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Rh he was elected a member of the State Convention of the Republican Party.

A day or two before the meeting of the convention I was passing by his premises where he was engaged apparently in examining a buggy which his man had been putting in order. The conversation turned upon politics, and I soon discovered that he wished for a nomination to the Legislature, and without admitting the fact, his remarks showed that he comprehended the nature of the obstacles in his way. At last he said: “When I began I thought the main thing was to get money; and I have got it; and it is very convenient to have it, but it isn’t just what I thought it was when I began.”

He went to the convention, took a cold which developed into a fever, and in a week he died.