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Show IUy W. U. Toksrai.b.j SKNATOR 'WILSON AND TIIK VICK-PKBSIDENCV. Chisago, 16. A Washington special cives tho text of a letter by Senator "Wilson, of Mass., to his political and personal friends, with reference to his (Wilson) candidacy for the nomination for vice-president. Wilson says that when Colfax announced he would not be a candidate for re-election, many prominent Republicans urged him to become a candidate for the nomination, and after ascertaining that the vice-president's vice-president's decision was final, he yielded yield-ed to the request of his friends before leaving for Europe in Juuc last. After his return, and before the meeting of congress, many leading men from more than a dozen States, assured him that they and the Republicans in their States were in favor of his nomination, lie concludes as follows: "The revocation revo-cation by the vice-president of his dc-jolinaiiou dc-jolinaiiou was to me a surprise. It placed me in an unpleasant position, land my lirst impulse was to withdraw; from the contest; but by the advice of i I some oi' the best Republicans of the; land, east, west and south, I leave the question to my personal and political friends. Whatever may be the result, I shall be coutent, and shall do what 1 can for the unity and success of the Republican party, whoever may be its , candidates; lor 1 am bound to it alike .'by conviction and by associations, by I gratitude tor its deeds of patriotism I and liberty, and by hopes of the ser-I ser-I vices it may yet lender the country." . |
