S. L. M. BARLOW TO TILDEN
OBJECTIONS TO HENDRICKS AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
"Private.
"1868.
"My dear Mr. Tilden,—Unless Indiana breaks from Pendleton, as I told you last evg., he will have all the Southern votes, including Tennessee, this morning, and then Indiana cannot leave him, and he will be nominated.
"I hear that in no case will more than half of the Indiana vote be given for Hendricks. If this is so, it seems to me that a better selection can be made. It is awkward to put a candidate in nomination who gets no vote out of his own State, and in leaving him to go for one who has but half his own State. But you know better about the facts than I, and I may be misinformed as to Indiana's probable course.
"But in no case is it probable that Hendricks can be nominated, and for success he should not be.
"S. L. M. Barlow.
"Wednesday."
CLARKSON N. POTTER TO S. J. TILDEN
"Thursday, 10 A. M. [1868.]
"My dear Sir,—At this juncture is it not wise for the N. Y. delegation to ask the Pendleton men whom they will support? If they answer Seymour, he must not decline. But I am confident it won't do to take up Gov. Chase until the Pendleton men have been consulted.
"Faithfully yours,
"Clarkson N. Potter."