Year: 1872

COLFAX AND THE NICE-PRESlDENC1'
ADDRESS OF THE INDIANA DELEGATES - COM


PLIMENTs s-MR. COLFAXS LETTER TO II. c.


BOWEN WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION.


WASHINGTON, June "a number of Indiana
delegates to the National Republican Convention, with
rbe Indiana Republican Congressman, called at the Vice
Presidents room the Capitol, yesterday and Judge
Denny Of Evansville addressed Mr.. COltax in their be-
half az follows:


Mr.. vce-President those of the Indiana delegates
personal and political friends unwilling to leave
without making this call and expressing their high aT
the Republican party and TO the country. And while
as Indianans regret your defeat at the late Repub
nomination as candidate for the Office OF NcePresden
proud of your patriotic conduct in joining with us
IN hearty and cordial Endorsement OF the ticket
then nominated; and we heartily approve the sent-
ments contained in your telegram TO Col Foster namely
that principles everything, and men are nothing,
Tomise II your earnest support I'VE feel well assured
ttat have a strong ticket ticket which bears the
of men whose respective private and public char
acters pure and high that the country must
prove them at the baotbox in November Before clos
ing this interview we cannot refrain from expressing
high appreciation OF the honorable manner in
which you M TO conduct yourself during the earnest
canvass made by the Indiana delegation at the
Convention to assure your denomination While
we cannot resist the impression that If you had
consented TO make personal efforts IN your own
behalf such as all candidatesiare permitted 70 make
have crowned efforts We are, the time con-
strained 20 admit that the digned which you





eonferred by any office within the gift Of the American
people beg leave TO Teassure you of gratitude
and Of our personal esteem and confidence.


Mr. Colfax replied that he proud TO be the recip
tent of such and earnest friendship that exhb
tied by the delegations from Indiana and other States,
and 80 kindly expressed in Judge Dennys cordial
marks. He bowed TO the decision Of the Convention
without murmur regret and should prove hereafter
when he had been standard-bearer Of the He
rejoiced that after Is years OF public life, with all his
acts like open pages OF book before the people the


worst that was said of him at Philadelphia that he
had written letter stating his Willingness and desire
rere official position, and had afterward consented
20 accept denomination n the party deemed it best
9as charge he could not deny but he had written
said anything broader than Is found IN the express
OF that muehQuOted letter so much has been said
about IL that, now the Convention is over, he felt
he had a night TO tell ms home friends what
biz lips had been sealed heretofore, namely,
He had intended 10 submit the desire he felt which
was expressed in it, TO leading Republicans from his
state and elsewhere, when Congress reassembed for
their advice But he said he must add in justice to the
valued friend TO whom he wrote that the letter not
marked CONFIDENTIAL and, being from public man
public question, that friend had the unQuestiOnable
infer that II not private and therefore he
Justified him fully IN printing IT, When he decided, last
November, at the appeal OF many active Republicans
Indiana and other sections OF the Union, that his
denomination his Tetiracy a question which the
party should decide rather than himself he felt IL would
be improper cectOneer with any the subject,
and he did not On the contrary he told every delegate
he that his name ought not TO be presented If
tory the he loved far better than
political hOnOrs The Republican organization, the
records OF great deeds for liberty, humanity,
Justice. and nationality during the past decade
approached by political party in has other
advancing steps OF progress aud reform 10 take before
dlsDandmeDt or furlOugh from duty While going, him
SELF therefore, 20 the retired list without the slightest
uukind feeling toward any one who desired change in
the Nice-Presldency, and wishing them especially "a
decisive victory October IN closely contested State
he should join with them in November in cordially sup
porting Ulysses Henry Wilson for President
United