The Lieutenant-Governor

A door joins Governor Abbott’s office to Lieutenant-Governor Barclay’s—but it stays shut. Between the two men lie two inches of pine and a gulf of distrust no courtesy can bridge.

In the snow-speckled grounds of Alleghenia’s state capitol, young John Hamilton Barclay entered office expecting to put his reform ideals to work. Instead, Governor Abbott smiles away his objections, while the political machine that brought them to power leaves Barclay with little authority and plenty of blame. Reformers turn cold; labor jeers; the press and public call him useless. By a late-February afternoon, he is staring from his office window and weighing whether to resign. Can a man with almost no power still change the course of his state?

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