timea* 



Oilbs Ve were talking about the activities of the 

 Democratic Club in 190$ * 



Oogginat It waa intereating* Intereating people would 

 drop in occasionally* Tom J'ohnson, mayor of 

 Cleveland* 



Gilbt He was a Socialist, wasnH hef 



Cogginst Ho, he was a single tajcer and a liberal* They 



really didn't have any economic program except single 

 tax, on land only, and less govemaient* They 

 believed first in democracy* *• 



Oilbs And honesty* 



Cogginat Honesty and democracy, free speech and free assembly* 

 Then, when they came into questions of public 



