His methods were as open as the daylight.
He conducted the great campaign against General Butler, when he was Chairman of the State committee.

He came to Boston and found the knees of Boston trembling, people shaking in their shoes and their teeth chattering.

He went into the committee room, put things to rights, organized a campaign never approached for thoroughness and efficiency in this Commonwealth, and during the whole time there sat at the table next his own a beautiful and refined young lady hearing and knowing everything that went on from the beginning of the campaign until the end.

He had no political secrets.

He never, to use a common phrase, "laid his ear to the ground." He never listened for the stamping of feet or the clapping of hands or the shouting or excitement or acclaim of the multitude.