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Greeley was then classed among the ultra-prohibitionists.
Weed's reply was that, although he was ready to admit that
Greeley in the Tribune had educated the people up to the acceptance of his own temperance views for the
State, the
Weed men could not control the nomination, and that, while
Greeley had shaken the temperance bush,
Myron H. Clark was the man who would catch the bird.
Greeley acquiesced in this opinion, but he soon after went to
Albany and asked
Weed if there was any objection to his running for
Lieutenant-Governor.
This request was a fair illustration of
Greeley's ignorance of the practical side of politics, and
Weed was obliged to point out to him how impolitic it would be to make up a ticket with two ultra-temperance men at its head.
Again
Greeley acquiesced, but when the convention resulted in the nomination of his rival,
Henry J. Raymond, for
Lieutenant-Governor, he was so exasperated that he held
Weed responsible for
Raymond's nomination, and accused
Weed of concealing his intention in his conversation with him.
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Late in that campaign Greeley wrote to Seward that he wanted “an earnest talk”