Word: downtrod
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...fraternity fellows to pay a farmer for four stolen turkeys. He was a starveling lawyer, writing orations for practice in the hot, sandy afternoons; galloping his horse to & from a young man's fun in the Kansas night. He was the smartest sprig in Idaho, taking up for downtrod Chinese, farmers, Mormons while he served the corporations which owned the mines, the timber and the Republican Party in the State. He was the bridegroom of blonde Mamie McConnell (whose papa was Governor of Idaho). He was a renegade Republican, going down with the Democrats and Bryan...
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