He was Chairman of the State Committee in 1878.

He gave to the public three or four essays or speeches printed in newspapers, and some of them in pamphlet form.

They were, under one title or another, treatises on the moral duties of citizenship and appeals to the youth of the State to take their full and patriotic share in its administration.
But his function in life was that of an organizer.

He was an ambitious man.

But he never suffered his ambitions to stand in the way of what he thought was the good of the Commonwealth or of the party.