Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-09
Governor Hoffman On the Prssl-
dentIal Canvass.


A reporter OF the New York Stand
ard (RadicaD has succeeded in tier
viewing Governor Hoffman, of New
York, the Tammany favOrite for the
next Presidential nomination. Here
are his reported remarks about some
Of the prospective candidates on both
sides:
SIS Greeley stronger than Graat?".
"Yes. The only men around Grant
now are COlfax, who sticks to him
from duty; Cameron from reciprocity ;
and General Nye and General Butler
because it PAYS and Murphy and
COnkling for the CuJtom-hOuse. But
Ter would not hang to him a moment
il he could find something stronger to
catch hold Of"
"Where is Greeley's strength?"
ait Is Just here. He is popular
among the people. He never ran in
New York without going ahead OF his
ticket. Then he has Fenton, Cover
nor Cox, of Ohio; Carl ShurZ with the
Germans; Sumner and Wilson, the
whole pig-iron and coal interest Of
Pennsylvania, the Keystone State;
his Davis bailing sympathizers in the
South, and mis- sub editor Reid, who
came on to our Democratic Conven-
ton in 1868 to get US to take up
Chase"
won't Chase support Greeley?"
"That depends. Chase expects to
be a Democratic candidate, and his
letter to Vallandigham was a bid for
Democratic support. In that case,
Greeley would go for Chase rather
than support Grant. And why nOt?''
Ii the Democracy accept the ''new de-
parture," the Fifteenth Amendment,
and all that, they will stand in. the
very shoes ChaseIeit of when he went
into the Republican party, and almost
where Greeley stood in the old Wing
party. If Chase shall not be nominat-
ed, he viii throw his whole strength
for Greeley, who is now being War
wicked in New York by Rufus T. An
dreWs and John V. Gridley. The fact
is, the breach between Greeley and
Grant cannot be closed"
"Then there will be
A GENERAL BREAKING-UP OF PAR
TIEs?"
Undoubtedly. Grant, with NO
personal magnetism, cannot hold the
party together with official patronage.
Those who are not patroniZed will de-
sire a new deal, in the hope Ct getting
a trump card"
chow will Greeley run in the
South?''
"Better than Grant. The Southern
papers are full of kind sayings about
Greeley every day. The fact is, he is
a great national power, and since his
New Orleans trip he has found it out.
What can COnkling and such flddlers
| IS Murphy and Cornell do with Gree
| ley, Schurz, Sumner and Chase? Why,
Grant may dictate a chronic editorial
to the Herald correspondent fromnOw
till the convention, and it will only be
his own political epitaph."
Who are talked of as Democratic
cnndidates?'
The Governor was silent, and turn
ing his eyes out of the car window, he
was absorbed in contemplating a field
of wheat.
ibid you hear that Grant said
Hancock vas dying to be a candi-
date?"
81 read it in the newspapers, but
General Grant said this because he
and General Hancock have a personal
difficulty, and the worst thing yon ean
say about q man is that he WantS to
be a candidate; but Grant has alright
to guess on HancOck's preferences as
well as any one else"
"What do you think of Pendleton?"
Here again the Governor was silent,
but a member of the class of 1876, sit
ting by, said:
"PendletOn is a live man, but it
was through him and Walsh. Mclean
and their 'squirrel-shOoters who took
| possession Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
that our convention in 1868 became
disOrganized."
How did they do it2"
Why, while Valandigham was
maneuvering for Chase, the Pendle-
ton Reputation set, with Lew. Camp
bell and Wash. Mclean, tried to car
ny the convention by storm for Pen
dleton. They just missed their mark,
when a compromise ensued, and old
Sam Tilden (pOGrman, he's deadnOw),
stole a march by bringing forth Sey-
mOur. Then old Montgomery Blair
(he's dead, too, nOw9 pushed Frank
forward for Vice-President before we
had time to think, and-me il,
against the wishes of everybody, they
both didn't get nominated. No, sir"
said the speaker, with emphasis, ''We
must have a square man in II; no
reputation; nc anti-suffrage; no dis
elimination against ~thenegro. Repu-
diatiOn was the Democratic sinker in
'6S, and If we want to float in 10 We
must pin negro suffrage and national
sOlvency to the Democratic kite"
"That's so, sure!" responded an
other listener, but all the time the
Governor, with his eyes out of the
window, was in silent contemplation
of the growing crops. As he looked
around q little while afterward, we
asked him what he thought Of Sena-
tor Hendricks as a candidate.
Hendricks is a cultivated Chester
heldian gentleman and Senator, and
would honor any position"
"G-Oesbeck?'
The Governor was silent again, but
some n remarked: "GrOesbeek is a
cold, dead man; a man without a
heart. His s~elfishness is q prOYerb in
Cincinnati, and during the war the
GrOesbeck and PendletOn families ran
the secession element of Cincinnati.
Mrs. Pendleton, you know" con-
tinued the gentleman, belongs to the
star-spangled banner Key family, and
the whole family of Keys are chronic
secessiOnists. During the war, If a
rebel was to be dined, Mrs. PendletOn
did if, and the Groesbeeks were the
first invited to assist in the ceremony.
JEFF. Davis always put up at Mrs.
Pendl0tOn'5 sisters in Baltimore, a
Mrs. General Howard, of Cathedral
street Mo- continued the sneaker
of the live Ohio Democracy"
The Standard says, editOrially: "If
Mr.. Hoffman is to be the candidate of
the Democracy, his natural desire for
success would lead him to prefer
Greeley to Grant as an opponent"
Deliver US from EVIL