WILLIAM  M.  FOORD 
ATTORNEY 
311  WASHINGTON  BUILDING 
STAMFORD,  CONN. 
November  6,  1914. 
Mr.  Walter  Dean, 
29  Brewster  St., 
Cambridge,  Mass. 
Dear  Mr.  Dean:- 
In  accordance  with  a  request  in  your  last  letter 
it  gives  me  considerable  pleasure  to  inform  you  that  the 
result  of  my  candidacy  for  the  House  of  Representatives 
in  Connecticut  was  my  election.  Of  course  you  know  by 
this  time  that  there  was  a  general  Republican  victory  which 
extended  to  Connecticut  and  carried  me  through  with  the 
rest  of  the  ticket. 
My  opponent  was  a  man  of  high  standing  in  the 
community  and  had  previously  been  Judge  of  Probate  six 
years  and  a  member  of  the  legislature " for  two  years  and 
was  regarded  as  a  very  hard  man  to  beat.  My  majority  was 
twenty  and  you  will  see  that  he  was  hard  to  over-come  bjr 
comparing  my  vote  with  that  of  my  colleague  who  ran  nearly 
four  hundred  ahead  of  his  opponent.  It  has  given  me  a  very 
good  send-off  for  a  political  start  and  the  outlook  is  good 
if  I  do  not  succeed  in  spoiling  the  whole  thing  by  some 
foolish  act,  as  is  often  the  case.  My  opponent  was  an 
avowed  candidate  for  governor  last  election  but  did  not 
receive  the  nomination.  He  also  would  have  been  Speaker 
of  the  House  had  the  Democrats  received  a  Majority  and 
in  any  event  would  have  been  the  leader  of  the  Democratic^  _ 
party  in  the  House  if  he  had  been  elected.  I  shall  probably 
have  to  run  against  him  tw?o  years  hence  either  for  the  present 
office  or  for 'that  of  State  Senator  and  will,  of  course,  lay 
my  plans  accordingly. 
This  position  in  the  legislature  is  one  that  carries 
more  honor  than  profit  and  its  chief  value  is  the  opportunity 
which  it  gives  for  a  man  to  make  good, 
I  enclose  herewith  some  pictures  of  our  baby  for 
I  am  sure  that  you  and  Mrs.  Dean  will  be  glad  to  see  what 
he  looks  like.  He  is  growing  and  behaving  just  as  a  good 
baby  should  and  the  lookout  for  us  at  the  present  time  is 
very  bright. 
Please  give  my  cordial  regards  to  Mrs,  Dean  and 
believe  me. 
