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what it was, but it was something quite terrible. Smith thought it was very bad indeed and he wouldn't trust him at all. But that would have been a good name, as the name had a reputation throughout the state.

The O'Connells had a candidate but he was one of the gang and that wouldn't please the western part of the state. William Church Osborn was also discussed. I'm not sure that somebody didn't talk with him. He turned it down completely and absolutely, saying that he was not the kind of a man who could ever stand for elective office. He wouldn't do it. He was a good and faithful Democrat, but he didn't have it in him to campaign or to be the Governor of a state.

I remember this matter became discussed at the William Gorham Rice's. She was a Pruyn and married William Gorham Rice. She had the money, was very rich. She lived in that big house in Albany, a little beyond the Orange Country Club. She came from an old Dutch family. She was very Hudson River rich. She was some kind of kin to the Roosevelt's. I don't know what it was, but she had recollections of F.D.R. as a little boy being brought by Sara, who was her friend, which were very amusing. They were personal friends and give a picture of Hudson River life, when you brought your nice little boy to have lunch with your friend or cousin in Albany - that sort. “The house had light blue satin upholstery