Show TELEGRAPHIC GEKERAL HANCOCK Some Manly tellers Written by Him Lan Year New York 6C01 Blanton Duncan furnishes the Herald two letters from itneral Hancock which he says were never before shown to anybody or published The fit letter is dated October Oc-tober 29th 1879 and is as follows Jy Dear Colonel I received today your favor of the 25th and was much ntensted in your resume of the working ot the political l caudron I have alway been ofthe opinion and am to still that UntIl democratic party has disposed the question as to whether they would cmtuate Tidcn as a sequence of past event ° it was folly inside that organiza Un to advance other candidates if then availibllity for the Qturo was a question of importance cr lalerett I have no part > in any programme looking to the future ilv name comes up through friends and foes possibly yet I know ono o-no machinery in the interest of my nomi labon I seem in the public opinion to bo tut forth as an exponent of certain political available poHDililies and 1 would bo beler pleased if allowed to pursue the even tenor of my way untouched by political excitement I do not with to bo considered consid-ered a chronic candidate for I know what that means when the end comes So my friends had better let tbo matter rest or if not let it drift The next election ia to be momentous ono What may come out cf itJ good or bid 1 donut do-nut know but I am certain that I cannot can-not assist in leading to a good result more certainly than by following thi quiet course I have always endeavored to pursue li I come in question in i politics it will have to be from the states and the people and not from mo I urn very trnly yours Signed WIHFIELD S HANCVCK The letter was marked Confidential October 28th 1879 Colonel Blanton Duncan dig Dear tiir For some timo past blank and myself have been talking I talk-ing over II plan to elect Genera I Hancock President of the United fctaU Our plan ia that yen write to General Hancock and if i he responds with right i view on the financial and labor questions ques-tions that we then decide to call a national convention first nominate I Hancock for President and come ex confederate tor vicepresident and it will I force the democrats to meet and nominate the same ticket Your plan of calling both tho democrat and national conventions conven-tions the same day will not work and will give large amountof our party an excuse to say it was a political trade while my plan li one that a large majarity of our party will endorse I hupe you will agroJ on the plan and have a conference with General Hancock Han-cock on the subject The above was rceived from a pro inert greenbacker and by Co Duncan forwarded with a recommcnda tlon to General Hancock nit to make any reply to it Be however wrote tome to-me as follows followsConfidential Confidential JLfy Dear Col Ycur note has been received I do not occupy the po3i tion of u political candidate 10 express any opinions I am a soldier in the federal service and my usefulness as such and as a commander would be impaired im-paired if 1 should tatce open grounds In Javorof the political views of any party If I am ever a candidate of a party for Ii civil office it will be on the record I have made I should never make any bid for such office if Iwero nominated bye party I would te governed by its platform plat-form or I would not accept the nomination nomina-tion tterefore I shall pursue the eve tenor of my way undisturbed by the ambition which pursues some people I am very truly yours SignedWlNFIELD WlNFIELD S HANCCCKi T |