The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-10
COCHRAN DOING PENANCE.
EXPIATING DEMOCRATIC FOLLIES
AND EXCEssEs, HE SAYS.

and Declines n Republican Nomi-
nation For Congress-CannOt
swallow McI&inIeyism, and VIII
Go Into Retirement.
New York, Sept. 9.-The following cor
respondence, a copy of which has been
furnished to the Southern Associated
Press, explains itself:
New York, Sept. 5.-The Hon Bourke
Cochran, New York.-Dear Sir: AS no pro-
nounced sound money republican, equipped
to make vigorous campaign, has develop
ed intthe Twelfth district as candidate
for congress, it has been suggested that
you, whose safe and conservative views
on this, the great issue now before the
people, are well known, and which would
insure your election might be willing to
accept the nomination from the republican,
convention, and stand in the district sub
stantially on the platform adopted by the
republican national convention.
Il am aware that you have no new lau-
rels to gain by an election to congress; but
the situation is peculiar, and must be met
in a patriotic spirit in view of the great
pressure that is brought to send to con-
gress men whose views on finance are
crude and fantastic, at a time which the
prosperity of the country demands the
sort of legislation that you are known to
favor. The district in question is demo-
cratic; if the republicans fail to make a
strong nomination, it might be lost to the
cause of sound money, whereas conditions
may arise wherein your acceptance of the
nomination as above would insure con-
gressional representative known to hold
the right opinions on this question, and of
whose character and ability any district
might well be proud. Awaiting your re-
ply, and with best regards, l am your very
obedient servant,
'Thurlow Weed Barnes"
"No. Broad Street, New York, Sept
9.-My Dear Sir--I beg to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter and to explain that
the delay in acknowledging 1t has been
caused by absence from the city.
Il am deeply sensible of the compliment
which you have paid me, in asking me to
become a candidate for congress in the
Twelfth district l have not the slight
est doubt that any person who may be
nominated by the republican convention
and indorsed by the sound money demo-
Gratis would be elected by decisive ma
jority but l am, nevertheless, constrained
to decline the invitation with which you
have honored me.
'The assaults led by Mr.. Bryan on
American honor and industry is fraught
with such danger to the country that
shall vote for Maj. Mckinley as the most
effective method by which l can aid in
preventing it's success. 1 could not, how
ever, accept any nomination during this
campaign, or an election or appointment
after the campaign, to any office, how
ever exalted for. wich would be indebted
to the political organization whose can
didate I am compelled to support by the
exigencies of a grave national peril, but
to whose distinctive principles am op-
posed. While the democratic organizd-
tion remains party to the populist con-
spiracy against wages, shall labor un-
tiringly for it's defeat, but will not con-
sent to profit by it's overthrow. The
faithless leaders who have betrayed the
democratic convention to the populists
deserve a crushing rebuke at the polls,
and [ am anxious to join in administer
ing it to them, but am resolved to share
the exclusion which I shall urge the peo-
pie to impose upon my party.
Il shall continue to maintain an uncom-
promising opposition to Tillmanism and
Bryanism until the end of the campaign,
but l can accept no other reward for such
a course than the feeling that / will be
expating in some degree the follies and
excesses of the party to whose success
I have contributed in the past, but whose
strength has become a menace to the
peace and prosperity of the country.
with expressions of gratitude for the
hattering terms in which you speak of
my service in congress, and with assur-
ances of the highest personal regard, I
am. my dear sir, your obedient servant,
CSignedl "W Hourke Cochran.
'To Thurlow Weed Barnes, Esq, 253
Broadway, CITY,"