nized in shaping his policies nor be suffered to bring odium upon his Administration.
I expect to be in New York before the 25th inst., and I hope that you may be able to suspend all further movements on the political chessboard, till I can see you. To-morrow I will write frankly to Blaine, on several matters, and among them his feelings toward you, and also the methods of administration to be adhered to, should he be elected, and when I see you, I hope to be able to satisfy you in reference to his policy. I am so confident myself, that I am anxious to have my personal friends feel as I do.
Please write me, and, if possible, say you will take no further action till I see you.
TO THOMAS F. BAYARD
Many thanks for your kind letter of June 29th. I must confess that I am seriously alarmed at the prospective issue of your Convention. There is good reason for believing that Butler and John Kelly are working together, not only for the defeat of Cleveland but for the overthrow of every other candidate giving promise of good government. Kelly gave out some time ago that you were his favorite. I hope you never believed it. If you do, the bitterest disappointment is in store for you. I predict that the Butler-Kelly combination will only use your name to head off Cleveland and then drop you too as one of those “of whom it is very doubtful whether they can be elected.” I read already of rumors about speeches having been discovered, made by you at the beginning of the war in the Delaware legislature, which are said to be “worse than the Dover speech,” the new discoveries to be used against you in the Convention. If the Convention has not courage enough not only to emancipate itself
