His real claims consisted in having spent a fortune in electioneering for ministers; and these claims being pressed with unusual urgency at the moment of Warton's death, he was offered the Laureateship as satisfaction in part.

After this I had no more to do with electioneering in the sense of being a candidate, but a good deal to do with it in every other.

He enlisted all Ohio, and they all electioneered with all their might, and no one knew that the question would come up.