Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-06-18
Colfax and the Philadelphia Nomina-
tons.

mon, caileu at the vice Presidents
room at the Capital yesterday, ard
Judge Denny, of Evansville. address
ed Mr.. Colfax in their behalf as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Vice Pres dent: Those of the
Indiana delegates now in the city on
their way home, with others of your
personal and political friends, are
unwilling to leave without making
this csll and expressing their high
appreciation of the invaluable SER
vices rendered by you to the Repub.
lican party and to the country; and
while we, as Indianans, regret your
defeat at the Republican Conven-
ton, where we earnestly labored for
your nomination as q candidate for
the office of Vice President of the
United States, we at the same time
feel proud of your patriotic conduct
in joining with Us in hearty and
cordial endorsement of the ticket
then nominated and we heartily
approve the sentiments contained in
your telegram TO Col. Foster. We
feel assured that we have q strong
ticket, which bears the names of men
whose respective private and public
characters are so pure and high that
the country must approve them at
the ballot-box in November. Before
closing this interview, we cannot re-
frain from expressing a high appre-
cation of the honorable manner in
which you saw fit TO conduct your
self during the earnest canvass made
by the Indiana delegation at the
Convention, to assure your re-nom-
ination, while we cannot resist the
impression that if you had consented
to make personal efforts in your own
behalf, such as all candidates are
permitted to make without loss OF
character or manhood, success might
have crowned our efforts, we are at
the same time constrained to adroit
that the dignified course which you
choose to adopt deserves greater hon.
or than could be conferred by any of.
fee within the gift of the American
people. We beg leave to reassure
you of our gratitude for the patriot.
ic services you have rendered to the
country, and of our personal esteem
and confidence.
Mr.. Colfax replied that he was
proud to be the recipient of such
warm and earnest friendship as that
exhibited by the delegations from In
diana and other states, and so kind
ly expressed in Judge Denny's cor
dial remarks. He bowed to the de-
cision of the Convention without O
murmur or regret, and should prove
hereafter as faithful to the Republi-
can creed in private life as when he
had been o standard bearer of the
cause. He rejoiced that after eigh-
teen years of public life, with all hi;
acts like the open pages of book
before the people, the worst that
was said of him at Philadelphia was
that he had written O letter stating
his Willingness and desire to retire
from official position, aud had after.
wards concluded TO accept a renom
nation if the party deemed it best
This charge he could not deny, but
he had never written or said any.
thing broader than is found in th,
expressions of that much quoted let
ter. So much had been said about il
that now the convention is over ht
felt he had a right to tell his home
friend what his lips had been sealed
Oh heretofore, namely that it was
not written or intended for publica
ton. He had expected to submit
the desire he felt, and which was ex.
pressed in it, to leading Republican,
from his own state and elsewhere
when Congress reassemb led, for their
advice but he said he must in JUS
tice TO valued friend to whom be
wrote it say that the letter was not
marked confidential, and being from
a public man on a public question
that friend had an unquestionable
right TO infer that it was not private
and, therefore, be justified him fully
in printing in it. When he decided
last November, at the appeal of many
active Republican from Indiana and
other sections of the Union, that bis
denomination or his retiracy was a
question which the party should de.
eide rather than himself, he felt il
would be improper to electioneer
with any one on the subject, and be
did not. On the contrary, he told
every delegate he saw that his name
ought not to be presented if another
could insure greater unity and GER
tainty of victory TO the cause be low
ed far better than political honors,
the Republican organization, the
records Of whose great deeds for Ii.
berty, humanity, justice and nation.
atty during the past decade are un-
approached by any political party in
any age. 1t has other advancing
steps of progress and reform to take
before disbandment or furlough from
duty. While going himself therefore
to the retired list, without the slight
est unkind feeling toward any one
who desired a change in the Vice
Presidency, and wishing them espe-
sally a decisive victory in October
in our closely contested state, be
should join with them in November
in cordially supporting U. S. Grant
and Henry Wilson for President and
Vice President of the United States.
RAILWAY STATIsTIcs.-The annual
report of the Milwaukee and st.
Paul railway, for 1871, contains,
among other matters of interest, the
following facts and figures:
"The company owns ,01S miles Of road,
cost ing $39,270, 1G0. The gross earnings Of
1871, were 1900 ,696, $3.50, 1895 less than 1S.
20 were. The net earnings, $2,6l0,341, an
increase Of S72, 554. There were 1868, 1856
tons of freight moved, decrease of 1883
S49,63l passengers were carried, an increase
of 80, 81. The cost of operating the road was
81, 10 per mile run, decrease of "a cents per
mile run"
Gang Flows at Wholesale to the
Farmers.