"Your 'veto' and your integrity will be accepted together, trusting in the latter all the time, and the use of the former on all suitable occasions, and for the good of the nation.
"With sentiments of highest esteem and admiration, I am,
On the 7th of November, 1876, the people of the State of New York, and the people of the United States, expressed their preferences among the several Presidential candidates to succeed President Grant, as follows, according to the Albany _Evening Journal Almanac_:
For Tilden in New York State 522,043 For Hayes 489,225 -------- Tilden's majority 32,818
It is to be remarked that Tilden's vote was larger than any of the State or local candidates', and was vastly larger than had ever been cast for any other man.
The vote for Grant in 1872 in New York State was 440,745 Tilden's vote larger than Grant's vote in 1872, when the latter carried the State by 53,466 81,298 Tilden's vote in 1876 larger than Greeley's vote in 1872 134,764 Grant's vote in 1868 was 419,883 Tilden's vote in 1876 larger than Grant's vote in 1868 102,160 Seymour's vote in 1868 was 429,883 Tilden's vote in 1876 larger than Seymour's in 1868 92,160
The total vote for Tilden in the United States in 1876 was 4,300,316 For Hayes 4,036,015 --------- Tilden's majority 264,301
Grant's vote in 1872 was 3,596,742 Tilden's vote larger than Grant's vote, in 1872, when the latter's majority was 761,844 703,574 Greeley's vote in 1872 was 2,834,888 Tilden's vote in 1876 larger than Greeley's in 1872 1,465,418 Grant's vote in 1872 was 3,013,188 Tilden's vote in 1876 larger than Grant's 1,287,128 Seymour's vote in 1868 was 2,703,600 Tilden's vote in 1876 larger than Seymour's in 1868 1,596,716
JUST WHAT CHANDLER DID, AND HOW THE PLAN WAS LAID TO DEFEAT THE POPULAR CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT
[_From the New York "Times" of June 15, 1887._]
"The New York _Sun_, after three days of hard labor, has finally produced a curious reply to the _Times's_ comments upon Mr. William E. Chandler's connection with the election of 1876. The best answer to its series of misrepresentations will be found in the following statement of what did actually occur at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on the morning of Nov. 8 of that year.