As the campaign approached the end, Blair stressed the theory that the real fight was between Jackson and the Bank, with Clay a mere pawn in the game. “We see,” he wrote, “the most profligate apostasies invited and applauded--the grossest misrepresentations circulated--the worst forgeries committed--open briberies practiced, and all for what? Not avowedly to elect Henry Clay or William Wirt, but any ‘available candidate’[518]--in other words, any candidate with whom, in the end, the Bank directors can make the best bargain.”[519] And a week later, under the caption, “The Gold,” Blair announces that through private advices “we learn that certain heavy trunks, securely hooped with iron, have arrived at Lexington[520] from the East.”[521] Such was the character of the publicity with which the Jacksonians appealed to the masses of the people. But the practical minds of the leaders of the Kitchen Cabinet were not content with creating public opinion--they systematically organized and directed it. In every community, no matter how obscure, some Jackson leader, with a genius for organization work, was busy welding the Jackson forces into a solid mass. Here Major Lewis took charge. He anticipated the card-index system of the modern politicians. There was scarcely a county in the country in which he did not know the precise man or men upon whom absolute reliance could be placed. And “Ike” Hill, now a United States Senator, made an extensive organizing tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania in early August. In both publicity and organization, the greater part of the ability and all the genius was with Jackson. VI