Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1860 — BATES' LETTER. [ARTICLE]

BATES' LETTER.

f On our outside will be found a letter of it he Hon. Edward P. Bates in reply to interrogatories addressed to him by the Missouri Idelegates to the Chicago Convention. We ‘publish this, not because we particularly faS/or the nomination of Air. Bates, but because he may be the nominee, and we therefore want our subscribers to know just where he stands. Many of the leading Republican papers admit that he is the most prominent candidate before that Convention; it therefore behooves us to understand well his •jposition. For our part, we have no hesitation in saying, with the Louisville Journal, !“He i 3 just as good or bad a Republican as [Reward or Chase, or Lincoln is.” Among the who have been spoken of we have*no idecided preference. We look upon them all •ns being good Republicans, and men that would faithfully and fearlessly carry out the principles of that party. We are willing to work for any of them; but we desire to see the Convention select that one that can most ‘effectually, unite the whole oppo-sition.

4 National Republican Committee, in changing the time for holding the Chicago Convention, fixed upon the lGth day of .May. as the time. This happens to be the birthday, of William 11. Seward. i Quite a coincidence; but not less so than ithe fact that the day fixed for the Charleston Convention is the birthday of S. A, Douglas