[21] Judge Bradley's peculiar if not exclusive responsibility for counting Mr. Hayes instead of the candidate chosen by the people into the Presidency is more clearly set forth in a communication of the writer entitled, "The Supreme Court and the Electoral Commission: An Open Letter to the Hon. Joseph H. Choate," first published in the New York Sun, on the 19th July, 1903, and later in a pamphlet by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.
[22] This remark was confirmed to me by a very competent authority. In June of 1877 Mr. James G. Blaine was one of the Inspectors of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He spent an afternoon with me at my residence in the immediate neighborhood, and the action of the Electoral Tribunal, among other things, became naturally enough a topic of conversation. He said, with some emphasis, "I was surprised at the time that the Democrats consented to the Electoral Tribunal," and added in substance—I cannot pretend to recall his exact words—that if they had remained firm it could not have succeeded.
[23] This I afterwards learned from Mr. O'Conor's own lips was his invariable practice. He never asked pay for his professional services until he had earned it.
[24] The italics are the editor's.
[25] A daughter of S. F. B. Morse, who is credited with having established the first telegraphic line of communication in America.
[26] This was in reply to a note of the 9th September, 1881, from Mr. Purcell, the editor of the Rochester Union and Advertiser, stating that he had been "mentioned" as a candidate for the office of Secretary of State, and wishing to know if the nomination would be disagreeable to him and be discountenanced by him: in which case he would prefer not to be considered a candidate.
[27] See Tilden's Public Writings and Speeches, Vol. I., p. 348.
[28] Mr. Tilden was aware that I wrote the biography of him which is here referred to, and which first appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal during the campaign of 1876.
[29] Present Chief Justice of the United States; appointed in April, 1888.
[30] That would have meant rather an end of Samuel Randall's career as the agent of the protectionists in Congress.—Editor.