er of
a stage-coach on which Marcy had taken passage, "hold on tight, for
this hole is as large as the one in the Governor's breeches." All this
was telling hard upon Marcy's spirits and the party's confidence.
Jesse Hoyt wrote him that something must be done to silence the absurd
cry; but the candidate was without remedy. "The law provided for the
payment of the judge's expenses," he said, "and while on this business
some work was done on pantaloons for which the tailor charged fifty
cents. It was entered on the account, and went into the comptroller's
hands without a particle of reflection as to how it would appear in
print." There was no suggestion of dishonesty. Weed was too skilful
to raise a point that might be open to discussion, but he kept the
whole State in laughter at the candidate's expense. Marcy felt so
keenly the ridiculous position in which his patched pantaloons put him
that, although he usually relished jokes on himself, "the patch" was a
distressing subject long after he had been thrice elected governor.

The Granger forces had, however, something more influential to
overcome than a "Marcy patch." Very early in the campaign it dawned
upon the bankers of the State that, if the United States Bank went out
of business, government deposits would come to them; and from that
moment every jobber, speculator and money borrower, as well as every
bank officer and director, rejoiced in the veto. The prejudices of the
people, always easily excited against moneyed corporations, had
already turned against the "monster monopoly," with its exclusive
privileges for "endangering the liberties of the country," and now the
banks joined them in their crusade. In other words, the Jackson party
was sustained by banks and the opponents of banks, by men of means and
men without means, by the rich and the poor. It was a great
combination, and it resulted in the overwhelming triumph of Marcy and
the Jackson electoral ticket.[276]

[Footnote 276: "On one important question, Mr. Weed and I were
antipodes. Believing that a currency in part of paper, kept at par
with specie, and current in every part of our country, was
indispensable, I was a zealous advocate of a National Bank; which he
as heartily detested, believing that its supporters would always be
identified in the popular mind with aristocracy, monopoly, exclusive
privileges, etc. He attempted, more than once, to overbear my
convictions on this point, or at least preclude