Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-09
HANCOCK AND GRANT.

The Former Does not Believe Grant Used
the Language Ascribed TO HIM BY Fosc-
ler-Gen StocMns latte More Emphatie
on the SutJect.
New York Special, Oct. g..
Gen. Hancock, this evening, when asked If
he cared to say anything for publication about
Gen. Grants conversation with the Rev. c. b.
Fowler, replied. II find it hard to believe that
ez-President Grant should have said such harsh
things about me. cannot say that believe
he has said them. ! have no positive proof, for
example, of his saying that am vain, ambi.
tious and weak or that have been crazy to
be President for the last sixteen years. Ali
that I can interest myself about st all lis the
fact that Gen. Grant ha= partially confirmed
in Chicago paper, the report previously pub
lishcd Of language said to have been used by
him in conversation with DR.. Fowler. that.
as you see, really have nothing but what
must be called hearsay, or secondhand evil
dence, as to any Of the things which ex-Presi-
dent Grant is reported to havo said of me or
abont me to the Rev. DR.. Fowler
"Do you think it necessary for you to take
any notice of these statements, general"
1T might DO necessary for me to take no.
prejudice by ex- President Grant; but thin k
have grounds for hesitating to believe that
Gen. Grant oan have attacked my character.
In the first place, neither he nor any inan has
any true foundation on which to attack my
motives or my chsracteri snd, in the second
place, ex-Presidant Grant is an old soldier and
graduate of West Point. I am and must be
| slow to believe that an old comrads in arms
would attempt to blacken my motives or my
| character even in conversation not intended
| for publication. That is not habit of sol
diers.o
S,TQ .I,1 (.
| Gen. Grants alleged statements, assuming it
to be proved that he made them. in what form
would you probably couch the repIy?"
Smiling, Hancock replied. i really can not
say"
'Would you put it in a lettef?n
ITO whom should such letler be ad-
| dressed7"
BOW have you supposed, hitherto, that
Gen. Grant felt toward You personally, gen
eral?"
81 have always supposed that he was man
who would never ALLOW any ill-will he might
feel, If he felt any, to influence his conduc:
toward q brother soldier in ordinary CONVEX
sation. Ishall not be inclined to change my
opinion, unless / am compelled to do 30 by
the most indisputable evidence. OF course
understand that the ex-President may
desire to promote the Republican caus:
in politics; but there are two ways of promot
ing the cause which man espouses in politics
One way, II ne ls q hepnp npucan IS TO advocate
the Republican candidate; another way is {.
attack the Democratic candidate. Tho newa
papers, prefer to think, do x-President Gran
injustice in assuming that he has chosen th
latter course. Ofcourse, ifex-President Gran
has wrons fully assailed me, the public will no
be long in finding it out; but / shall nor max
undue haste in the matter. This is all hay
to say at present.
Gen. Slocum, in an interview to-day with
reporter, bluntly said that if Gen. Grant said
as quoted, that Gen. Hancock did not choos
the battle ground at Cemetery Ridge
Gettysburg then General Grant Eez. For,
said the general, II was there and
know. heard Hancock say; This is the spo
to make the fight, and here we will mako it.
mot only saw Hancock at that place, but
stood there and heard him choose the spot, an,
had confidence enough In his generalship no
to interfere" This from Slocum Is
SEVERE ON GRANT,
if Fowler reports him right, for he makes Gran
say this:
He Hancock did not select the bastle ground
as his dispatch to Gen. Meade shows, an,
thought OF retiring from Cemetery Ridge
when Slocum came up and superseded him il
. command.
: 30 Grant was quoted in the Commercial. an
} Gen. Siooom comes forward with denial. an
[ saysI Il ought to know, for 1 was there