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been a person of greater health and greater strength if he had not repressed himself so much. He had a great deal of that gaiety of the Irish in him. I think that might have been something that he could have learned in time. If Woodrow Wilson hadn't conceived of him as a rival and had treated him a little more sweetly, things might have been different. Mayor Mitchel made quite an impression on the whole country. He hadn't been Mayor more than a year or two before people began to say that he'd make a wonderful candidate for president. At that moment it apparently didn't set well with Woodrow Wilson. I think it was probably unconscious on Wilson's part too, but certainly he wasn't awfully nice to Mitchel. Wilson could have done a great many things that would have eased Mitchel's way and Mitchel's path. He didn't do them. They were pointed out to him and he didn't do them. He never showed Mitchel much of any attention. He should have. Here was a very brilliant young Mayor, a Democrat, who was doing a very fine work and certainly should have been Governor of New York.

George McAneny was perhaps the best brain of the lot. He was a much more developed personality. Prendergast, whom I became very fond of in many ways, was full of pride, vanity and he was very pompous. He had been in politics and public life, more or less. He was pleased with himself and thought