They did not like Reid, to begin with.

He was not a principal like the rest of us, but a subordinate.
Greeley was this, that and the other.

He could never be relied upon in any coherent practical plan of campaign.

To talk about him as a candidate was ridiculous.
I listened rather impatiently and finally I said: "Now, gentlemen, in this movement we shall need the New York Tribune.

If we admit Reid we clinch it.