This accounted for his action in refusing to escort Mr.Bruce to the President's desk to be sworn in as Senator.

In this belief, however, he did Mr.Bruce a grave injustice, for I know that gratitude was one of Mr.Brace's principal characteristics.

If Senator Alcorn had been a candidate from the start for the Republican nomination for Governor, Mr.Bruce, I am sure, would have supported him even as against Senator Ames.

But it was known that the Senator had no ambition to be Governor.

His sole purpose was to defeat Senator Ames at any cost, and that, too, on account of matters that were purely personal and that had no connection with party or political affairs.