To Mark Delahay of Kansas Lincoln writes: "I can not enter the ring on the money basis—first, because, in the main, it is wrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money." If, however, Delahay is appointed delegate to convention, Lincoln will supply $100 for expenses. He writes to Trumbull about Delahay's senatorial ambitions. Abraham Lincoln to Mark W. Delahay, 16 March 1860, CW, 4:31-32; Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, 16 March 1860, CW, 4:32.