ownership, they split. The dyed-in-the-wool single 

 taJEers opposed socialism more than any other group- 

 even more than the conservatives* They wanted 

 less government. The Republicans were willing to 

 hacw ttore govemaent if they could c^atrol and 

 benefit by it* 



0ilbt And you more or less subscribed to this train of 

 thought during that tine? 



Oogginat Well, no* It didnH take long to convince me that 

 the single tax wouldn't fill the bill because it 

 didn't cover enough* In faet^ Henry CNiorge»*«A 

 lot of the s ingle -taxera wouldn't admit it, but 

 Henry George himself came out for government 

 ovaerahlp of railroads and the obvious monopolies* 

 He had the feeling that was growing among these 

 people, that after all the combinations were not 

 going to disappear* It was a question of who 

 owned them and whom they were to serve* 



Qilbt What did your club try to do? Campaign for a 

 reform mayor? 



Ooggins; It campaigned, it put a ticket in the field, but 



as we found out afterwards, or at least was pretty 

 •W«f that the real bosses of the Democratic Party 

 were Republicans* Donnelly and Ryan, the Democratie 



