The head of one big business corporation attempted to start an effort to control the delegations from New Jersey, North Carolina, and certain Gulf States against me.

The head of a great railway system made preparations for a more ambitious effort looking towards the control of the delegations from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and California against me.

He was a very powerful man financially, but his power politically was much more limited, and he did not really understand his own limitations or the situation itself, whereas I did.

He could not have secured a delegate against me from Iowa, Nebraska, or Kansas.

In Colorado and California he could have made a fight, but even there I think he would have been completely beaten.