Yours, in haste,
"Francis Kernan."
N. W. PARKER TO TILDEN (TELEGRAM)
"Hamilton, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1874.
"I am too ill to attend the convention. My judgment is that on no account should you withdraw your name as candidate for Governor. Better suffer defeat. Circumstances seem to me to require it, and I submit it with my best wishes.
"N. W. Parker."
TILDEN TO HON. A. BIRDSALL
"New York, Sept. 19, 1874.
"My dear Sir,—I take the earliest occasion, on my return home, to thank you for the timely and friendly tone of yours of the 11th.
"It may be that there is much in the speculations you make as to the causes of the sudden and active opposition to my nomination. If so, it is very foolish. Nothing is gained to an individual and much is lost to a party by forecasting so far in advance of time and events. That I never do. Mr. Wright once said to me that men who fix their eye on a distant object are apt to fail to see the sticks and stones in the path immediately before them, and to stumble and fall.