This slashing, brilliant style delighted Jackson, who, strangely enough, had a profound admiration for the fluent writer. The old warrior took him to his bosom. That the editor of the “Court journal” should be mistaken was unthinkable to the President; and when any one asked him for information on any subject with which he was unfamiliar, he would invariably reply: “Go to Frank Blair--he knows everything.” And Jackson believed it. Firmly convinced that the people were entitled to all public information, when any such came to his attention he would instantly say, “Give it to Blair.”[368] He consulted the little ugly Kentuckian constantly on all matters of domestic policy, on party matters and patronage, and even on delicate points concerned with international programmes. The intimacy of this relationship soon trickled down from the capital to the party workers in the most remote sections, and, in time, the paper took its place with the Bible in all well-regulated Democratic households. Jackson himself is said to have read nothing during his Presidency but the Bible, his correspondence, and the “Globe.”[369] The Democratic press throughout the country got its cue from Blair’s editorials, and he, astute politician and advertiser, took pains to cultivate intimate relations with all papers supporting the Administration. Many articles, written by Kendall in the office of the “Globe,” and sent to country papers for publication as their own, were afterwards collected and reproduced in the Administration organ to indicate the trend of public opinion.