where out of Ohio. I think it will go to Maine,
and for this reason: First of all, Blaine is certainly a competent
man of affairs, a man who knows what to do at the time; and then
he has acted in such a chivalric way ever since the convention at
Cincinnati, that those who opposed him most bitterly, now have for
him nothing but admiration. I think John Sherman is a man of
decided ability, but I do not believe the American people would
make one brother President, while the other is General of the Army.
It would be giving too much power to one family.

_Question_. What are your conclusions as to the future of the
Democratic party?

_Answer_. I think the Democratic party ought to disband. I think
they would be a great deal stronger disbanded, because they would
get rid of their reputation without decreasing.

_Question_. But if they will not disband?

_Answer_. Then the next campaign depends undoubtedly upon New York
and Indiana. I do not see how they can very well help nominating
a man from Indiana, and by that I mean Hendricks. You see the
South has one hundred and thirty-eight votes, all supposed to be
Democratic; with the thirty-five from New York and fifteen from
Indiana they would have just three to spare. Now, I take it, that
the fifteen from Indiana are just about as essential as the thirty-
five from New York. To lack fifteen votes is nearly as bad as
being thirty-five short, and so far as drawing salary is concerned
it is quite as bad. Mr. Hendricks ought to know that he holds the
key to Indiana, and that there cannot be any possibility of carrying
this State for Democracy without him. He has tried running for
the vice-presidency, which is not much of a place anyhow--I would
about as soon be vice-mother-in-law--and my judgment is that he
knows exactly the value of his geographical position. New York is
divided to that degree that it would be unsafe to take a candidate
from that State; and besides, New York has become famous for
furnishing defeated candidates for the Democracy. I think the man
must come from Indiana.

_Question_. Would the Democracy of New York unite on Seymour?

_Answer_. You recollect what Lincoln said about the powder that
had been shot off once. I do not remember any man who has once
made a race for the presidency and been defeated ever being again
nominated.

_Question_. What about Bayard and Hancock as candidates?

_Answer_. I do not see how Bayard could possib