Money was needed to carry the election, and Crockett had no money.

He resolved, however, to try his chances.

A friend loaned him a little money to start with; which sum Crockett, of course, expended in whiskey, as the most potent influence, then and there, to secure an election.
"So I was able," writes Crockett, "to buy a little of the 'creature,' to put my friends in a good humor, as well as the other gentlemen, for they all treat in that country; not to get elected, of course, for that would be against the law, but just to make themselves and their friends feel their keeping a little." The contest was, as usual, made up of drinking, feasting, and speeches.
Colonel Alexander was an intelligent and worthy man, who had been public surveyor.

General Arnold was a lawyer of very respectable attainments.

Neither of these men considered Crockett a candidate in the slightest degree to be feared.