The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-13
TILDEN AN Il ENDRICKS.

tssst.2ss ~
CALL OF THE sT. louis COMMITTEE UPON
GOVERNOR TnDEN-THE NOMINATION.
FORMALLY ACCEPTED IN A SHORT
spEECH-GovERNoR HENDRICKS sERE-
NADED-HIs OPINION OF HAYEs-H1s RE-
sPoNsE TO THE NOMINATION TO BEGI
I, NEXT WEEK. ,e-. z s'..s.-.s.
NEW YORK, July 1.-THE committee ap-
pointed by the st. LOUIS Convention to no
tify Governor Tilden Of his nomination Tor
the presidency by the Democratic party,
waited on the Governor tonight at his resi-
dence. Delegates from nearly every State
in the Union were present. The Governor
gave the committee cordial greeblnS.
General McClernand addressed the Gov
ernor, and outlined the work OF the st.
Louis Convention. 1t was august in char
acter, patriotic in sentiment, and met at q
time when civil authority was exposed to
fresh encroachments from the military;
when hard money was dishonored and viz
tually banished from circulation by vicious
legislation when peculation and corrup-
ton were sapping the foundations Of the
Government, the Convention determined to
save the country, and chose for its Standard
bearers tried, true, and trusted men. Gene
raj McClernand then read the address OF the
committee conveying official information OF
his nomination to Governor Illden. IL
stated that he was nominated because his
name was prominently identified with re-
form, reduction OF taxation, and the main
tenance Of the rights OF the laboring masses,
and his record is one OF untarnshed purity
in the eyes Of his country.
Hon. w. 3. Hanna. OF Indiana, also deliv-
cred lengthy address to the Governor on
behalf OF the Democratic party OF Indiana,
and pledging him their. united and entire
support.
GOVERNOR TILDEN's REPLY.
The following reply was then made by
Governor Tilden:
General McCleTnand and Gentlemen OF
the Committee,-I shall at my earliest con-
yenience prepare and transmit to you for
NAL acceptance OF the nomination which
YOU now tender to me in behalf OF the Demo-
cratic National Convention, and I do not
desire on this occasion to anticipate any
topic which might be appropriate to that
communication. 1t may, however, be per-
mitted me to say that my nomination was
not mere personal preference between en-
inent citizens Of this republic who might
have been chosen for so distinguished an
honor and so august a duty. 1t was rather
a declaration of that illustrious body
in whose behalf you speak in IA
ror OF administrative reform with
which events had associated me in the pull
lie view. The strength, the universally,
and the efficiency of the demand for adj
ministratiye reform in all governments, and
especially in the administration OF the Fcde-
raj Government, with which the Democratic
masses everywhere were instinct, have led
to series OF surprises in the popular as
semblages, and perhaps in the Convention
itself. II would be unnatural, gentlemen,
if a 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 corrected have grown up.
And perhaps in what we have witnessed
there may be an augury in respect to
what we may witness in the election
about to take place throughout our coun-
trv. At least let us hope so and be-
lieye so. I am not without experience OF
the difficulty and the labor OF etfecting adj
ministratiye reform when it requires reyo-
lished in government. II were to Judge
bv the year and half in which / have been
in the State government, should say that
the routine duties of the trust have had
imposed on me are small burden compared
with that created by the attempt to
change the policy of the government OF
which I have been the executive head.
Especially is this so where the reform is to
be worked out with more or less OF the CO.
operation of public officers 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 conSenting witnesses.
I 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 rs q holiday recrea-
ton, but very much in that spirit Of conse-
Grafton in which the soldier enters battle.
GApplause.] But let us believe, as do be-
lieye, that we now see the dawn Of Il better
day for our country; and that, difficult as
is the work to which the Democratic party,
with many allies, former members OF other
parties, has addressed itself. the republic is
vet to be renovated to live in all the future,
and to be transmitted to succeeding genera
tions rs Jefferson contributed to form it in
his day, and rs it has been ever since until a
recent period-a blessing to the whole peo-
pie and to all mankind. [Applause.] Gem
tlemen, thank you for the very kind terms
in which you have made your communica-
ton, and / extend to you, collectively and
individually, a 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.
sion of the Governor.
GOVERNOR HENDRICKS MAKES A SPEECH.
In response to a sercnadc after the Demo-
cratic ratification meeting in indianapolis,
Indiana, on Saturday night, Governor Hen
bricks made q brief address, closing in the
following language:
81 would not say q word against Gov
ernor Hayes. would speak OF him as well
as his most partial friend, but his election is
but continuance in power OF the men who
have controlled the policies and the APP
pointments OF Grants administration. II
elected can he disregard Governor Morton's
power in Indiana, Cameron's sway in Penn
sylvania. or Conkling's lordship in New
York They say he is an honest man. Was
not the same said of General Grant four
years ago? In speech which / made in
the Academy OF Music, the first in my cam
vass for Governor, I said that il left alone
Grant would make better President, but
the surroundings, the influences. and the
political power that would control his adj
ministratiou would bring upon the people