"If the nomination is offered me, I shall accept it; and once having accepted it, I'll fight, but honorably and in the open.

Look here, McQuade, don't be a fool.

You've something against me personally.

What is it?
If I recollect, I ran across you once or twice when I was a newspaper man." McQuade's eyes narrowed again.
"Personally, you are nothing to me," he replied; "politically, you are a meddler, and you are in my way." "Oh, I am in your way?
That is to say, if I am elected, there'll be too much honesty in the City Hall to suit your plans?
I can readily believe that.

If you can convince me that I ought not to run for mayor, do so.