The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-21
SECRETARY BRISTOW.
INTERTTEW WITH THE DTsTTNGUISHED
kENTUCkT4N At ms HONE
IN LOUTSTILLE.
F0rcible Opinions on the Presidential
Question FOrcibIy Expressed.
Correspondence Now York Herald.l


Correspondence New York Herald
LOUISVILLE, KY, April IA. 1876.
The Herald reporter having been in
troduced to Mr.. Bristow, the following
occurred.
The reporter, "to ask whether there is
'Iuy truth in the report that you are go
,,..out of office "
lltt' Secretary smiled. "That is q
mean ,,,biguous." he replied. "Tf you
signed g.W inquire whether l have re-
II have mont is it,
Then your y.
political significant to Kentucky has no
certainly thoup',
my arrival here. 1 sect ha.1ht2ot until
however, now that there is SSy a,s tne rr9pers,
that .ari have ulterior plans "7ysterNend
. Inen there is no truth in tb. -
enat the Courier- Journal is go;n ua'o' -
come out for Bristow?' so'ue e'
n,,. uo.hot Know what the Co,ty;e,
Journal is going to do. but ! tIin,et tbi,,, :,
preety sale TO say that it ism for 'I,n IN !,
~ fnd IL mas declared that IL is not Owe,
Rn nor over again. It is a Democrat tI,
mi, nninapa p,ooSSu W 20 sulport the st Lo,,is
cd.iaero. cdiider nile | amindebted to If for
tha;a wha,, r IN u ilIeld1y treatment
prive ohoroa. = na's peer assailed in NV
nroof me n thief in a,vanoo ~ 4, 70
apains but has discredied obn -, .ne
its fairI Ilne; this is to be ,o+ das Lnmi ses
WattnrsSs, and to the fact tbot @', w. ~
oeiphbor and Mr.. Haldemsn i'Ir arc rl, VII,
Te ;nd,,s "pols who know me. and aa',id 81 n'y
.aThono TO lie about me- i' iio'
.Absolnttt these, tales are false?
IN. brlsto' sroto nJ,,,.,
Presjnnt;p ou,Was reticept as r. tbn ~
anxiet.. qu'sttn. He betron,J 1 ~ the
sliphth a. ~ uneaSnts. seeming to ~ ~ 10
favor. sv OF thenovemenf IN '"r,k hk
>, ;ra,lln' I'm to get ,sntbi,n
Courier-Js,yn@1~ poh o repaired to 'u,n thu
tervlewed NJ. Waterpn. fs.so, he in
man corrobor,ted verything that n"
been said by Ny Hstow, denied thaI
the C0nTter-J could under any
possible contlngfpc csupport him as
candidate, when be h,orter questioned
him as follows.
"Who is the Scut for as q Presi-
Dental candidate e?
For nobody The s,th has been so
misled and demoraliz the last ten
years that the people low not where
to go or what to thinkr how to do.
They have -theseOor Southern
people
THE PREY OF THE Por1cIANs.
The South is nothingf not senti-
mental. and, banking ubn this, the
Bourbons of both partieaave done a
thriving business.
"What are Gov Tilden sbances?"
"By rights they ought to good. He
is the representative of thenly rule o
theory or practice by whicithe Soutf
can get on its feet again -Hministrh
| tive reform He is, besides, n old lin'
Jeffersoniap Democrat and srict con
structionist, who should be afavorit
even with the Bourbons. Buthere
least conviction where there IS host as
severation and exaction. Tildenis ne
a gushy. mushy driveller. He to
able. upriph and dry for the pr,fe'
sional hummer with the ruffled sti
+; and the Sc CAD s'ahf' He Is Ne
Yorker. md the fools think they ca
! get on without New York. +"
"Do you think, if nominated, he cou
! be eleted?"
\ "I tlink he could beat any Repub
can except BristOw, and / think he
:: the only Democrat who could give Br
) tOy o race. -,
: "Then you are for Tilden?'
'I am, without reserve
t With which Mr.. Watterson turn
: placidly to his amenuensis and resutn
! the work which was interrupted on I
$ entrance of tho Herald reporter.