VIII

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌​​​‌​⁠O-liver's speech was made in the open. There was a baseball park in Tinkersfield, bounded at the west end by a grove of eucalyptus. With this grove as a background a platform had been erected. From the platform the rival candidates would speak. At this time of the year it would be daylight when the meeting opened. Tillotson was not to speak for himself. He had brought a man down from San Francisco