But on the two issues in which "big business" and the kind of politics which is allied to big business were most involved we clashed hard--and clashing with Senator Platt meant clashing with the entire Republican organization, and with the organized majority in each house of the Legislature.

One clash was in connection with the Superintendent of Insurance, a man whose office made him a factor of immense importance in the big business circles of New York.

The then incumbent of the office was an efficient man, the boss of an up-State county, a veteran politician and one of Mr.Platt's right-hand men.

Certain investigations which I made--in the course of the fight--showed that this Superintendent of Insurance had been engaged in large business operations in New York City.

These operations had thrown him into a peculiarly intimate business contact of one sort and another with various financiers with whom I did not deem it expedient that the Superintendent of Insurance, while such, should have any intimate and secret money-making relations.