“I’m against the corporations when they don’t play fair.”
“That’s good enough for me! They never do play fair. Not in politics.”
“I don’t go that far,” said Jeremy.
“You will,” smiled the other. “Give you time. You’ll come to it. You’re with us and you’re going to be with us stronger and stronger.”
“It depends on who ‘us’ is, and what policies are involved,” replied the editor, not wholly pleased at being thus confidently catalogued.
“The radicals. The clean, common voters who believe that the people should run their own government for themselves.”
“So far, all right. I’m for that.”
“I knew you were. And here I am.” The smile now fairly surcharged the little office.
“And here you are. What can I do for you, Senator?”
“Wrong, my boy! Wrong for once. It’s the other way around.”