"Brad, set down here and make a lot o' copies of this call. Milt, you help him."
The call read:
"A New Deal. Reform in County Politics."
A mass convention of the citizens of Rock County will be held at Rock Creek Grove on September 28th, for the purpose of nominating a people's ticket. All who favor reform in politics and rebel against the ring-rule of our county officers are invited to be present.
Per order,
Amos Ridings,
John Jennings,
William Councill,
People's Committee.
"What's all this?" asked Milton of his father.
"We're going to have a convention of our own."
"We're on the war path," said Amos grimly. "We'll make them fellers think hell's t' pay and no pitch hot."
After dinner Amos took a roll of the copies of the call and rode away to the north, and Jennings hitched up his team and drove away to the south. Milton and Bradley went back to their corn-husking, feeling that they were "small petaters."