Page:Speeches, correspondence and political papers of Carl Schurz, Volume 3.djvu/15

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To Samuel Bowles, January 4th	217
Organizing for Presidential campaign work—Blaine, Bristow and Charles Francis Adams, Sr., candidates for nomination.
To Samuel Bowles, January 16th	219
Campaign of 1876 to be kept free from spoils politicians—Blaine injuring his own cause—Adams to be kept in background—Schurz desires conference with Bowles.
To Benjamin H. Bristow, February 15th	220
Advises Bristow not to resign from the Secretaryship of of the Treasury.
From Benjamin H. Bristow, February 18th	221
Grateful for Schurz's counsel—Difficulty of performing his official duties.
To B. B. Cahoon, March 3d	222
Corruption in the Republican party—Presidential candidate must be man of unimpeachable principles—Adams and Bristow, Schurz's choice.
To Samuel Bowles, March 7th	224
Political aspect changed by Belknap affair—Schurz satisfied with Bristow in first or second place.
To Samuel Bowles, March 27th	224
Conference at Cincinnati—Invitation signed by prominent independents.
To Thomas F. Bayard, March 30th	225
Gratefully acknowledges letter of condolence—Wishes Bayard an unbroken family circle.
To Benjamin H. Bristow, March 31st	226
Obstacles to nomination of true reformer—Hopes of coöperating with friends of reform in the Union League—Republican party disgraced by corruption in the public service—Regeneration through defeat.
To Francis A. Walker, April 6th	228
Circular call of the Fifth Avenue Hotel conference.