There were a number of disappointed candidates at the close of the first senatorial election, as there have been at every other similar election for the last fifty years, and prominent among them were Judge Doty, Judge Dunn, Marshall M. Strong and Byron Kilbourn. All these except Dunn were pronounced candidates, and of course all of them were straight-out Democrats except Doty, and he was occasionally a Democrat. He was always a candidate for office when there was a good one to be filled, and for the office of Senator he had really a fine equipment. Judge Dunn, who was the superior of all his rivals in point of ability, legal learning and natural gifts, was too modest to press his own claims, and was no doubt made a candidate by his friends against his will. Marshall M. Strong, who was really a first-class man, was handicapped by hailing from the lake shore, like Kilbourn and Walker, and he had incurred the disfavor of some of the leading men of his party, like E. G. Ryan and other supporters of the first constitution, which Strong was credited with being chiefly instrumental in defeating. It was the dream of Byron Kilbourn's life, and nothing but a dream, to sit in the Senate of the United States, and he never learned to fling away that ambition to the day of his death. Intellectually, and as a broad-minded man of practical affairs, possessing executive ability of a commanding kind, he would have made a fit Senator for any State. How the dark horses felt, like A. Hyatt Smith, Moses M. Strong, Mortimer M. Jackson, Morgan L. Martin, George B. Smith and others, never will be known.

As the two administrations of Nelson Dewey were absolutely colorless as far as any political excitement or party rivalry is concerned, all comment on the public career of that noted gentleman. may as well close with this chapter. The following estimate of the ex-Governor's character was the utterance of one of his most intimate and trusted friends and supporters, and is here given in his own words:

"The rise and fall of Nelson Dewey is one of the most interesting chapters and the most pathetic and dismal at the close of any political career of which I have had personal knowledge during my long life. No man ever entered political and official life in