The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-07-06
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The following letter has been handed
to the World by Mr.. Jerome with . 70.
quest for its publication:
% WEST TwKSrr-SrxrH ST., June %. 1s0o.
Major General Hancock ~
MI DEAR GENERAL: take the earliest op-
portunity 10 congratulate yuu up0n your mOmi-
nation and to assure you, NE long WhiR and
Republican that + am, Of my m0sk hearty SAP
port belong TO . very numerous and very
stanch old silver-gray Republican family. With
them known TO vote the Democratic ticket. but
l venture to say they win to man vote for you.
They cannot consistently do otherwise
You, sir, embody the views and sentiments in
regard to the great questions Of the day that We
have entertained since the war closed. They are
the same that actuated General Grant when he
laid down those liberal terms Of surrender 70
General Lee They arc the same that actuated
my poor friend Raymond, when he baitled 90
manfully in the committee Of Congress against
the savage policy Of Thad Stevena / believe
General Grant would support yOu to-day, did not
the exigencies of his situation forbid It. And
Henry ]. Raymond, were he alive, would support
you TOO, unless the exieeucies of the New York
Times restrained him. He was compelled At an
early day to smother the sentiments he had ex-
pressed in the address Of the Philadelphia Con-
ventiOn TO abandon his career In legislative halls
and to change the tone of the Times or, as Mr..
Jones, our business manager and partner. in
sisted, the paper would be ruined. q believe
offered TO pay the damages at the time, but that
was considered impracticable) 1t was bitter
pill, but il had to be swallowed. Thad Ste
vens had succeeded through Congress which
misrepresented the country in engrafting his
policy upon the Republican party. And though
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Disguised, it was fastened upon them and there
was no way of getting rid Of ii. Thus for years a
vast number of US, good Republicans, have been
compelled to be helpless supporters of policy
we believe 10 be the very worst that could be
devised. An opportunity is presented US now
for the first time with any show OF success To
vote in accordance with our convictions, and
am sure We shall do it most joyfully. With great
respect and esteem, believe me yours faithfully,
LEONARD w. JEROME.
The World accompanies the publica-
tion of this letter with the statement that
in the dark days of the civil war Mr.. Je-
rome was "widely known as a most per-
sistent and liberal supporter of all the
great war measures of the Lincoln Ad
ministration. His purse, his counsel and
his time were given freely to the defence
of the Union. In 1851 he was among the
earliest advisers of President Lincoln's
Administration in matters of finance, and
in organizing the details of war loans. II
is not invidious to say that at that trying
time no one citizen of New York put
himself at the service of the country more
absolutely than Mr.. Jerome. He was act
i've, too. in the press through the large
interest he owned in the New York Times
of which his intimate friend, Mr.. Ray
mond, was then the editor. Mr.. Jerome
was one of the founders, too, of the Union
League Club, and when its temporary
quarters on Union Square were necessa
rily abandoned he surrendered to it the
beautiful marble residence he was then
building on Madison Square, in which il
has ever since been housed. In 1864 Mr.
jerome, who has never sought or accepted
Office from his party, declined to allow the
use of his name as Republican candidate
for Governor of this State, and he has re
peatedly declined nominations rendered
him by his Republican friends for the of
fees of Elector, Congressman, and Mayor
of this city. When citizen with such {
record behind him deliberately declares
his belief not only that the usefulness O
the Republican party has come to an end
but that for years past the Republican
party has been continued in power against
the will and the convictions of Thousands
of cool and conservative men like himself
we may be sure that the roots of this be
lief strike deep through the very substance
of Northern society in all directions. Mr.
Jerome himself shows that they do wher
he speaks of the present views and senti
ments of General Hancock concerning thu
South as identical with those which wer,
entertained by all the conservative Re
publicans of the House and of the Nortl
at the time when Mr.. Thaddeus Steven
deliberately rekindled the embers of sec
tional strife in his own State and on tn,
floor of the House of Representatives. l
these views and these sentiments wer
beyond the measure of the popular com
prehension and of the political good sens
of the North thirteen years ago, they fal
easily within that measure now. For thi
reason justice will be done to them by al
fair-minded persons, and If, in doing jus
tice to them, justice gets finally and sternl,
done upon the Republican organization b!
the voters of the Union, that will be tn
fault of the Republican organization. /
has outstayed its time. 1t has worn GU
the patience and the forbearance of inte
ligent men. And the candidacy of HAr
cock and English commands from tn
very outset the sympathies, more or les
openly avowed, of all the great class Q
citizens to which Mr.. Jerome belongs, b.
cause, as Mr.. jerome truly says, it offer
such citizens an opportunity for the frs
time to vote at q Presidential election i
accordance with their convictions"
Nevertheless and Notwithstanding all III
trepidatiOn Of frightened fawns, which distir
cuisines our neighbors, q large body OF citizens
the State are talking Of nominating 0overno
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