New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-13
POLITICAL.
Telling the Tale to Tilden,

NEW YORK, July l2.-The committee ap
pointed by the st. Louis Convention waited
on Governor Tilden. General McClernand
addressed the Governor, outlining the work
of the convention. Hon. w. b. Hanna, OF
Indiana, alec addressed Governor Tilden
pledging him the united support OF the In.
diana Democracy.
The following reply was then made:
General McClernand and gentlemen OF
the committed shall at my earliest con.
venience prepare and transmit to you a
formal acceptance of the nomination which
you now tender me in behalf of the Demo
cratic National Convention. do not de
sire on this occasion to anticipate any topic
which might be appropriate to that com.
municatiOn; it may, however, be permitted
to me to say my nomination was not mere
personal preference between the eminent
citizens of this republic, who might very
we'll have been chosen for SO distinguished
an honor and SO august duty, it was rather
declaration of that illustrious body,
in whose behalf you speak in favor of ad-
miHistrative reforms with which events had
associated me in the public view. The
strength, the universally and the efficiency
of the demand for administrative reform in
all governments, and especially in the ad-
ministration of the federal government,
with which the Democratic masses every
where were associated, have led to a series
blages, and, perhaps, in the conven-
ton itself. 1t would be unnatural,
gentlemen, if popular movement SO
genuine and so powerful should
stop with 100000 of democrats; that it
should not extend by contagion to that
large mass of Independent voters who
stand between parties in our country and
even to the moderate portion of the party
under whose administration the evils to be
nd in,
what we have witnessed there may be an
augury in respect to what we may witness
in The election about to take place through
out our country. At least let us hope so
and believe so. / am not without
experience of the difficulty and the labor
of effecting administrative reform, when
it requires revolution in policies and in
If l were to judge by the year and
half in which l have been in the State gov.
eminent. l should say that the routine
duties Of the trust have had imposed on
me are email burden compared with that
created by the attempt to change the
policy of the government, of which have
been the executive head. Especially is this |
so, when reform is to be worked with more
or less OF the cooperation of public Off |
GERS, who either have been tainted |
with the evils to be redressed, or
who have been incapacitated by the |
habit of tOlerating the wrongs to be |
corrected, to which they have been con-
senting witnesses. l, therefore, if your
choice should be ratified by the people at
the election, should enter upon the great |
duties which would fall upon me, not as a
holiday recreation, but very much in that
spirit of conservatism in which the soldier |
enters battle. [Applause] But let us be-
ieve, as l do believe, that we now see the |
dawn of better day for our country, and
that difficult as is the work to which the
Democratic party, with many allies. for
mer members Of other parties, has ad
dressed itself the republic lis yet to
be renovated, to live in all the future
and to be transmitted to succeeding gene
ratiOns, as Jefferson contributed to form it |
in his day, and as it has been ever sir CO |
until recent periOd-a blessing TO the |
whole people and to all mankind. Jap |
plause.
Gentlemen, thank you for the very kind |
terms IN which you have made your com
munication, and extend to you collectively |
and individually most cordial greeting.
The committee and their friends then en-. |
tered into social conversation as to the |
prospects of the coming canvass, and re |
manned short time in the hospitable man.
eiOn of the Governor