NOTES
195
to state the logic of Hayes's
availability. See J. J. Bagley to Hayes, November 11, 1875,
Hayes Papers, The Rutherford B. Hayes
Library.
3. John Sherman to A. M. Burns, January
21, 1876, Hayes Papers; Charles Richard
Williams, ed., Diary and Letters of
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, (Columbus, 1924), III,
310. Hereinafter cited as Hayes, Diary
and Letters.
4. In May 1876 Hayes tried hard to influence
John Sherman to represent his in-
terests in the convention. "I do
not mean to depart from the position I have taken to
remain perfectly passive on the
nomination. But it is fair to assume that the time may
come when I ought to be withdrawn. To be
able to act on this and other possible
questions it is important for me that I
have friends of experience and sound judgment
on the ground, by whom I can be advised
of the exact condition of things and of the
proper course to be taken." Sherman
wisely declined, as a rejected member of the Ohio
delegation, to interfere, and wielded
instead what influence he could over the other
state delegations from his position in
Washington. Hayes to Sherman, May 19 and May
25, 1876, Hayes Papers.
5. Hayes, Diary and Letters, III,
310; M. D. Leggett to Hayes, February 21, 1876;
R. C. Anderson to Hayes, March 4, 1876,
Hayes Papers.
6. Hayes, Diary and Letters, III,
324.
7. Hayes to Major W. D. Bickham, April
26, 1876, Hayes Papers.
8. Most of the colorful detail used in
describing the Republican convention of 1876
is based upon an unpublished
contemporary eye witness account written by a Cincinnati
lawyer, William C. Cochran, to his
mother, June 18, 1876, found in the Hayes Papers.
9. Hayes to James G. Blaine, June 12,
1876, ibid.
10. Webb C. Hayes to R. B. Hayes, June
12, 1876, ibid.
11. List of Delegates and Alternates
to the Cincinnati Convention, 1876, ibid.
12. William Henry Smith to Hayes, June
12, 1876, ibid.
13. See Proceedings of the Republican
National Convention, Held at Cincinnati,
Ohio, Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday, June 14, 15 and 16, 1876 (Concord,
New
Hampshire, 1876), for details of the
convention.
14. Ibid., 73.
15. Ibid., 74.
16. William C. Cochran to his mother,
June 18, 1876, Hayes Papers.
17. Proceedings of the Republican
National Convention, 77.
18. Ibid., 78.
19. Ibid., 81.
20. Ibid., 82.
21. James M. Comly to Hayes, June 15,
1876, Hayes Papers.
22. Webb C. Hayes to R. B. Hayes, June
15, 1876, ibid.
23. E. Croxsey to Hayes, June 15, 1876, ibid.
24. Richard C. Bain, Convention
Decisions and Voting Records (Washington, D.C.
1960), Appendix D.
25. Proceedings of the Republican
National Convention, 104.
26. John M. Harlan to Benjamin H.
Bristow, June 19, 1876. Bristow Papers, Library
of Congress.
27. William A. Howard to Hayes, July 4,
1876, Hayes Papers.
28. Proceedings of the Republican
National Convention, 108.
29. Smith to Hayes, January 26, 1876;
Hayes to Smith, June 19, 1876, Hayes Papers.
30. Proceedings of the Republican
National Convention, 88, 100.
31. J. C. Lee to Hayes, June 18, 1876,
Hayes Papers.
32. Cited in Martha M. Bigelow,
"The Political Services of William
Alanson
Howard," Michigan History, XLII
(March 1958), 17.
33. John C. Lee to Hayes, June 18, 1876,
Hayes Papers.
34. Smith to Hayes, June 21, 1876, ibid.
35. Harlan to Bristow, June 19, 1876,
Bristow Papers, Library of Congress; E. Bruce
Thompson, "The Bristow Presidential
Boom of 1876," The Mississippi Valley Historical
Review, XXXII (June 1945), 28.
GARFIELD AND
HAYES: POLITICAL LEADERS
OF THE GILDED AGE
1. Thomas Wolfe, From Death to
Morning (New York, 1935), 121.