 His support for Ulysses S. Grant during the 1872 election was documented in an editorial he wrote to "Sobota", where he urged Poles to vote for Grant.After this election, he switched his affiliation to the Democratic Party, organizing support among Polish Americans.In 1888, he ran as a Democrat for alderman of Chicago's 16th Ward, which contained a highly Polish constituency, against Republican August Kowalski, another Pole.